{"podcast":{"title":"It’s Not About the Sex","slug":"it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808","podcast_index_feed_id":16808,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/westsidetherapist/feed.xml","website_url":"https://westsidetherapist.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/4993685/Andrew_Couch.jpg","author":"Westside Therapist","episode_count":100,"summary":"It's Not About The Sex is a podcast based on the book by the same name. Psychotherapist Andrew Susskind examines issues such as shame, grief, narcissism, and codependency to demonstrate how people use out-of-control sexual behavior to cope with broken-heartedness.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-13T16:18:57.252995+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808"},"episode":{"title":"Living with Loss - Susskind & Merlino","slug":"living-with-loss-susskind-merlino","published_at":"2024-05-24T08:01:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808/living-with-loss-susskind-merlino","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808","url":"https://westsidetherapist.podbean.com/e/chapter-2-living-with-loss-susskind-merlino/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/h4rh587nazcpa3pv/Andrew_Ch2_PODBEAN.mp3","summary":"Grief and loss is often overlooked or avoided in our society. Andrew and Sue take this opportunity to delve into this often-misunderstood topic of grief and loss and its implications on long-term recovery from sexual compulsivity. Andrew shares a “memoir snapshot” as well as specific practices to consider using toward living more peacefully and openheartedly with the inevitable losses that come with being human. Music credit: Neil Freebern Freebernmusic.com","meta_description":"Grief and loss is often overlooked or avoided in our society. Andrew and Sue take this opportunity to delve into this often-misunderstood topic of grief a…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1102,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808/episodes/living-with-loss-susskind-merlino/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/it-s-not-about-the-sex-16808/living-with-loss-susskind-merlino.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}