031: Janelle Nelson graces us with her presence on the pod this episode - if you're someone who is like her and Brittney, this one may hit home. As a licensed marriage and family therapist who utilizes EMDR, body-based practices, and attachment work, Janelle has a beautiful approach and understanding of those who are looking to reclaim their bodily autonomy, sexuality and spirituality, especially after having grown up in religious programming and working with many sexual trauma cases in her early years as a therapist. Janelle and Brittney flow through SO much, sharing intimate parts of their journeys to becoming empowered and embodied practitioners, and how YOU can begin to do the same.

Feeling the Pulse on

• Janelle and Brittney's similarities - being pastor's daughters, To Be Magnetic work, and spirituality journeys
• How Janelle got into her work as a trauma therapist after an intense religious upbringing
• Purity culture, sexual expression in the household, and feeling stifled
• CRITICAL yet hijacked sexual development, sexual abuse and/or religious trauma, learning to titrate, saying yes and no
• The rationalization and messaging on sex both men and women may receive, overriding our own nervous systems, advocating for ourselves in an embodied way
• Re-establishing the connection to the different aspects of ourselves sexually and spiritually, spearheading the revitalization for the lineage, and acknowledging one's own autonomy on their healing path
• Healing after a trauma: you're not responsible FOR your wounds, but you can be responsible TO your wounds (if you want to be).

Connect with our guest, Janelle Nelson

• Work with Janelle: https://www.wholenesscollectivetherapy.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jncounseling

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030: After meeting virtually as panelists, Brittney KNEW she had to have Cassie on the podcast because she is SUCH a force for women (and other folks) in the work she does. Cassie Krajewski is the founder of Inner Atlas Therapy and co-founder of Center for Embodiment in Denver, CO. For more than 10 years, Cassie has worked with people to heal from issues with disordered eating, sexuality and pleasure, body shame and weight stigma, and the fragmentation and trauma that often underlies these issues. As a licensed clinical social worker, certified sex therapist, educator, and consultant, Cassie seeks to support people in connecting with their body's inherent wisdom, inhabiting their bodies more fully, and experiencing body liberation.

Cassie is skilled at using a wide variety of therapeutic approaches, including EMDR, attachment work and depth-oriented psychotherapy, IFS and parts work, emotion-focused therapy, various trauma and body-based therapies, feminist approaches to mental health and therapy, mindfulness, inner child and parts work, and meaning and insight based therapies. In this episode, you'll hear insights and concepts you may haven't even considered being connected (sex and food?!), juicy homework (or should we say homePLAY), and an invitation to expand your capacity for ALL of the emotions life has to offer us as humans.

Feeling the Pulse on

• Cassie's work within body trust, personally and professionally
• How DESIRE and APPETITE are related, looking at it through lenses of diet and purity culture
• How her upbringing shaped her outlook on body trust, sexuality, and desire/wanting
• Cassie's break down of sexy homework for a couple working on their intimacy
• The difference between true anticipation as foreplay and denial or repression of our desires
• More depth on desire and appetite in relation to sexuality, food, body size and self trust
• The bargain we have as humans getting to experience a full range of emotions as a part of our ALIVENESS

Connect with our guest, Cassie Krajewski

• Work with Cassie: https://www.inneratlastherapy.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/inneratlastherapy/

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029: My new friend Samantha joins us on the podcast to share not one, but TWO birth stories of her own. How both journeys from pregnancy to birth differed, as well as the exposure to free birth and mindset shifts that happened during her second pregnancy are nothing short of incredible. Her first was a hospital birth with a doula and second was a free birth at home (with a midwife who came later!). Samantha is a holistic OT for the past 10 years and recently specializing in pelvic health after the birth of her baby in 2021. She fell in love with everything pregnancy, physiological birth and motherhood, which you can feel and hear in her voice as she speaks about it. If you're someone who is considering other free birth and other options (perhaps after already having had a hospital birth) and want to hear about her path towards that choice, you need to give this episode a listen! You won't regret it.

Feeling the Pulse on

• How Samantha, an Occupational Therapist, decided on her first birth experience setting and what transpired
• What she decided to do for her second pregnancy and why
• The actual cost of her hospital birth bill and midwife cost, differences in hospital-assisted births and physiological birth
• Birth and postpartum redemption, healing for the mother lineage, and the mindset shift she had for her second pregnancy
• How her second birth unfolded at home where her husband caught the baby
• Coached pushing and embodied surrender (she experienced both!)
• More riffing on healing in postpartum, motherhood, free birth in shows, and women's power

Connect with our guest, Samantha Zgraggen, Holistic Pelvic OT

• Work with Samantha: whttps://www.embodiedpelvicot.com/

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028: Today, Tiffany Yelverton joins us on the podcast for a very special episode to talk about all things pleasure, loving yourself AND supporting sexy survivors. She is the founder and Chief Sexinista of Entice Me Soirees, Inc. and Sexy Survivors, based in Long Beach, CA, USA. She is known as The Sex Toys Scientist and Orgasm Guru to her colleagues in the medical field. Tiffany inspires women to love their bodies and experience the orgasms of their dreams to eradicate the gender pleasure gap. Her goal is to educate and entice people to have more pleasurable, fulfilling, and healthy sex lives. As a master sex coach, she facilitates workshops, luxury retreats, private Sexy Soirées, and consultations. For more than a decade, Tiffany has helped men and women connect with themselves, at their sexual core, to feel sexier in and out of the bedroom. Get ready to have your mind opened wide for what's possible, beyond a diagnosis, for your sex life.

Feeling the Pulse on

• The special population that Tiffany serves, teaching them to fall in love with themselves again
• What Sexy Survivors is about, what they're struggling with, and how Tiffany helps them
• How the medical system can be utilized to support the survivors beyond keeping them alive
• The impact of a healthy sex life on cancer patients and survivors
• Amazing sex toys and tools that are on the market that we love
• How your orgasm is worth $10,000 or MORE - relating the orgasm gap to the wage gap
• How Tiffany got into her work and created Entice Me (remember pleasure parties?!)

Connect with our guest, Tiffany Yelverton

• Website: www.enticeme.com
• Attention Cancer Survivors! If you are struggling with feeling sexy after treatment, email tiffany@enticeme.com to join our case study program.

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027: Welcome Vienna Farlow to the show, a Holistic Reproductive Health Practitioner and the owner of The Cuntsultant, Your Vagina’s Consultant. She is a fertility awareness educator, teaching how to avoid or achieve pregnancy naturally and gain a deeper understanding of total body health through the menstrual cycle. Her work focuses on demystifying the female body, body literacy, and teaching women and people with menstrual cycles ways to connect with their bodies.

The Cuntsultant is the culmination of her lifelong pursuit to learn as much as possible about the vagina, its neighbors, and the people who have them -- physically, emotionally, and spiritually. She believes that all female bodied people should be empowered to know more about their bodies and the way they work. She is passionate about reproductive justice, LGBTQ+ inclusion, full spectrum care, abortion access and provocation in the name of education. Listen in on this enlightening and lively conversation.

Feeling the Pulse on

• The reclamation of the word 'cunt', its history and how we relate to it
• Vienna's upbringing around sex + birth control that helped shape her career
• Cycle mysteries + irregularities and mindset around them
• How cycle tracking through cervical mucus (CM) and basal body temperature (BBT) can be used throughout your lifetime
• Things to look at when your cycle's not doing what it's meant to do (hint: you can't out-supplement a poor lifestyle)
• Vienna's stance on abortion care and how she supports people through loss
• Using FAM as a new way to care for yourself

Connect with our guest, Vienna Farlow

• Instagram @thecvntsultant
• Website

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026: Emily is a holistic birth keeper, herbalist and new mom. She attended her first birth in Feb 2023 and delivered her first baby at home in November 2023, which is what today's sweet, truthful, and transformative story is centered on in the episode. She serves women by attending home births and educating on how to enter birth confidently on her social media platforms. Emily is passionate about empowering women, because it is her belief that how we birth our children impacts our society and world as a whole.

Feeling the Pulse on

• How Emily's perspective on her body, birth, and raising kids evolved with her exposure and education
• What Emily felt during and walked away with after witnessing a hospital birth
• The birth story of her baby (and the conception of him later!)
• Beautiful reminders about surrender, birth teachings, and YOUR work
• The unlearning we must do around birth and reclamation of what we are actually capable of as women
• Emily's advice for preconception, pregnancy, and laboring + birthing at home
• Gratitude and honoring our abilities to birth

Connect with our guest, Emily

• Instagram @sovereignfeminine
• TikTok @sovereignfeminine

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025: We're kicking Season 2 off with a really special conversation with Ashley Accad - one where we process aloud about our desire to create things... to creating babies. We're talking about connecting to our cycles in preparation for motherhood, but beyond that, connecting to the WILD WOMAN archetype that stands strong in her intuition and is committed to her sovereignty and self-responsibility to care for and nourish herself. As a 33 year old and 34 year old who DON'T have children (yet), this episode will leave you inspired to inquire about your own journey towards motherhood.

Feeling the Pulse on

• Ashley's relationship with her body, period, and birth control
• Feeling in tune with your intuition as a woman
• Embodying creativity and other strengths throughout the menstrual cycle
• Ashley's recurring dream that recently changed
• Preparing for motherhood and practicing embodiment as a "wild woman" archetype
• The beauty of pregnancy as a creative process, birth plan considerations, the surrender to inner consciousness
• Grieving AND celebrating maidenhood before motherhood and some ideas on how to do that

Connect with our guest, Ashley Accad

• Instagram @ashleyacroyoga
• Philippines Yoga Retreat

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• Get your crystal WAANDS and Yoni Eggs using the code BEINGBETTER for 15% off.
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020: All in divine timing for Sexual Health Month, Alexandra Mazur shares her experience getting genital herpes 10 years ago, at 23, and the ripple effect it had on her life up to now. From rewriting harmful religious narratives, healing through lifestyle changes, cross-country moves, and stress-management, to having a compassionate + empowered perspective on how to date with herpes, Brittney and Alexandra talk about how getting herpes isn't a life sentence and can actually be a healing success story.

If you'd like to learn more about Alexandra's story and success tips, or inquire about her 8-session Beyond Herpes mentorship program, you can reach out to her via Instagram through a direct message @alexandra.n.maz, or send her an email at alexandra.n.maz@gmail.com! She would love to hear from you!

Feeling the Pulse on

• Alexandra getting herpes (HSV1 genitally) at 23 years old and how it happened
• How she found out and handled it
• What big life changes she made afterwards
• What she did to prevent her outbreaks (she's been outbreak-free for 3 years!)
• Practices she continues to keep up with and how that's changing her relationships
• How to stop an outbreak in its tracks
• Alexandra's perspective on dating with herpes
• Empowering others who have herpes

Connect with our guest, Alexandra Mazur

• Instagram @alexandra.n.maz
• Website: Beyond Herpes

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