What if the way you’re using sex is actually keeping you from true intimacy? In this raw and revealing episode, Amanda explores how sexual energy can become a tool for avoidance: a way to numb, distract, or seek validation rather than deepen connection. Through her own embodied wisdom, she guides you to recognize when desire is rooted in avoidance and how to transmute it into authentic, heart-centered intimacy.

In this episode of The Deeper Intimacy Podcast, Amanda Biccum takes you into one of the most uncomfortable (and liberating) conversations around sexuality: how we unconsciously use sex to avoid deeper truth, vulnerability, and presence.

We live in a culture that glorifies desire but rarely teaches us how to meet it consciously. Amanda invites you to peel back the layers of your sexual patterns, to see where sex may have become an escape: from loneliness, emotional discomfort, or the ache of unmet needs.

You’ll explore:

• How to tell the difference between sex as connection and sex as avoidance

• The subtle ways we use pleasure to bypass pain

• What your patterns in intimacy reveal about your relationship to your own truth

• Why embodiment and awareness are the antidotes to unconscious sexual loops

• How to transform physical desire into a gateway for authentic emotional intimacy

Amanda doesn’t shame the impulse for connection, she honors it. And she reminds us that true intimacy begins when we stop running from ourselves.

This episode is a powerful reflection for anyone ready to reclaim their sexual energy as sacred, integrated, and deeply human.

Tune in, drop into your body, and let this conversation guide you back to the heart beneath the desire.

Resources:

IG Amanda: https://www.instagram.com/theamandabiccum/

IG Shiva: https://www.instagram.com/steve.shiva.official/

Truth-Based Relating Program: https://amanda-biccum.mykajabi.com/shiva-and-amanda

The Temple of Radiance Membership: https://www.thetempleofradiance.com/temple-of-radiance-membership