Welcome to the Love, Sex & Intimacy podcast for women who want to experience intimate relationships and sex that are pleasurable and passionate, happy, thriving and deeply fulfilling.
With my very special guest experts; guiding lights and pioneers in their specialist areas, we’ll be breaking down the myths, exploring the difficult stuff, the good stuff and seeing what’s possible for love, sex and intimacy at this time of rapid change.
In these candid and intimate conversations, I’ll be bringing you the best of sex and relationship education, full of practical ways to support and inspire change in your intimate life.
I’ll be also be exploring areas that can support love, sex and intimacy to flourish such as health and well being, creativity, embodiment and spirituality.
I’m your host, Sarah Rose Bright, an Intimacy and Sex Coach with two decades of study and exploration of love sex and intimacy. I support women and couples across the globe to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and to create and/or deepen intimate relationships that are passionate and purposeful, happy and healthy so that they feel good about who they are.
Whether you are curious about what’s possible or you’re already committed to exploring, I’m so happy you are here.
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How to heal painful sex, numbness, dryness & more with Naomi Harris
Episode 55
Monday, August 12, 2024 • Duration 01:00:44
Today I’m delighted to be joined by Naomi Harris who is a sexual pleasure and genital pain specialist.
With Naomi’s blend of psycho-sexual, de-armouring and over 15 years experience as a naturopath, she offers a grounded and holistic approach to women’s sexual issues. She shares her wealth of wisdom on healing painful sex, numbness, dryness and more.
Naomi shares:
The shocking statistics on the prevalence of women who experience painful sex
How to get support with painful sex
Why it can take time for women to reach out for support
Why it is important to keep a symptoms diary
Questions to ask yourself if you are experiencing painful sex
Some of the many reasons you might be experiencing pain with sex
How you can heal painful sex
Why you might experience numbness or dryness and how to start to heal
Why your dryness might be caused by dehydration
Why Naomi doesn’t like vibrators and the key thing to overcome when you stop using them
Simple practices for self healing
Naomi Harris is a sexual pleasure and genital pain specialist. She supports women to heal their pelvic and sexual numbness, lack of libido and orgasm, pain and discomfort, so that they can live a turned on life full of pleasure, passion and epic sex.
With over 15 years experience as a naturopath, she incorporates psycho-sexual understandings, as well as de-armouring and other therapies to a whole person approach to healing.
She works online and in person with women around the world, who are managing a wide range of pelvic and sexual health situations and conditions
Your podcast host is Sarah Rose Bright. Sarah is an Intimacy and Sex Coach who helps women & couples to truly enjoy sex and pleasure and create/deepen intimate relationships that are passionate, happy and healthy so that they can feel good about who they are.
Creating a culture of care in sexuality workshops with Catherine Hale
Episode 54
Monday, July 15, 2024 • Duration 44:25
Catherine Hale is a pioneer in creating workshop and event spaces with care and safety at the core. She calls this ‘a culture of care’.
The sexuality workshop scene is evolving with ongoing revelations of unethical, unprofessional and often dangerous practice. Shining a light on bad practice is essential, and so is defining and promoting best practice.
We had this conversation to explore how the sexuality workshop scene has changed over the years, the risks of intense, cathartic processes, why safety in the nervous system allows you to go deeper, the importance of integration and how to choose the right facilitator for you and much more.
Catherine shares:
How the sexuality workshop scene has changed
The difference between the gentle and the intense, cathartic approaches to sexual healing in sexuality workshops
The importance of safety within sexuality workshops
How workshop spaces can re traumatise people
The difference between hyper and hypo sexuality and how this plays out in workshop settings
Why the most sparkly shiny looking workshops may not offer the deepest healing and transformation
How high intensity workshops match our societal conditioning around sexuality
What a culture of care is and what that looks like in a workshop setting
The importance of integration
How creating safety in the nervous system creates a base for deeper erotic exploration and lasting transformation
How to establish if a facilitator or a training is right for you
How a regulated nervous system supports you to be with uncertainty
Catherine is a qualified trauma coach, sexological bodyworker, and postmenopausal woman who understands what it takes to heal and grow from the inside out. Her trauma-informed perspective focuses on reducing the harm of internalised capitalism in our bodies and businesses, recognising the need for radical rest in business, and unlocking the power of post-traumatic growth.
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How to heal conflict and reignite passion with Amara Charles
Episode 45
Monday, October 16, 2023 • Duration 01:03:00
I’m delighted to share this episode with relationship coach, Amara Charles, on how to heal conflict and reignite passion. Amara shares how couples can heal conflict and restore confidence in the relationship and how to reignite passion and keep that passion alive.
Amara shares:
3 pitfalls of conflict and how couples can heal conflict
The one biggest thing that restores confidence in relationships
What the Trinity of Power is
The importance of curiosity and asking powerful questions
The 4 Eros Types
Reigniting passion in long term relationships
2 tips for keeping passion alive in long term relationships
Her definition of spiritual sexuality
The power of love and forgiveness
Amara Charles is a trusted, highly acclaimed relationship coach to thousands and the best-selling author of The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka. With experience presenting spiritual intimacy retreats for over 30 years, Amara is a powerful, compassionate guide for those seeking to re-ignite their relationship with passion, sexual intimacy and Deeply Bonded Love.
The Sexual Practices of Quodoushka on Amazon by Amara Charles
Is people pleasing holding you back in dating & intimate relationships? With Natalie Lue
Episode 44
Monday, October 2, 2023 • Duration 01:00:30
This was a great conversation with Natalie Lue, a boundaries and relationship coach who‘s the creator of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggage Reclaim, and The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. Her 5th book, The Joy of Saying No: A Simple Plan to Stop People Pleasing, Reclaim Boundaries, and Say Yes to the Life You Want came out this year.
Many people I work with would define themselves as ‘people pleasers’ or ‘recovering people pleasers’ and it deeply affects how you show up in dating and intimate relationships so it was important to have this conversation with Natalie.
Natalie shares the 5 types of people pleasers, why you might people please and how it can show up in your life, practical ways to begin to step out of people pleasing, people pleasing in dating and relationships and how to stop accepting ‘crumbs’. Natalie also shared the landmarks of healthy relationships and the 4 qualities of a loving partner.
Natalie shares:
Nat’s definition of people pleasing
Why you might people please and how it can show up in your life
The 5 types of people pleasers
The feelings and thoughts that can be associated with people pleasing
Practical ways to begin to step out of people pleasing
People pleasing in dating and relationships
How to stop accepting ‘crumbs’ when you are dating
The landmarks of healthy relationships
The 4 qualities of a loving partner
What is changing in her life from peri-menopause
Natalie Lue is a boundaries and relationship coach who‘s the creator of one of the longest running self-help blogs in the world, Baggage Reclaim, and The Baggage Reclaim Sessions podcast. The England-born, Ireland-raised author helps people understand how their emotional baggage is interfering with their ability to live their lives happily and authentically. Natalie’s authored five books, including Mr Unavailable and the Fallback Girl and The Joy of Saying No (Jan 2023, HarperCollins). Her advice has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, NPR, USA Today, and the BBC, among many others.
Tantric sex & the alchemy of life with Tobin Zivon
Episode 43
Monday, September 18, 2023 • Duration 01:10:57
So happy to share this episode with Tobin Zivon. Tobin is the first guest to return to the podcast for a rich conversation exploring tantric sex and living a tantric life. Tobin shares his definition of tantra, what tantric sex is and some ways to explore tantra, tantra as a way of living and how to be with the difficult stuff in life, his views on polarity, how to invite a partner on a tantric journey with you and more.
Tobin shares:
His definition of tantra
Tantra as a way of living
What tantric sex is and some ways to explore tantra
The importance of presence
Tantra as a way of living
How to be with the difficult stuff in life
His views on polarity
How to invite a partner on a tantric journey with you
Tobin Zivon has been wholeheartedly dedicated to spiritual awakening and to serving others in the flowering of their highest potential for over 30 years. Author of books “The Art of Mindful Living” and the forthcoming “Allies in Awakening: Living the Truth of Unconditional Love in Intimate Relationships,” he has been described as “The Ultimate Guide… A rare, exquisite blend of Therapist, Coach, Spiritual Teacher and Tantra Master all wrapped into one.”
He has worked with thousands of individuals and couples to help them break through stuck patterns and painful dynamics, helping them to find their way into a more fulfilling and connected life of authentic liberation, love and relationship satisfaction.
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Beyond the goal: Presence & Pleasure with Graeme Waterfield
Episode 42
Thursday, September 7, 2023 • Duration 52:56
Excited to share this episode with my partner and co-teacher, Graeme Waterfield. We love chatting about intimacy, sex and pleasure and have conversations like this all the time. We share some of the common themes that we experience in our work and also explore what is possible when you shift your attention from goal based sex to presence and pleasure.
We explore:
What is possible beyond the goal based pleasure that most people learn.
How most people learn to ‘do’ sex and the limitations of that
Why mainstream sex advice is misguided
What is possible when we drop inside and meet each other from that place
The role of the nervous system in connection and arousal
We are now bringing our decades of experience and our 5 years exploring and growing together to our couples programme, INTIMACY which starts September 2023. At the end of the conversation we share about INTIMACY with a special offer for those listening to this episode!
After reading the info, if you have any additional questions or you would like to book a 30 minute call with Graeme and I to see if INTIMACY is right for you both, please message me.
About Graeme
With 20 years of experience as a teacher and coach and having been on his own 30 year journey, Graeme Waterfield has come to see what helps people evolve and heal physically, emotionally, psychologically and spiritually.
Being a qualified Yoga, Tai Chi, Qi Gung & Meditation teacher with a background in counselling, Graeme offers completely unique packages of somatic, psychological and energetic tools to help you transform yourself and your life to become everything you want to be.
He has come to see that we all have a unique set of skills, our own unique soul expression or purpose. Once we can awaken and identify this, we can turn our life into a masterpiece. Graeme noticed that people often don’t maximise their potential as human beings because they haven’t yet learnt to harness their mental, emotional and spiritual power.
Core & pelvic floor healing & health with Lauren Ohayon
Episode 41
Monday, September 4, 2023 • Duration 01:00:21
In this episode, I am joined by Lauren Ohayon. Lauren is the founder of “Restore Your Core” (RYC®) and creator of the RYC® method for resolving core and pelvic floor issues.
I invited Lauren on the podcast as pelvic floor issues are so common and they can have a huge effect on how a woman experiences sex, pleasure and intimacy. So many women experience issues like prolapse and incontinence and can feel fear and shame.
To me, the saddest thing is that these issues are not talked about enough and so many of them are preventable. I know if I had had more knowledge I would not have experienced a prolapse so it is important to create space for these conversations.
I personally came across Lauren’s work on my journey of healing my prolapse and found RYC to be such a well put together programme and I could feel the difference in my body from building the strength in my core.
Whether you have pelvic floor concerns or you want to know how to look after your pelvic floor, there is something here for you. I am delighted to share Lauren’s work and her wisdom.
Lauren shares:
The common issues that Lauren supports
How common pelvic floor issues are
Why there is nothing to ‘fix’ when you have a pelvic floor issues
The difference between a ‘weak’ and a hypertonic pelvic floor
How the healing journey can take time
What to do if you find you are not getting the support you would like from your doctor
Why so many women can take years to reach out for support
Restore Your Core’s unique ‘whole body’ approach to pelvic floor issues
How Restore Your Core trainers support women to access their own ‘felt sense’
When a pelvic exam is appropriate
How shame can impact pelvic floor issues
How to look after your pelvic floor
Why the health of your core is so important
Advice on sex with a prolapse
Lauren Ohayon is the founder of “Restore Your Core” (RYC®) and creator of the RYC® method. With more than two decades’ experience as an internationally renowned yoga and pilates instructor, Lauren focuses on resolving core and pelvic floor issues minus the “burn and shred” mentality. The Restore Your Core® program is a comprehensive and sustainable fitness program that empowers women who aim to be strong, long, mobile and functional. Restore Your Core® also boasts highly trained movement teachers around the world; from India to Alaska and Australia to North America and Europe. Lauren and the Restore Your Core® teachers are helping women across the globe to gain core strength, achieve ideal pelvic floor function, and learn to move efficiently and exercise optimally—in a safe and nurturing community-driven environment.
Sex that changes the world with Kimberly Ann Johnson
Episode 40
Monday, August 21, 2023 • Duration 01:11:59
Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. She is also 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.
I invited Kimberly to talk about sex that changes the world as she did an interview with this title which I loved so much as I really do believe sex has the power to change the world for good.
In this compelling and thought provoking conversation, Kimberly shares her thoughts and wisdom on how to reimagine sex with its potential to change the world, the feminine, motherhood, power, sex and relationships in current times and more. Kimberly shares not just her experience as a practitioner, she brings in her personal perspective as a woman and a mum of a teenager daughter. I’d love to hear what stirs inside you from this conversation.
Kimberly shares:
Why it is important to start where you are
The ingredients of sex that changes the world
The importance of connection to your pleasure hormones
How less sex and less commitment can be survival features
The impact of the last few years on sex and relationships and how she sees the state of sex and relationships in current times
How crying during sex can be therapeutic
The different between the sex you see on the movies and sex which activates the oxytocin circuitry
The difference between the male and female arousal trajectories
Why the clitoris is not just for pleasure
Understanding the feminine and masculine through the lens of Chinese medicine
What it means to ‘centre’ the feminine
Her definition of sexual energy
Motherhood as a threshold for changing how you want to experience sex and how she connected with her sexuality after becoming a mum
How the language of consent is taking us further away from sex that changes the world
How sexual desires are not always politically correct
Self care, pleasure & revolutionising work with Tamu Thomas
Episode 39
Monday, August 7, 2023 • Duration 01:08:16
Today I’m delighted to share this conversation with Tamu Thomas. Tamu helps ‘over-functioning, overworking, high achievers to prioritise their own well-being and life satisfaction alongside success and achievement’. She is on a mission to help women ‘enhance how they live, love and work by recovering from their addiction to toxic productivity’.
You might be wondering what this has to do with love, sex and intimacy. A lot!! Your work can have a huge impact on how you experience sex and intimacy. I see this all the time with the women I work with who are often overworking, stressed and exhausted.
As Tamu helps women to have a different relationship with work she also supports them to have a better quality of life through areas like self care, pleasure, rest which we dive into.
In this rich conversation, Tamu shares about what she calls ‘grounded self care’ and how that is good for society, the problems with ‘spiritual capitalism’ and ‘spiritual bypassing’, how pleasure can be challenging for women, how dominant powers in society can affect your ability to experience pleasure, her vision for revolutionising how we work, the impact of work on sex and intimacy, her quest to be a well rested woman and much more.
Tamu shares:
Her journey from burnout, panic attacks and depression to today
Her definition of grounded self care
How self care leads to social and environmental care
How discipline can be a protective pattern
The problems with ‘spiritual capitalism’ and ‘spiritual bypassing’
The difference between the ‘wounded inner child’ to the ‘healthy adult self’
Why people can find joy, bliss and pleasure unfamiliar emotions
How women can constrict their pleasure
The pleasure / power axis and how dominant powers in society can affect your ability to experience pleasure
Her quest to be a well rested woman
A practice to connect with how it feels like to be you
The importance of feeling safe in your body
How being in a survival state affects pleasure
Her vision for revolutionising how we work
How the systems we grow up in shape our identity around work and who you are
Relating & Dating - Attachment, Polarity & The Gene Keys with Damien Bohler
Episode 38
Monday, July 17, 2023 • Duration 01:02:33
I’m delighted to share this fascinating conversation with Damien Bohler, founder of Evolutionary Relating. Damien is an explorer who dives deep into the possibilities for intimate relationships finding the ways to support people to truly thrive in life and love.
We explored relationships from the difficult stuff to the juice and the joy including the potential of intimate relationships, common relationship challenges and dynamics, polarity, attachment styles, what the Gene Keys are and how to work with the shadows and gifts in dating and relationships, the difference between parasympathetic arousal and arousal through intensity and more.
We spoke about the Gene Keys and the Venus Sequence in our conversation and there are links to both in the show notes. Enjoy!!
Damien shares:
His framework called ‘Evolutionary Relating’
Common relationship challenges and dynamics
The potential of intimate relationships
His definition of polarity and what ‘polarity sets’ are and how they play out in relationships
The need for similarity and difference in intimate relationships
Attachment styles and how they impact dating and relationships
The difference between parasympathetic arousal and arousal through intensity
What the Gene Keys are and how you can work with them in relationships and when you are dating
Working with shadow patterns in relationships using the Gene Keys
Why having standards are essential when you are dating
Damien is a pragmatic visionary, synthesist and deep diver. He is focused on the future trajectory of humanity through relationship, and the practical, actionable tools, concepts and practices to get there. His gift is the interweaving of complex subjects into forms that can be easily integrated and embodied. His range of interest and expertise ranges throughout the realms of human relationship: authentic relating, attachment theory, polarity, sexuality, nervous system regulation, boundaries, Human Design, Gene Keys, transpersonal shadow work, and much more. His joy and delight is to find the ways in which it all fits together in a functioning dynamic tapestry to support us in truly thriving in life and love. He is the founder, director and head facilitator at Evolutionary Relating.
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Why many people do not feel safe in their workplace
The value of getting clear on the type of life you want and crafting your work around that so you live to work rather than work to live
The impact of work on sex and intimacy
Tamu Thomas helps over-functioning, overworking, high achievers fall in love with themselves so they can make powerful choices about how they live, love and work.
Tamu’s integrated approach is practical and relatable. She's person-centred, evidence-based and trauma-informed. Tamu’s holistic approach to supporting the bodies, minds and experience of her clients makes her work nurturing, deep and unique – just like her.
Tamu’s work is informed by her background of sixteen years in social work, somatic coach training, her love of behavioural neuroscience and polyvagal theory, positive psychology, spirituality and joy. Tamu combines these modalities to create a multifaceted body of work.
Tamu supports her clients and workshop attendees understand themselves as valuable and worthy of caring for themselves. This enables them to prioritise their own well-being and life satisfaction alongside success and achievement.
Her mission is to help women enhance how they live, love and work by recovering from their addiction to toxic productivity.
