It is time to experience sexual intimacy once again post-divorce, post-long term break up or even post-death of a spouse. Yes, yes, yes, it is time to feel pleasure once again or maybe for the first time? Join Margaret and Kate McCombs as they explore ways to discover sexual pleasure as well as discuss big issues like pregnancy prevention and sexually transmitted infections. Kate is also going to share with The Mother Rising listeners some fabulous strategies for sexual communication on a date and in the bedroom! You are not going to want to miss this show!

While dating after divorce is exciting, it can also be overwhelming. We can stop ourselves in our tracks, freeze up and decide to call it a night and watch another episode on Netflix curled up on the couch. But we know getting out there and meeting people is fun, interesting and ultimately can create a possibly very deep companionship in our lives. So how do we get beyond our self-imposed dating fears and reframe dating as a opportunity for fun, play, and self-discovery? How can we trust again? Ultimately, we have to love and trust ourselves first. Join Margaret and her fellow Your Tango Expert Anabelle Bugatti for an episode of a real deal in the trenches look at dating!

Join Margaret and her fellow Your Tango Experts in the FIRST of The Mother Rising’s July series on Dating After Divorce. Judith Tutin, author/licensed Psychologist, and Cindy Holbrook, author/Certified Divorce Coach, will be exploring with Margaret everything you will need to know to prepare both mentally and emotionally as well as physically to head out on your first date! Yes, there is new life after divorce and romance and play are big partners in finding it! Can you imagine that first kiss? Ah to enjoy again. Don’t miss this titillating episode.

Join Margaret on what would have been her 21st wedding anniversary. That’s right! This show actually falls on what would have been her anniversary. Highlighted here will be Margaret’s personal reflections on ways to celebrate your anniversary when you are in the midst of divorce or even post-divorce, what to do with your wedding ring, and other relative topics. In addition, and in light of America’s Independence Day on July 4th, Margaret will inspire you to take that spiritual eye view and understand marriage, divorce, FREEDOM, and choice. You won’t want to miss this powerful episode.

Amidst that rubble so well described by Kate, we find glorious women like Pamela Elaine Nichols. As Pamela will share, many of us within our marriage, looked like everything was altogether when truly we were falling apart. Hear Pamela's story and probably parts of mine as well! Discover how to find and then connect with that spark within...that little flicker of a flame that knows YOU CAN DO THIS even when your rational mind says you can't. How to begin opening to the mini-inspirations that surround you and create ways that lead you along your path to becoming the resilient beauty that you are.

This show is going to pick you up from the cold murky puddles of tears, trauma and drama of divorce and give you that loving nudge on your path to a new beginning.  Joined by Kate Anthony in the third in THE NEW YOU series on The Mother Rising, we tackle tried and true methods of self-assessment and self-healing.  Really…learning to love yourself…ways to connect, tap in and create a relationship with YOU that increases your self-esteem, preparing you for your next adventures in your exciting journey of LIFE!

This episode is going to perk you up and drain your drab. Michelle Vos will speak to how to get that newer MV_FacebookBanner1 (4)stronger empowered you that you feel emerging on the inside, reflecting on the outside. Her incredible skill as a style expert and ability to connect deeper on a spiritual level will be a whole new approach to style that you’ve never experienced, and you will come out of this interview knowing both why things weren’t working for you in your clothing and some quickie basics on how to begin touching into your authentic style. Let this episode inspire a little clutter clearing in your closet and enlivening your experience interacting with the new and old people in your life in a way that shares the true YOU! The one that is reaching for more joy and love and freedom!

Meet author, actress, race-car driver, and divorcé Belinda Farrell. Belinda will join me in sharing key pieces of her story from her book titled Find Your Friggin’ Joy where she details several of her more recent big life challenges of self-healing her herniated disc and surviving the suicide of her only son. Belinda has recreated her life many times over physically, financially, mentally, emotionally and spiritually. Her deep learning of Huna and Reconnective Healling have been compiled into her beautifully written book. Her inspirational life and teachings will empower all those going through big life challenges.

Thank you beautiful Rising Community for sending so many fabulous questions my way over the past weeks. mar-smallIn this show, I will be both answering the questions you have put forth as well as gleaning for you the TOP most written and talked about issues of divorced as well as the TOP LEAST discussed issues of divorce. The shadow and the light baby! And with Mercury heading into retrograde on June 7th…let’s put a few of these things straight! Topics to be covered are friendships, self-medicating, self-love, trust, & more. I’m also excited to introduce the fresh new spread of seasonal topics that will be unfolding over the coming months on The Mother Rising. Join Me!

Touch and intimacy is a vital human interaction and the lack of it in one’s life can lead to deep levelsIMG_0116 of isolation and loneliness; however, the circumstances of separation and divorce can be barriers to receiving adequate touch and the comfort and love experienced during intimacy. Join me with Lia Prusha in our discussions of ways to access touch in a seemingly bleak environment, considerations of self discovery through self-pleasure, the importance of engaging fantasy, harnessing the power of pleasure to begin rewiring your neural patterning for the positive new life you are creating AND…those helpful reminders of safe sex and unwanted pregnancies as you enter back into the dating field. This is a SHAME free zone! Sensuous, juicy and hitting the hard notes of reality…it’s going to be fabulous!