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Maggie's Story
11 Nov 2025
00:54:36
In this episode of The Pleasure Files, I sit down with Maggie, a former client who began her healing journey with me earlier this year.
We start with where she started, what called her into this work, and how her relationship with herself, her body, and her pleasure has transformed since.
Maggie shares with such honesty and warmth about the challenges of facing herself, the unexpected turns of growth, and what it really feels like to reclaim your aliveness from the inside out.
This is a tender, real conversation about courage, change, and the beauty that unfolds when we choose to do the work of healing.
How to Have More Desire For Sex - Part 3 of 3
04 Nov 2025
00:24:27
In this episode of The Pleasure Files, we get deeply practical about desire and what it actually takes for your body to want sex.
And yep, we are complex, complex creatures!
This conversation is about the real-life conditions that help desire happen and arousal thrive: time, space, safety, and intention.
As always there are plenty of practical and useful tips that you can try, if feeling more desire for sex is something that you wish you had.
We talk about:
Why scheduling can be sexy
Pumpkin hours
Priming yourself for sex
Bridging activities
And finally, we get honest with the hard question: are you trying to desire sex that isn’t worth desiring?
This is a grounded, compassionate, and body-wise look at what it really means to feel more desire in your body, and how you can go about finding more.
Episode 14: How can we have more pleasure with sex?
26 Oct 2022
01:05:58
Ok, sure, pleasure isn't just sex, but what if we want to have more pleasure when we have sex?
Aaron Michael is on the pod today, and as an author, sex coach, bodyworker and course creator, he has created a new model for sex that brings the power of our pleasure back to each of us.
We talked about the potential for pleasure in every body, what it takes to have truly fulfilling sex, and what to do when we are in bodies that have pain or numbness and sex isn't feeling great, or we just don't want to have sex at all.
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More about me:
I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
Aaron Michael is an author, sex coach, and bodyworker who has worked hands- on with several thousand men, women, and couples, supporting them with physical and psychological numbness, pain, and the optimisization of pleasure where doctors and other therapists had given up.
He has created a new model for sex that doesn’t rely on friction and the embodiment of avoidant attachment behaviors promulgated by the greatest sex educator...porn, and is working towards a world where sex, relations, and clear communication create healthy, happy, and powerful individuals, couples, and communities for healthier nations and global wellbeing.
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Episode 13: Are pure christians allowed to enjoy sex?
19 Oct 2022
00:34:09
Sarah Michelle grew up in purity culture, and after a painful and unexpected divorce, found herself in hookup culture.
We talked about what the impact of her purity education was on her sense of herself and her sexuality, and how that flowed over into world view and mindset.
If you are curious about the impacts of religious upbringings on your sense of self, and sexuality, especially when you find yourself living in a completely different sexual world, Sarah takes us on this journey through her life.
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I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
Sarah is a real and raw brand identity strategist and personal identity evangelist. She is the CEO and creator of HoneyMAP, a personalized roadmap that connects the core values of mission-minded business leaders with their audience through clear brand messaging and creative marketing strategies. She is also the creator and host of the Successful(ish) podcast and lifestyle brand and is dedicated to sweetening the world by ending identity crisis and redefining success. When she’s not elbow deep in brand strategy and wordsmithing, you can find her hiking with her two fur babies, or drinking copious amounts of coffee in independent bookstores.
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Episode 12: You want to tie me up, why?
12 Oct 2022
00:29:45
Have you ever been curious about being tied up?
Maybe you're wondering why anyone would do it?
Or how they do it?
And isn't it demeaning and degrading to be tied up? Why would we be talking about rope play and pleasure in the same conversation?
Marco Jellema is on the pod this week to share his expertise and passion for therapeutic Shibari, the Japanese art of rope play.
If you have ever been curious about why anyone would let themselves be tied up, and why they would say they enjoyed it, this episode might just open your eyes to a whole new world.
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About Naomi:
I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Marco Jellema
Marco is a dearmouring, somatic empowerment and healing shibari practitioner, who holds deep spaces of transformation, authentic expression, healing and personal growth for his clients.
He works in person in the Netherlands, and combines de-armouring, somatic consent, sexual healing, talk therapy, shibari, space holding and shadow work into a beautiful healing modality.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Dr Patricia
Dr. Patricia Petralba is the founder of Thrive Life Center, an integrative medicine wellness center in Tucson, AZ and the Head Coach of Revive and Thrive Mentorship Program. She is passionate about helping highly driven women to overcome burnout so they can feel inspired, balanced physically, emotionally, hormonally, and feel fulfilled in all areas of their life.
Dr Patricia is running a free event to support you in your healing, on the 9th / 10th / 11th November. Reach out to find out more!
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Episode 10: Breathing your way to feeling good
28 Sep 2022
00:30:34
Adam Beker is a student of the body and consciousness, and is certified in all things breathing.
Adam and I let our inner geeks out for this episode, exploring the world of breathing, including if it’s true that if we breathe right, we can experience so much more pleasure in our bodies.
So yep, we’re talking about breathing your way to orgasm.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Adam:
Adam is a certified Brethology instructor and yoga teacher, combining breathing, movement, mobility and mental focus in order to achieve optimal health and wellbeing.
He offers 1:1 trainings in using the breath in to bring balance and healing to the body, mind and spirit.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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Episode 8: Are we allowed to feel turned on at funerals?
13 Sep 2022
00:32:00
Peter Maloney is a grief and loss expert, who is on the pod to talk about that taboo topic - what do we do when we find ourselves in a turned on body when we are in mourning for someone we have loved and lost?
Surely pleasure and grief don't belong in the same conversation?
We talk about shame, grief, community and connection, and the healthy use of pleasure as a way to navigate our loss.
This episode will inspire you to think more honestly about what it takes to be a human.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Peter:
Peter Maloney is an educator, coach and Facilitation Skills Trainer with Expertise in Grief and Emotional Literacy. He works with children and adolescents in grief programs, and also provides healing and behaviour change programs to community corrections in NSW, Australia.
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Episode 7: Are you allowed to feel pleasure if you're fat?
07 Sep 2022
00:28:38
If you are living in a body that doesn't fit into what we are taught the perfect body should look like, (and let's face it, who is?), this episode will inspire you.
Indi Gage describes herself as sex positive, disabled and fat, and in this episode she shares about her journey towards pleasure in a fat body.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Indi:
Indi Gage (she/her) is a twenty-five year old Gender Studies graduate from Melbourne, Australia. She's a sex positive, intersectional feminist and cohost of the Hot Girl's Theory podcast. Indi is queer, disabled and fat and this intersectional lens allows for a deep and rich understanding of a diverse range of social and political topics.
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Episode 6: The ritual pleasures of a Jewish faith
31 Aug 2022
00:41:17
If you have ever been curious about pleasure and the Jewish faith, this episode is for you.
Felice Winograd takes us on a gentle ride through her love of ritual, the pleasure she finds from simple daily acts, and her own understanding of where sexuality and pleasure sit in her faith.
Listening to this episode feels like sitting down for a cup of tea with a close friend, relaxed and warm in each others company.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Felice
Felice Winograd supports women, working within the lenses of coaching, body, sexuality and relaxing the nervous system. Known for her non-judgmental and loving way, Felice integrates her experience as a movement and meditation teacher, coach, and Embodied Psychosexual Practitioner in training.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Jessica:
Jessica Miller is a myofunctional therapist, and a registered massage therapist. She also has specialized training in manual osteopathy and craniosacral therapy. She is on a mission to support whole body health, and whole family health by improving oral motor health and airway health. Continue the conversation in her Facebook group:
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Talking To Your Partner About Your Sex Life
28 Oct 2025
00:26:31
In this episode, we get real about one of the most avoided yet most important parts of any intimate relationship: talking about sex.
We look at why open, grounded communication is the gateway to deeper pleasure, trust, and connection. You’ll learn how to bring up the topic without blame or awkwardness, how to create emotional and physical safety for both partners, and how to turn an uncomfortable conversation into a collaborative one.
We also explore practical scripts, timing, and easy questions you can ask.
If you’ve ever felt tongue-tied or scared to talk about what you really want in bed, this episode will give you a calm, practical roadmap for starting that conversation so you can have the kind of sex you have been wishing to have.
Episode 4: The sexy, sensual pleasures of burlesque
16 Aug 2022
00:28:48
Have you ever been to a burlesque performance and wondered if those sexy performances get temperatures rising on the stage as well as in the audience?
Koko La Douce is Germany’s longest performing burlesque artist, and a proud award winner of the Burlesque Hall of Fame in Las Vegas.
She is a self-confessed bird of paradise and is on the pod to talk about arousal and turn on in the world of Burlesque.
Koko shares all the juicy secret details of her art, and more!
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Koko
As well as Burlesque, Koko is the first certified Yoni Whisperer in the Désilets Method (the modernised and scientifically underpinned Jade Egg practice) in the German-speaking world.
She offers workshops and sessions for women who want to create the life that they are aching to live, by embracing their self-love, self-worth and self-confidence.
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Episode 3: Can there be pleasure if you have never had sex?
09 Aug 2022
00:24:49
Have you ever thought about what it would be like if you hadn’t ever had sex with anyone else?
And then as an adult, it was something that you wanted to try out?
Elsa joins me to talk about whether or not is possible to have turn on and orgasm, if you have never had sex with anyone else.
Elsa has asked to remain anonymous, as this is a vulnerable conversation!!
I am so grateful to Elsa for coming on the pod and talking about this so openly, this is a beautiful conversation about sexual awakening and reverence.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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Episode 2: The pleasure of making with our hands
02 Aug 2022
00:27:14
This might not be the topic that you expect to thing about when you think about pleasure: knitting, crochet, weaving, sewing... really?
But there is pleasure here as well.
Lesley Joiner joins me to talk about the pleasure and turn on that she finds in using her hands to make beautiful things.
This is a fun conversation that might not be what you would expect, if someone suggested that you ‘listen to two women talking about weaving and crochet for 30 minutes!’
We touch on the turn on from beauty, the arousal of creating, and the pleasure that comes from gathering in groups of people with the intention to create.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
*** About Lesley:
If you would like to find out more about Lesley Joiner and the powerful work she does to support women to find pleasure and relaxation in their everyday lives, and to thrive by just being themselves, look her up on Instagram at:
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Episode 1: This is Pleasure Isn’t Just Sex
26 Jul 2022
00:22:06
For this first episode, I am in the hot seat, as my friend and colleague Katie Farrell helps kick off this podcast with the question ‘Why do you talk about pleasure and sex so much, anyway?’.
We take a detour past the importance of expanding out what pleasure means for each of us (desire, joy, delight, turn on, arousal, orgasm…), and I share about the power of feeling good when we are trying to heal.
Plus, there’s a little of my own long, winding road from shut down to turned on.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
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About Katie:
If you want to learn more about Katie and the powerful work she does to support you to create a life you love and live on purpose, you can find her here.
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How to Have More Desire For Sex - Part 2 of 3
21 Oct 2025
00:19:13
In this episode, I explore how the modern world’s constant glow and invisible hum might be dimming your desire.
From blue light and late-night screens to the Wi-Fi signals surrounding us, I share how these everyday exposures can keep our bodies in alert mode, awake, but not aroused.
I also share what I noticed in my own body after moving into a brightly lit, signal-filled apartment, and what I did to help my desire return.
How to Have More Desire For Sex - Part 1 of 3
14 Oct 2025
00:21:59
In this first part of our Desire series, we unpack how the nervous system’s two settings, stress and safety, act like a seesaw that shapes libido, arousal, and pleasure.
You’ll learn why cortisol and adrenaline turn down oxytocin, estrogen, and testosterone, making desire harder to access, and how safety cues lift the feel-good chemistry that supports connection and responsiveness.
We translate the science into simple practices you can use now, and I share my own story about how ongoing stress turned me off, and what I did about it to find my desire again.
Why Does My Vulva Hurt?
07 Oct 2025
00:20:19
Welcome to The Pleasure Files and to our very first investigation together.
In this episode, I dive straight into a question so many of us carry: why does my vulva hurt?
Before we even start unpacking the whys, I invite you to pause and consider what “hurt” actually means. Because for so many of us, we’ve been taught to live with discomfort, to assume that burning, itching, soreness, or pain are just part of being a woman. But they’re not. It’s possible to have a vulva that feels good: soft, alive, comfortable, delicious.
This episode isn’t just about solving pain. It’s about remembering that your body is not a problem to be managed. She’s a sacred part of you that deserves care, curiosity, and affection.
In this episode, I explore:
What “hurt” really means when it comes to the vulva
Some of the causes of pain and discomfort that might be impacting you
Why our relationship with our own bodies is the real root of healing
If you would like to get in touch, reach out.
www.thepleasurenaturopath.com
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Episode 18: But what if I don't orgasm?
23 Nov 2022
00:33:27
Ashley’s story is common for a lot of us.
She never really found physical pleasure in sex and never orgasmed.
Sure, there was the closeness and connection and building love and trust that came from sex with her husband, but orgasm wasn’t part of her experience.
She’s on the podcast for episode 18, vulnerably sharing about what that has meant for her enjoyment of her body, what has recently changed, and why it changed.
If you have always wanted more pleasure in your sexual experiences, this episode will give you hope!
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More about me:
I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
Ashley Carlotta resides in Mckinney, Texas with her husband and 3 kids. She believes that it is absolutely possible to lose weight without being on a diet. As a Certified Health Coach, Ashley has held hundreds of women accountable to eat well and exercise while living in moderation and practicing mindfulness. She is the founder of Better Health by Accountability, coaches women all over the world, and believes that daily accountability support is key to reaching your health and wellness goals. Her accountability coaching provides daily communication, check-ins, guidance and continuous reminders. Ashley’s clients are successful with her direct, no excuses, fun loving coaching style. One of her greatest passions is helping others succeed in finding confidence in their bodies because for so long, she hated her own. She knows all too well how awful it feels to be stuck in a vicious cycle of yo-yo dieting and how freeing it feels to be on the other side of that. Ashley will rarely turn down a girl’s night, loves to dance, and thoroughly likes a good reality show like Married At First Sight.
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Episode 17: Embracing your feminine is a load of woo woo nonsense, right?
16 Nov 2022
00:45:40
Have you heard that as a woman you are too much in your masculine, and need to be more in your feminine?
Or that if you just 'embrace your feminine' you will be able to effortlessly tick off your massively long to-do list, and feel sexy and relaxed at the end of the day?
What do these words even mean?
If you embrace your feminine, do you have to go and dance naked in the moonlight and paint yourself with your own menstrual blood?
And what does that have to do with the realities of modern life, and just getting through our incredibly busy days?
Jenni Anne is a Purpose Coach and Breathwork Guide who helps overwhelmed women get more done while doing less, in ways that leave them relaxed, resourced and real.
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More about me:
I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
Jenni is a Purpose Coach and Breathwork Guide who helps overwhelmed women discover and align to their Higher Purpose and remember their magnificence so together we can raise the vibration of the planet. Her unique approach empowers women to unapologetically reclaim a life of meaning, and reconnect to flow so they can embody their deepest form of joy. All in a way that feels safe.
Reiki master, body & sexual de-armouring practitioner, and life coach, Karen assists clients to discover and give voice to their heartfelt desires and identify ways to lead self-empowered and fully expressed lives based on their specific goals. By facilitating the release of blockages (physical and emotional) and guiding clients to identify and transform limiting beliefs and behavior patterns into beneficial ones, her work helps clients to live life with greater joy, vitality, and confidence.
Reach out at: maturewomenrsexy@gmail.com
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Episode 15: Curious about kink?
02 Nov 2022
00:40:02
Are you curious about kink?
Maybe you've seen the 50 Shades movies or you've heard that some people like having things done to them that to you seem degrading or painful. And where is the pleasure in that?
Jessica is a kink and sex personality coach, helping women find their unique sensual side and then embrace and embody that to have a life full of pleasure.
Episode 15 explores all things kink, including trauma, consent, pleasure, and why you would want to, anyway.
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More about me:
I support women who experience painful sex and genital/pelvic pain to heal so that they can experience epic sex and pleasure.
If you want to dip your toe into pleasure and healing in a safe place, come and check out my private Facebook Group, ‘Let’s Talk About Painful Sex’.
Jessica is a kink and sex personality coach, helping women find their unique sensual side and then embrace and embody that to have a life full of pleasure. She also provides support to sex workers and focuses on a health work/life balance as well as fighting the stigma of sex work. She has spent 7 years working as a licensed therapist in the state of NC (USA) and brings many skills from her clinical work to her coaching.
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Why Can't I Orgasm?
18 Nov 2025
00:21:01
In this episode of The Pleasure Files, we go on a detective hunt into the mystery of why orgasms are not happening, or are disappointing when they do.
You’ll hear how stress, tension, shame, numbness, pain, and rushing all disrupt the body’s ability to open to pleasure.
We talk about the impact of porn conditioning, performance pressure, and orgasming through force, and what changes everything when it comes to female pleasure: slowness, safety, softness, and real connection to your own body.
I end with one powerful practice to help you reconnect and reawaken.