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

In this unflinching conversation, we sit with Keeper Catran-Whitney - author, survivor, brother, and truth-speaker - about his memoir Helplessness: What Happens to Brothers When We Learn Our Sisters Have Been Molested by Our Parents. This isn’t just another story about trauma - It’s a crucible of emotional truth where guilt, silence, familial betrayal, and the destruction of being left unseen. 
Keeper opens the door on what most families never speak about. Helplessness is his forty-five-year journey through shock, shame, paralysis, and finally toward a fragile kind of hope - born not in denial but in the courage to face what was buried and forbidden. This memoir foregrounds what brothers experience when systems, culture, and love itself tell them to shut up, stay strong, and carry on, even as their world collapses. 
In this episode, Keeper and I delve into the emotional architecture of silence,  how not talking becomes its own prison, how guilt morphs into a lifelong companion, and how reclaiming voice is an act of resistance and healing. We talk about men’s emotional health in the shadow of unspeakable pain, the absence of spaces that hold brotherly experience with tenderness and depth, and the grand societal myth that resilience means never breaking.

What happens when you cast the most hidden, most judged parts of the body into permanence?
In this unfiltered and unforgettable episode of Skin & Soul, I sit down with British sculptor Jamie McCartney—creator of The Great Wall of Vagina (now Vulva), The Spice of Life, and a growing body of work that dares to mold the raw truth of our erotic anatomy.
From labia to penis, outer lips to internal vaginal walls, Jamie’s art captures what we’re taught to hide. This isn’t porn. It’s not provocation for its own sake. It’s documentation. Reclamation. Reverence.
We talk about:

• The myth of the “perfect” pussy—and the quiet epidemic of aesthetic shame
  
• Why the most radical thing you can do is see (and show) your real body
  
• The art of internal vaginal casting (!), and the intimate trust it demands
  
• Genital diversity, censorship, and why real erotic bodies deserve museum walls
  

Jamie’s sculptures aren’t just flesh frozen in time. They are resistance. Education. Sacred rebellion. They say: you are not wrong. You are not broken. You are not alone.
Because Venus was never one shape.
She was every curve. Every crease. Every variation.
And each one of them is divine.
Watch: https://youtu.be/UX7JZG1-Puw

What happens when you cast the most hidden, most judged parts of the body into permanence?
In this unfiltered and unforgettable episode of Skin & Soul, I sit down with British sculptor Jamie McCartney—creator of The Great Wall of Vagina (now Vulva), The Spice of Life, and a growing body of work that dares to mold the raw truth of our erotic anatomy.
From labia to penis, outer lips to internal vaginal walls, Jamie’s art captures what we’re taught to hide. This isn’t porn. It’s not provocation for its own sake. It’s documentation. Reclamation. Reverence.
We talk about:

• The myth of the “perfect” pussy—and the quiet epidemic of aesthetic shame
• Why the most radical thing you can do is see (and show) your real body
• The art of internal vaginal casting (!), and the intimate trust it demands
• Genital diversity, censorship, and why real erotic bodies deserve museum walls

Jamie’s sculptures aren’t just flesh frozen in time. They are resistance. Education. Sacred rebellion. They say: you are not wrong. You are not broken. You are not alone.
Because Venus was never one shape.
She was every curve. Every crease. Every variation.
And each one of them is divine.
Watch: https://youtu.be/UX7JZG1-Puw

Rill’s understanding of desire comes from proximity, not theory.
Working within the sex industry as an erotic dancer, hosting swinger events, styling adult film sets, and writing erotic fiction, she witnessed how sex, money, and power actually move. When formal pathways failed her, she created Seductive Art—focusing on visual stimulation, erotic dialogue, and sensual movement.
This conversation strips away the fairytale and looks at desire as currency: how power shapes attraction, why honesty about sex is rare, and what awareness really protects us from.

Rill’s understanding of desire comes from proximity, not theory.
Working within the sex industry as an erotic dancer, hosting swinger events, styling adult film sets, and writing erotic fiction, she witnessed how sex, money, and power actually move. When formal pathways failed her, she created Seductive Art—focusing on visual stimulation, erotic dialogue, and sensual movement.
This conversation strips away the fairytale and looks at desire as currency: how power shapes attraction, why honesty about sex is rare, and what awareness really protects us from.

What if desire isn’t random — and intimacy isn’t accidental?
In this episode of Skin & Soul, I’m joined by David Bederman, spiritual teacher, behavioral strategist, and creator of The Personality Code — a system rooted in Kabbalah that explores the hidden wiring shaping how we love, attract, create, and evolve.
We talk about Kabbalah as an ancient energetic framework and how it illuminates desire, attraction patterns, masculine and feminine energies, soul growth, and erotic repetition.
We explore why we’re drawn to who we’re drawn to, how intimacy reveals our deepest wiring, and why sex and eros may be among the most powerful forces for spiritual evolution.

What if desire isn’t random — and intimacy isn’t accidental?
In this episode of Skin & Soul, I’m joined by David Bederman, spiritual teacher, behavioral strategist, and creator of The Personality Code — a system rooted in Kabbalah that explores the hidden wiring shaping how we love, attract, create, and evolve.
We talk about Kabbalah as an ancient energetic framework and how it illuminates desire, attraction patterns, masculine and feminine energies, soul growth, and erotic repetition.
We explore why we’re drawn to who we’re drawn to, how intimacy reveals our deepest wiring, and why sex and eros may be among the most powerful forces for spiritual evolution.

In this episode, Brownell Landrum joins us to explore the pulse beneath her work A Love Story to the Universe - a conversation about soul mates, longing, synchronicity, and the quiet ways the cosmos answers the human heart.
We also enter her newest project, The Art and Science of Wishing, rooted in peaceful, positivity, and purposeful, where desire becomes something sharper than hope and far more intimate than manifestation. Together we explore how wishing, when done from truth rather than fantasy, becomes a force that shapes reality.
This is an episode about devotion, destiny, and the courage to want ~ fully, unapologetically, with the whole body.

In this episode, Brownell Landrum joins us to explore the pulse beneath her work A Love Story to the Universe - a conversation about soul mates, longing, synchronicity, and the quiet ways the cosmos answers the human heart.
We also enter her newest project, The Art and Science of Wishing, rooted in peaceful, positivity, and purposeful, where desire becomes something sharper than hope and far more intimate than manifestation. Together we explore how wishing, when done from truth rather than fantasy, becomes a force that shapes reality.
This is an episode about devotion, destiny, and the courage to want ~ fully, unapologetically, with the whole body.

In this intimate conversation with depth psychology coach and author Deborah Lukovich, we dive into the lived story behind her memoir When Sex Meets God. We explore the midlife unraveling that cracks open desire, shadow, dreams, synchronicity, and the body’s long-silenced hunger.
Deborah shares how Jungian psychology shaped her awakening, how younger lovers appeared as catalysts, and how projection, archetype, and kundalini pulled her into a transformation she couldn’t think her way out of.
A conversation about becoming Forever Jung—alive, undone, curious, and willing to follow eros into the unknown.