Most of us were taught some version of the same story: Good women are modest. Quiet. Selfless. Desire is dangerous. Pleasure is suspicious.

But that story is not holy. It is a tool of control.

In this conversation, I sit down with my dear friend Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton - intimacy scholar, coach, and former evangelical insider - to talk about how purity culture, patriarchy, and religion have shaped our bodies, our bedrooms, our marriages, and our sense of worth as women.

We speak about the heartbreak of watching purity culture move from private dogma into national policy...while raising daughters in the midst of it. And we name something I see every day in my work: women who are exhausted from doing it all, flirting with "trad wife" fantasies, simply because they're desperate for one place to finally surrender.

Inside this episode, we explore:

• How purity culture quietly trains women to disconnect from their bodies, their desire, and their pleasure.
• Why so many powerful women secretly fantasize about being dominated - and what's really underneath those fantasies.
• The rise of "trad wife" culture and the hidden longing for safety and rest that makes it so seductive.
• How to hold both: being a woman in her full power and having a place to soften, lean back, and be cherished.
• What happens in our marriages when we stop dimming, start telling the truth, and allow our identities to expand.
• Why your pleasure is not frivolous - it is a form of spiritual and political rebellion that liberates everyone, including the men you love.

This conversation is for the woman who feels a million miles away from her own body...the woman who is quietly wondering, "Is it selfish to want more?"

It is not selfish. It is your birthright.

If this episode stirs something within you, share it with another woman who is ready to step out of martyrdom and into her own aliveness.

And if you are ready to remember who you've always been - to reclaim your desire, your voice, and your pleasure - join me at MAGNETIC in Phoenix, December 5-6. The revolution begins within.

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Join the Movement at MAGNETIC in Phoenix – December 5–6 http://www.amandahanson.com/magnetic