Sex Love Psychedelics

How do you handle breakups? Are your go-to tools a pint of ice cream watching chick-flicks with your best homegirl while throwing used kleenex at the screen? Or do you believe the best way to get over someone is to get under someone else? ⠀ Amy Chan, the brilliant founder of Breakup Bootcamp Retreat and author of the Breakup Bootcamp is here to help us through the process of healing our hearts after a breakup. We even get into the ways you can improve your dating life + release the patterns that have bound you. ⠀ In this episode you will hear: The different breakup coping mechanisms Strategies for moving forward in the newer stage of a breakup Navigating shame + balancing a shared responsibility “Dating patterns” - Can we break the cycle?  How to identify healthy boundaries in relationships + for yourself Short term relationship vs. Long term relationship heartbreak How men and women fall in love differently How sexuality + sensuality can help heal heartbreak ⠀ Amy Chan even answers some of our audience questions: ⠀ How can you tell if it’s something to keep working on or move on already? How can I support my friend who is literally crying over this dumbass dude for a year now and she needs to move the fuck on? ⠀ Notes from the show: Breakup Bootcamp Retreat: www.renewbreakupbootcamp.com THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Amy Chan is the Founder of Renew Breakup Bootcamp, a retreat that takes a scientific and spiritual approach to heal the heart. She is also the Editor-in-Chief of Heart Hackers Club - an online magazine that focuses on the psychology behind love, lust, and desire. The Observer calls her  "A relationship expert whose work is like that of a scientific Carrie Bradshaw" and her company has been featured across national media including Good Morning America, Vogue, Glamour, Nightline, and the front page of The New York Times. Her book, Breakup Bootcamp - The Science of Rewiring Your Heart, published by Harper Collins is available now. WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

There’s a lot of talk about the concept of gender, and the conversations can move fast about what is most inclusive + accurate. Eleven XX is a two-spirit and identity alchemist + advocate here to drop some magical knowledge about the gender spectrum. You'll hear both the raw, lived, spiritual process of a person going through their discovery around gender + identity, as well as, my more clinical voice from the experience of research and some of my students. In this episode you will hear: The difference between sex and gender identity + gender expression How we can approach inclusion that encompasses the entire gender spectrum Examples of how to step forward as a non-binary ally The distress that happens when gender identity does not match their assigned sex at birth - Gender dysphoria Using they/them pronouns How spirituality can be a resource for making sense of life + strife Eleven even answers some of our audience questions: How to find spaces where you can express your gender fluidity? Do you think our partners should be more committed to our evolution than the relationships? THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Once upon a time, two globe-trotting magicians had a child that was born with a glitch in the matrix --not 10, but 11 toes! Yep, its true. Raised within the world of magic and make-believe since the beginning aided in the ability to remain within the truest essence of childlike awe and wonder. From a young age, this cosmic being has been channeling spirits, been a predictor of future events, and a true master at reading energy. For over the last decade, Eleven has been a sought-out dream seer, clairvoyant, spiritual teacher, and entertainer in Los Angeles for top celebrities, world-class entrepreneurs, and some of today's leading thought leaders. Eleven is an otherworldly two-spirit, an identity alchemist, and modern-day mystic here on a mission to initiate souls back home to that which they already are, the infinite. With an ancestral background that spans across the globe (Native American, Chinese, +more) they intuitively blend sacred ritual practices from the indigenous into their very essence. www.instagram.com/iamelevenxx www.thesoulinititation.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

“Not tonight honey.” 3 infamous words that can sting like a dagger to the heart. But what if there was more information hidden behind these words that could help revive our sex life + desire? Sexual initiation is a vulnerable act. We can help ourselves when we know how our body and that of our partner best receives our efforts. Here we talk about the different styles of initiation that we can approach out partner with in more effective + meaningful ways that are unique to them + you. In this episode you’ll hear: Why initiating sex can be vulnerable + what contributes to our avoiding the role How past rejections can contribute to a freeze response + diminish sexual desire The importance of knowing what our styles of receiving, giving, + receiving a no when it comes to initiation of sex How you can identify your style of initiation (We give 5 to help) Effective tools for communicating it with your partner NOTES FROM THE SHOW: www.yonipleasurepalace.com and use my code DRCAT for 10% off WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

Does your pussy struggle with experiencing orgasm at times or always? There are many reasons why our orgasms may be elusive. In this episode, we explore what some of the blocks + barriers may be for sex that is more optimal for your pussy. We look outside the traditional sense of “sex” + into concepts that might be more authentic + exciting for your body needs.  We also discuss different tips + techniques to broaden your options for play. In this episode you’ll hear: Why women/femme may struggle with experiencing orgasms The importance of redefining sex outside of the cultural conditioning we’ve grown up with The trap of co-dependency when it comes to getting our sexual needs met Creating sovereignty in our own pleasure + satisfaction in sex What Dr Cat learned from sex with women The power of playfulness + sensuality when it comes to sexual exploration Techniques for expanding your sexual repertoire Outer + Intravaginal exploration with g-spot stimulation, cervical stimulation, grinding, shallowing, and more! NOTES FROM THE SHOW: www.yonipleasurepalace.com and use my code DRCAT for 10% off WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

You may have heard about how sex + orgasms affect mental health, but what about when mental health affects sex? Depression affects so many people not only in the US, but globally. Especially since the start of the pandemic, we’ve seen the sexual health of individuals + couples alike struggling because of it. Sex therapist Nicoletta Heidegger is here to talk to us about the complications of depression + sexual desire, what medications could be doing to contribute, + how you can empower your own sexual + sensual pleasure to help. In this episode you’ll hear: How does depression affect desire for sex in different people? What are symptoms of depression + how do they can manifest in life? Tips to support yourself or your partner in sex while experiencing symptoms of depression What medications for depression impact the libido + which ones do not Post Coital Dysphoria --the experience of  sadness, anxiety, anger, depression after sex + what to do about it Treatments for depression + sex + what working with a sex therapist on these challenges looks like Struggles around sexual initiation + tips for having an effective conversation to support How sensual practices can be powerful strategies for improving your sex life. LINKS FROM THE SHOW www.yonipleasurepalace.com code: DRCAT for 10% off any order THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Nicoletta von Heidegger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Sexologist (#110256) practicing in Los Angeles. Nicoletta received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University, her MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and her MEd in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Nicoletta is currently pursuing her PhD in Human Sexuality from Widener. In addition to seeing clients in private practice, Nicoletta also works as an EAGALA-certified equine assisted psychotherapist at Stand in Balance. Nicoletta believes in embodied practice and is certified in levels I and II of The Trauma Resiliency Model. When not working with clients, Nicoletta creates and hosts the growing hit podcast Sluts & Scholars and teaches educational seminars and classes to help others learn about sexual and mental health. In her self-care time, Nicoletta enjoys nature, biking, horse riding, her pit mix dog Stevie, and playing the drums in her band. You can find out more about Nicolettat at nicolettavheidegger.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

When you’re sex positive + have a proclivity towards alternative styles of sex + relating, how do you date in the modern, mainstream world? That Sex Chick, Alexa Bowditch gives us insights into how to introduce ideas of sexual exploration + non-traditional relationship styles in your dating life to support your finding your partner. We talk about the unique challenges of dating as a sex expert, tips about how to explore BDSM + kink for the first time in a relationship, + advice for starting the path towards non-traditional relating. In this episode you’ll hear: Introducing alt sex + non-traditional relationship desires to a partner who has never had the experience How kink can be a powerful practice for transmuting pain into pleasure What it’s like dating as a sex educator + expert Why differences in sexual preferences + styles doesn’t need to mean the end of a relationship The how having difference + individuality in relationships contributes to polarity + attraction Qualities + skills needed for helping your partner move through sexual shame Skills to consider to avoid becoming “the teacher” in a relationship + maintaining a partnership LINKS FROM THE SHOW www.yonipleasurepalace.com code: DRCAT for 10% off any order THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Alexa is a sex and relationship by design coach and sex coach business mentor on a mission to reform sex education and sexuality expression across the globe. She is from the deep south of Louisiana and if anyone knows how to bust through taboos regarding sex, it’s her. She is known as @thatsexchick across social media and is the founder of That Sex Group, a NY Times featured community with love, sex & relationships as the central focus. Alexa speaks and teaches internationally on the subjects. You can find out more about her at thatsexchick.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. If you’re desiring a deeper dive into the lifestyle of sensual pleasure, come join me for a 14 day initiation into Sensual Awakening. Learn the foundations of activating your pleasure senses, creating luxury without expense, + cultivating a lovership with your body, again.

Being a sensual person in the modern age has its challenges. Add to that, the pressures of “sensuality” looking a certain way contributing to performance rather than embodiment. My guest, friend, + powerful embodiment coach, Josefina Bashout, is BACK for another round! Here, we dish about our personal journeys, struggles around sensuality after trauma, + what it’s like dating as sex + sensuality experts. We get real about the issues of spiritual bypass + materialism that can create sensuality as a performance rather than an embodiment. We even share with you about our favorite sensual products + my Sensual Awakening 14 day online initiation. This is episode 4 of 4 of my series around sensuality. Be sure to check out the other 3! In this episode you’ll hear: Our personal journey with sensuality + what sparked our sensual awakening How trauma impacted our embodiment + what indications clued us in How to brand yourself as a leader + permission slip for other women in sensual expression The challenges + rewards that come with being a woman embodied Unique challenges for BIPOC women + sensuality The traps of spiritual bypass + spiritual materialism creating sensuality as a performance rather than an embodiment The importance of Boundaries + discernment Dating as a sensual + sexual expert Favorite sensual practices + products Inside scoop on Dr Cat’s Sensual Awakening Online initiation course THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Josefina Bashout aka “The Pussy Priestess.” Josefina is a Tantric Love and Sex Educator, Feminine Empowerment Expert & Certified Advanced Spiritual Psychologist. She is focused on dismantling the old stories of past pain and suffering as she guides her clients into moving beyond their limitations into a new place of empowering potential where sexuality + spirituality meet. Josefina has a holistic approach to empowerment through the doorways of sexuality that is process & pleasure focused. She has a sensual, soulful, and spiritual attitude to life making her equally popular with ALL GENDER audiences as she helps them create a more blissful, intimate, and orgasmic relationship with life. You can stay connected with her on instagram @pusssypriestess and discover more about her teachings well as upcoming course through her website www.josefinabashout.com LINKS FROM THE SHOW Sensual Awakening 14 day Initiation WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.

In a society that labels busyness as chic + prizes side hustles + productivity, we have also become familiar with the experience of overwhelm + burnout. This is not the answer to living a life of pleasure + sustaining health. But how do we get out? How can we be high achieving AND sensually connected? In this episode, the badass boss babe Natalie MacNeil talks about the challenges she has faced as a 7 figure entrepreneur to multiple companies + how she’s learned to integrate sensuality as medicine to her soul, her body, + her continuing success. This is the third episode of a special 4 part series on sensuality. In this episode you will hear: The effects of “hustle culture” on our bodies, minds, + relationships How sensuality can benefit us as professionals The effects of stigma around our sensuality + sexuality that have caused a segmentation in our other aspects + identities How moving fast + excessive work can be a trauma response or solution to coping with emotion The protective mechanism of “Ain’t got time” + how to overcome it How sensuality as a coach + CEO can benefit the company + clients’ wellbeing Natalie + Dr Cat’s personal struggles with maintaining a sensual life + solutions they discovered The necessity to slow down in order to feel the subtleties of sensation THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Natalie MacNeil is the founder of Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification program. She's also the bestselling author of five books on business and personal transformation, and an Emmy Award-winning media entrepreneur who has been named a "transformer of our generation" by Levo and listed as one of "27 women leaders changing the world" by Inc. Learn more about the Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification at nataliemacneil.com/drcat. You can also attend free weekly transformational classes at Coaching Evolved at https://coachingevolved.co/evolve-live-journeys/ WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.

We live in a culture that is obsessed with obtaining perfection, and as a result, can ignore the needs of the body to favor the image of fantasy. The issue here is that the body cannot sustain this. After awhile, she starts to break down, become ill, ache, fail. And it’s doing nothing for our sensuality, pleasure, + sexuality. Dr Liz Letchford is here to talk to us about the shadow side of the fitness industry, how our emotions affect our body’s functioning, + how sensuality can heal. In this episode you’ll hear: What causes our body to become tense + rigid + how this impacts our pleasure + sex How old messages + distressing events from our past have built as rigidity + less sensitivity + pleasure potential overtime How tense pelvic floor muscles impact our orgasmic potential Trauma + mental health’s impact on the body + sensuality Sensuality as medicine - how it heals The impact of mental health on young women’s bodies + performance in athletics The shadow side of fitness + how it can contribute to disconnection from the needs of the body Practices to release the body’s armor + experience greater flow of energy + pleasure Our upcoming workshop collaboration - Body Release: Awakening Through Our Sensuality Then join us on November 7th at 11am PST as we present an epic collaboration of Dr Liz’s signature Release class fused with Dr Cat’s sensual intelligence. Grab your spot today: Body Release: Awakening Through Our Sensuality THE SKINNY ON OUR SEXY GUEST Dr. Liz Letchford is an Athletic Trainer and strength coach who takes a holistic approach to improving mechanics, posture and pain. With a PhD in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, her research interests focus on injury risk reduction and the relationship between biomechanics and human emotion. She is the creator of The Release, a self-massage and movement experience designed to help students get out of their head and into their body. Liz is a founding coach for Tonal, a connected fitness company where she is also part of the research and innovation team. With a deep passion for using movement to improve quality of life, Liz plays an integral role in  understanding and influencing change at the intersection of fitness and rehab. Learn more at lizletchford.com WANT MORE? Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again. Then head over to SexLoveYoga.com for more articles, practices, + events.

Women have been fighting for ownership of their bodies for centuries, and as far as we’ve come with our rights, we are still having arguments about who gets to decide what we do with our bodies. ⁣ ⁣ In this episode I talk about the recent events happening in the political stratosphere around women’s reproductive rights, the body terrorism that we each contribute in criticism to our own bodies + that of other sisters, the cultural wounding of powerlessness represented in the case of Britney Spears, and how I believe we can continue to make progress in reclaiming the rights of our bodies by devoting time to develop loving relationships around our bodies + around sensuality.⁣ ⁣ This is the first episode of a special 5 part sensuality series. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss one! ⁣ ⁣ In this episode you will hear:⁣ * My take on the politicalization of women’s bodies + reproductive rights pertaining to Texas senate bill 8.⁣ * How the court + legal system is failing women on the parts of protection regarding a woman’s decisions for her body.⁣ * How we all may be unconsciously contributing to body terrorism + perpetuating body shame + hate.⁣ * Cultural messages about being a woman who is in her body + sensual expression⁣ How social fear + shame can cause us to disconnect from our feeling.⁣ * What we can learn from the details surrounding Britney Spears + what this has to do with us as women.⁣ * Reclaiming our body + our personal power through sensual practice + body worship.⁣ * The evolution of my personal voice over the podcast years + the importance of coming into your own voice + power.⁣ * Undone Sensual Yoga as my action towards building a safe community for women to come together and practice sensuality.⁣ ⁣ Links from the show:⁣ My Body Is Not An Apology - Book⁣ Britney versus Spears⁣ ⁣ WANT MORE?⁣ Start your journey to coming back home to your body + developing a sensual relationship. Grab my FREE Sensual Sundays Guide full of all my favorite products + Sunday ritual to reconnect with your pleasure once again.