The Sensory Playspace Podcast

Connecting with intimacy and expanding how we view, experience, and communicate sexually. We had a chat with Michelle Renee, a Platonic Surrogate Partner about the spectrums of sex.

Have a listen to Episode 7 of The Sensory Playspace Podcast to explore (and expand) what the spectrum of sex can mean for you with us. Leave a comment in the Substack post to continue the conversation. Share this episode with your friends/lovers/family and let’s find more ways to get our of our heads and drop deeper into our body centered pleasure through intimacy, healing + kink.

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In this episode we talked about:

• Intro - Meet Michelle

• Asexuality - what it is

• Surrogacy Partners - what they do

• Creating a nurturing space for a client to do the work that needs to be done

• The repression around the imperfections in sexuality and empowering people to find a safe space within themselves

• Betty Dotson and empowerment in sexuality

• Professional cuddling, platonic touch, and healing unhealthy past relationship attachments

• Betty Martin and The Wheel of Consent

• When to introduce touch and creating a safe container within yourself

• Feeling into a familiar experience in a new way.

• Exploring intentional connections and learning our own patterns and quirks

• Responsive Desire + Spontaneous Desire (Come as You Are)

• Creating space for an empowered yes in the way it’s needed

• The reality of how sex actually happens (vs. what you see on media)

• Reflecting on did I really enjoy this or did I enjoy the idea of it?

• Demisexual, sapiosexual and how we’re turned on from connection beyond physical attraction

• Professional cuddling and sex coaching

• Setting a foundation for sexual experiences that people can take outside of the room

• Clarity and setting a limits on what is a yes and what is a no

• Embodying your truth and allowing yourself to grow across a spectrum in your sexuality and in the work

• The evolution of self through self exploration

• Asexuality, fraysexual, compulsory sexuality, aphantasia, the spectrum, and what does that even mean

• Holding space for others and holding space for ourselves, ego vs. autonomy

Photo credit: Mr Arash

About Michelle:

Michelle Renee (she/her) based in San Diego, is dedicated to helping clients discover their true Self. From her personal journey, Michelle knows that love heals. Michelle has combined her 8+ years of experience as both a cuddle therapist and a surrogate partner to create a hybrid form somatic relational repair. She affectionately welcomes clients into her Human Connection Lab, where she supports them in relational healing through experiential touch, unconditional positive regard, celebrated agency, and authentic connection. She is also the founder of SoftCockWeek.com and hosts The Intimacy Lab podcast.

Find + connect with Michelle Renee online at:

meetmichellerenee.com

humanconnectioncoach.com

instagram.com/meetmichellereneee

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Living more pleasure centered lives requires dedicating time to being intentional in the ways you connect with play.

How do we live more pleasure centered lives? By finding and expanding our connection with play beyond escapism. There’s nothing wrong with escaping to play - it’s actually amazing and needed. But if we are only experiencing play from a place of escaping our every day life, it can become a connection that may leave us feeling high highs and low lows and a sense of emptiness and a lack of fulfillment because it isn’t sustainable or accessible in our every day lives.

In this episode we’ll talk about how to create space to play to allow it to take up space in our every day life which can increase our overall happiness, joy, and pleasure.

Have a listen to Episode 4 of The Sensory Playspace Podcast to explore (and expand) what solo sex can mean for you with us. Leave a comment in the Substack post to continue the conversation. Share this episode with your friends/lovers/family and let’s find more ways to get our of our heads and drop deeper into our body centered pleasure through intimacy, healing + kink.

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In this episode we talked about:

* Play as

* Escapism

* Creative Expression

* Exploration

* Connection

* Shifting Narratives + rewriting stories

* Play in a time centered container vs. play with an end goal

* How to create a container for play:

* Set your intention

* Find and create external space / the container for play

* Set, name, and identify your boundaries, edges, and desires

* Drop into your body

* Witness, listen, and follow energy, expression, feedback, and creative fantasies

* Leave space + time for come down

* Aftercare

* Set space to try again - in similar or different ways

* Integration space + time to observe + feel what is shifting on your body-heart-soul-mind

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And we’re back live! Whew, the time away this summer was needed. Although I didn’t get the chance to step fully away and hit pause on my whole life - taking space away from intimacy + healing work really expanded both my perspective and my capacity. It gave me a lot of space to think about what I had been doing and what was it that I wanted to experience and expand upon moving forward. I held space for some shedding and healing and am excited to move into the fall + winter seasons ahead with more lightness and inspiration to really refine the ways we explore intimacy, healing + kink together.

There’s so much to tell you about. But what is at the surface today is to introduce + name the space that we all weave in and out of. The space in between. Transitional, liminal space. The place where we surrender to change, grief, shedding, and defeat. It’s the place that lives in the middle of what was and what is becoming. This is what bridges us in growth.

This is what we’ve been doing inside the Self Study Lab since 2019. Transforming over + over again. Leaning into our learnings and letting go of the lessons we have learned. Opening up curiously towards the unknown. Leaning into creating over + over again. We’ve been holding space for all to exist unapologetically and to deepen the ways we connect with ourselves + one another through friendship + romantic love.

Tune into episode 5 of the Sensory Playspace Podcast and wonder into the ponderings stewing as I reflect on the summer and prepare for the fall. Like, share + leave a comment below.

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