Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley

Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley

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Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley episodes

  • The Woman Who Stayed Dad: Truth, Transition, and the Body That Finally Fits
    What happens when becoming yourself collides with a world obsessed with identity — when truth, politics, and love all live in the same body?
    Teegan Toftley transitioned in her late forties — not to prove a point, but to stop living divided. Now in her fifties, she’s still married to the same woman, still “Dad” to her kids, and still disarmingly real about what it means to belong to your own skin.
    In this episode, we tackle conversations about gender, belonging, and authenticity. Teegan speaks openly about body dysmorphia, love that lasts through change, and the current cultural noise surrounding what it means to be trans.
    It’s about what happens when the stories we tell about identity meet the deeper story of being human.
    58 min
  • Desire, Purpose, and the Hunger for Something Real

    What’s the difference between pleasure and purpose — between the quick hit of happiness and the quiet satisfaction of meaning?
    In this episode, Gwenm sits with Justin McSweeny, philosopher of mind and host of an interview series exploring sense-making and identity, to talk about the space where eros meets consciousness. Together they explore the longing that drives us — the hunger for depth in a world that keeps us on the surface.
    Justin brings insights from philosophy of mind and third-generation cognitive science — how we build meaning, construct self, and relate to our own becoming. Gwenm brings it back into the body — where desire, purpose, and soul all converge.
    They talk about hedonic versus eudaimonic happiness, the intelligence of desire, and what it means to live with presence instead of performance.
    57 min
  • Desire, Purpose, and the Hunger for Something Real

    What’s the difference between pleasure and purpose — between the quick hit of happiness and the quiet satisfaction of meaning?
    In this episode, Gwenm sits with Justin McSweeny, philosopher of mind and host of an interview series exploring sense-making and identity, to talk about the space where eros meets consciousness. Together they explore the longing that drives us — the hunger for depth in a world that keeps us on the surface.
    Justin brings insights from philosophy of mind and third-generation cognitive science — how we build meaning, construct self, and relate to our own becoming. Gwenm brings it back into the body — where desire, purpose, and soul all converge.
    They talk about hedonic versus eudaimonic happiness, the intelligence of desire, and what it means to live with presence instead of performance.
    57 min
  • Embodying the Practice: Intimate with Ayahuasca

    In part 2 of our Embodying the Practice conversation, Andrew Marshall returns to talk about intimacy - with the medicine, and with the ones we love. We explore his experiences with Ayahuasca - the openings, the purges, the raw honesty of meeting himself and how that honesty now lives in his purpose and his relationships.
    What do we keep from our partners in the name of love?
    What truths sit unsaid in the body?
    And what does it take to speak from that place - unarmored, alive, fully present.
    This is a conversation about embodiment, truth, and the courage to see and face one's shadows when there’s nowhere left to hide.
     

    55 min
  • Embodying the Practice: Intimate with Ayahuasca

    In part 2 of our Embodying the Practice conversation, Andrew Marshall returns to talk about intimacy - with the medicine, and with the ones we love. We explore his experiences with Ayahuasca - the openings, the purges, the raw honesty of meeting himself and how that honesty now lives in his purpose and his relationships.
    What do we keep from our partners in the name of love?
    What truths sit unsaid in the body?
    And what does it take to speak from that place - unarmored, alive, fully present.
    This is a conversation about embodiment, truth, and the courage to see and face one's shadows when there’s nowhere left to hide.
     
    55 min
  • Embodying the Practice: Becoming the Conscious Masculine

    He chased the highs - the fight, the women, the thrill that felt like freedom.
    But it wasn’t. It was escape dressed up as aliveness.
     
    Andrew Marshall, Master Coach, Jiu Jitsu black belt, husband, father - lived the performance of freedom until his body, his spirit, and the woman who he finally called in, asked for something truer. We talk about what happens when the chase ends. When control no longer feels powerful. When freedom isn’t about getting away - but being right here, in the body, fully awake.
     
    This is a conversation about the myth of freedom,
    the discipline it takes to stay,
    and the quiet beauty of a man who’s learned to live inside his skin.
    53 min
  • Embodying the Practice: Becoming the Conscious Masculine

    He chased the highs - the fight, the women, the thrill that felt like freedom.
    But it wasn’t. It was escape dressed up as aliveness.
     
    Andrew Marshall, Master Coach, Jiu Jitsu black belt, husband, father - lived the performance of freedom until his body, his spirit, and the woman who he finally called in, asked for something truer. We talk about what happens when the chase ends. When control no longer feels powerful. When freedom isn’t about getting away - but being right here, in the body, fully awake.
     
    This is a conversation about the myth of freedom,
    the discipline it takes to stay,
    and the quiet beauty of a man who’s learned to live inside his skin.
    53 min
  • Fucking on Repeat: The Aphrodisiac of Opening

    Bedroom boredom isn’t about running out of positions or toys. It’s about the slow leak of presence — the touch that doesn’t land, the kiss that no longer opens, the silence that grows cold between bodies. In this episode, Gwenm drops raw into her own story — a marriage that ended in rupture, the ache of midlife awakening, the pull of numbness, and the courage to soften back into pleasure.
    She unpacks how boredom can become a deadening cycle — or an invitation. Through visceral stories and practical tools, she offers a path back into aliveness: breath that ignites desire, sound that cracks you open, touch that revives numb landscapes, polarity, mystery, adventure, repair, and the forgotten aphrodisiac of opening the heart.
    This is not surface-level “spice.” This is eros as lifeblood — the difference between living half-asleep and being fully claimed by presence.
    46 min
  • Fucking on Repeat: The Aphrodisiac of Opening

    Bedroom boredom isn’t about running out of positions or toys. It’s about the slow leak of presence — the touch that doesn’t land, the kiss that no longer opens, the silence that grows cold between bodies. In this episode, Gwenm drops raw into her own story — a marriage that ended in rupture, the ache of midlife awakening, the pull of numbness, and the courage to soften back into pleasure.
    She unpacks how boredom can become a deadening cycle — or an invitation. Through visceral stories and practical tools, she offers a path back into aliveness: breath that ignites desire, sound that cracks you open, touch that revives numb landscapes, polarity, mystery, adventure, repair, and the forgotten aphrodisiac of opening the heart.
    This is not surface-level “spice.” This is eros as lifeblood — the difference between living half-asleep and being fully claimed by presence.
    46 min
  • Encore: Selfless Starvation: what dies in a woman when desire is abandoned
    Women are praised for being selfless — but the cost is often desire: starved, silenced, abandoned. The marriage that quietly goes cold. The body that goes numb. The fire that flickers out.
    Melissa Barnes knows this terrain. Outwardly successful, inwardly empty, she spent years performing the role of the “good woman” while starving herself of desire, intimacy, and fire — until she became a ghost in her own life. After two decades as a funeral director and end-of-life care worker, she witnessed the sharp truth of what’s lost when we bury our hunger. Out of that rupture, she created The RISE Method™, guiding women who appear to have it all but feel hollow inside.
    57 min

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Welcome to Skin and Soul™ : Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley. I’m Gwenm, your transformational body, soul, and sex coach. This podcast invites you to an uncensored and authentic exploration of…