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What if pleasure was not just something that feels good, relaxes us, helps us feel connected to something greater but ALSO had potential to be therapeutic - like physiologically?

Wait, whatttt? 

So much of our clinical training - whether in the medical or alternative health fields  - tells us to stay away from pleasure when working with people. 

And in a way that makes sense.

We need to create some containers for safety, consent, comfort, maintaining modesty etc. 

But the idea that pleasure is almost entirely taboo in the world of healthcare is also a shame.

Because we are WHOLE beings, and our pleasure (whether sexual, sensual or just generally feeling good) is a core part of who we are.

According to today's guest Dr Emily Wilson, arousal, orgasms and even particular pleasure zones can be medicinal -- like, actually have a healing impact on things like prolapse or ovarian cysts.

I am so excited to share this conversation with you!

Resources:

• Free guide: Get started tracking your cycle with FAM 
• Get on the priority list for the Natural Contraception Fall 2025 program!
• Today's shownotes: Get links to Emily's upcoming retreat & offerings
• Episode 61: Pelvic wisdom & trauma healing w Dr Emily Wilson
• Episode 190: Awakening erotic aliveness with ecosensuality

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Have you ever woken up from a dream and wondered, "what was THAT about?"

Maybe this happens to you all the time, or maybe you barely remember your dreams. Either way, we all dream.

And learning to work with our dreams from a more intentional or even therapeutic lens can be incredibly supportive in navigating complex mental or emotional states or even past or recurrent trauma in our lives.

Our dreams may have more to share with us than we perceive.

Today's guest, dreamwork and Somatic Experiencing practitioner Julie MacAdam is passionate about the world of dreams and what's possible when we begin to pay attention.

I invited her to the podcast after I attended an experiential dreamwork practice she and her partner guided. It was a powerful journey that helped me to see the beauty in something that felt quite disturbing when I woke up from my dream.

In a way, it was a healing experience. And it helped me to gain insight into he power of incorporating dreamwork into the therapeutic environment, especially when we're moving through hard things - but really even in everyday life.

So many of us have past or current traumas, recurrent stress, or are navigating relational or collective complexities.

So why not begin to explore what our dreams might be offering us? 

In this meandering conversation, Julie shares her embodied experience and also a whole lot of direction around ways you can begin finding gems in your dreams, as soon as tonight. :)

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Today's shownotes: Get links to Julie's offerings
• Episode 140: Mugwort herbal spotlight
• Episode 171: Somatic experiencing with Emma Schurink

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What does it mean to be "erotically alive"? 

And how can connecting with the earth and your senses enhance that experience?

Today's episode is a beautiful conversation with sex and relationship coach Usha Rose all about how to incorporate your relationship to plants, elements, seasons, the earth and more into your sensuality and sexuality practice.

We talk what ecosensuality is, how that differs from ecosexuality, and ways to embody these practices whether you're outside or inside.

We also explore the concept of sex magic and how it actually works -- as well as the best ways to work with it and why it's not essential to be at climax or orgasm to effectively use it. 

You can even engage this practice while dancing or exercising or even just being aroused ecosensually in nature!

She says "I am not ever wasting this erotic energy because it’s powerful fuel that can be directed towards healing of the planet, so at the least I’m sending a prayer with my orgasm" -- and I'm hoping this conversation inspires more of us to do this too!

We are powerful creators, especially when we're in altered states. 

So let's spread this potential for our pleasure to bring forward a world we wish to see to those of us who deeply feel, care, and wish for a world filled with integrity, compassion, and earth connection.  

We need it in these times, more than ever.

Resources:

• Free guide: Get started tracking your cycle with FAM 
• Get on the priority list for the Natural Contraception program!
• Today's shownotes: Grab Usha's self please rituals (coupon code: podcast)
• Episode 37: Jade eggs & the practice of pleasure w Usha Rose

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What herbs can help bring your bleed on? This is a question I've been asked in so many ways over the years.

Honestly probably one of the most common. And we ALL deserve access to this information. Especially in these... turbulent times.

I'm not talking abortifacients, I'm talking when you are still in your luteal phase and would be expecting your menstruation in days or weeks.

THIS is the most effective time to be working with herbs. And today's episode is a medley speaking to three key herbs to consider working with for this reason.

While these snippets are not purely focused on contraception, they all speak to how these herbs work on multiple systems and in more than one way.

Herbs are dynamic, and often have a handful or even dozens of relevant actions. Which is why matching plants to people is a practice. It's not just "this herb for that thing" but how and when and why and who. 

If you're curious to learn a little more about mugwort, wild carrot or motherwort, this episode is perfect for you.

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for the Fall 2025 priority list here: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Episode 7: Wild carrot with Mischa Schuler
• Episode 32: Motherwort love
• Episode 140: Mugwort herbal spotlight

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How does Ayurveda view the perimenopausal transition? 

And what are some of the tools and strategies that might be helpful to incorporate in this time to both reduce and prevent the common symptoms that show up in this time?

According to today's guest, Ayurvedic Health Counselor Kristen Timchak, the perimenopausal transition is often characterized by qualities of Vata dosha.

Irregular cycles, drying skin, tissue fragility, brain fog, anxiety, mood swings, are all potentially signs of Vata imbalance.

In this conversation, we explore a variety of approaches to tend our bodies and minds in this time from the lens of Ayurveda and somatic embodiment practices, too!

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get links to Kristen's offerings
• Free guide: Get started tracking your cycle with FAM 
• Get on the priority list for the Natural Contraception program!
• Episode 37: Easing into menopause with Dana Lavoie 
• Episode 70: Is it perimenopause or....
• Episode 97: Nourish yr nervous system w Ayurveda w Kristen Timchak

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What if it's not your hormones? What if your hormones are actually alerting you to something deeper going on?

Because, they essentially always are. 

Today's guest, Rapid Transformational Therapy practitioner Natalie Ryan Hebert, speaks to the drop in estrogen in the luteal phase as a time when deeper truths (including core stories, trauma wounds, childhood imprints) may show up more prominently.

Without that soothing watery blanket of estrogen the "rocks" are revealed.

It's in those "rocks" that the potential for deep and lasting healing may be waiting.

Listen in to hear all about it.

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for the Fall 2025 waitlist here: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Today's shownotes: Get Natalie's links here
•  Episode 47: Functional medicine for PMDD w Jes

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Wait? So contraception can fail?

I'm sure we've all heard the stories of folks using some form of contraception and still ending up pregnant, or maybe this has been you!

It was a little uncanny to hear that my last two guests on the podcast BOTH had the experience of becoming pregnant while using contraception in their early years of sexual activity.

So I thought it would be a great topic to cover at the foundational level.

What does it mean for contraception methods to fail? How does that happen? And what should you be aware of to enhance your pregnancy prevention practice?

In today's episode, I explore:

• the proper use of condoms 
• how to effectively practice withdrawal
• some basics on working with cervical caps, diaphragms, spermicide, Phexxi
• how your pelvic floor muscles may play a role here
• why PIV sex during menstruation is NOT reliable birth control

and more!

Resources:

• Get started tracking your cycle: Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Sign up for the Fall 2025 waitlist here: Natural Contraception Fall 2025 waitlist
• Today's shownotes: When contraception fails!
• Episode 90: Effective Non-hormonal birth control options
• Episode 146: 5 benefits of practicing natural contraception
• Episode 185: Enhanced orgasms + the path to lifelong pleasure

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So many of us are taught to feel shame around our sexuality, orgasms, pleasure.

What happens when we shake a little of that shame and modesty off and start to explore what's really possible?

The truth is, there is SO MUCH MORE than most of us have any idea about.

Today's guest, intimacy expert Susan Bratton, is a 64 year old woman who says she's juicier than she's ever been, and her pleasure potential just continues to expand! 

We're taught we're going to dry up, shrivel up and our libido is going to wither away as we get older. As if we've gotta get it all out and live up our 30's and 40's while we can. 

But that's not truuuuuue! It's all wrong. 

Pleasure is a continuum and getting to know YOUR unique body, your erectile tissue, what YOU like, and how to enhance your full-body, full-being pleasure sensations as you continue to grow and change is a lifelong path.

Susan shares all about her marriage where all she had was dutiful sex (where she had never had an orgasm w intercourse) until she was 42, and her marriage was a mess.

Over the past 20+ years she's devoted her life to to passionate lovemaking for own self, and teaches how you can do that too.

We talk basics on orgasmic meditation, tools, lubes, and even how certain probiotic strains can support your oxytocin levels.

This is a pretty packed interview, a good foundation if you're interested in enhancing pleasure anytime from TTC through menopausal years.

Susan brings it! In a big way.

Resources:

• Free Womb Connection + Clearing guided visualization
• Interested in Natural Contraception? Sign up for the Fall 2025 VIP list here
• Today's shownotes: Grab all the links to Susan's offerings, free course etc!

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It's a bit of a trendy topic these days, especially in healing-centered communities, to speak about generational or even ancestral lineage healing. 

But what does that even mean? And how can you begin to engage with it?

And how does this relate to what you may be holding in your wombspace - physically, energetically or otherwise.

While some people may have a very healthy relationship with our ancestral lines, many of us have lost connection to the practices that help to keep those lineages tended and well.

This is where the work of ancestral lineage healing comes in. 

Today's guest, Jillian Twisla, is a practitioner of ancestral lineage healing through the work of Daniel Foor, and they share all about:

- the foundations of this ancestral lineage healing work

- what is possible in shifting generational patterns when engaging this work

- how it can support smoothing out and tending your womb lineage specifically

- the potential in reclaiming womb connection for all of us

and really so much more. 

This is such a beautiful, wisdom-rich conversation. Jillian is such an eloquent speaker and if you've ever had any curiosity about ancestral healing in any capacity, this is a wonderful foundation to get started from.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: Get Jillian's links and other resources!
• Free Womb Connection + Clearing guided visualization
• Episode 89: A return to wholeness through the womb w Robin Rose Bennett
• Episode 175: The poison plant path? w Megan Desrosiers

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Recently, I've been noticing this concept of "emergent process" coming up. 

Between all of us navigating the collective unknowns, relationship shifts and changes, personal upheavals, and whatever else is happening -

there is also somehow a theme I've been hearing of needing to let go and trust.

And it's in this vein that the "emergent process" shows up. 

It's all about allowing your body's inner wisdom to guide you, whether though physical signs and symptoms, somatic awareness, or deeper intuitive listening.

But what exactly is it and how does this relate to your cycles, hormones or wombspace?

Listen to find out.

Resources:

• Today's shownotes: What is an "emergent process"?
• Free Track Your Cycle (FAM) guide
• Episode 28: Rhythms of your womb
• Episode 171: Healing embodied trauma w Somatic Experiencing
• Episode 174: Slowing down to body time

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