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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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How do the stages of grief inform our relationships?
Grieving goes through a cycle: denial, pain, anger, depression, upward turn and working through and finally hope. How does this play out in our intimate…
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Ask Ailsa - has the pandemic isolation made you afraid of touch and connection?
How can we get our nervous system back on track and feeling 'safe enough' to reach out and connect with people again after so much collective stress? Join me…
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Self care in relationships
How can we balance self care and relationships? Listen to find out.
The Pleasure For Health Podcastthe art of being a good listener
listening is the ability to accurately receive and interpret messages in the communication process. The skill of listening underpins all positive human…
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What kind of commitment can you expect in your new relationships?
Commitment is a touchy subject for people in new relationships. Let's talk about what we can realistically expect on the commitment front.
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How do you manage social media and your relationships?
Today's podcast for Ask Ailsa will be on the topic of social media. Should you change your social media to reflect a new relationship? Should you remove…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastStaying Intimate Even With STI
Listen in as we explore the topic of intimacy and how it is still possible, even with an STI.
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Ask Ailsa - Fighting Fair In Your Relationship
We are often faced with conflict in our relationships - let's talk about how to turn conflict into pathways for growth in our relationships.
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Ask Ailsa - How do we relate to support in our relationships?
Relationships are complicated, complex, sometimes demanding yet remain spaces where amazing experiences happen! So, just how then do we manage support in our…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastDo You Feel Lonely In Your Relationship?
In light of the pandemic, many people are experiencing levels of loneliness in their relationships that are sometimes difficult to manage. Join Ailsa as she…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastHow To Build Trust In A Relationship?
Join Ailsa on today's podcast as she explores strategies to build trust in a relationship.
The Pleasure For Health PodcastIs Being Honest Always The Best Policy?
We're always taught to tell the truth, and nothing but the truth. So, for today's podcast, I'll open up a controversial topic about honesty, and the value we…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastHow Do We Define Cheating In Relationships
A controversial and highly-debatable topic, to be sure. Join me on this podcast as I explore what the modern definition of cheating is believed to be, at least…
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What should you do for Valentine’s Day?
You may associate Valentines Day with St. Valentine, but, many cultures celebrate this day in various ways - from animal sacrifice as a symbol of fertility to…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastCan you be friends & lovers?
It's an age-old question? And it's a struggle many face today. How can we maintain friendship status having been lovers? Listen in as we do a deep dive on this…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastHow much time should you spend with your partner?
I On today's episode of the Pleasure for Health podcast, I do deep dive on how much time should we really be spending with our partners, in light of the…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastIntense Emotions & Intimacy
Are we afraid of intense emotion? This question was raised recently in a discussion on how we tend to equate all high emotional states with sex. This seemed to…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastImprinted Memories
I’ve been pondering the idea of how we are all connected. Not just in the usual way we might talk about connection in the present time, but connected…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastGetting a black belt in life
How do you get a black belt in life and why would you want to? I was sitting in the cafe pondering on my last few years, and since this month, we are dealing…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastFeeling "not good enough" is a cultural phenomenon
Why do we suffer from this crippling feeling of never being good enough? Where does it come from? And more importantly, how do we get rid of it?
The Pleasure For Health PodcastDivorce the story and marry the truth
Whatever you need to do, divorce the story and marry the truth. This saying struck me recently as being a great mantra to live by. We make up so many stories…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastCan't you just be logical?
Ok guys, this one is for you. Let me tell you a little story and you see if it sounds like something you have experienced. It’s your wife’s birthday (sub in…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastIgnorance, Betrayal & Your Body
I recently had a friend who has been blessed with pretty great physical health for most of his life; a couple of small day surgeries, a minor motorcycle…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastCinderella Syndrome
How many of you dreamed of being Cinderella when you were little? Come on, admit it...you secretly dressed up in your prettiest party outfit with a crown made…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastThe True Challenge of Equality
A passion of mine is to work towards true equality and understanding between people of different gender, sexuality, race, financial means, ability. This may…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastEvery body is unique
I wanted to touch on something that really stuck in my mind from recent teachings... “There is often more difference between people’s genitals that are the…
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Prioritizing Pleasure
I have decided to take the month of April and describe a little bit of my journey as I begin my advanced training in Somatic Sex Education. After my first week…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastSo, What does being a Somatic Sex Educator mean, really?
For a start, this field, as a profession, is relatively new. The importance of somatic or bodywork training in conjunction with traditional sex therapy or…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastThe Surprising Benefits Of Empowering Choice And Voice Around Sex
Empowerment! I know that’s a word that gets thrown around a lot these days, and even I, roll my eyes when I see another slogan with the message of ‘empower…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastDo We Want A Future With Replaceable Bodies?
I am a bodyworker. Every day I work with people’s relationships to their body. It constantly amazes me how disconnected most of us have become, from our…
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I'm A Guy - Not A Mind Reader!
So I have spent the last week or two having some really great talks with my guy friends, and to say its been eye-opening is an understatement! I have been…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastI Just Want To Please Her!
I hear this from so many men, this desire to please their female partners. Often they laugh and say they wish there was a manual that went with the woman. I…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastExploring Sensational Play
So this week I thought I’d give a taste of what is possible when you expand your ideas around play in the bedroom. Maybe you feel like you’ve gotten in a rut…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastSo, what's really going on down there?
One of my first clients was a woman in her 70’s who, after talking to me, wanted to know where things were down there. She had been raised in a strict Catholic…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastGender Equality
Open your mind to the various aspects of gender equality.
The Pleasure For Health PodcastRedefining Relationships
Modern-day relationships require skills, and skills require practice. Join me for a quick exercise that you could try with your current partner/s or friends.
The Pleasure For Health PodcastGiving AND Receiving
t is fast approaching the holiday season and I felt inspired to write a blog on the art of giving and receiving, since we can get caught up in the frenzy of…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastThe Inside Feeling of Failure
Tony was a man in his late 40’s, successful by outward appearance, but on the inside feeling that he had somehow failed at life.
The Pleasure For Health PodcastBeing A Goddess Is About Being Perfect
Somewhere, somehow, the idea got lodged in our psyche that to be a goddess we had to be perfect, or at least better than human. We had to look beautiful…
The Pleasure For Health PodcastEveryone wants better sex but no one wants to talk about it!
Join Ailsa, and her partner Declan, as they discuss the allusions to sex that exist in our society today, and the reluctance people have to talk about it!