Come To Your Senses with Mary Lofgren

From mud squishing between your toes to speaking your truth when it scares you, come learn how to make sensuality a practice of presence, delight, and intimacy with life itself.

What's on the menu to explore: 

• What sensuality really means, and how to reclaim it as a natural part of being human. 
• How capitalism, patriarchy, and cultural conditioning shape our relationship with pleasure
• How embodiment and somatic practices help you move beyond overthinking and trust your body’s wisdom
• Expanding your definition of pleasure beyond comfort and ease to include anger, boldness, and speaking your truth
• Reclaiming the parts of yourself you’ve been taught to suppress, and reconnecting with your intuition and life force
• Simple ways to cultivate sensory pleasure, mindful presence, and deeper intimacy with yourself and everyday life

Come to Your Senses is a podcast about embodiment, sensory living, creativity, beauty, and human connection, hosted by Mary Lofgren, certified feminine embodiment coach.

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

• Explore working with Mary one-on-one at MaryLofgren.com.
• Download The Book of Tiny Delights
• Episode 160: Healing Through Delight 
• Episode 111: Trusting Pleasure 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

In this episode, Mary Lofgren talks with relationship coach and author LiYana Silver about divorce as a dark night of the soul, a rite of passage, and an opportunity to reclaim your true self.

Together, we explore heartbreak, grief, shame, attachment patterns, self-trust, and the process of finding your way back to who you are after a relationship ends. We discuss how to stop defining yourself by a relationship's outcome, reconnect with your intuition, and make room for a more authentic way of loving and being loved.

If you're navigating divorce, heartbreak, or a major relationship transition, this conversation offers a compassionate perspective on what it means to lose yourself, find yourself again, and discover what might be waiting on the other side.

Liana Silver is a relationship coach and author of Feminine Genius and Waking Up in the Dark: Night of Divorce. She supports women and couples through heartbreak and relationship transitions, helping them break old patterns and reconnect with themselves.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why divorce doesn't have to mean failure
• The five phases of the dark night of divorce
• How grief, shame, and attachment patterns shape heartbreak
• Rebuilding self-trust and reconnecting with your intuition
• What it means to reclaim your sense of self after a relationship
• Learning to love without grasping or performing

Find Liyana at LiYanaSilver.com.

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring more beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

When seeking more aliveness, expression, and embodiment, it's normal to meet numbness along the way. But what if, rather than a barrier to feeling, numbness itself is a feeling? What if rather than a detour, feeling numbness is actually a destination? 

What if you could become so versed in the subtleties of your own body, you became a sommelier of your own sensations? 

In this episode you'll learn how to: 

• Meet numbness as a feeling, rather than trying to force it away
• Use a practice called “layer by layer” to gently explore sensation
• Expand your sensational vocabulary
• Question your preferences around “good” and “bad” body sensation, without invalidating your experience
• Find the difference between protective fear and the fear of moving beyond the familiar
• How to respond when body is shutting down in conflict and redirect your life force into flow

Let's become more intimately acquainted with the full spectrum of sensation, and all the power and pleasure that lives inside of it. 

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

✨ Download Mary's free Sensational Vocabulary Guide: marylofgren.com/sensation

🌙 Check out The School of Embodied Arts Coaching Certification 

💫 Watch the layer-by-layer method in action on Mary's Instagram

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

Autumn presents us with change, vibrance, and a vivid reset before we enter into the darker months of the year. This episode guides you through all the sensory, spiritual, and style pleasures that Autumn has to offer in her grand banquet of delight. 

LINKS FROM THE EPISODE

•  🍂 JOIN THE SANCTUARY 
• L.L. Bean Wool Socks
• Qoya Inspired Movement
• Full episode homepage 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

What do crispy roast chicken, September sunshine, your sleep schedule, and not knowing your tush from a pineapple have to do with sensual living? Quite a lot, it turns out.

In this episode, Mary explores seasonal living as sensual living—and how a disconnection from time's natural rhythms can leave even the most capable among us struggling with the most ordinary aspects of being human.

From following seven minutes of sunlight through Manhattan to savoring the last summer squash of the season, this episode is an invitation to let the changing light, food, and weather bring you back into your body, and back to life.

You'll also hear a little love note to autumn, with inspiration to brew the chai, get out the craft bin, and let life love you through your senses. 

🍂 Join us at The Art of Keeping Time - Saturday, September 19th to feel less like time is flying by and more like life is sinking in through exploring the seasons and the senses. 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

In this episode, Mary shares three ways to slow down your September through sensory experiences. You'll learn how to relate to time as a wheel rather than a straight line, savor the firsts and lasts of the changing season, and create seasonal anchors through simple pleasures.

From the last peach of summer to the first chilly evening of fall, this is an invitation to experience time through your body, not just your calendar. 

You'll also hear about Mary's new, free salon: The Art of Keeping Time — a seasonal living workshop exploring how to make life feel less like it’s flying by and more like it’s sinking in through your senses.

Reserve your free seat: marylofgren.com/time

SHOW NOTES

• Join Mary's upcoming seasonal workshop: The Art of Keeping Time, September 19th
• Abacus Corvus Artwork

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

In this episode of Come to Your Senses, Mary explores a softer path into the present moment through ripe summer cherries, fragrant roses, candlelight, and the tiny sensory pleasures that make life feel sacred.

You'll learn simple ways to weave more candlelight into everyday life, from gloomy mornings and nighttime rituals to the surprisingly satisfying art of rescuing a wax-covered candleholder.

Enjoy this little invitation to stop working so hard to be present, and let beauty bring you there instead.

Download The Little Book of Tiny Delights 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

Have you ever gone through a life transition you thought would last forever? 

And during said transition, did you bury yourself in tubs of cool whip and binge watches? Sleep through your alarm daily? And then, did you terrorize yourself for not taking better care of yourself? 

I relate. 

As I approach two years after making a big move from east coast to west, I'm finally getting my spark back. I feel an aliveness reemerging I wasn't even aware was gone.

And today's episode, I'm spilling the California raisins on what's been helping me come back into my body, and come back to life. 

• What Cool Whip, a meat stick, and self-compassion have in common 
• When gentleness is medicine, and when it's not
• What happened when I asked Love to look at my to-do list 
• Washi tape, fig jam, tiny collages—and my growing theory about bringing meaning to life
• How I've learned to take life more lightly, and delight more seriously 

LINKS FROM THE SHOW

• Download The Book of Tiny Delights
• Sensing the Sacred
• My improvised song on following your dreams
• EMKFIT with Emily Thorne
• Letters From Love with Elizabeth Gilbert

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

Today you're in for a treat — a truffle called Savoring August: A monthly magazine created exclusively for members of our seasonal living community. You'll hear seasonal rituals, recipes, poetry, and an invitation to savor the last golden days before autumn arrives. Discover August's key dates (Lammas, the New Moon in Leo, a meteor shower, and a full lunar eclipse), a workshop on shifting from scarcity to abundance consciousness, and a closing original poem to help you linger and luxuriate in the honeyed gifts of August.

Links from the Show: 

• Download the PDF version of Savoring August
• Join The Sanctuary waitlist for our September opening
• Full episode and show notes here

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday. 

Ever hit that 3pm wall where you feel too fried to meditate but too wired to actually rest?

In today's episode, we're exploring why the fourth coffee and doom scroll combo may offer short term relief, but ultimately leaves you more glassy eyed than you started. 

You’ll discover how to infuse your afternoons with what your senses are really craving: a plump serving of full-bodied pleasure. 

Four sensory truffles await in today’s episode. Hit play and let’s dive in. 

LINKS FROM THE SHOW 

• Sensing the Sacred Guided Journal 
• Inner Secret Garden Meditation 
• Leave a review for the episode 

🌸 Download The Book of Tiny Delights to bring beauty, whimsy, and aliveness into your everyday.