Satisfying Intimacy ~ A show for Love, Sex & Life

Have you ever felt mixed emotions about something really important to you? ~ The good news (other than falling in love!) is, you can practice as much as you want sitting with the feelings and choosing your action and communication, no longer dominated by old reflexes. ~ How much do I say to the other person? Who can I confide in to get clear and relieve the pressure? How do I open up to the joy and contentment, and move on, on my path, and on this path with this person, and loving them on their path, to deeper and deeper gift and fulfillment in this world? ~ Here are some starting points for you to tap into your internal wisdom... ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration. Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Who doesn't yearn to go WILD?? The magic is... we already are wild! We are nature, we are animal, if you believe it we are cosmos too. And we have all these social teachings, some with the good intention of harmony, some with the bad intention of domination, that mean at some point in journey to full adulthood we have to figure out how to modulate IT - our primal grab life by the horns and survive impulse. ~ This episode is for you to find your own authentic language of the deepest part of you that no one may fully understand but you can share very fulfillingly. As usual here on the podcast there are meditations and games for solo and partner exploration and heaps of motivation. AND a caution that denying that powerful energy can lead to much harm to self and loved ones. ~ We're all trying to figure out how to do it in a good way, more or less civilized animals naked under the clothes we wear. Much love. ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration. Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Pleasure is a gift given to us innately, and it is a practice. Here, come explore how to welcome it into every corner of your physical and psychic being, sex, heart, head, spine, fingers and toes; marvel as you watch and FEEL it spread and dance and stretch and blow you open and contain itself with laser focus in your life and... however you want and need it to act! ~ This podcast shares meditations and games for you solo and with partner to get to know your and their capacities. AND, it suggests that as you grow your being, you will have experiences of incomprehendable bliss, homecoming, union, sustenance and inspiration for your body, relationship, life's work and more. ~ I am so grateful you are here each episode helping me help the world free itself from shame, loneliness, wasted time and other things taught to us for the profit of someone else... who probably wasn't having a lot of pleasure. Come take this life and radiate your gifts and make love with as many breaths as you wish. ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration. Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Afya Njema (@sexual.reflexology) helps people find their centre in sex, relationships and life, through her work and study as a doula, reflexologist, nutritionist, esthetician and Universal Healing Tao instructor. ~ She shares here some of her amazing questions and reflections on you being your full satisfied self, whatever the past has held, focussed on solo time and relating today as you are and wish to be. ~ Thank you Afya for sharing the depth of your care, listening, and experience. ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration. Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Welcome to the new incarnation of Healthy Sex and Relationships! Thanks for your amazing interest and input through the 1st & 2nd seasons with 80 shows, 1000+ follows & 5000+ listens. Season 3 begins with big questions people are asking me and looking for online... each week for 10 weeks, 1 on Love, 1 on Sex and 1 on Relationships. Then back to interviewing groundbreaking lovemaking people around the world, sharing original juicy meditations for your mind body spirit emotional pleasure, and who knows what other best kinda trouble can be found. Wishing you immediate and lifelong joy, benefit, and inspiration. ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, your support would mean the world! Come visit www.patreon.com/satisfyingintimacy and join a private online community with group events and personal time and inspiration. Thanks for listening, and to Jhelisa Anderson for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @satisfying.intimacy on Insta. On parle français. Se habla español. Support the show

Lexi Duquette (@mermaidinthevtmountains, seagoddesshealingarts.com) and her team of healers and visionaries is here to help you last as long in love and relationship as you want to, to keep finding that spark for your own life, attraction to your partner, curiosity for your future together. ~ 14 years and 3 kids into a marriage that like others neared divorce many times for old resentments, sexual disconnection, hurtful actions and the like, she and her partner went to work hard on themselves to come out of the rough seas refreshed and in love with life. ~ Here Lexi also talks about how important it was to have a couple of happy long-time couple role models to shine the light of possibility amid bleak prospects of putting up with each other if not hating each other but sticking it our cause of loneliness, "for the kids" or whatever other reason than happiness, freedom, helping each other become your best selves better than you can do alone. ~ Thanks Lexi for all your insight, passion and trail-blazing in the dark! ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Candice Leigh (@nakedyogatherapy, nakedyogatherapy.com) was years into yoga before the question came, what is the yoga of sex? ~ Her teacher didn't have an answer, so she found her way through the forest of tantra, sexological bodywork and somatic experiencing (SE) to create Naked Yoga Therapy in New York, USA. ~ As she tells here, most of her solo sessions, couples work and group classes aren't actually naked, though that is an amazing experience that can teach us so much about ourselves, unhelpful messages we got around our bodies and sexuality, even around social interaction; that can remind us to feel the joy of simply existing, moving, with elements all around. ~ Rather, naked is about plainly facing oneself and bringing that in to facing another. The idea is, the more self-accepting and self-embracing we are, the more we can really let ourselves connect with others, especially in the intimate places we so crave. In the same way that emotional vulnerability can be even more powerful than nudity, emotional intimacy can be more powerful than sex, although a wonderful conclusion of all this is to bring the two together. ~ Thanks Candice for sharing the fruit of your travels and integration in the mind/body/soul, and expressing it so movingly. ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Amaka Ruth Njoku (@thegriefcircle_naija) has created a space for people to be themselves, with grief, so we can feel more whole, enjoy relationships and life, and help others. ~ Amaka lost her mom back in Nigeria while living in Mexico and didn't get to say goodbye, and then had a hard time finding a community anywhere that would welcome and help her understand what she was going through. She created The Grief Circle Naija so others would be able to start that much further ahead. ~ She talks her about her experience, social taboos, finding your tribe, having open conversations, new rituals, self-love, and being with friends and partners who are ready to rock a real life with you. She encourages everyone to take as long as it takes and let it come out however it needs to, and not let anyone stop you or push you feel bad about it. ~ Thanks Amaka for blazing a path back to ourselves and to the future of new openness. ~ ~ If this show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Freya McFarlane (@freya_mcfarlane) is a tantric intimacy teacher who loves ritual... little rituals every day with yourself and your beloved, little or big rituals when the seasons change, or birthdays/holidays/anniversaries, or even the evolving seasons of the relationship itself. ~ Based in Edmonton, Canada and coaching online as well, Freya shares here the meaning and adventure we can live with when we have a safe and inviting space together. There are ideas for playing with the elements, sensual exploration, chatting needs and dreams, going out into the world with purpose, celebrating each waking up and going to bed. ~ The ritual itself can be much of what builds trust between you and gives your relationship special powers from connection to nature, as our ancestors have done for thousands of years. ~ Thank you Freya for sharing such a quality of loving teaching. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Marie Thouin (www.loveinsight-dating.com) is a coach helping people meet desire and discovery on dates, based in San Francisco, USA and consulting also online. ~ In this show we talk about knowing and caring for yourself before, during and after an encounter all the while really listening, sensing, connecting with the other person. We talk about first dates, getting closer thru many get-togethers, and how to keep a relationship even years-old fresh and exciting in love and curiosity. Rooted in your safety, unashamed to communicate, laughing at so-called mistakes, a world of fun and fulfillment opens up, and so does the clarity to walk away when it's not what you want. Part 1 of 2 of this year's Valentine's Day offering for those who enjoy. ~ Thanks Marie for modeling being yourself and so alive in but one conversation, sharing the benefits of your experience. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Yet another pair of camps we get divided into and dehumanize each other with is empaths and narcissists. ~ Yes any one of us can be empathic (focussed on others) or narcisisstic (focussed on self) in a moment or as a habit. And both can have good reason to exist for survival and co-habitation. However, when the extreme cases that are a minority get focused on, we can think that in our or our partner's mild empathy or narcissism, one is right and one is wrong, one is healthy and one is sick. ~ Why would we want to see the world so black and white, threatening each other with physical or moral power-over? ~ Who doesn't benefit from us getting along, succeeding in love, working well together, uniting for a better society and relationship with the natural world? ~ Here are suggestions to dial in our ability to view self and other as mixes, with room to play and make mistakes, try our best with good intention, and draw a new picture of the world based on our truths. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

James Thorp (jathorp@bellsouth.net) is an American Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology-certified doctor serving women and families in reproductive health for 40+ years. Currently practicing in Gulf Breeze, USA, he's become aware of menstrual cycle, pregnancy, and newborn health problems linked to having received mRNA gene therapy injections in some COVID vaccines. ~ He's one of many doctors to have experienced censorship and smearing for speaking up, on the principle that informed consent is necessary to fulfill the doctor's oath to look out for patients' health. ~ This interview presents Dr. Thorp's understanding of how the injections can affect a woman's reproductive cycle (pre-puberty and post-menopause uterine bleeding, decidual cast shedding, entry of injected lipid nanoparticles to ovaries/placenta/fetal brain) and the need for careful monitoring. Also presented are examples of approved medicines like DES linked to reproductive health problems, and examples of government medical policy that harmed people and violated the Nuremberg Code so-called "for their own good", as in the forced sterilization of aboriginal women in Canada, the USA, and Australia. ~ The question is raised, what is dangerous about people having a variety of information from health care professionals and making up their own minds as to what's best for themselves and their children? ~ Thank you Dr. Thorp for making the time to share your insider's experience and current work analyzing documentation on adverse events. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Stephen Quaderer (@headeroapp) helped create the Headero app for lovers of oral pleasure and connection, starting in New York, USA and spreading out from there. ~ Headero's goal is to make a difference in the world of online dating by uniting people of all genders/orientations, having community standards based on consent/conduct not looks/performance, encouraging oral as anything from appetizer to dinner to dessert, and not playing into the shame game of saying you want dating those times you want sex. ~ The team looks at the major apps/sites and our evolving cultural values and is guided by member input, so far 17,000 people 6 months after launching. ~ Thanks Stephen for showing another side of that world with your group's vision and passions. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Everyone has delightful places on their body and everyone has sweet spots in their ears... I mean, the mind, the feelings, everything. Do you ever talk about it with your beloved? ~ What are your absolute favourite things to hear? What's the setting? ~ And what are the words you love to say? Is it about their heart, body, ideas, way of being? How about your shared memories and dreams? ~ This show is a very simple reminder to enjoy sharing the love language of words. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

When you're in the middle of a conflict with your beloved, can you remember the purpose of your life and this relationship? ~ Do you get lost in reacting, trying to see things their way, insisting on being heard in your feelings and ideas? Does conflict excite you or terrify you or does it not phase you at all because it's just part of life? ~ This show talks about how you can use conflict as a golden opportunity to get to know yourself and them even better, sometimes even a sign that you're doing things right and the two of you are ready to open up to the next level of trust, love, passion and purpose. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Will Blunderfield (willblunderfield.ca) is a yoga/tantra teacher helping men break down barriers within themselves and between each other, to live relatively free of fear and full of power in authentic relationships and purpose. ~ He talks openly here about overcoming drug addiction, feeling lost and disempowered, going natural and wild, simplifying life, balancing self care with service to others. His events bring men together to learn how to be intimate solo and with others, developing body and emotional confidence in a way that puts sexuality in a conscious, not automatic place. ~ This show is for men whether gay, straight, bi, trans and for woman wanting to love men better, understanding the pain men face and how to help unlock powerful loving happiness. And it's especially for any human wanting to get past limiting labels and fully realize their nature and opportunities. ~ Thanks Will for shaking us up, sharing from your vulnerability and learnings. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Supriya Ermione (@supriya.tantrika) is a tantra and kundalini teacher in Koh Phangan, Thailand. A lover of women and men, she shares about opening to new experiences, letting them come true, experiencing so many changes and awarenesses and pleasures. ~ This show is for many people, women who've never made love or been intimate partners with a woman, women who have and are curious what else is possible to explore, and men who want to love women in a fuller more satisfying way. ~ There's the tantric principle of everyone and everything having feminine and masculine qualities, ideas to support curiosity and exploration, and personal stories of joy and expansion. ~ Thanks Supriya for sharing your experiences and reflections. If you read Italian or can auto-translate ebooks, she's got a new book coming out soon. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Chloe Lee (@presencecuddletherapy) is a professional cuddler / cuddle therapist in Ottawa, Canada. In this chat she introduces the revolutionary practice of getting a good part of your physical, emotional, and spiritual needs met safely and in a way your partner can embrace too. ~ These simple 20 minutes reveal so much about our natural healthy impulses, how we've been boxed into a setup where often we have no one at all or depend on one person to be our intimacy everything, so we don't even know we can ask others without shame to help us meet our needs and this can actually make our primary relationship(s) and community stronger, better mental health, less stress, juicier bodies, all of it. ~ Instead in this new time we can choose touch that is sexual or non-sexual, we can be listened to and held without anyone wanting anything from us, we can trust each other to respect self-boundaries and communicate them and arrive at nourishing ways of meeting, even heal traumas with powerful conscious and unconscious presence, reassurance, acceptance, love, space to self-express. ~ Thank you Chloe for sharing your deep reflections and loving skills in blazing this trail. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Wairimu (@vwairimukaruri) is a sex educator who organizes sex parties and has a budding BDSM practice in Nairobi, Kenya. ~ In this very candid chat she shares from her experience with 3somes/4somes going solo or with a partner, and going through those chewy personal reflections and partner and group discussions to create a good setting with full consent and curiosity from all, the good experiences, the bad experiences, what it can teach you about yourself and our society that few other situations can. ~ Two particular options she talks about are bringing a 3rd/4th person into your couple, and going to a sex party. Consent and honesty are essential in creating an amazing experience that builds your confidence and the bond between you and your partner whether it's a one-time thing or ongoing. ~ Thanks Wairimu, this information is often kept tightly under wraps and to hear you speak freely with experience can give many people a much higher entry point or refinement of their existing practice. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show

Caffyn Jesse (erospirit.ca) has 20+ years experience teaching somatic sex education and sexological bodywork, helping people experience sexual pleasure for the first time and discover how strong and full-bodied their pleasure can be, based in Saltspring, Canada with links to the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education. ~ This is a powerful method because it's based in feeling, seeing, accepting yourself first, and from there learning how you became the way you did and how you don't have to follow any old path but rather can - especially with the right support - shift right back to your true self and fullest desire in life. ~ With patience and love, Caffyn accompanies people whether healing from trauma or just never having had the kind of experiences they want and know they can. It gives people decades of their life back in super connected sex. ~ Thanks Caffyn for making time to share your experience, understanding and ethics. ~ ~ If the show makes a difference in your life, come support it and enjoy group and 1-on-1 calls at www.patreon.com/healthysexandrelationships! Thanks for listening and to Kaytranada feat. Syd for the music sample. Comments & suggestions? DM @healthy.sex.and.relationships on Insta. Ici on parle français. Se habla español. Have a great day. Support the show