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The Pleasure For Health Podcast
Compassionate intimacy coaching with Somatic Sex Educator, Ailsa Keppie. Connecting self, energy and desire.
Episodes
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The Worst Kink Seen Ever and how it Changed my Life
Join Ailsa for this podcast interview with Fox Showers around consent, kink and making it all work. Fox Showers is a certified counsellor, creative arts…
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Desire and Differences in Relationships
Join me and my guest Sapphire Leela as we discuss how desire and differences in desire can manifest in relationships and lead to things like boredom…
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Two questions that will revolutionize your relationship communications
There are two simple questions that will catapult your clarity and communication success in relationships. These two questions are based on work by Betty…
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Safety and Trust are Our Responsibility
Emotional and Psychological safety is often cited as one of the main things we look for in a relationship but what exactly is it? If we wait for others to…
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Communication can make or break your relationship
How can communication make or break your relationship? I see many clients coming in telling me their partner isn't that intimate anymore. When I ask them if…
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Intimacy Wearables and the link between erections and cardiac health with Dr. Elliot
Join me and My guest, DR. ELLIOT JUSTIN, MD, the CEO and Founder of FirmTech for a talk about the effectiveness of measuring erectile fitness and its…
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How is AI affecting dating and relationships in the 21st century?
Join myself and my 25 year old daughter as we discuss the in's and out's of AI and how it is shaping our intimate relationships. Have you tried an AI…
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How relationships have changed from my generation to my kids in their 20's
I have my youngest daughter on with me today to talk about how relationships have shifted in the current generation of 20 somethings from the way I remember…
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Creating safety in a relationship
Creating Safety in a relationship is so much harder than we think. Why is this? How is our fear sabotaging our best intimate moments and robbing us of creating…
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What really happens in a Somatic Intimacy Session?
What happens when you come for a session with A Somatic Sex Educator? Join Ailsa for an informal chat about what to expect and what people come to see me for…
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How we related to our Mother effects our ability to love
Join me as I chat with Leslie Costello, a certified Perinatal Psychotherapist and certified Bioenergetic Therapist about early bonding and how that affects our…
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Why do I have to talk about it?
Why do I have to talk about it? communication is key to good relationships but does it really require hours of discussion? Let’s dive into how and why talking…
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Desire mismatch and how to create more intimacy
Desire mismatch. Let’s talk about what happens when two people have different levels of erotic desire. This could be due to personality differences or because…
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Relationships are a mirror
How do relationships act as a mirror for us in our own personal development and how do we know when to stand up for our own perspective? Join me for an…
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The Sacred Inner Marriage and how to integrate this in our Self
What is the Sacred Marriage within and more importantly how can we actually embody this? Let’s look at the reality of integrating opposing aspects of ourselves…
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Chaos, Eros and Falling in Love!
In the beginning was Chaos who birthed Eros, Gaia and other gods and goddesses of the night, dreaming, darkness, the underworld. These qualities are necessary…
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Stressors that can make or break your relationships
Join me as I talk about different types of stressors and how they affect our relationships. This model of looking at horizontal and vertical axes in our lives…
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How co-dependent patterns lead to partisan societies
Co dependency is a pattern often passed on in family systems. We are recognized and acknowledged for only certain parts of ourselves and other parts are…
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Presence: The foundation of Intimacy
Presence is the foundation for Intimacy. Join me as we talk about what presence is and how we can cultivate more presence from both ourselves and our loved…
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Tension and Relaxation in the Quest for Pleasure
What are the roles of tension and relaxation in our ability to feel and experience pleasure? Join me for a discussion of the roles of both of these aspects and…
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The Maiden, Mother Crone Triple Goddess and how we increase vitality in our Self
From the perspective of the Celtic Triple Goddess - the Maiden the Mother and the Crone, how do we sense our vitality? Using the lens of our sexuality, our…
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Controlling or not? A look at relationship dynamics of control
Why do we seek to control others or the world around us? Often it stems from a fear or anxiety that is based in our own Psyche but we don't want to deal with…
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People Pleasing - The Pros and Cons
Are you tired of constantly putting others' needs before your own, only to feel unappreciated and emotionally drained? Discover how the seemingly harmless…
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Aging and Male Sexuality
Aging has profound effects on many aspects of our health and wellbeing. Particularly around our sexuality and relational wellness, aging can be a doorway to…
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Guest speaker Dr. Tina Schermer Sellers- Sex positive parenting and becoming Shameless
Dr. Tina is a licensed sex and gender feminist psychotherapist, best-selling author, researcher, emeritus Professor and media personality whose expertise spans…
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What is Desire?
Many great Philosopher’s and Sages have wrestled with the concept of desire. But what is it and what purpose does it serve for us as human beings? In all truth…
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Does the birth control really give us more freedom?
I have been weighing this thought recently that birth control options still give a huge amount of responsibility to the female in a relationship to 'take care'…
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Why does being with a Narcissist make me feel so bad?
Why do Narcissists make me feel so bad? As humans, we have an innate desire to connect in community; find our pack, so to speak. A major part of this communal…
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What’s our body telling us?
As a Bodyworker I have seen many examples of how disease and dysfunction has a deeper meaning to the person however I never put that together with sexual…
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Your relationship as an initiatory experience
A couple facing crisis in their relationship, such as separation or divorce, is on an initiatory path. Initiation is simply a set of challenges presented to an…
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Do our memories make our self and what happens if AI stores all our memories?
"Our experience of our own identity is linked to the realization of our own life history. Because the ‘treasure of our memories’ is what makes our lives…
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How sharing your fantasies can increase intimacy with your partner
How can we spice up our sex lives again? I wanted to address this topic, because it is one of the most common issues I hear about on a daily basis. We all hear…
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Talking about Touch
touch is a basic human need and its important to understand we can learn about touch - what we like, what we don't like, how to ask for touch or how to say no…
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How can we become a better partner?
Have you ever thought about whether you are a good companion or partner? We often focus so much on the ’other’ that we forget to take into account our own…
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Why do I sabotage my relationships?
Do you sabotage your relationships? Why do we do this and how does it serve us to do this? maybe most of all, how can we stop sabotaging ourselves and our…
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Self Esteem is an Intimate Experience
"The tragedy of many people's lives is that they look for self esteem in every direction but within and therefore they fail in their search." The intimacy of…
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The overcoupling response and how to work with it consciously
Do you get stuck in a loop of 'if this... then that....' ? Does this type of reaction get in the way of you creating a more intimate and conscious relationship…
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PowerPlay for beginners
Are you interested in exploring Power Play in your intimate relationships but don't know how to begin? Join me here for a candid discussion of the important…
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the 3 steps to transform pain
There are 3 simple steps to transforming your experience of pain or illness and allowing it to bring to consciousness important Self awareness aspects you may…
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Are you and your partner living in the same reality?
How does your personal view of reality shape your relationship and your ability to be intimate and connected with someone else? Are we creating an open-minded…
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Fundamentalist thought as a coping strategy
Do you find that you have retreated into a smaller and smaller box in your thinking and acceptance of alternate views? We have collectively all been through a…
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What does ’connection’ mean?
Join me to discuss the idea of connection and friendship/ relationship ties. Using the famous story of 'The Little Prince'. Here is a short excerpt from his…
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What is relational abuse?
Going live in a couple of minutes What is relationship abuse? We are currently in a culture of calling people out in a more public way than perhaps a couple of…
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Wall or boundaries?
What walls do you put up in order to avoid intimacy? Join me as we talk about the rigid boundaries we create to protect ourselves: anger, fear, silence and…
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The Art of Receiving pleasure
The art of Receiving Pleasure On first glance this seems like something we hardly need to go into in any depth. I mean who doesn’t want to receive pleasure?…
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What do you want me to do for you?
What happens when your partner innocently asks you a question like "What do you want me to make you for breakfast?" Do you respond with your breakfast order…
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Power: the ups and downs
How does power affect relationships? Is power bad? how can we take our power and how do we give away power. Join me for a discussion on this 'power-full' topic.
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Bringing our wounds to light and finding wholeness in pleasure
How do we deal with our own emotions around intimacy and relationships? What do we need to discuss with our partners and what do we need to hold ourselves? Are…
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The cyclical nature of violence and its effects on relationships
"We are, both the potentially nicest, and the potentially cruelest, species on the planet." Augustin Fuentes How will we transform violence and stop it from…
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Relationship skills could save the world
How do we show up to ourselves, our relationships and to our communities these days? Are we abnegating responsibility or are we getting involved and personal…
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Dating over 50
What specific challenges face people who are choosing to date again in their mid to late life? Perhaps having been in a long term relationship or single for…
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How can we make conflict a generative force towards intimacy?
We have not learned to be present with ourselves yet for the most part and because we live in a world with oppression and exploitation, we often meet conflict…
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How is our collective trauma affecting your relationships?
We are all going through a stressful and fearful time right now and this is having real, long term effects on our ability to be present and loving in our…
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Is it flirting or fawning?
What is the difference between the 'fawn' trauma response and flirting? How can we tell the difference in our interactions with others and in our own bodies?…
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Inanna‘s descent -an inner journey
Inanna in this piece, so the interpretation goes, is not a `whole person' until she appears vulnerable before her `darker half', dies, and returns to life. At…
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Ask Ailsa - what do you say when someone asks - What do you want in bed?
How do you answer the question, 'what do you want in bed'? Sometimes learning about our arousal and desires takes some work. Join me for a discussion and a…
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How do we make choices?
Making a choice can be complex. Which part of us is in the driver's seat? What are our motivations and desires? Are we in integrity or do we have conflicting…
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Why should I hire a Sex and Intimacy coach?
We can learn everything these days, from building a chicken coop to writing a book, but learning about Sex or Relationships is still a taboo thing. Why would…
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How do we create consensual agreements around Covid in our relationships?
These days there is much to negotiate in our intimate relationships. We're all still in a state of fight or flight, making us more susceptible to arguments and…
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Shame and its effects on intimacy
Shame is a self-absorbed, self-centred and isolating experience so how do we show up to our intimate relationships if we hold a lot of shame in our bodies? How…