Sex in the Seminary Podcast: Integrating Spirituality Into Real Human Life

When was the last time you checked in with yourself—not to see what you need to do for everyone else, but to examine how you are treating YOU?

On this episode of Sex In The Seminary, we’re exploring the relationship that influences every other relationship in your life: the one you have with yourself.

Self-examination isn’t about judging yourself. It’s about developing the awareness to recognize your patterns, take responsibility for how you show up for yourself, and intentionally nurture your own well-being. Because you cannot build a healthier relationship with yourself without being honest about the one you currently have.

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Envy and jealousy can damage relationships, disrupt peace, and expose insecurities we’d rather ignore. In this episode of Sex In The Seminary, we explore how comparison reveals what needs healing and how awareness helps us move from competition to personal growth. Because someone else’s shine doesn’t diminish yours.

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What does it mean to say F@&$ it to live fearlessly while navigating PTSD? In this intimate interview Minister Shaunda Ross, a Minister of Spiritual Consciousness, shares insights on courage, faith, and the power of showing up authentically, embodying fearlessness while navigating PTSD and finding Joy in life again.

Join us as we explore what it takes to face fear, embrace truth, and walk boldly in purpose.

I took a break from podcasting to turn inward and examine the most important relationship in my life: the one I have with myself. In this episode, I reflect on self-love, self-trust, boundaries, and the courage to face the parts of ourselves we often avoid. Sometimes, the most powerful thing we can do is stop speaking to the world long enough to listen to ourselves. This is my journey back to me.

In this Part II of Limerence or LOVE episode, we explore the difference between limerence and love, and what happens when we turn our attention from the person outside of us to the relationship we have within.

In this episode:
• Recognize the difference between emotional fixation and grounded love.
• Learn how self-awareness and truth can help you choose connection without losing yourself.

Is it love—or are you attached to the feeling, fantasy, and possibility of someone? In this episode, we explore the difference between limerence and love, and what happens when we turn our attention from the person outside of us to the relationship we have within.

In this episode:
• Recognize the difference between emotional fixation and grounded love.
• Learn how self-awareness and truth can help you choose connection without losing yourself.

In this Confession Booth episode of Sex In The Seminary, Coach Joy reflects on what it means to choose courage when honesty feels risky, vulnerability feels uncomfortable, and the truth challenges everything we thought we knew.

ln this Bonus Episode of Sex In The Seminary, I share an excerpt from my audiobook, Sex In The Seminary, featuring Seminarian #6. During a dating experience, her hearing problem leads to an unforgettable mix-up between OxyContin and oxytocin—two words that sound surprisingly similar but definitely do not belong in the same conversation.

Hear the humorous story behind the story as I explore the experiences, questions, and intimate moments that inspired this chapter. Then discover the full audiobook on Audible.

Listen to the complete audiobook on Audible.

What happens when spirituality, intimacy, and sexuality meet in an experience you never expected? In this Confession Booth episode, I share what my first Tantra experience taught me about presence, connection, vulnerability, and the relationship I have with myself. No shame. No pretending. Just an honest confession about what I discovered when I allowed myself to experience intimacy differently. Was it beneficial? Listen now to find out.

In this Confession Booth episode of Sex in the Seminary, Coach Joy shares about her first Tantra experience—and the questions it raised about intimacy, vulnerability, boundaries, and feminine energy.

Is everything that is permissible actually beneficial? And what happens when we stop judging the unknown and start getting curious about what it may be trying to teach us?

This conversation goes beyond Tantra. It’s about learning to inhabit your body, challenge inherited beliefs, reconnect with yourself, and discernment of what is permissible or beneficial.

No preaching. Just honest conversation.