I recorded this one recovering from surgery, hot, itchy, sticky, and in pain. Not exactly the soft-lit, silk-and-candles version of sensuality we've all been sold. And that's the whole point. We've branded sensuality as an aesthetic, coded it as feminine, and turned it into something you curate rather than something you already are. This episode is me pulling that apart in real time, from inside a body that isn't performing the way I'd want it to.

Here's what we get into:

• Why sensuality has been collectively branded as softness, beauty, and an elevated version of being in a body, and what that costs us

• The difference between sensuality as a feeling and sensuality as a capacity to gather data through the senses

• Why pain, grief, shame, and discomfort are just as sensual as pleasure and what happens when we only count the good stuff

• The industry built on the gap between the body you have and the body you think you're supposed to have

• Why resistance and numbness aren't things to bypass, but places to meet yourself

• What it actually looks like to stay present with a body that's changing, aging, bracing, and sometimes deeply uncomfortable

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