

The Pleasure Principles with Dr Jordin Wiggins
Dr Jordin Wiggins ND
The Pleasure Principles Podcast is where sex, science and sensuality meet. Host, Dr. Jordin Wiggins, a Naturopathic Doctor, entrepreneur, women's sexual health disruptor and author of The Pink Canary, is on a mission to revolutionize the way we deliver, educate, and talk about sexual health, wellness, and pleasure for women.
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Dec 18, 2025 • 24min
Holiday Boundaries to Prevent Burnout and Overfunctioning
The holiday season is a major trigger for women with super traits. There is more emotional labor, more pressure to keep the peace, more overgiving, and more shutdown. When you overfunction during the holidays, it leads to burnout, resentment, loneliness, and a sense of feeling unseen, even when you are surrounded by people. I break down practical holiday survival tips to help you stop overgiving and set boundaries without guilt. This includes a holiday emotional load audit to identify invisible responsibilities, a simple rule to reduce burnout, a clear boundary tool for handling pressure in the moment, and a short pleasure-centered reset to regulate your nervous system when stress activates old survival patterns. These tools are designed for high-achieving women who know their patterns but still collapse into overfunctioning when family dynamics, expectations, and emotional labor increase. I share relationship and single check-ins to help you see where you feel supported, emotionally safe, and more like yourself, and where overfunctioning is still running the show. This creates clarity around what needs to change so the holidays no longer cost you your energy, desire, or sense of self. Take the free Super Trait Quiz to understand why these patterns show up so strongly during the holidays. Book a Super Trait Audit for clarity on where overfunctioning is costing you energy, connection, and desire. Apply for the Pleasure Centered Society if you are ready to stop carrying the emotional load and start being met. 00:00:27 Understanding Super Traits 00:00:45 Challenges During the Holiday Season 00:02:48 Personal Experiences and Insights 00:03:36 Welcome to the Pleasure Principles Podcast 00:05:31 Holiday Survival Tips 00:06:29 Emotional Load Audit 00:08:20 15% Rule for Reducing Holiday Burnout 00:09:38 Three Second Boundary Tool 00:16:14 Pleasure Center Reset 00:18:14 Relationship and Single Superwoman Check-In

Dec 11, 2025 • 51min
Financial Infidelity and Relationship Red Flags You Must Not Ignore
Financial infidelity is one of the most common yet least recognized forms of betrayal. It often begins subtly through missing information (like names not being on the title), restricted access to accounts, unexplained withdrawals, hidden accounts, or financial decisions made without consent. Many women overlook these signs because they appear inside relationships built on trust, love, and shared history. GRAB YOUR The Super Trait Auditâ„¢ HERE Forensic investigative accountant Dave Oswald brings to light the realities most people never see. His work uncovers partners who erase digital trails, hide income, move money into shell companies, falsify signatures, or quietly open loans in someone else's name. These patterns are deliberate. They are structured to stay hidden until the fallout is unavoidable. High-achieving, intelligent women often internalize the blame when financial deception surfaces. They replay conversations. They question their intuition. They wonder how they missed it. But financial manipulation is engineered to exploit trust and emotional connection. It thrives because the other person is not just managing money. They are managing a narrative. Recognizing the signs is essential. Sudden secrecy around accounts. A financial picture that never quite makes sense. Being kept off titles or investments. Explanations that change. A partner who becomes irritated when asked reasonable questions. Income that does not match documented records. Access that slowly disappears. These are early indicators of financial control and financial abuse. The impact extends far beyond money. When someone manipulates finances, they also erode emotional safety, intimacy, and a sense of groundedness in your own life. Financial infidelity affects your nervous system, your relationships, and your ability to trust yourself. Understanding how financial control operates allows you to see the truth without shame. It offers the clarity to protect yourself, and the validation that being deceived does not mean you were foolish. It means someone else was intentional. This is the knowledge every woman deserves before the damage begins, instead of after it has already been done. CONNECT WITH DAVE dave@forensicrestitution.com forensicrestitution.com (416) 525-1510 - Oakville, Ontario, Canada Decode the emotional and erotic patterns keeping you in over-functioning, shutdown, and inconsistent connection. The Super Trait Auditâ„¢ CLICK HERE If you do not know your Super Traits, take the free Super Trait Quiz HERE. If you want your world and relationships to respond to the woman you have already become, apply for The Super Trait Society HERE. Connect with Dr. Jordin on INSTAGRAM HERE @drjordinwiggins

Dec 4, 2025 • 32min
5 Ways Overfunctioning Kills Your Pleasure (and What to Do Instead)
You have done the healing. You know your patterns and your attachment style. You set boundaries and stopped abandoning yourself. Yet when life gets hard, or someone is disappointed in you, you still end up doing the emotional labor. You collapse or you over-function. Your relationships have not shifted as much as you have. Your sex life feels flatter than it should. Your aliveness and turn-on feel inconsistent. You have grown on the inside, but the world has not adjusted to meet you. Pleasure requires presence, sensation, receiving, and truth. Super Traits demand scanning, fixing, anticipating, managing, and performing. Therapy, nervous system work, EMDR, trying to want sex, and communication tools were a good foundation, but not enough because Super Traits pull you out of the conditions required for pleasure and connection. Super Traits pull you into your head, where hyper vigilance replaces feeling. They turn you into the emotional container who regulates everyone else. They reward performance rather than presence, and they create loneliness even when you want connection. They train you to choose harmony over truth, and suppressed truth kills desire. They make receiving uncomfortable, so pleasure cannot land because it never reaches you. This creates a pleasure-suppressed life. Flatness. Numbness. Only feeling pleasure when everything is perfect. Freezing or fawning when things are hard. Over-functioning under stress. Craving more but not knowing what you want. Carrying the emotional load and trying to fix the connection instead of influencing it. Pleasure is intelligence. Pleasure tells you what is true, what you want, when you are abandoning yourself, and when someone is not meeting you. Super Traits drown out that internal guidance system. Insight does not create influence. Presence and pleasure do. If you want your world and relationships to respond to the woman you have already become, apply for The Super Trait Society HERE. If you do not know your Super Traits, take the free Super Trait Quiz HERE.

Nov 27, 2025 • 32min
4 Relationship Behaviors That Kill Desire and Create Sexless Marriages
You are not frigid. You are fried. When you have super traits, empathy, loyalty, responsibility, and hard work, you end up building your entire relationship around him. You carry the emotional load, the logistical load, and even the erotic load. You hold his stress, his moods, his comfort above your own, and then blame yourself when your desire shuts down. You are not an impossible-to-please crusty wife. You are playing a game you were never taught the rules to. You were handed invisible contracts you never agreed to, and you have been trying to fix problems that were never yours to fix. Your body has known the truth long before you had the language for it. Women with super traits have been trained not to see the real dynamics happening in their relationships. We play checkers while our partners play chess. We sense disconnection and ask what is wrong with me instead of asking, "Am I safe?", "Am I being met?", "Am I being touched the way I like?" Four hidden behaviors quietly erode intimacy for women with super traits. Emotional unavailability, where he offers logic instead of empathy, and your body learns it is not safe to feel. Weaponized incompetence where he forgets the groceries, the kids, and the plans, and you end up doing everything. A male-centered relationship where everything revolves around his stress and comfort, while you shrink your needs smaller and smaller. Emotional withholding and punishment where any request for connection is met with defensiveness, silence, or blame. Your desire did not disappear. Your body shut down because it had to protect you. You do not need to work harder at love. You need a new relational blueprint rooted in pleasure power and nervous system safety so you can stop blaming yourself and finally understand the rules you were never taught. If you are a woman with super traits and you feel unseen, unheard, and untouched, your body is telling the truth. It is time to stop blaming yourself and start understanding the game you were pushed into without the rules. Start by taking the Super Trait Quiz so you can see the patterns that have shaped every relationship you have ever been in. If you know you are ready to shift these dynamics rather than survive them, explore the Super Trait Society, where we train your body to lead with safety, clarity, and real power rather than exhaustion and self-blame.

Nov 20, 2025 • 26min
Hard Work Creates Emotional Labor and Destroys Intimacy
I am recording this sitting on an ice pack with stitches in my vagina. After the delivery of my daughter, there was a tear. They tried to fix it. It didn't really fix. The doctor said to wait until the next baby, and we can repair it then. I thought that made sense. My daughter just turned five. I have been tolerating a tear in my labia that I didn't want to be there. I decided I was done waiting. I was done tolerating. Hard work is the trait that builds success and destroys intimacy. We were taught that hard work will fix everything. The relationship. The libido. The career. But when hard work becomes your identity, intimacy starts to feel like effort. Relationships feel like effort, not ease. Women with super traits carry a relentless sense of responsibility and a high tolerance for discomfort. We push through pain, confusion, and rejection. We take pride in holding everything together. We repair for two. We perform for safety. We perform in the bedroom and call that love. Effort does not equal arousal. Desire needs safety, reciprocity, novelty, and space. Desire cannot live in a nervous system that never rests. Hard work becomes survival. It keeps us in one-sided relationships. It keeps us trying to fix what is not ours to fix. Healthy relationships require effort but not suffering. The work should feel mutual. Both people should be active participants in growth. When you stop working for love and start working from love, everything changes. -Apply for the Super Traits Society- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to take back your power and create a pleasure-filled life without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE] Take the FREE Super Trait Quiz HERE to see how responsibility shows up in your relationships or apply for private coaching to start rebuilding your sense of safety, power, and desire. Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins]

Nov 13, 2025 • 18min
Why High-Empathy Women Attract Emotionally Unavailable Partners
High-empathy women are praised for their compassion, yet beneath that care often lies exhaustion and loneliness. When empathy becomes survival, it stops being connection and starts being control. Many women who feel deeply spend their lives reading the room, anticipating every tone, and managing everyone else's emotions in the name of love. It looks selfless but becomes self-abandonment. The nervous system learns that predicting moods brings safety, and harmony comes from disappearing, leaving you burnt out and confused about why love feels like labor. Empathy born from hypervigilance attracts emotionally unavailable partners and unequal relationships. High-empathy women often mistake caretaking for connection and people pleasing for intimacy. They give endlessly, believing that calm and control will earn love. Yet empathy without boundaries drains energy and ties worth to giving. Healing begins when you stop performing empathy and start embodying power. Boundaries invite intimacy. Detachment allows you to hold your emotions without absorbing others. When high-empathy women reconnect with their bodies, they stop rescuing and start relating. They move from caretaking to commanding, restoring vitality, connection, and reciprocity. The world needs women who feel deeply without losing themselves. When empathy is grounded in boundaries, it becomes magnetic again, an energy that attracts safety, honesty, and real intimacy. -Apply for the Super Traits Society- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to take back your power and create a pleasure-filled life without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE] Take the FREE Super Trait Quiz HERE to see how responsibility shows up in your relationships or apply for private coaching to start rebuilding your sense of safety, power, and desire. Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins]

Nov 6, 2025 • 24min
#201 Why Successful Women Confuse Control with Love
High-achieving women with super traits know how to make everything work. We plan, manage, fix, and anticipate. We keep the peace and carry the weight for everyone around us. From the outside, it looks like strength and success. Inside, it's emotional exhaustion and the quiet panic of never feeling safe enough to rest. Control becomes our safety. -Apply for the Super Traits Society- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to take back your power and create a pleasure-filled life without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE] It hides behind kindness, competence, and responsibility, but underneath it all is fear. The fear that if we stop managing, if we stop fixing, if we stop holding everyone else together, everything will fall apart. Control promises safety but keeps us stuck in survival. Women with super traits learn young that love must be earned through performance. We learn that calm means safe, that managing other people's emotions keeps the peace, and that being responsible keeps us chosen. Those same traits that brought us success are now the ones keeping us disconnected from our bodies, our pleasure, and the intimacy we crave. When control becomes love, we lose ourselves. We confuse vigilance for care and performance for connection. We build beautiful lives that feel empty because control cannot give us safety; it only gives us distance. It's time to rebuild safety from within. To rest, to feel, and to let go without losing power. Inside the Super Trait Society, we learn how to regulate the nervous system, balance power in relationships, and create the kind of connection that doesn't demand performance. Control was never safety. It was survival. And you deserve more than survival. Take the FREE Super Trait Quiz HERE to see how responsibility shows up in your relationships or apply for private coaching to start rebuilding your sense of safety, power, and desire. Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins]

Oct 30, 2025 • 28min
#200 It's Not Hormones or Perimenopause Brain Fog. It's Your Body Protecting You
Apply for the Super Traits Society- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to take back your power and create a pleasure-filled life without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE] Women come into my office every week saying they can't think clearly, they lose words mid-sentence, and they feel like their brains are failing them. They're sure it must be hormones, thyroid, or perimenopause. Some are afraid it's early dementia. But what if that brain fog isn't just a sign that something is wrong on the cellular level? What if your body is protecting you? High-achieving women with super traits: empathy, responsibility, tolerance, and hard work, often live in a constant loop of over-explaining, clarifying, and managing everyone else's emotions. That pattern, especially in relationships built on emotional abuse or coercive control, breaks down our nervous system. The confusion and brain fog you feel aren't signs that you're broken. There's evidence that your body has been trying to keep you safe. I've seen it again and again. Women think they're dealing with hormone imbalance, perimenopause, or chronic stress, but what's really happening is trauma adaptation. When you've been conditioned to maintain peace, stay quiet, or carry the invisible load, your body learns that clarity equals conflict. The fog is protection. The confusion is your nervous system saying enough. When we stop participating in coercive control dynamics, clarity returns. The fog lifts. Desire, focus, and energy come back online. This isn't a flaw in your body; it's your body's intelligence trying to save you. If you've been feeling lost, numb, or disconnected from your power, start by naming what's happening. Brain fog isn't failure. It's evidence of endurance. Take the FREE Super Trait Quiz HERE to see how responsibility shows up in your relationships or apply for private coaching to start rebuilding your sense of safety, power, and desire. Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins]

Oct 23, 2025 • 24min
#199 When Responsibility Turns into Resentment and Desire Disappears
You were praised for being the responsible one. The girl who kept the peace, remembered everyone's birthday, got straight A's, and picked up everyone else's slack. That praise felt like love, but it wasn't love for who you are; it was love for what you did. Now you're the woman holding everything together. You make the meals while your partner plays with the kids. You manage the emotions in the household, plan the therapy sessions, hold the structure, and wonder why you feel exhausted, disconnected, and resentful. Responsibility as a super trait makes you indispensable but not irresistible. It keeps you safe but blocks intimacy, polarity, and pleasure. You can't control or plan your way into desire. What once protected you is now preventing you from being met. Let's unpack how responsibility becomes emotional labor, how it starts in childhood, and how it shows up in adult relationships as overgiving, people-pleasing, and exhaustion. You'll learn why your nervous system doesn't feel safe resting, why responsibility feels automatic, and how to stop confusing usefulness with love. If you've been the woman who holds it all together but feels unseen, unloved, or unfulfilled, this is your reminder that what kept you safe is not what will make you happy. Take the FREE Super Trait Quiz HERE to see how responsibility shows up in your relationships or apply for private coaching to start rebuilding your sense of safety, power, and desire. PRIVATE COACHING- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to create a deeper connection and better sex without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE] Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins]

Oct 16, 2025 • 27min
#198 You're Not Codependent You're Surviving Coercive Control
Most women try to fix their relationships or fix themselves. My work isn't about fixing or forcing intimacy. It's about rewiring what led you to believe that depletion was love in the first place. High-achieving women with super traits have been called codependent, people pleasers, and overfunctioners, when the truth is, we were never met. We are not meant to see extractive love, and the smartest, most successful women I know are often in the most imbalanced dynamics because we superwoman so hard. Therapy hasn't helped because the issue isn't communication or attachment style. It's the extraction economy of love. Marriage benefits him more than it benefits you. Your exhaustion, burnout, resentment, and loss of desire are not personal flaws. They are symptoms of systems that reward your strengths and exploit them at the same time. Discover how to identify your super traits, recognize the invisible dynamics that have been draining you, and begin rewiring your nervous system so that love, intimacy, and desire become nourishing again. Take the Super Trait Quiz to discover which of your amplified strengths, such as empathy, loyalty, responsibility, tolerance, or hard work, has been running the show and how to reclaim your power from it. Take the Super Trait Quiz HERE You can also apply for my Creating Pleasure-Centred Relationships for Women with Super Traits 8 Week Intensive - Stop Fixing the Wrong Problem and Finally Create the Relationships (and Orgasms) You've Been Craving. Join us by CLICKING HERE. Let's start rebuilding Safety, Desire & Intimacy. BEGINS OCTOBER 15ST, 2025 Connect with me on Instagram [@drjordinwiggins] Take the Pleasure Path Assessment HERE to uncover your shutdown style, the super traits blocking your intimacy, and your next steps for reconnecting with your body and desire. PRIVATE COACHING- Success, intimacy, pleasure, you don't have to choose. Learn how to create a deeper connection and better sex without sacrificing who you are or what you've built. [APPLY HERE]


