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Better Between the Sheets

Sex coaching insights, intimacy tips, and honest conversations about desire.

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

"You've Changed" - Why Women in Midlife Feel Different (and Why That's Normal)

Feeling different in midlife? You're not weird or broken. Here's what menopause, mental load and pleasure shifts are really doing - and why it's okay.

11 Jun 2026

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

Why Your Sex Life Feels Empty (Even If You’re Having Sex)

You’re having sex. Tick. But it feels a bit… meh. If it’s starting to feel like something to get through rather than enjoy, you’re not alone. Here’s why it happens - and how to feel present, connected, and turned on again.

16 Apr 2026

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

It’s Hers, Not Yours: When Solo Pleasure Stops Feeling Like Your Own

Your pleasure is yours… right? So why do some women stop masturbating when their solo time turns into someone else’s fantasy or interrogation? Let’s talk about sexual autonomy, curiosity, and why pleasure sometimes needs privacy.

19 Mar 2026

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

Beyond Pink Ribbons; "I just wanted to fucking live!!"

Within an hour of arriving, a woman said to me, “I just wanted to fucking live.” This is about the power of honesty, the beauty of connection, and the quiet, fierce act of learning to love your body again — scars and all.

13 Oct 2025

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

To teenage boys. And girls. And maybe you, too.

How to talk to teenagers about condoms without the awkwardness: a real letter on sex, confidence, and respect for boys, girls. And maybe you too.

25 Sept 2025

Coaching and Sexology · Guest Blog

Periods, Partners, and Permission

Periods, partners & pleasure: why open conversations about bleeding matter in intimacy. Sexology, history & stigma-busting with The Period Princess in Voices Between the Sheets.

11 Sept 2025

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

Menopause with Confidence and Sass

I am a huge advocate for being honest about how you feel and being vocal about you like or don’t like in your sexy time. But menopause can throw a great big-arsed spanner into all of that because it changes a great deal of things in a woman’s body, not least because sometimes what you like actually changes and you might find yourself not really *knowing* what you like anymore.

10 Feb 2024

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

The Ripple Effect of Pleasure; It's not all about you!

The individuals I often work with are generally in relationships, and come to me to make the twosome tangos with their husbands, wives and all in-between better. But I'm not just here to talk about which bits to rub and which parts to nibble.

13 Dec 2023

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

Talk about it!

Do you talk about Doing the Doodah?

23 Oct 2023

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

Know your bits

Knowledge is power, right? Your body is amazing So let’s talk about what you keep under your swimming cossie.

19 Oct 2023

Personal · Body Parts

Some frosty behaviour could raise your libido

I’m sure I don’t have to be another person to tell you about the health benefits of a cold water plunge BUT what I can do is tell you what’s going on for me since I started a few months ago.

23 Sept 2023

Coaching and Sexology · Personal

The wetter the better

I'm a certified sex coach, anatomy geek, and sexually active perimenopausal woman, so was I upset when I started to notice changes in my own body? Fuck yes!

21 Sept 2023

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

Helpful things to know about STI's

I promise you that despite what you see in films, porn videos, or even your best friend's social media account, at some point in everyone’s life, we all hit bumps in the road in regard to our desire, performance, or even sexual health.

17 May 2023

Coaching and Sexology · Body Parts

My poor body image is stopping me from having orgasms

It’s hardly a secret that there is increasing pressure to look a certain way and meet certain beauty standards, but did you know that this pressure is having a huge impact on our sex lives?

29 Mar 2023

Body Parts · Holistic

Ladies, do you notice the sensations of sexual arousal?

Do you really *hear* the tingle of your sexual arousal or is it simply too faint to notice? Pull up your chair for a few minutes, grab a cuppa and I'll tell you a secret; for a long time, I *didn't* hear it. I simply wasn't able. And so I thought I had a problem with my libido.

7 Jul 2022

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Lee-ann Cordingley

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Fifteen minutes, online, just us. We'll talk through what's going on and see if coaching is the right next step. If it isn't, I'll say so.

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