PLEASUREHOOD PODCAST
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Body Love Series: You Are The Ritual
What is your self love language? I believe it begins with making choices that are in alignment with who you are and building trust with yourself. We must be full in ourselves in order to find the love we desire, and by getting to know our inner selves deeply we can begin this process of cultivating self-love.
Body Love Series: Cultivating Safety in Your Body
Society often intellectualizes safety, while neglecting the importance of feeling safe first in the body. Feeling safe in the body involves physical, emotional, and energetic experiences of safety. And you get to define what that means to you.
Body Love Series: How to Feel More Deeply in Your Body
The reality is health encompasses more than just physical well-being – it also extends to the emotional, spiritual, and energetic. In this episode, I offer techniques for understanding what causes energy drain and stress in our lives, and how to address those issues through pleasure and embodiment practices.
Body Love Series: How Body Love Leads to Better Sex!
Having a strong relationship with one's body has a direct impact on sexual experiences, intimacy, and connection. As we expand our understanding of pleasure through the body, we discover the key to experiencing and embracing pleasure in other facets of life.
Healing Burnout and Cultivating Pleasure as a Mother
The societal pressure placed on mothers to be perfect, do it all, and prioritize everyone else's needs above their own is enormous. That's why it's essential to recognize and normalize talking about burnout, as many mothers often dismiss their exhaustion and disconnection as a part of the journey they have to manage alone.
How to Powerfully Navigate Sex in Long Term Relationships
How do we maintain passion in a long-term relationship or marriage? Whether you’ve been in a relationship for a few months or several years, it’s natural for the intensity of passion to shift over time. But that doesn’t mean it has to dwindle away completely. There are many ways to keep the spark alive and reignite that flame when needed.
Life Transitions: Embracing Change and Opening Up to Possibility
Although life transitions can be difficult at times, it is important to remember that you have the power to make choices that will lead to a life of purpose and satisfaction. Taking the initiative to find clarity in uncertain moments allows us to approach our challenges with more intention and self-awareness.
A New Paradigm for Motherhood
Initiation into motherhood brings with it a whole new identity and can create an amazing opportunity for personal growth. It is a journey of learning, transformation, and discovery as you get to know your little one better each day. As you embark on this new adventure, remember that your journey is unique and special - and you've got this!
Grief as a Ritual: Reclaiming Your Motherhood Story
Becoming a mother can be an initiation into an unfamiliar world; feelings like a loss of self and grief for one's former life may go unrecognized. Change is inevitable, but this change doesn’t have to break you, it can be a path to a new identity, a new way of being, and a journey deep into the truth of who you are.
The Power to Change: A Practice of Breath, Movement, and Grounding
While breathing, moving, and grounding are often the last thing we think of doing in moments of uncertainty – creating a ritual or self-practice of breathing, moving, and grounding can help solidify an affirmation of safety for ourselves. When we feel safe, we’re able to act from a place of power, and not reactivity, and this can make a world of difference.
Deeply Connecting to Pleasure and Power
Pleasure is the gateway to your power, and when you allow yourself to fully take it in and explore what feels good for you, that’s when you can tap into your deepest source of power. In this episode of the Pleasurehood Podcast we’ll explore what it means to be deeply connected to your pleasure & power, and how these two energies can not only transform your outer life, but your inner one as well.
Happy New Year!
The truth is that parenting in this day and age isn't easy. We're all feeling the pressure of the post-pandemic world, trying to figure out how to stay afloat while managing all the things life throws at us. It can be overwhelming and exhausting, but know you are not alone in this struggle. Let's use this time of transformation as an invitation to rebuild, create something new, and move into a better era of parenting with purpose.
Sensual Sovereignty and Pleasure, with Dr. Sonali Deepika
Sensual sovereignty is more than just an expression, it is a way of being. It's a way of physically moving through the world, and a powerful way to connect with it. How we choose to practice our personal sovereignty is coming into question. Now more than ever it is time for us to define sovereignty and how we live and express that sovereignty on our own terms.
How to Live the Full Spectrum of Life, with Tamsin Crimmens
Being able to expand our capacity to be with our pain, grief, and shame makes way for us to luxuriate in the full capacity of our pleasure. Pleasure can shape and heal our relationship with our bodies, allowing us to come home to ourselves, and feel safe in our body again. We get to define motherhood & parenthood for ourselves and begin to create and shape that reality one step at a time.
Healing the Mother Wound, with Vangile Makwakwa
Women have been conditioned to think of themselves as “less-than” and not deserving or worthy. This feeling of “less-than” has been internalized and passed down through countless generations of women. The Mother Wound is a powerful theory that addresses the pain and suffering that patriarchy has caused in most women when it pertains to motherhood.
Pleasure, the Foundation of Everything!
What does it mean to show up in your full self-expression as a parent? And what is possible when you are the prime example to your children of what is possible when you put your needs, wants, and desires first? Cultivating a pleasurable motherhood is something that takes time and intention, but it isn’t impossible.
Motherhood: A Reclamation, with Mina Aidoo
Mina Aidoo and I discuss how motherhood gets to be an experience of our own making. We get to shape and mold motherhood in our own image, one that leaves us feeling deeply connected to ourselves, our bodies, and our families.
My Burnout to Radiant Story Part 2
My burnout to radiant story required me to have deep love and acceptance for myself. It was a practice of compassion and patience with the process. In this episode, I offer my insights on how to forgive yourself for the past so you can focus your energy on co-creating the future.
My Burnout to Radiant Story Part 1
The journey of burnout to radiant for me means coming into the highest truth of who I am. Stepping into my full self-expression. Touching my inner divinity. Coming home to myself. Being your true authentic expression, living in the truth of who you are is what you were put on this world to do.
My Body, My Choice
I believe that abortion is healthcare. I also believe It is part of reproductive rights. In this episode of The Pleasurehood Podcast, I share my thoughts, opinions, and frustrations about why the overturning of this law will have devastating if not catastrophic consequences for so many individuals who are in need of an abortion.
