Election season vibes are full on. Today's episode we have compiled resources for our listeners to support peace of mind and body as we all navigate the coming weeks. Sarah offers a visualization for locating safety in the body and sinking into a feeling of safety. Dr. Lucie Fielding shares tools with us from Season 2 such as self-compassion, tapping into pleasure and de-armoring amidst collective trauma. The episode rounds to a close with Byron Katie's "The Work," a series of simple questions that help you discern between fact and feeling. We are sending you all love and fist bumps for the bumpy road ahead! 5:30 Safety Meditation15:00 Dr. Lucie Fielding on offering self compassion and mutual aid through collective trauma and how to tap into pleasure as a sustaining resource.24:00 De-armoring exercise with Lucie.34:00 Byron Katie's "The Work"Join us over at patreon to get videos of each recording and see our adorable pups or follow along on IG or TikTok.To learn more about Sarah's coaching services visit sarahtomchesson.com You can message Sarah through her site and let her know you are listener of the podcast for 50% off sessions between now and the end of the year.

This week we bring you our live panel featuring Vanessa Carlisle, PhD and Sydney Rogers, aka Miss Barbie Q, exploring the intersections of sex work, activism and queer liberation from Circa Queer Histories Festival. Our discussion explores the longstanding alliance between sex worker activists and queer activists, the ways activism shows up in queer and sex worker spaces, and combatting burnout in the fight for liberation.This panel was made possible by the One Institute. You can learn more about the Circa Queer Histories Festival at their site https://circafestival.org/Join us over at patreon to get videos of each recording and see our adorable pups or follow along on IG or TikTok.

We're sharing our favorite horror film genres, films and moments with the illustrious Tina Horn (Why are People Into That) in honor of all that is spooky and fabulous about October! Why do we watch horror? (Unsurprisingly, Elvira has the answer for us). Which horror films left the biggest impression on us? What does sex and horror have in common? We get into all of it in this deliciously bite-sized episode.Join us and Cruise LA this Saturday, October 19th 4-9pm at the Eagle LA (4219 Santa Monica Blvd). Get your free Circa Festival tix here! We are hosting a panel discussion featuring Vanessa Carlisle, Sydney Rogers, SWOPLA, SHEP as part of Cruise LA.Join us over at patreon to get videos of each recording and see our adorable pups or follow along on IG or TikTok.

Tis the season to get witchy with a throwback to season 1 when we had our minds blown by Witch Wilde who introduces us to Sex Magix theories. They shares how to direct sexual energy towards manifesting your desires, increasing your vitality and connecting with the cosmos. They also guide us in an incredible grounding/energy harnessing exercise that you are going to want in on. The conversation spans the many modalities that have influenced Wilde's practice: alchemy, tantra, taoism, toning, sigils, breathwork, visualization. If you are intrigued by taking your sexual practices out of the mundane - this episode is for you.Witch Wilde can be found on IG @witch.wilde. You can find us @fuckyeahpod on IG and TikTok or email us at fyeahpod@gmail.com.Resources from this episode include:Esther Perel's Mating in CaptivityBarbara Carellas' Urban TantraMargot Anand's The Art of Sexual EcstasyAnnie Dieu-Le-Veut's The Sacred Sex Rites of IshtarMantak Chia's writing on TaoismAnnie Sprinkle's Sluts & Goddessess

Spooky season is here and we are here for it! We are also in the middle of a series of eclipses that may stir up all the shadows and the "work" you are here to do. Sarah and Robin get it into the culture that's helping them embrace the season of the shadow - Circa Festival, Alanis Morissette, The Idles, Nirvana, Inside Out 2 - and how eclipse season is showing up for us and how it may for you. Tune in to learn about ways to attune to and embrace darker days.Join us and Cruise LA October 19th 4-9pm at the Eagle LA (4219 Santa Monica Blvd). Get your free Circa Festival tix here!Join us over at patreon to get videos of each recording and see our adorable pups or follow along on IG or TikTok.

Queer hair stylist and fierce femme Sparrow Fox joins us to talk queer hair, aging with grace, and the magic of being seen in the salon (and the streets). We get into the pressures of our culture to look beautiful on the outside while suppressing inner turmoil, how fashion can affirm your identity, and how a queer mindset allows for stylistic freedom. We also share about our early experiences in the salon, the messaging that shaped how we view ourselves and how we carry ourselves in the world now as midlife queers who are sometimes too busy to serve all the lewks. You can find us (and support the show) on Patreon Instagram & TikTok @fuckyeahpodSparrow Fox is a queer hair stylist specializing in color. She runs her own salon and is a brand educator for Amika. You can find Sparrow on socials @sfoxhair

This week we're reclaiming celibacy, abstinence, and virginity with Daviel Shy! What if we approach abstinence as a container for introspection, longing and personal growth? When Daviel joined us on the pod two weeks ago we inquired about her Virgo season musings - the virgin experiment - which she has documented on her substack. When Sarah heard about Daviel's experimentation with celibacy, it reminded her of an intentional period of celibacy she took during Venus retrograde in Libra in 2018. We explore the significance of stepping back from your sexuality to integrate parts of yourself, why the sign of Virgo is particularly well-suited for the introspection that can accompany celibacy, and the intense longing that can arise in periods of celibacy (or abstinence). Even though Virgo season is coming to an end, there are many times of the year and stages of life that can benefit from periods of celibacy and it is something we can reclaim and reframe from the patriarchal model of abstinence until marriage or lifelong celibacy in servitude to god and repurpose for our own growth and wellbeing.Daviel's project The Lovers series premieres at the LA Gay & Lesbian Center September 21st. Tickets can be reserved at givebutter.com/SsGRphYou can also register for the Shameless Sex Couples Retreat that Sarah has been talking about and will be co-facilitating Nov 12-17.Please find us on IG, TikTok and support the show on Patreon.

Punk rock educatrix, Tina Horn joins us to talk all things kink - cash fetishes, financial domination, spanking, bimbofication, cannibalism, feet, domming, oh my! Tina applies her signature curiosity, flirtatious wit, hyper intelligence and dirty mind, which you may be familiar with from her hit podcast Why Are People Into That?, to her new book and to our conversation. Why are People Into That: A Cultural Investigation of Kink (Tina's new book) breaks down kink practices and the most niche fetishes through a cultural lens, revealing the ways that BDSM is baked into and simultaneously gawked at in our culture. The book also explores Tina's own hard-earned experience in the kink community, a shared lineage she and Robin revel over in this week's episode. Tune it in to learn why we think Tina is "a smarty, smarty kinky pants!"Tina can be found on cashapp $showbiz04, on IG @tinahornsass, or online at tinahorn.netYou can find us (and support the show) on Patreon Instagram & TikTok @fuckyeahpodTina Horn is a writer, educatrix, and media-maker. Deprog, her new detective thriller comic book series, is out in 2024 from Dead Sky. Tina is the creator/writer of the sci-fi sex-rebel comic book series SfSx (Safe Sex) (Image) and the host/cowriter of the phone sex podcast Operator (Wondery). Her reporting on sexual subcultures and politics has appeared in Rolling Stone, Playboy, Hazlitt, Glamour, Jezebel and elsewhere; she is the author of two nonfiction books and has contributed to numerous anthologies including We Too: Essays on Sex Work and Survival, which she also coedited. She’s available for nonfiction book development editing, creative consulting, and personal relationship coaching. Tina has lectured on sex worker politics and queer BDSM identities at universities and community centers all over North America, and works as an on-set consultant for film/tv/theater including Pose. Tina is a LAMBDA Literary Fellow, the winner of two Feminist Porn Awards, an AVN-nominated director, and holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence. Originally from Northern California, Tina spent a decade in NYC before re-settling in Los Angeles.

Filmmaker Daviel Shy joins us to share about her upcoming project, The Lovers, which serves eroticism and queerness in equal parts. Daviel's creative mindset is akin to an arousal state. In creative flow, she takes in her experiences with heightened awareness and incorporates them into her work. Daviel also integrates the unique lived experiences of her collaborators into her work and allows space for the work to be changed by those both in front of and behind the camera. The Lovers web series is a semi-autobiographical work that integrates the ways Daviel and her collaborators sought connection through the pandemic and how the isolation, separation and strange interconnectedness of the pandemic changed them (and all of us). In revisiting the experience of the pandemic, audiences are able to process and integrate their lingering grief and trauma from living through similar experiences. The series premieres September 21st at the LA Gay and Lesbian Center. Tickets can be reserved at givebutter.com/SsGRphYou can also register for the Shameless Sex Couples Retreat that Sarah has been talking about and will be co-facilitating Nov 12-17.Please find us on IG, TikTok and support the show on Patreon.Daviel Shy wrote and directed THE LADIES ALMANACK, starring Guinevere Turner, Hélène Cixous, and Eileen Myles. She created and stars in the seven episode series, THE LOVERS, and her fiction appears in the 2024 Anthology, SLUTS, edited by Michelle Tea and published by Dopamine/Semiotext(e). She is currently co-founding a porn production company called DAYLiGHT FiLMs.www.davielshy.comFb, LinkedIn, X, substack: @davielshyIg:@solsticetits@thelovers_series@xdaylightfilms

As promised, we are following up this week's episode with a segment dedicated to the human giver syndrome as defined in Emily and Amelia Nagoski's book Burnout: Unlocking the Secret to the Stress Cycle. Human giver syndrome offers insight into the unique stressors that come with caregiving or being the nurturer in intimate relationships. Human givers often experience guilt, shame and judgement, in addition to stress, when not acting in service to the human beings in their sphere. This episode is a call to empathy and compassion for all of the human givers - we see you.Follow our IG and TT and join our patreon to support the show!