Sex Love Psychedelics

You may have heard about how sex + orgasms affect mental health, but what about when mental health affects sex? Depression affects so many people not only in the US, but globally. Especially since the start of the pandemic, we’ve seen the sexual health of individuals + couples alike struggling because of it. Sex therapist Nicoletta Heidegger is here to talk to us about the complications of depression + sexual desire, what medications could be doing to contribute, + how you can empower your own sexual + sensual pleasure to help.

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Nicoletta von Heidegger is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Sexologist (#110256) practicing in Los Angeles. Nicoletta received her BA in Psychology from Stanford University, her MA in Clinical Psychology from Pepperdine University, and her MEd in Human Sexuality from Widener University. Nicoletta is currently pursuing her PhD in Human Sexuality from Widener. In addition to seeing clients in private practice, Nicoletta also works as an EAGALA-certified equine assisted psychotherapist at Stand in Balance. Nicoletta believes in embodied practice and is certified in levels I and II of The Trauma Resiliency Model. When not working with clients, Nicoletta creates and hosts the growing hit podcast Sluts & Scholars and teaches educational seminars and classes to help others learn about sexual and mental health. In her self-care time, Nicoletta enjoys nature, biking, horse riding, her pit mix dog Stevie, and playing the drums in her band. You can find out more about Nicolettat at nicolettavheidegger.com

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When you’re sex positive + have a proclivity towards alternative styles of sex + relating, how do you date in the modern, mainstream world? That Sex Chick, Alexa Bowditch gives us insights into how to introduce ideas of sexual exploration + non-traditional relationship styles in your dating life to support your finding your partner.

We talk about the unique challenges of dating as a sex expert, tips about how to explore BDSM + kink for the first time in a relationship, + advice for starting the path towards non-traditional relating.

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Alexa is a sex and relationship by design coach and sex coach business mentor on a mission to reform sex education and sexuality expression across the globe. She is from the deep south of Louisiana and if anyone knows how to bust through taboos regarding sex, it’s her. She is known as @thatsexchick across social media and is the founder of That Sex Group, a NY Times featured community with love, sex & relationships as the central focus. Alexa speaks and teaches internationally on the subjects. You can find out more about her at thatsexchick.com

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Being a sensual person in the modern age has its challenges. Add to that, the pressures of “sensuality” looking a certain way contributing to performance rather than embodiment. My guest, friend, + powerful embodiment coach, Josefina Bashout, is BACK for another round! Here, we dish about our personal journeys, struggles around sensuality after trauma, + what it’s like dating as sex + sensuality experts. We get real about the issues of spiritual bypass + materialism that can create sensuality as a performance rather than an embodiment. We even share with you about our favorite sensual products + my Sensual Awakening 14 day online initiation.

This is episode 4 of 4 of my series around sensuality. Be sure to check out the other 3!

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Josefina Bashout aka “The Pussy Priestess.” Josefina is a Tantric Love and Sex Educator, Feminine Empowerment Expert & Certified Advanced Spiritual Psychologist. She is focused on dismantling the old stories of past pain and suffering as she guides her clients into moving beyond their limitations into a new place of empowering potential where sexuality + spirituality meet. Josefina has a holistic approach to empowerment through the doorways of sexuality that is process & pleasure focused. She has a sensual, soulful, and spiritual attitude to life making her equally popular with ALL GENDER audiences as she helps them create a more blissful, intimate, and orgasmic relationship with life.

You can stay connected with her on instagram @pusssypriestess and discover more about her teachings well as upcoming course through her website www.josefinabashout.com

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In a society that labels busyness as chic + prizes side hustles + productivity, we have also become familiar with the experience of overwhelm + burnout. This is not the answer to living a life of pleasure + sustaining health. But how do we get out? How can we be high achieving AND sensually connected? In this episode, the badass boss babe Natalie MacNeil talks about the challenges she has faced as a 7 figure entrepreneur to multiple companies + how she’s learned to integrate sensuality as medicine to her soul, her body, + her continuing success.

This is the third episode of a special 4 part series on sensuality.

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Natalie MacNeil is the founder of Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification program. She's also the bestselling author of five books on business and personal transformation, and an Emmy Award-winning media entrepreneur who has been named a "transformer of our generation" by Levo and listed as one of "27 women leaders changing the world" by Inc. Learn more about the Coaching Evolved, and its ICF-accredited, multi-modality Professional Life Coach Certification at nataliemacneil.com/drcat. You can also attend free weekly transformational classes at Coaching Evolved at https://coachingevolved.co/evolve-live-journeys/

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We live in a culture that is obsessed with obtaining perfection, and as a result, can ignore the needs of the body to favor the image of fantasy. The issue here is that the body cannot sustain this. After awhile, she starts to break down, become ill, ache, fail. And it’s doing nothing for our sensuality, pleasure, + sexuality. Dr Liz Letchford is here to talk to us about the shadow side of the fitness industry, how our emotions affect our body’s functioning, + how sensuality can heal.

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Dr. Liz Letchford is an Athletic Trainer and strength coach who takes a holistic approach to improving mechanics, posture and pain. With a PhD in Kinesiology and Rehabilitation Science, her research interests focus on injury risk reduction and the relationship between biomechanics and human emotion. She is the creator of The Release, a self-massage and movement experience designed to help students get out of their head and into their body. Liz is a founding coach for Tonal, a connected fitness company where she is also part of the research and innovation team. With a deep passion for using movement to improve quality of life, Liz plays an integral role in  understanding and influencing change at the intersection of fitness and rehab. Learn more at lizletchford.com

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Women have been fighting for ownership of their bodies for centuries, and as far as we’ve come with our rights, we are still having arguments about who gets to decide what we do with our bodies. ⁣

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In this episode I talk about the recent events happening in the political stratosphere around women’s reproductive rights, the body terrorism that we each contribute in criticism to our own bodies + that of other sisters, the cultural wounding of powerlessness represented in the case of Britney Spears, and how I believe we can continue to make progress in reclaiming the rights of our bodies by devoting time to develop loving relationships around our bodies + around sensuality.⁣

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This is the first episode of a special 5 part sensuality series. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss one! ⁣

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* My take on the politicalization of women’s bodies + reproductive rights pertaining to Texas senate bill 8.⁣

* How the court + legal system is failing women on the parts of protection regarding a woman’s decisions for her body.⁣

* How we all may be unconsciously contributing to body terrorism + perpetuating body shame + hate.⁣

* Cultural messages about being a woman who is in her body + sensual expression⁣

How social fear + shame can cause us to disconnect from our feeling.⁣

* What we can learn from the details surrounding Britney Spears + what this has to do with us as women.⁣

* Reclaiming our body + our personal power through sensual practice + body worship.⁣

* The evolution of my personal voice over the podcast years + the importance of coming into your own voice + power.⁣

* Undone Sensual Yoga as my action towards building a safe community for women to come together and practice sensuality.⁣

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Remember the 90s commercial implying your brain on drugs was like smashing an egg with a frying pan? We’ve come a long way to learn that psychedelics have more opportunity to heal than we were told as kids. Dr Nicholas Bruss is here to talk to us about the leading advances of psychedelics in the clinical therapy world. He informs us about the current research + his experience working in ketamine, MDMA, + psilocybin for treatment-resistant depression, trauma, + couples therapy.

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Nicholas Brüss is an integrative psychotherapist and clinical researcher who specializes in helping people heal and grow with psychedelics-assisted psychotherapies. He's the co-founder and lead trainer at Psychedelic Coalition for Health, an organization for Psychedelic Medicine Education & Advocacy and offering clinical training in Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy & Integration.

He was trained as a psychedelic therapist by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) and is a co-therapist on the MAPS-sponsored FDA Phase III clinical trial of MDMA-assisted therapy for PTSD in Los Angeles, CA.

Nicholas has provided ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP) since 2017 and has been a certified Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapist since 2015. He is a leader in psychedelic-assisted IFS therapy, the Clinical Director of Psychedelic Therapies at Hope Integrative Psychiatry, and a volunteer with MAPS’s Zendo Project. Having seen the power of psychedelic-assisted therapy, Nicholas advocates and educates for science over stigma and is inspired to provide reliable information and integrated training to work and explore with psychedelic medicines. Find out more about the symposium or training + connect with Dr Nick here: https://www.psychedeliccoalitionforhealth.com/

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Imagine taking a sacred sexuality class with me...but it’s in the virtual reality world. Tech expert, Lyle Maxson, joins us to share about how advancing technology is expanding our potential in sex, love, + self-development. We dive about the latest in neurohacking tools designed to alter our states of being, tech designed to amplify our sexual experiences, + conversations around ethics that need to be had to maintain protection as technology continues to evolve. I even share with you my personal experience using these tools before we aired!

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Lyle Maxson is a pioneer of Transformative Entertainment, impacting thousands of people at the world's largest music festivals. His immersive design agency, The Courtiers, and passion for biohacking led to co-founding  Andromeda Entertainment, a VR publisher bringing to market "Games for Good".

Birthed out of the pandemic, GeniusX, a VR education platform, is the next horizon for creating a metaverse that "upgrades the real world avatar that is you" with a goal to better humanity's relationship with technology along the way. In addition he is addressing the world's mental health crisis with the creation of  Entheo Digital a digital therapeutics company perusing FDA clearance within the intersection of psychedelic therapy and experiential medicine

Find out more + connect with Lyle at https://lylemaxson.com/

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How does one move forward with a life of pleasure + finding love again after the death of a partner? Krista St Germain is here to talk to us about the unique challenges widows face when getting back into dating + sex. She shares with us the how to navigate the perspectives + pressures from the outside world, as well as our own inner critic.

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Krista St-Germain is a Master Certified Life Coach, grief expert, widow, mom and host of The Widowed Mom Podcast. When her husband was killed by a drunk driver in 2016, Krista’s life was completely and unexpectedly flipped upside down. After therapy helped her unfurl from the fetal position, Krista discovered Life Coaching, Post Traumatic Growth and learned the tools she needed to move forward and create a future she could get excited about. Now she coaches and teaches other widows so they can love life again, too. Find out more about her work here.

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Sex After Grief: FInding Your Story of Love In the Sorrow of Loss

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Ever have the experience of exhaustion after sustaining hi levels of mental, emotional, and physical output? Maybe even to the point of the loss of excitement or attraction towards the object of focus? Of course you have! We call that burnout, and it can happen in love, life, sex, work, even in our day. In this solo episode with me, I share with you my personal experiences around burnout in the pandemic, as well as how you can help prevent it from happening in your relationships + sex life.

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