With herpes, often the stigma is worse than the physical symptoms. This is my stand for seeing beyond the diagnosis and getting real about what it means to have herpes. Now, this isn’t meant to minimize people’s experience with this condition, but in today’s episode, I’m sharing my perspective as a coach, friend, and romantic partner of people with herpes.

If you're sexually active, there's a very high likelihood that you have been exposed and carry the antibodies, aka have herpes. In fact, after the age of 35, it's estimated that one in three people carries the antibodies. There’s a lot that can be done about management and prevention so that it doesn’t interfere with your life.

Despite it being so common, stigmatization is rampant. The misinformation and fear-mongering is, in large part, a direct result of anti-sex propaganda in the 70s and 80s from church organizations. The intensity of the stigma compared to the symptom presentation of herpes is so unbelievably disproportionate, so let’s dive into why that is and how we can change the narrative.

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Today, I’m joined by Enneagram expert and founder of Self At Work, Sandhya Sudhakar. We discuss typologies and how they can help us identify parts of us that we know exist, but might not have the vocabulary to verbalize. Sandhya describes how growing up, she excelled in school, eventually landed a high-paying job, and did everything that she thought would make her family proud. She was supposed to feel happy, but something was missing.

Sandhya discovered Enneagrams and found so much comfort in the insight that the typology provided. Understanding her Enneagram type allowed her to evolve, be more present in her day-to-day, and become more receptive. It also played a major role in her healing from burnout. In today's conversation, Sandhya explains how understanding your Enneagram can help with burnout prevention and recovery, and I share how I’ve been working with her on that process.

We talk about ways that burnout starts to present itself in the lived experience of different Enneagram types. My hope is that if you notice some of the patterns that we talk about in this episode, you might find clarity in an Enneagram reading or other typology resources.

Listen in to learn more about Enneagrams and the powerful insight that it can provide in your self-discovery journey.

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Today, I’m sharing something that’s been on my mind lately: the difference between “being saved” by a partner and “being safe” with a partner. I’ve identified the damsel-in-distress energy that I brought to my previous two relationships and the major power differential that it created. My desire to be saved became a source of depletion for my partners rather than energy enrichment. Also, when they failed to show up the way I needed them to, it furthered my sense of feeling unsafe, unmet, and alone in the partnership.

I’ve been working on cultivating safety in my own body in order to empower myself both as an individual and a romantic partner. I think it’s so important that both partners contribute to safety in a relationship and actually take turns being an anchor for it for themselves and each other. In today’s episode, I explain why we’re actually predisposed to sabotage experiencing the exact safety we seek and how to reverse that outcome.

Listen in to hear about how healing your relationship with safety can foster intimacy, co-healing, and powerful partnerships.

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What if I told you that the honeymoon phase never has to end? Relationships can become more sacred, passionate, safe and sustainable over time if both parties are devotional. There’s a lot of misunderstanding about what devotion means, and in today’s episode, I break down how I understand, teach and practice devotion.

I discuss John Weinland’s shorthand for the three layers of relational consciousness: the selfish, the healthy and the sacred. I give examples to help you understand which stage you’re in and ways that you can fold this sacred practice into your current or future relationships. It’s possible for both you and your partner to get your needs met while also serving Love in the world, but everyone involved needs to be excited to play in that third sacred dimension. Part of my work is to provide resources and tools to help facilitate that.

Listen in to find out how you can exist in an infinitely creative relational space and flourish in your relationship.

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Today, I’m joined by life coach, psychedelic healer, and podcast host, Melissa Elysian! Melissa and I discuss the concept of rest as resistance, the pressure to always be transforming yourself, and using pleasure as a guiding compass. We also talk about psychedelic assisted healing, and the inspiring work that she’s doing with plant medicine.

Melissa defines her quality of life, resistance, activism, and healing on her own terms. When asked what feels precious and tender to her lately, she notes that rest, nourishment and pleasure have felt like life sustaining forces. We share how we’re rejecting the model of entrepreneurship that glorifies being overworked, and instead actively embracing the slower season of life that we’re in.

Today’s episode covers how to rethink your approach to goals by living in the present. Melissa shares a story of how she energetically aligned with the connection she wanted and the universe responded by putting her partner in her path. We also talk about our intimate relationship with mortality, and the connection between grief and aliveness.

Listen in to hear more of our conversation about sacred success, manifestation, and healing.

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In this episode we talked about:

"Love is not enough to make a relationship work"

"The measure of the relationship is not how good is it when it's good. The measure and the health, the power, the quality of the relationship is measured by how is it when it's bad"

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In this episode we talked about:

"Love is not enough to make a relationship work"

"The measure of the relationship is not how good is it when it's good. The measure and the health, the power, the quality of the relationship is measured by how is it when it's bad"

Learn more and connect:

Instagram: Connect with Theora on Instagram

Facebook Group: Join the Facebook Community!

Relationship Dojo: Check out the Relationship Dojo here!

Website: www.trulychosen.com

Email Us: [email protected]

In this episode we talked about:

"If you have your own business it doesn’t have to make to anybody else. it just has to make sense to you."

"As I was exploring what felt good and expansive and yummy for my body, these are the numbers and the structure that came through."

As mentioned on this episode:

Morgan Field’s website: https://www.epicsexyyou.com/

Tony Robbins’s website: https://www.tonyrobbins.com/

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In this episode we talked about:

“The more we are connected to our body, the more we are connected to nature’s wisdom”

“We are just trying to reconnect to what’s actually ourselves and we get to that through our bodies”

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Nadia is an Embodiment & Intimacy Coach who helps visionaries reach embodied expression in their love and leadership.

She is the creator of Embody by Nadia™ (http://embodybynadia.ontralink.com/t?orid=416&opid=1) an embodiment method that has helped thousands of women reconnect to their pleasure, power and play.

Embody has been featured at the Health Coach Institute, Soul Camp (East & West), Goddess-on-the-Go, World Domination Summit, and many other events/retreats in Bali, Peru, Tulum and Hawaii. Embody has been taught at a UK Women’s Prison, at an Eating Disorder Clinic and will soon teach classes to teens and WOC fighting depression.

Nadia’s core belief is that embracing our full range is the way we access our deepest potential and create space for an Embodied Union that heals the planet.

Nadia trains women in embodiment through her signature program Embody by Nadia™. http://embodybynadia.ontralink.com/t?orid=416&opid=1

You can find her at nadiamunla.com and on Instagram @nadiamunla.

In this episode we talked about:

"What it would look like to have a deeply devotional relationship with your body that is based on love and trust and listening vs what's considered normal."

Learn more and connect:

Instagram: Connect with Theora on Instagram

Facebook Group: Join the Facebook Community!

Relationship Dojo: Check out the Relationship Dojo here!

Website: www.trulychosen.com

Email Us: [email protected]