Sex & Psychedelics: Igniting Intimacy with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers

In the 95th episode of No Hair, All Heart, your still-bald host Mookie Spitz sits down with Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers — clinician, sexologist, author, and all-around demolisher of America’s sexual hang-ups — for a blunt autopsy of how a shame-soaked culture raised generations of emotionally stunted adults. They trace the damage from its roots in early Christian patriarchy to modern abstinence-only education, parental silence, porn-distorted expectations, and the collapse of Gen Z male identity.

Dr. Sellers breaks down how sexual shame wires itself into the body from infancy, how it warps relationships, why men are spinning out, and what it actually takes to rebuild a functional, intimate, psychologically grounded adulthood. They dive into the hard questions: the zoomer male backlash, patriarchy’s dead-end power games, America’s moral panic machine, and the core wound at the center of so much cultural chaos.

The conversation pushes past diagnosis into action: from practical frameworks for healing to community-based solutions, to the role psychedelics may play in unwinding generations of trauma. Their podcast is candid, unguarded, often provocative, deeply humane, and exactly the conversation America keeps failing to have.

If you’re exhausted by the sexual confusion, loneliness, rage, and hypocrisy that define so much of modern American life, this episode breaks the silence and clears a hopeful and prescriptive path forward.

The Guest

Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers, PhD, LMFT, CSTS, PAT is a second generation Swedish American therapist, educator, and author whose childhood on her grandparents’ homestead near Puget Sound—within Coast Salish territory—deeply shaped her values of community, resilience, and land stewardship. 

As the first in her immigrant family to earn an advanced degree, Tina spent nearly three decades as a professor of marriage and family therapy, medical family therapy, and humansexuality before authoring two influential books: Sex, God & the Conservative Church - Erasing Shame from Sexual Intimacy and Shameless Parenting, both recognized for their impact on healing the results of authoritarian parenting, religious sexual shame, and trauma, and empowering relational intimacy.

She is the founder and chief advisor to the Northwest Institute on Intimacy—offering postgraduate clinician training in sex therapy and relational health—and Founder and Executive Director of Inanna Rising, a clinician membership collective
dedicated to equitable, just, and patient-centered psychedelic-assisted therapy training and support for activists and clinicians. 

Dr. Tina remains committed to social justice, integrity, reciprocity, and weaving cutting edge cultural, spiritual, and sexual healing into a compassionate praxis. 

Visit her website: https://www.tinaschermersellers.com/

 Follw her on Instagram at @DrTinaShameless & @Inanna_Rising_PAT

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