Find Your Feminine Fire – Details, episodes & analysis

In this episode, Amanda talks about the importance of deeper self-care that really taps into your sexual energy, creativity, and personal power. She explores how taking care of yourself in a more sensual way can help you connect better with yourself, your loved ones, and your community. Amanda also touches on the need to create supportive spaces and rituals for expressing your sexuality and creativity. 

She shares practical tips on how to bring more pleasure into your daily life, connect with your body and spirit, and feel a stronger sense of belonging. The episode wraps up with a simple mindfulness exercise to help you enjoy the present moment more fully.

Key Takeaways from this Episode: 

• Redefining Self-Care: Self-care isn't just about pampering yourself with bubble baths or face masks. It's about truly listening to your needs, nourishing your roots, and creating a supportive environment that lets you bloom naturally.

• Simple Joys: Find small ways to add pleasure to your daily routine. Whether it's sprucing up your workspace or shifting your mindset while doing chores, these little changes can make a big difference in how you feel.

• Connecting to Sensuality: Embracing your sensuality starts with self-care rituals that feel good to you. By exploring what makes you feel alive and practicing it regularly, you create a strong foundation for deeper connection with yourself and others.

• Building Supportive Communities: Surround yourself with people who love and accept you for who you are. This creates a safe space where you can express your true self, both sexually and creatively, without fear of judgment.

• Follow What Feels Good: Whether it’s in your personal life or relationships, trust what feels right for you. Experiment, explore, and don't be afraid to move on if something doesn’t resonate. It’s all part of finding what truly makes you happy.

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In this week's episode of Find Your Feminine Fire, we dive deep into the critical topic of shame resilience and its impact on our sexual and creative expression. 

Listen in as we explore how to create safe spaces for authentic self-expression and build unshakeable self-trust in the 4th episode of our 6 part series on Sex, Creativity and Power. 

Episode Highlights:

• How to create a physical space for creativity and sexual expression.

• Shame often stems from past experiences and societal messages that may no longer be relevant to us as adults, learn how to let go of the old beliefs that hold you back.

• Discover how to challenge negative self-talk and set boundaries with your inner critic.

• How to embrace the "good enough" mindset to help overcome perfectionism and shame.
• And much more!

Today’s episode is a must-listen for anyone interested in the cutting-edge therapies transforming mental healthcare. We’re diving deep into the realm of psychedelic assisted therapy with a remarkable guest, Sherry Rais. Sherry is the CEO and co-founder of Enthea, and she has been at the forefront of blending purpose with professionalism, guiding entities from startups to global organizations like the United Nations and World Bank in achieving their mission.

In this episode, you’ll discover why Sherry’s work is pivotal in the current wellness revolution and how Enthea is making psychedelic therapy accessible to more people. With Sherry’s rich background in public policy, in-depth research in psychedelics, and her dedication to reducing human suffering, you're going to gain some very valuable insights today into the future of mental healthcare.

Key Takeaways from this episode:

• Transforming Mental Health: The episode discusses how psychedelic-assisted therapy is revolutionizing mental health care, showing particular promise for women and potentially reducing the need for traditional medications.
• Science Behind Psychedelics: Listeners get an overview of the scientific principles behind psychedelic therapies, helping them understand how these treatments work and their potential benefits.
• Practical Access: There is practical advice on how to safely access psychedelic-assisted therapies and tips on finding reputable providers, ensuring listeners can navigate this emerging field responsibly.
• Enthea’s Mission: The podcast highlights how Enthea is working to make psychedelic therapies more accessible by integrating them into employer health benefit plans, aiming to broaden the reach of these innovative treatments.
• Future of Treatment: The conversation explores the future vision for psychedelic therapy, discussing its potential to transform mental health care and the ongoing efforts to make these therapies widely available and safe.

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On this week's pod, I’m going to share with you why pleasure is vital nervous system care. It is not a luxury. It is actually a need for our systems to have more resilience in this crazy world, and some easy ways to invite in more pleasure and to cultivate a sensual self-care practice so you can get your daily dose of pleasure, your daily dose of vitamin P. 

For many it feels like aspects of community and being together has changed since the pandemic.  Thankfully there is much we can do to create the belonging we crave, and to work with our nervous systems to move back into ways of connection that feel good.

This week I'm talking with Kimberly Ann Johnson, a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom on relating and cultivating community in challenging times.

Working hands-on in integrative women’s health and trauma recovery for more than a decade, she helps women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. Kimberly is the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good, as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester, and is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast.

Join me as I talk with Lisa Townsend on freeing your authentic expression, learning how to use your voice for more confidence, and how music, and singing can be used as mindfulness tools.  

Being able to express ourselves and allow our authentic music -- whatever form that might be -- to come out is such a powerful and important confidence tool.  Lisa Townsend is a board-certified music therapist and creative vocal coach who has a passion for creating space for exploration so you can speak and sing with courage and authenticity, use music as a tool to overcome any kind of limiting belief.

In this episode, I’m talking with Sara Giita Flores on blossoming your voice and sovereignty, and how by doing so you’re more able to tap into your innate creative gifts and joyfully express in the world, really transforming silence and shame into radiant self-expression.

Woohoo! We're celebrating 200 podcast episodes over here, so for this week's pod my husband Mark wanted to ask me some questions on some of the fave moments from the pod.

Enjoy and thank YOU for listening and being a part of this celebration!

Taylor (aka Mariposa) is a passionate erotic educator and sex goddess, certified in both holistic aromatherapy and human behavior. 

With over a decade of experience in the natural skin care/cosmetics industry, Ms. Sparks launched OrganicLoven.com, one of the largest BIPOC owned online intimacy shops.  Organic Loven specializes in improving adults’ sexual health/wellness and enhancing their sex lives via their organic intimate body products, body-safe sex toy materials, sex-positive books, and erotic educational seminars.

Everyone has something in their lives that they’d like to improve, whether that’s managing stress more effectively, developing healthier relationships, building more confidence—the list can be endless. 

The problem is often finding the time to address these issues and then, having done that, knowing the right tools and techniques to use to integrate the solutions into your life. 

The mere thought of change can be overwhelming, but today on the podcast I'm talking with Linda Bonnar, and her mission is to address the root cause of that fear so that you can tackle anything that life throws at you by making simple, easy changes to our everyday routines.