Heeey! I'm back with a quick tip solo episode of the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! If date nights keep getting pushed off, feel hard to plan, or always seem to fall on one person, this episode is for you! I’m sharing a simple tool called quad dating that gives you an easy way to make space for yourself, your partner, and your relationship each month. I’ll walk you through the four types of dates, how to make them work for your relationship, and why time apart can be just as important as time together. We’ll also talk about sharing the responsibility of planning so keeping the connection going doesn’t become one more thing for one person to manage. It’s a simple shift that can help you be more intentional with your time and keep dating each other even when life gets busy.

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Relationship Regroup - WellnessSexpertise.com/freebies

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Hello! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! I’m thrilled to welcome Dr. Aumatma Simmons to the show this week! She’s a double board-certified Naturopathic Endocrinologist, best-selling author, and founder of the Holistic Fertility Institute who has spent nearly 20 years helping people better understand their hormones and fertility. She’s also the visionary behind Hormonal Leadership, bringing a whole new perspective to the connection between our hormones, energy, and burnout. I can’t wait for you to hear her insight in this conversation!

In this episode:

• How to support fertility before trying to conceive
• What fertility really looks like after 35
• What birth control does and doesn’t do for hormones
• The role toxins can play in hormone health
• Why hormone health matters beyond fertility
• How your energy shifts throughout your cycle
• Ways to work with your cycle in everyday life

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Resources
Free Fertility Analysis: MadreFertility.com

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Instagram: @HolisticFertilityDoctor

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Hello and welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! I’m so happy to welcome Amber Romaniuk this week! Amber is an Emotional Eating, Digestive and Hormone Expert who has spent the last 12 years helping high achieving women break long standing patterns with food and build more confidence and trust in their bodies. Her work is deeply shaped by her own healing journey, and she now reaches women around the world through her work and The No Sugarcoating Podcast. I can’t wait for you to hear the perspective she brings to this conversation!

In this episode:

• How early experiences shape our relationship with food
•  The cycle of restriction and binge eating
•  Why emotional eating goes deeper than food
•  The problem with diet rules and restriction
•  How body image affects intimacy
•  Different ways to support a partner going through this
•  Why you should be slowing down and listening to your body

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Resources:
The No Sugarcoating Podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-no-sugarcoating-podcast/id1158699464 https://amberapproved.ca/podcast/
Free Emotional Eating Quiz:
amberapproved.ca/emotional-eating-quiz/
Free Hormone Imbalance Quiz:
amberapproved.ca/hormone-imbalance-quiz
Schedule a Complimentary 30 Minute Body Freedom Session:
amberapproved.ca/body-freedom-consultation/

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Website:
https://amberapproved.ca
Socials: @AmberRomaniuk

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Hey hey hey! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! I’m so happy to have Bria Gadd, also known as The Period Whisperer, on this week! Bria is a functional diagnostic nutrition practitioner, holistic health coach, certified personal trainer, and host of The Period Whisperer podcast. Her work helps women better understand their hormones and health through midlife, especially when their bodies start responding differently to the things they’ve always done. We get into perimenopause, health debt, and why understanding what’s happening in your body can make such a difference during this stage of life.

In this episode:

• How health and hormone needs can change in midlife
• What health debt is and how it builds over time
• Why healthy habits can sometimes add more stress to the body
• What perimenopause is and when changes can begin
• How health debt and perimenopause can overlap
• Why slowing down and paying attention to your body matters 
• Practical ways to reduce health debt through sleep, nutrition, movement, and reducing unnecessary stress

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**This episode is sponsored by Wellness Sexpertise with Rachel Maine. Visit pure.shop/shop?sh=V9S5E8R and use my exclusive code MY9PU44 for 15% off your order!**

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Website: BriaThePeriodWhisperer.com
Instagram: @bria_period_whisperer

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Hello hello! We're finally back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast and I’m so happy to have Kayla Branstetter on today! Kayla is an English professor, TEDx speaker, researcher, and the author of Don't Be an Athena. Through her writing and research, she’s creating space for conversations that too often get pushed aside, helping women feel seen, heard, and less alone in their experiences. I loved getting to hear more about the story behind her book, the work she’s doing to challenge shame and silence around women’s health, and the incredible heart she brings to everything she creates. I know you’re going to get so much out of this conversation!

In this episode:

• Why storytelling helps women feel less alone
• The importance of creating spaces where women feel seen and heard
• Why period education and body autonomy matter for the next generation
• The lasting impact of shame, silence, and medical gaslighting
• The meaning behind Don't Be an Athena 
• Why believing women can change the way we respond to trauma

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**This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration. Visit InstantHydration.com and use my exclusive code RACHEL33826 for 40% off your order!**

Connect with Kayla
Website: kaylabranstetter.wpcomstaging.com
Instagram: @kbranstetter87
Get her book: kaylabranstetter.wpcomstaging.com/dont-be-an-athena-book-orders

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Hello, hello! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! I’m so happy to have Laura and Morgan here today! These two have dedicated so much of their work to helping people better understand their bodies and access information that far too many of us were never taught. Through their work in sexual health, midwifery, hormones, and body literacy, they’re helping people build trust in themselves and approach their bodies with more curiosity, confidence, and compassion. This was such a thoughtful conversation, and I know you’re going to take a lot away from it!

In this episode:

• The lack of education around hormones and cycles
• How cycle tracking can build body awareness
• The importance of body literacy
• Why every hormonal experience is unique
• Common myths about cycle phases
• Tracking apps pros and cons
• Why hormone education should start earlier

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**This episode is sponsored by Wellness Sexpertise with Rachel Maine. Visit pure.shop/shop?sh=V9S5E8R and use my exclusive code MY9PU44 for 15% off your order!**

Connect with Laura & Morgan
Instagram: @ItsLauraAndMorgan
Website: ItsLauraAndMorgan.com
The Cycle Book can be found anywhere you buy books

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Hello hello! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self Podcast! This week’s guest is the incredible Suzanne Noble, host of the wildly popular podcast Sex Advice for Seniors and one of the most refreshing voices out there when it comes to sex, ageing, pleasure, and relationships. Suzanne brings honesty, humor, confidence, and so much lived experience into this conversation as we talk about what it really looks like to stay curious, connected, and sexual later in life. 

In this episode:

• Sex and sexuality after 50 and 60
• How menopause can impact desire and arousal
• The stigma around older adults being sexual
• The myth that sexuality has an expiration date
• How sex can become longer and more intentional with age
• Redefining relationships later in life
• Exploring kink, BDSM, and sexual creativity later in life

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**This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration. Visit InstantHydration.com and use my exclusive code RACHEL33826 for 40% off your order!**

Connect with Suzanne
Podcast - Sex Advice for Seniors
Website - SexAdviceforSeniors.com

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Hey hey! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! This week I’m joined by Jim Benson for a really powerful conversation around male pleasure, intimacy, embodiment, and connection. Jim has spent more than two decades helping men become more confident, present, and skillful lovers through his work in tantra, coaching, and somatic based sexuality education. He brings such a refreshing perspective to conversations around sex, shame, performance, and pleasure, and I absolutely loved where this discussion went.

In this episode:

• Why many men never learned intimacy skills
• How porn impacts connection and presence
• Routine sex versus embodied sex
• How shame and trauma affect sex
• Balancing pleasure and connection
• Using breathwork to increase pleasure
• Creating intimacy through touch and breath
• Why sex can get better with age

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**This episode is sponsored by Foria. Visit ForiaWellness.com and use my exclusive code MAINE20 for 20% off your order!**

Resources
How to Talk to Your Man About Sex
Sensate Focus 101
The 3 Minute Game

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Website: AwakenedMasculine.com

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This week I’m joined by the incredible Nicole Lange to talk all things fertility, nervous system, and whole body healing. Nicole is an acupuncturist with over 20 years of experience specializing in reproductive and emotional health, and her approach is unlike anything you typically hear in fertility. She blends traditional Chinese medicine, trauma informed care, and a deep understanding of how our bodies function to help people reconnect with themselves. The way she talks about fertility shifts it out of pressure and into pleasure, and I cannot wait for you to hear her perspective.

In this episode:

• The difference between treating parts of the body versus the whole person
• What happens when trying to conceive starts to take over your life
• How the pressure around fertility can build without you realizing it
• Why your body needs to feel safe before it can shift into reproduction
• Why changing patterns takes time and doesn’t happen overnight
• The role pleasure plays in supporting your system
• Why sex can start to feel like pressure instead of connection
• Ways to take the pressure off and bring some ease back in

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**This episode is sponsored by Wellness Sexpertise with Rachel Maine. Visit pure.shop/shop?sh=V9S5E8R and use my exclusive code MY9PU44 for 15% off your order!**

Connect with Nicole
Website: LifeHealingLife.com
YouTube: @TheBabyYouWant 

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Hey everyone! Welcome back to the Owning Your Sexual Self podcast! This week I’m really excited to have Jessica Idione here! Jessica is a licensed and certified relationship and sex therapist who works with both couples and individuals using a trauma informed, somatic, and evidence based approach. She’s known for reframing relationship myths and helping people make sense of dynamics that often get labeled as incompatibility. This is one of those conversations that can really change how you understand what might be happening between you and your partner.

In this episode:

• How couples often interpret challenges as incompatibility
• The role of the nervous system in connection and conflict
• The connection between emotional and physical responses
• Simple ways to slow things down and reconnect
• Different ways desire can show up for people
• The importance of communication and checking in with each other
• How curiosity can shift the way you understand your partner

Thank you so much for listening! Don't forget to share on your social media and tag me if you loved this episode!

**This episode is sponsored by Instant Hydration. Visit InstantHydration.com and use my exclusive code RACHEL33826 for 40% off your order!**

Connect with Jessica
Instagram: @JessicaIdoine
Retreat Instagram: @ECRetreats
Website: JessicaIdoine.com

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Website: https://linktr.ee/WellnessSexpertise
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