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Healing Body Image and Embracing Pleasure with Celeste and Danielle · Libido Lounge

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If you stroke my arm, like, I can feel that in my in a way that if you touch my right away,
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nothing's gonna happen.
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In fact, the opposite is gonna happen.
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We take a couple of deep breaths And release.
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And then we've switched our point of view from the outside to the inside.
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Beautiful.
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I'm Celeste.
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And I'm Danielle.
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And we're the founders of the Somatica Institute.
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And the creators of the Somatica Method of sex and relationship coaching.
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We created the Somatica Method because we know that intimacy is at the heart of human longing
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and fulfillment.
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I see couples thinking, well, I have all these things to do.
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Sex is trivial, and it doesn't matter, and I'll just put it on the back burner, and I don't
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really need it anyway.
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And then you see them drift apart.
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I think many times, especially women, don't wanna have sex because and you call it
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vaginism.
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So, like, you know, lack of interest, like, they don't feel that level of arousal, mostly
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because they're actually not getting, well, there are a few reasons.
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One is it reduces motivation for sex if you don't get what really turns you on.
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Where is kind of the beginning part of the roadmap of of really healing the, you know,
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from a, say, body image imbalance here?
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Takes practice the same way that we practiced unconsciously.
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People often think of it as passive, and we really teach active receiving.
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Okay?
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Active receiving is where you you aren't just, like, laying there, like, hoping something will
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happen.
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I remember I was trying to help a woman orgasm for the first time, and I was just like I was
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like, okay.
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So how would you start?
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You know, she had her clothes on and everything, but she was just, like, touching
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her body.
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And she's just lying there, and she's like, yeah.
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I feel bored.
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And I'm like, yeah.
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I would be bored too.
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Sometimes the only thing that makes me cum is, like, both the the because I'm making them and
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the in my that I make because I'm actively going towards them.
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I'm going towards them.
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So it's not gonna be like an overnight of unworking it, but I do think that the place to
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Hey, everybody.
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Welcome, welcome, welcome to another episode of the Libido Lounge.
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I'm your host, libido expert, doctor Diane, and we have a juicy episode here today for you.
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We're talking about body image, sensuality, how your body image can impact your sensuality, how
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sensuality can actually heal, help you heal from any body image imbalances or mental, you
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know, thoughts you have that are not serving you in this way.
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And to help us have this conversation, I'm very, very excited about our guests you just
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heard about the Celeste and doctor Danielle.
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So as you just heard, they're the the cofounders of the Somatica Institute.
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And we're gonna get really juicy today and talk about these things that I think are so common.
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Right?
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So common, especially for women, but I think for men both.
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And and so let's just start ladies, if we can.
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Let's just start with why the heck are we in at this point?
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We're in 2025.
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Right?
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We're at a point where this is not the first time that anybody has heard that, you know, we
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have to love our bodies and be kind to our bodies and all these things.
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Right?
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So why are we still in 2025 at a point where this is such a struggle for so many of us?
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Yeah.
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I feel like we still get so many messages out there.
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Imagery, you know, messages saying, like, you have to look this way and you have to look
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young forever and you have to your body has to be a particular shape and size and weight for
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you deserve any sort of joy and pleasure.
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So we're bomb we're bombarded, which is why it still happens.
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And we need to be able to create like an internal sense of self and pleasure, in order
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to like, you know, stave off all of those constant messages that we get and to actually
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just realize that we can claim our pleasure right now, and we don't have to be perfect or
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feel perfect in order to do that.
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Now I know some of
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our listeners might be thinking like, okay, like, I hear that and I've worked on, you know,
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I've worked on my body image and I work on opening a magazine and, you know, not comparing
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myself to that woman in the magazine and all these different things.
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What about though, do you guys feel that there's still a level for many of us that
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there's almost like this subconscious thing, where we we think we've done a level of work
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around like, okay, I'm not gonna identify with that girl in the photo who's been airbrushed
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and photoshopped and all the things.
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But you think that we can have then this almost, like, deeper level of, wow.
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Like, I didn't realize I had a body image issue until somebody put their hand on my thigh, and
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I cringed, you know.
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How much of this is like happening consciously versus subconsciously, I guess is my question.
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Yeah.
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So I think it happens both ways.
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It happens consciously and subconsciously and there's a little bit of a way of like we are
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trying to work on that in a cognitive way.
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I think that's not helpful.
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It's not helpful enough.
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I think like it's one thing to start to compare yourself to magazines and get and see different
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imagery, which is super important.
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It is very important to relate to different kinds of bodies because then you can find
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yourself in those bodies as opposed to just one kind of body.
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But the imagery is not getting much, much better.
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It's still kind of like the same with maybe here and there, there are fringe options.
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But I think the real thing that can help help helped me and can help other people is to start
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to develop like an inner experience of your body that's not just about the look.
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We're not like clothes hangers that walking around is supposed to look in particular way,
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but it's more like wow like maybe I'm gonna look at my body as something that feels and
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experiences and have sensations and really enjoy things and not just like the way that I
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and then start to apply it to the look, like like kind of like developing a look from the
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inside from sensations as opposed to developing a look from the outside.
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So I wanna go into that a little more.
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One of the things I said when we were, you know, just chatting for a few before we started
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recording here, is that this this concept that I see in my work of, wow, people try to be
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intimate, and we can't experience so many times orgasm or pleasure of any kind.
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If we're worried around like, well, how do I look in this position?
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Or is my belly hanging out here?
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Do my thighs look big?
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And, you know, it's really, really difficult, if not actually completely impossible, to enjoy
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pleasure if we're worried about all this.
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And I hear in what you're saying some level of we need to get out of our just as, like, kind
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of trying to heal this just with, like, the mind and thinking, okay, well, I'm not gonna
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compare myself to the image.
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It sounds like the the process that is moving more into the body and the experience.
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So am I hearing you correctly?
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And if so, can you explain that
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a little more?
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I wanna do one better than explain it.
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I want us all I want us all to try it right now.
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Oh, even better.
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That is better for sure.
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So so I feel like it's so easy to sort of feel ourselves.
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Like, we we're looking around all the time.
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We're in this external world, we're getting all of this input.
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And then we can also switch to our internal world, and we can actually do it pretty quickly
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and efficiently.
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So I want us to do it right now.
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Here's how it goes.
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We take a couple of deep breaths.
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And we start to feel our pussy.
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Just notice your pussy is there, part of your body.
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I almost wanna feel it, like like, and relaxed and softened to the world first as we continue
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to breathe.
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And then on the next breath, we're gonna take a little hello squeeze.
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Squeeze the muscles as you breathe.
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And see if you can feel the pleasure of the sensation and then release.
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And another squeeze and focus on pleasure.
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Imagine it flowing from there through your body.
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And release.
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And one more, just wake up.
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Hello.
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I feel myself on the inside.
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And release.
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And then we've switched our point of view from the outside to the inside.
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful.
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I, I love the activity so much.
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I feel compelled to bring up something that some of my listeners have heard me say before,
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which is when I when I snowboard, I sometimes do this activity with one of my girlfriends
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where we snowboard with our pussy leading.
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So I'll be like, so that's kind it's kind of, like, exactly what you're talking about the
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exercise of saying, okay.
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Well, on this run, dropping first into feeling her.
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Right?
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And then imagining that the movement, that every turn, that the that connection is
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actually coming from that as kind of the focal point.
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So, this just brings me to my question, which is like, okay.
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So taking what you did, do you teach and do you focus on ways where it's like, okay, outside of
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almost as meditative visual state, can we begin to have these experiences like that and bring
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it in more to, like, washing the dishes and showing up at work?
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And, you know, how does this work from, like, a day to day incorporating, leading from feeling
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my body type of way?
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Definitely.
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And, you know, we call it decompartmentalization of sexuality because it
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is, you know, like we think that sex is just this thing we keep for the bedroom, but like,
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let her let's have like a pussy be our guide, our like, you know, like compass.
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You know, like she is leading me about like, oh, what do I feel wearing today?
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Or how do, you know, like, do I wanna move my body?
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Or what do I feel like eating?
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Or how do I you know, like, she is like she's my you know, I move from my pussy the same way
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that you describe the snowboarding.
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Right?
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So I really think it's like the way we absorb our body image is just a habit.
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Know, we heard about it.
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We heard we drill, drill, drill.
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So we need to undrill it and start putting in some new practices that will allow us to
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connect with our body and with our experience of ourselves in a different way.
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I love it.
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I love it.
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And then so my other question is in thinking about the, you know, kind of the science behind
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this.
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I'm a I'm a scientist at heart, really, because I really find that when people understand some
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of, like, why this is happening, sometimes if there's, like, a little resistance to, like,
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okay, this is interesting.
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Leave with my pussy.
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Drop into my pussy.
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Feel my pussy.
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Like, all those, sometimes they can be like, what is this gonna do?
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Right?
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So can you explain, like, kind of, like, almost from the the mechanism perspective, like, how
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dropping and feeling into our bodies, into our anatomy, into our, you know, our pleasure
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centers, how that is then connected to repairing, you know, the body image.
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I do feel like so much of it is about our hormones, like the hormones that get released
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when we're in high states of pleasure, when we're having orgasm, when we're squeezing those
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muscles and feeling the sensations move through our body.
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We're like releasing endorphins and oxytocin.
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We're doing it with ourselves, and we're loving ourselves more when we come from that inside
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place and that embodied sensation based place.
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And we're doing it with our partners when we create this loop of pleasure between us.
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Right?
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Then we're having all of the sensation and pleasure that we can share and the feedback.
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And I think one of the things that I really want to say, you know, is a lot of times we
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feel like we have to do these things all by ourselves.
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But I think it's great to like really get the feedback of other people, like helping us raise
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those hormonal levels and giving us pleasure and taking in how much they desire us instead
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of like oh is do I look good do I look good it's just like wait I see desire coming at me
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from all over the place I must look amazing And all and that loop actually releases those
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hormones as well.
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So that combination just for me it just is what it's what balances my brain.
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It's what makes me you know live to fight another day.
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It's really It's really those that hormonal level keeping that high by being connected to
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our bodies.
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And just again to keep reinforcing what Silas said like in letting like allowing and like
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keep reinforcing this lending strip in our body that says, like, yes.
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That feels good.
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Yes.
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I can take it in.
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Because what do we see?
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What do we tell?
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Like, let's think about, like, the average person.
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Like, you know, like, when we are hearing a compliment, we're just like, oh, no.
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They didn't really hear it.
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Oh, thank you.
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But not really letting it in.
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And I was like, I wanna I'm like, yeah.
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I wanna get it in.
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I wanna take it in.
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I'm building my lending strip to be luscious and open and available and say it's almost like
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we learned we're not supposed to take it in and we're supposed to be miserable in some way.
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And I was like, let's be greedy.
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Let's take it in.
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Let's show ourselves as this good compliments and positive sensation because who said we have
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to like buy into the other story?
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Yeah.
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Yeah, it's the the art of receptivity is like, it's so crazy to me sometimes how hard it is to
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literally just be okay with just being in the receiving.
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You know, it's it's so easy to receive a compliment superficially, like you're saying,
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and then just, like, instantly be like, oh, and then, like, give a compliment back.
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And that's, you know, it's great.
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It's great to be, you know, reciprocal that way.
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But I think so often, we're, like, we're just so quick to kinda get out of that state of rest
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receptivity versus, like, taking that moment to be like, wow.
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Yeah.
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That feels really, really good and actually completely allow that energy in before we move
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into whatever, you know, whatever else we're moving into.
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I know one of the things that that you ladies talk about is this concept of pleasure being a
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birthright.
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And I know in talking to people, like, sometimes it's so easy for people to just be
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like, well, I'm not that interested in sex.
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That's just not what my partner and I do.
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It was great in the beginning.
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It went away.
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We're fine now.
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And, you know, what do you have to say to that in in response to also this this idea around,
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this is a birthright.
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This is healing.
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This is everything that you've said.
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So so why is pleasure a birthright, and why do you think we, like, deny it so often?
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In our culture, what we really have is a work ethic.
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We think the only thing that makes us valuable is these sort of, like, particular external
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achievements.
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And, you know, I believe in a pleasure ethic, and it's really, I think, what makes life more
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joyful and interesting and exciting and fun.
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I think we'll still get plenty of work done, especially if we're having much more fun doing
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it.
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So, you know, to really go into that birthright means to let go of some of this idea that the
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only thing that gives us value is sort of, like, this kind of productivity.
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I think a lot of times I see couples thinking, well, I have all these things to do.
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Sex is trivial, and it doesn't matter, and I'll just put it on the back burner, and I don't
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really need it anyway.
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And then you see them drift apart.
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Because there's none of this exchange of, you know, connection and intimacy and hormonal
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balance and and all of those nice sticky, hormones and connections that we that we really
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need to keep that.
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But the work ethic gets in the way of this birthright and this pleasure ethic.
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And, and I think we would get so much more done if we really focused on how enjoyable the the
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moments of sensation and and playfulness and fun are.
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I agree.
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I agree.
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I, I do a lot from a work perspective with setting goals and that sort of thing, but
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within the context of, like, anytime I set work goals, I also set pleasure goals.
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And my friends know this enough that they'll check-in and be like, how are your pleasure
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goals being?
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How are they going?
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Right?
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Because I find the same thing.
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It's like when we can get into that space and we can create from that space, I'm getting work
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done.
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It's like, we all get work done.
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That's just that's who most of us are.
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It's like gonna be part of our lives.
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Right?
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But to have pleasure as a huge component of it, I think is a, you know, it's a really
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important, piece of this.
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So what about things like numbness?
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Like, you know, because I do see that that vaginal numbness is a very fairly common thing,
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sometimes from trauma, sometimes from hormones, sometimes just with aging, sometimes from lack
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of interest.
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There's so many different reasons for this.
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So where does your work come in with helping people heal from any sort of vaginal numbness?
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Yeah.
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And I think I think many times, especially women don't want to have sex because and you
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call it vaginal numbness.
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So like, you know, lack of interest, like they don't feel that level of arousal mostly because
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they're actually not getting well, there are a few reasons.
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One is that they're not getting the sex that they want.
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They're getting like some sex that doesn't mean that that's what turns them on.
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And they're not like because we're trained that sex is not for us in, you know, in societally.
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So we don't go on an exploration of pleasure for ourselves.
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We do it to satisfy our partners.
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So that creates like, you know, a lack of libido is just around the corner.
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I'm not talking about hormones.
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Hormones have their own issue that I think deserves some, you know, special mention.
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But definitely people are not even like, you know, like we're eating from a kidney meal.
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We're not eating for the full potential gourmet French meal that we can get.
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So it reduces motivation for sex if you don't get what really turns you on.
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So then, okay.
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So another question that I have for you ladies is, so we're doing an exercise like this
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somatic exercise we just did.
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Right?
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And that was around our pussy.
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But in waking up the whole body, right?
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Because I think so many times too, one of the problems we get into with intimacy and sex is
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we are just thinking penetration.
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And when I ask people, when I have, like, teach live classes and I ask people, like, when I say
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sex, what's the first thing that comes to mind?
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It's always intercourse, penetration, and intercourse, penetration.
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Right?
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That's what everybody thinks of.
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And, you know, sex for a lot of us is, like, so much more than just this this penetrative type
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of act.
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It's a pleasure filled event of so many different of waking up ourselves in so many
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different ways.
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So what's, like, the process you guys take people through around, like, oh, wow.
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Maybe we're gonna get out of just thinking about sex from a standpoint of penetrative only
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and and really begin to experience pleasure from, like, a multifactorial, you know,
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multicellular type of way.
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I do feel like we don't, we don't teach people about women's bodies and the ways that our
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bodies need a lot of all over body touch and warm up.
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I know when I'm with a new partner so quickly, I feel them trying to go to my genitals and
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touch them right away.
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And when they do that, I'm just like, there's nothing happen.
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If we wanna talk about numbness, like, she's not awake.
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I'm like, you kiss my ear if you stroke my arm.
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Like, I can feel that in my clitoris in a way that if you touch my clitoris right away,
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nothing's gonna happen.
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In fact, the opposite is gonna happen.
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And so it is really, about educating our partners.
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And also, I think as women, what we don't realize is that our arousal curve does take
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longer.
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We we need more warm up time.
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I think everybody does well with more warm up time, but we really need it in order to get to
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the heights of our pleasure, whether we're having intercourse or oral sex or none of the
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above, manual, playing with our vibrators.
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But to take the time to really feel and touch and smell and, like, all over body touch and
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kissing.
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And and and also, I think a lot of times women feel like, I'm supposed to be giving back right
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away.
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I really teach my female clients to focus on their sensation first, get connected to their
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pussy, touch their own body while their partner is touching their body.
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It's like, let's team effort this.
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You know?
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Because because I know that my partners want to get me to my highest level of arousal.
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And if I'm worried about them right away, that's not gonna happen.
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And so there is this focusing, this self focus that needs to happen that I think a lot of us
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feel guilty or bad or, like, we're supposed to get turned on faster than we are.
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And there's a lot of pressure around that.
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So slowing down and focusing on self is so important.
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Yeah.
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I mean, I think that to me just goes back to the concept of rest you know, receiving that we
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were talking about around.
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Okay.
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Even when we are being touched sensually, it's like really allowing to feel that before we
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quickly move into, okay, now I gotta give you pleasure too.
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And and you're right.
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I think we do so easily just jump so fast and and ignore that.
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So so where do people start?
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Right?
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If I if the the, say, block is around something like body image, and if people are experiencing
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that they go into a sensual experience and they're either in their head around, like,
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being touched or how they look or they're like their, you know, hand touches an area of their
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body, they feel trepidation around, and they feel themselves, like, pull back and almost,
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like, have this inability to receive.
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Do they go straight to an exercise like you taught us?
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Like, where is kind of the the beginning part of the road map of of really healing the you
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know, from a, say, a body image imbalance here.
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Yes.
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I wanna say that it definitely, you know, like it's been years of us, like, working with that,
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you know.
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I mean, like, it's like we get those messages really early on.
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So it's not gonna be like an overnight of unworking it.
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But I do think that the place to start is really we created two special classes.
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I just wanna say, you know, like, one is really about erotic embodiment and the other one is
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about body image.
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And I think this combination of those classes where you kind of go and practice.
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It takes practice the same way that we practiced unconsciously taking the negative
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messages.
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We want to practice consciously creating a positive loop in our nervous system.
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That's kinda it's also like that's the way it works on the nervous system level.
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Right?
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We are retraining a body to enjoy pleasure in every level in the embodiment class.
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Have like so many ways to take in pleasure and to bring it all the way down to your pelvic
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floor and how to like keep building and reinforcing those circuits in the body.
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And then like in the body image class, we talk a lot about like how to, you know, like re
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create a lending strip, how to put boundaries when people tell you stuff that you don't wanna
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hear and like really like how to start enjoying yourself, how to face the mirror and love what
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you are seeing there because it's coming from this place of like my my body's superpower, and
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not just like, I'm just like this this thing that like I'm not matching exactly what the
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journals or the, you know, tells me I'm supposed to look like.
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Can I add something also?
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Which is this idea of receiving.
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I think people often think of it as passive, and we really teach active receiving.
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Okay?
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Active receiving is where you aren't just like laying there, like, hoping something will
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happen.
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I remember I was trying to help a woman orgasm for the first time, and I was just like I was
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like, okay.
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So how would you start?
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You know, she had her clothes on and everything, but she was just, like, touching
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her body, and she's just lying there.
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And she's like, yeah.
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I feel bored.
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And I'm like, yeah.
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I would be bored too.
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You know?
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Like, nothing's happening.
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And so I was like, here's what it looks like when I masturbate.
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And I start, like, squeezing my muscles and moving my legs and breathing and, like,
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touching my body and making sound.
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And, like, this is not a passive process.
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This is like we've gotta go towards the pleasure.
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We've gotta make sound.
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Like, sometimes the only thing that makes me come is, like, both the noise, the the
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experience of making a noise, and hearing my noises that I'm making because I'm actively
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going towards pleasure sounds.
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I'm going towards pleasure movements.
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So I really want people to start to think about, like, receiving as an active process.
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Even when I touch people, I'm touching for my pleasure.
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Like, I'm feeling the flesh to turn me on.
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You know?
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So that's something that I like to teach, women to do.
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Yeah.
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And then it's also like sorry.
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I'm labeling, like, off, like, hitting off each other here.
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And then also it creates a much more motivation for a partner to keep giving us because then it
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creates this, like, flow of erotic energy between us.
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So, like, we are responding to their touch.
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So they are more motivated to give us more touch.
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So it's kind of like self reinforcing and mutually reinforcing.
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Well, you guys are really setting me up for the next question that I wanted to ask you anyway.
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So this is a perfect lead in.
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So thank you.
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And I and I agree.
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It's like when we're talking about like that active pleasure or active receiving versus
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passive receiving.
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It's not like we're laying there like a, you know, like in corpse pose or, you know,
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Shavasana just kind of like spacing out.
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Right?
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There's so much more happening to that.
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My question here is this is, and I'll give you a little backstory around I was healing from a
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relationship many years ago when I went to a therapist.
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I had said something to this therapist around.
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Was like, well, you know, I want to make sure that I am, like, totally healed from this
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relationship before I start dating again.
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And the therapist had told me something that nobody ever told me before that, but I thought
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was profound.
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And and she's like, in order to heal from a relational thing, you do that in relationship.
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And so and it was very interesting to, like, take that into my next partner and to just
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really be like, oh, yeah.
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If I get triggered in this partnership based upon my past, like, now it's bringing up this
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moment for me to actually heal that I couldn't have healed because I wasn't having those
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triggers come up that I didn't recognize.
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Right?
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So my question for you kinda comes from that and thinking about this from, like, a, you
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know, healing body image and learning how to be receptive and all of this.
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Like, how much of this work do you think then from a, you know, somatic experiences work that
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we can do alone versus, like, hey, we really need to have this partner here to help us, you
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know, heal?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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I think
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Our whole method is basically based on that belief system.
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Like, we we work with our clients and we train our coaches.
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We teach them how to be relational And, you know, and we do go into erotic and emotional
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intimacy with our clients within the boundaries of the method.
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And we do that as a way to actually, like, maybe touch on some of those triggers and they
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become activated in the relationship.
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And then we can work on them in a very safe container where the focus is the work because
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sometimes you're not totally ready to bring it to a partner.
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You're too scared or you're too wounded, but you do need a place where you can practice
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inauthentic intimacy to create that safe, we call it the relationship lab.
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And nothing is perfectly safe, right?
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But it's like safe, a safer space where some of those feelings can come up and you can process
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them with somebody who's really present and connected with you.
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Yeah, and just to add to that, like you can't, you can't heal body image just with your own,
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you know, because then you go out, you need to create some sort of like immunity.
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You need to create experiences that you're going out because you can tell yourself so many
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things that which is amazing.
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You keep do telling yourself all the good things in front of mirror.
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That's fantastic.
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But then, like, it's also like go out there and then first learn to listen to the good stuff
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that people tell you and take it in.
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And then, like, keep asking people to tell you good stuff.
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Like why just ask people for criticisms?
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Yeah, yeah, tell me more.
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What do you like about me?
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Yeah, yeah, I wanna hear more.
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You don't really take it in, you know.
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It's okay to tell people if you have something bad to say, don't tell me.
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I just want to hear the good stuff that you have to tell me.
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So yeah.
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Yeah, I love that.
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I love that.
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I think it's really beautiful because I think so many times we're in this world of trying to
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heal ourselves and it's so isolating and alone.
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And a lot of the times, it doesn't work to do it that way anyways.
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So we don't have to be alone in this.
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Yeah.
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Remember the first time a partner ever said, I love your thighs.
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And I have to tell you, like, I grew up in a time when thighs, you weren't supposed to have
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them at all.
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They weren't even supposed to touch each other.
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And I have these very round, luscious thighs.
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And he said, I love your legs so much.
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And I was like, what?
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You love my legs?
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And it was really healing, that moment for me.
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And I was like, oh, I started to fall in love with them too.
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And so it's like sometimes we can do it in ourselves and sometimes we really need that
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positive reinforcement to remind us, you know, how gorgeous and sexy we are.
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And so often with our lovers, they're not like picking those little things apart.
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They're just like, you're hot.
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I want you.
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You know?
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I was like, yes.
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Yes.
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More.
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More.
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More.
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Totally right.
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Totally right.
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Well, I can't believe we're already at the top of our time.
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This went so fast, ladies.
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I know we're gonna put in the show notes how to work with you guys, how to get involved if you
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are if people are interested in learning your methodology as healers, as people that would
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actually like to bring this work to others, as well as if they are interested in working with
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you guys more on just people that want to learn your methodology right in their own lives.
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But tell us a little bit, like, just kinda what you package that up nicely for us around, like,
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how people work with you and and of course we'll put everything in the show notes for for
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everybody.
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Wonderful.
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So we have our platform learn.somatica.com.
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This is where you can get classes and really kind of practice with yourself.
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We have an app for that and you can really kinda learn and everything is experiential.
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So while it is like a self learning process, you definitely have practices.
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This is a little bit like Celeste demonstrated earlier and way in more and more and more
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opportunities for you to practice tools to start to love your body and engage in your
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sexuality and feeling very driven around that.
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And we have the somaticainstitute.com.
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This is where you can explore about the potentially being a coach and support others on
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this journey as well.
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Amazing.
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And thank you so much for being here.
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Everybody remember that I will be doing part two in our libido club.
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So please do come over and check that out.
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How you join us in the show notes below.
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Then ask a lot more juicy questions such as what are the steps that we need to do to really
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be transformed here?
33:37
How do we really begin to learn our pleasure body?
33:40
Where do we start?
33:41
So much more.
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Alright, everybody.
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That's it for today.
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Thank you again for joining me on the lounge, and we'll see you again real soon.
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