Everyday Intimacy with Angela Rivero

The Relationship That Changes Everything Why So Many Women Still Feel UnmetMany women are searching for love, safety, and intimacy.In partners. In relationships.In someone who finally sees them, understands them, and meets them in the ways they long for.But what happens when that search keeps leaving you feeling… unmet?In this episode of Everyday Intimacy, I’m joined by Ashley Miley, sacred intimacy coach and founder of The Sacred Intimacy Temple.Ashley shares a powerful perspective on why so many of us look outside ourselves for the love, safety, and connection we’re longing for and how that pattern can quietly keep us disconnected from our own power.We talk about sacred intimacy, relationship repair, and the deeper inner anchor many women are searching for without realizing it.Ashley also shares how cultivating self-intimacy can shift the way we experience love, connection, and relationships altogether.This conversation opens the door to something many women were never shown: that we have more agency and choice in how we experience intimacy than we may realize.In this episode, we explore:• Why the search for love and safety can keep women feeling unmet • Sacred intimacy and what it really means in everyday life • How our internal relationship shapes the relationships we create • Relationship repair and reclaiming agency in connection • The inner anchor many women are longing for and how to begin cultivating it • Reconnecting with your body, sexuality, and sense of aliveness • Healing sexual, relational, developmental, and attachment wounds in ways that lead to real freedomAbout Ashley MileyAshley Miley is a sacred intimacy coach and the founder of The Sacred Intimacy Temple. She works one-on-one with individuals using trauma-informed, somatic, and embodiment-based practices rooted in trauma resolution, sacred intimacy, and sacred sexuality. Ashley creates immersive spaces for deepening intimacy within oneself, relationships, and communities, empowering people to experience greater authenticity, connection, pleasure, and aliveness.Connect with Angela⁠https://www.somashift.org/⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/⁠Connect with AshleyWebsite ⁠https://www.thesacredintimacytemple.com/⁠Join Ashley’s email list for weekly teachings, practices, and personal reflections on cultivating sacred intimacy: ⁠https://thesacredintimacytemple.com/email-list#⁠If this episode resonated with you, follow the podcast and share it with a woman in your life who may also be searching for deeper connection.

In this episode, I sit down with Keara Mangham, a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, to talk about what becomes possible when someone can hold steady while you begin to look at old patterns.We explore attachment trauma and developmental wounds, and why the nervous system holds onto patterns that once made sense. Keara shares simple analogies to help explain why these patterns don’t just disappear with insight or willpower. Developmental trauma takes time to form. It also takes time, patience, and support to unwind.We talk about how easy it is to mistake anxiety or depression for a character flaw. As if something is wrong with you. Instead, we look at these experiences as nervous system responses shaped by history. Not weakness. Not failure. Adaptations.This conversation centers on the importance of trustworthy support. Regardless of modality, having someone steady, present, and safe enough to sit with you is often what allows deeper work to unfold. Healing is not about forcing change. It’s about being supported long enough for your system to soften.If you’ve been trying to do this alone, this episode is an invitation to consider another way.You’ll walk away with:• A clearer understanding of why old nervous system patterns stay in place• More compassion for anxiety and depression as adaptive responses• A deeper appreciation for steady, relational support in long-term healingAbout Keara: Keara Mangham, SEP, is a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner who works at the intersection of creativity, trauma, and nervous system healing through an integrative, holistic lens. With a background in child development, psychology, and the arts, her work is informed by both professional training and a deeply personal healing journey focused on early attachment and developmental trauma. She has assisted Dr. Peter Levine and other Somatic Experiencing® faculty in trainings and is passionate about supporting individual healing as a catalyst for collective transformation.Connect with Keara:https://www.kearamangham.com/https://www.instagram.com/healingintegration?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ%3D%3D&utm_source=qrInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/healingintegrationWork with me :https://www.somashift.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/

Reclaiming Your Life Force, Confidence, and PowerMany women feel disconnected from their desire, their confidence, or their sense of aliveness… and quietly wonder what happened.You’ve done the self-help. You’ve tried to work on your mindset. Maybe you’ve even told yourself it’s just stress, hormones, or part of getting older.But what if the real issue isn’t something to fix?What if there’s a part of your body, your energy, and your life force that was never supported, never named, and never fully welcomed?In this episode of Everyday Intimacy, I’m joined by Mollie, who helps women reconnect with their sensual energy, confidence, and passion through what she calls the “pussy” connection.This conversation explores shame, numbness, low desire, and the quiet disconnection many women carry. We talk about why this part of the body holds so much power, why the language itself can feel uncomfortable, and how rebuilding this connection can restore confidence, vitality, and a deeper sense of self.If the topic feels edgy, come with curiosity. This isn’t about performance or sexuality. It’s about coming back to your body, your life force, and your power.Why low desire is often about disconnection, not dysfunctionHow shame and conditioning impact women’s relationship with their bodiesThe deeper meaning behind the word “pussy” and why it can be confrontingReconnecting with your feminine energy and life forceMoving from numbness and shutdown to sensation and alivenessHow body connection supports confidence, presence, and self-trustWork with AngelaLearn more about sessions, somatic circles, and resources:⁠https://www.somashift.org⁠Connect with Mollie BillingsMollie is your go-to Pussy Healer. Through her own struggles with sex drive and confidence, she created an energy healing formula to take women from dull to full of passion.https://www.instagram.com/m.o.l.l.i.e.bhttps://mollie-b.com/Upcoming Offering:Forbidden Feminine Series — Coming SpringIf this conversation stirred something in you, you’re not alone. Many women are longing to feel more connected to their bodies, emotions, and nervous systems.If this episode resonated, share it with a woman who might need to hear this. These conversations help normalize what so many women experience but rarely talk about.And if you haven’t already, follow Everyday Intimacy so you don’t miss future episodes.

What if some of the patterns you’ve been trying to “fix” didn’t start in childhood… but before you had language? Before memory. Even before birth?In this episode of Everyday Intimacy, I’m joined by Kate White, an award-winning educator and advanced bodyworker specializing in prenatal and perinatal somatics, birth trauma healing, and early nervous system imprinting.We explore how the earliest experiences, in the womb, during birth, and in early infancy, can shape the way your nervous system organizes around safety, connection, intimacy, and survival.If you’ve done years of therapy and still feel stuck in anxiety, shutdown, chronic tension, people pleasing, or difficulty receiving support, this conversation may offer a new lens.It’s about understanding how your body formed its first map of safety — and how healing is possible at any age.What “earliest trauma” really means in lived experienceHow prenatal and birth imprints can show up decades laterWhy insight alone doesn’t always shift nervous system patternsHow early experiences influence attachmentThe layered nature of trauma How to begin recognizing your own early patternsWhy healing does not require pushing harderIf you’ve ever felt exhausted by trying to heal the “right” way, let this episode be a window of curiosity and hope.Kate White is an award-winning educator and advanced bodyworker specializing in prenatal and perinatal somatics, birth trauma healing, and early developmental imprinting. She has been working in this field since 1999, supporting parents, babies, and adults in understanding how earliest experiences shape the nervous system.She founded the APPPAH Department of Education, the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs, and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. Kate teaches both online and in person and maintains a private practice in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.You can connect with Kate through the links in the show notes.If this conversation resonated, and you’re feeling called to explore your own nervous system patterns in a supported, relational way, I offer Somatic Experiencing® sessions and therapeutic touch in San Diego and virtually.You can learn more at:www.SomaShift.orgLinks & Resources Mentioned in This EpisodeIntegrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics training: ppnsomatics.com/ippd.htmlPrenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute: ppnsomatics.comMentioned story: Episode 19 – DaveEbook: Download hereCastellino Sequencing Workshop: Online CourseSubscribe to the show now

Caitlin Fahey ON: Nurture, Unlearn, Return—moving through your muckIn this episode of Everyday Intimacy, Caitlin Fahey—founder of The Good Muck- takes us through her three core pillars: Nurture, Unlearn, and Return.She shares how blending science, art, and ancient wisdom through clinical hypnosis, breathwork, sound, and yoga nidra waters the subconscious roots for real nervous system safety.After decades in survival mode, Caitlin now guides women from constant activation to deep self-trust, aligned living, and showing up with true presence.About CaitlinCaitlin is the founder of The Good Muck, an online wellness studio dedicated to nervous system regulation and subconscious reprogramming. After years of high achievement masking burnout, depression, and disordered eating, she discovered protective habits were keeping her stuck. She now helps others move through their muck using somatic, body-based practices to stop surviving and start thriving.What you’ll learn in this episodeHow rest through Nurture is the foundation for lasting change, not more hustleUnlearning societal conditioning to Return to your authentic selfPractical steps to sit with emotions as information, not enemiesHow to recognize coping strategies and how they show up in everyday lifeConnect with CaitlinWebsite: https://www.thegoodmuck.comYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@TheGoodMuckInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thegoodmuck/Join The Good Muck Grounding: https://www.thegoodmuck.com/group-classes (use code INTIMACY20 for 20% off first class)Connect with Everyday Intimacy / Coach SEPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/Website: https://www.somashift.org/Share this episode with someone who will benefit.

Gina Diaz ON: eating freely, macros without obsession, body-led nourishmentIn this episode of Everyday Intimacy, health and nutrition coach Gina Diaz shares how women can fuel their bodies, feel better in their skin, and enjoy real life, without constant restriction or food guilt. We talk about macro nutrition in a simple, grounded way and how actually eating enough supports energy, hormones, metabolism, and long-term health. Together, we explore how to move from fear and control around food into a more embodied, trusting relationship with your body.About GinaGina is a health and nutrition coach who helps women build a healthy lifestyle they actually enjoy, without rigid rules or restriction. Her approach can support weight loss goals while also improving energy levels, balancing hormones, and supporting metabolism and long-term health. She’s passionate about helping women see that all foods can fit, food has no moral value, and that undereating is often at the root of feeling exhausted and unwell.What you’ll learn in this episodeHow macro-based nutrition can create more freedom with food instead of more obsessionWhy all foods can fit inside a healthy lifestyle, and what that looks like in everyday eatingHow moralizing food as “good” or “bad” harms your relationship with yourselfThe subtle ways undereating shows up for women and how it impacts hormones, energy, and moodPractical steps to enjoy meals, social events, and your body with less guilt and more self-trust Connect with GinaWebsite: http://www.healthyglowwithgina.comhttps://www.instagram.com/healthyglowwithgina?utm_source=ig_web_button_share_sheet&igsh=ZDNlZDc0MzIxNw==Connect with Angela, SEPInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/Website: https://www.somashift.org/If you’re tired of dieting, feeling guilty after you eat, or running on low energy all the time, this episode is for you. After listening, notice one food rule or “good/bad” label you’re ready to soften, and share it with someone who needs this reframe too.

When the Body Leads: Liberation Beyond ConditioningIn this episode, Jin Hong shares grounded, practical ways to begin an embodiment journey without getting lost in theory or abstract language. We talk about what real body awareness actually looks like in everyday life.Jin breaks down simple ways to move beyond conditioning and into self-knowing, including how to notice sensations, build trust with your felt experience, and make small daily shifts that bring clarity to desire and choice.We also explore how somatic and tantric tools create intimacy with yourself first, and how that inner connection naturally changes your relationships and overall energy, without pushing or overwhelm.Jin Hong is a Somatic Healing and Tantra coach. She supports people in cultivating an authentic, holistic connection with their body-mind, healing blocks to intimacy, and creating fulfilling, connected relationships.Connect with Jin: www.theladyjin.comhttps://www.youtube.com/@coachingwithjinhttps://www.instagram.com/coachingwithjin/Get a complimentary consultation with Angelahttps://www.somashift.org/If this conversation resonated, share it with a friend who’s curious about somatic healing or feeling more at home in their body.​Subscribe to Everyday Intimacy and leave a rating or review so more people can find these conversations on healing, pleasure, and intimacy

Most of us were taught a version of healing that doesn’t actually help us heal. We were told to dig, analyze, process, talk it through, and push harder. Yet so many women still feel stuck, overwhelmed, disconnected from pleasure, and trapped in old patterns that won’t budge.In this episode, I break down why:Trauma doesn’t resolve from insight alone. Your nervous system needs real, felt moments of safety, steadiness, and goodness to rewrite what it learned in survival. We explore why “fixing yourself” keeps you looping, how chronic symptoms often come from a lifetime of carrying too much without enough support, and why pleasure, connection, and resourcing are essential, not extra.I talk about:• Why pain gets all the attention and keeps you stuck• How your nervous system learns safety through experience, not effort• Pendulation, resourcing, and why they protect you from overwhelm• Why so many women can name emotions but can’t feel them• How chronic fight-or-flight shuts down joy, desire, and intimacy• Why you aren’t broken—you’re wired for survival• What actually helps your body shift from chronic struggle to chronic thrivingThis episode is for women who are tired of analyzing themselves, tired of chasing healing, and ready for a different way. One that honors the body, honors your lived experience, and reconnects you with the parts of you that have been waiting underneath it all.If you’re craving aliveness, connection, or the sense that you’re finally coming back to yourself (or discovering yourself for the first time), this one is for you.FOR WOMEN WHO ARE TIRED OF TRYING SO HARD:This episode is especially for you if you’ve tried the diets, the supplements, the breathwork, the mindset tricks, the holistic treatments, and still feel stuck in the same patterns. You’re not failing. Your body is asking for something different.WORK WITH ME:I support women with chronic symptoms, emotional overwhelm, intimacy struggles, and long-standing patterns that never seem to shift. My work blends Somatic Experiencing® (SE™), VITA™ training, relational repair, and body-led practices that help you feel met, supported, and understood.I offer 1:1 sessions, group programs, support circles, in-person work, and retreats. If you’re looking for a space where you don’t have to perform, hustle, or be “the strong one,” you’ll find it here.CONNECT:Website: https://www.somashift.org/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/Upcoming programs and groups available on my site.

Shame Is the Tax Women Have Been Forced to Pay for Pleasure. I Say: Stop Paying It.Shame isn’t just an emotion; it’s a biological response. In this episode, we explore how shame triggers the brain and body’s threat systems, activating fight, flight, or freeze states, and how it keeps women chronically dysregulated. We’ll dive into the neuroscience and physiology of shame, its effects on pleasure, desire, menstruation, aging, body changes, and rest, and share practical tools to release it. Using felt sense awareness, sensory grounding, and Havening techniques, this episode offers a roadmap to reclaim your nervous system, your body, and your pleasure.What You’ll Learn:How shame activates neural pathways associated with threat and physical dangerThe physiological effects: cortisol spikes, heart rate changes, and defensive brain activationHow chronic shame keeps the nervous system in fight, flight, or freezeHow shame affects pleasure, desire, body sensations, and restPractical strategies to regulate the nervous system and de-shame the bodyTools & Practices:Felt sense awareness: noticing the body’s signals of safety or threat5-sense orientation to anchor into the presentTouch, taste, smell, and sight exercises for micro-moments of pleasureGentle Havening touch to lower threat responseCuriosity instead of self-criticismFor Listeners Who:Feel disconnected from their body or pleasureStruggle with anxiety, fatigue, pain, or other chronic symptomsWant to reclaim regulation, presence, and sensory attunementCall to Action:Share this episode with someone who needs itJoin a women’s circle to explore de-shaming practicesSubscribe to Everyday Intimacy to receive new episodes

What if the very things you’ve been taught to hide, your desires, your shame, your shadow, are portals to your power?In this episode, Erotic Mystic and author Sharon Marie Scott joins me to talk about Forbidden Alchemy: Transmuting Taboo into Erotic Medicine, her new book, and her life’s work exploring how the taboo holds medicine. We unpack what it means to find spiritual mastery through pleasure, how desire can become a compass for wholeness, and why true awakening asks us to meet every part of ourselves, even the ones we’ve judged.You’ll walk away seeing your relationship with power, pleasure, and the sacred in a completely new light.Forbidden Alchemy releases 11/11/25 — preorder it here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1966346670About Sharon Marie ScottSharon Marie Scott is an Erotic Mystic, High Alchemist, storyteller, and founder of Life Turned On, a living temple devoted to desire, devotion, and spiritual mastery. Her work bridges the erotic and the divine, guiding self-led high-achievers, edge-players, and spiritual adventurers to remember their pleasure as sacred and their sovereignty as power.For more than a decade, Sharon has immersed herself in alternative lifestyles and sacred erotic practices—exploring kink, BDSM, tantra, open relating, sex-positive communities, and queerness as living laboratories for transformation. She is the author of Forbidden Alchemy: Transmuting Taboo Into Erotic Medicine (HarperCollins, 2025), the first of six books in her Hieros Codex series.Connect with Sharon:Website: www.sharonmariescott.comInstagram: @sharonlifeturnedonYouTube: @lifeturnedonSubstack: @sharonmariescottListen + Subscribe:The Everyday Intimacy Podcast with Angela RiveroIt’s not about doing more. It’s about listening differently.

Have you ever done years of inner work and still felt like something’s missing?You understand yourself better. You can name your patterns. But somehow, you still end up in the same place, stuck in self-criticism, overthinking, or trying to “get it right.”In this episode of Everyday Intimacy, we uncover the missing piece in so much of the work we do on ourselves: why insight and effort alone often aren’t enough, and how tending to the body and nervous system can unlock real change.We talk about:Why self-compassion isn’t soft, it’s the most radical form of inner leadership.How your inner critic and protective patterns are actually trying to help you.Why healing requires the body, not just the mind.What happens when we stop fixing ourselves and start listening instead.If you’ve ever felt like you’re doing all the right things and still can’t find ease, this conversation might be the missing piece.Soulla Demetriou is a Self-Compassion Expert. With over a decade of experience at the intersection of mind, body, emotion, and spirit, she helps people transform their lives by changing the way they relate to themselves.Through her signature Soulshine Way™ Method—a blend of self-compassion, mindfulness, nervous system work, and Internal Family Systems. Soulla empowers people to break free from old patterns and reconnect with their authentic Self. Her debut book, You Have Always Been Enough: A Healing Guide to Self-Love and Inner Freedom, will be published by HarperCollins in April 2026.Connect with Soulla:Website: https://www.withsoulla.comBook: https://www.withsoulla.com/always-enoughInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/withsoullaFree Self-Compassion Course: https://www.withsoulla.com/courses/7-steps-course-sign-upConnect with Angela:Website: www.somashift.orgInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/angela.riv.1/

There’s more to chronic illness than meets the eye; your body knows the story.In this episode of Everyday Intimacy, I sit down with Veronique Mead, a former physician who left traditional medicine to study the deeper origins of chronic illness. Veronique shares how early life experiences, emotional neglect, and long-term stress can shape the body, why your symptoms are not your fault, and what it truly means to listen to your body’s signals.If you’ve ever felt dismissed, unseen, or lost in your symptoms, this conversation offers a new perspective you may have never heard before. Veronique Mead is a former Board-Certified family physician and Dartmouth-affiliated assistant professor of family medicine who left medicine to explore the deeper roots of chronic illness. She went on to earn her Master’s in somatic psychotherapy from Naropa University, with specialty training in trauma.Through her platform, Chronic Illness Trauma Studies, Veronique shares research showing how trauma, especially early relational and developmental trauma, is an underestimated risk factor for autoimmune and other chronic illnesses. Her work helps people see their symptoms through the lens of survival, not fault, offering a compassionate and science-backed understanding of why healing takes time.Website: chronicillnesstraumastudies.comInstagram: @veroniquemeadFacebook: Chronic Illness Trauma StudiesYouTube: Veronique Mead ChannelLinkedIn: Veronique MeadFree ebook: 16 Trauma-Informed Tools for Healing Chronic IllnessAngela's Links. Instagram: @theangelariveroWork with Angela: somashift.org/work-with-me

Stop chasing “fixes” and start learning how your body can finally feel safe enough to thrive. So many women are exhausted from trying to fix themselves, another book, another protocol, another cleanse, always chasing what’s “wrong.”In this episode, I dive into why thriving isn’t about fixing.We’ll explore:How unconscious survival mode shows up in your body and relationshipsThe three primary survival patterns: hyperarousal (stuck on the gas pedal), hypoarousal (freeze/collapse), and fawning (people-pleasing)Why the nervous system is the foundation of lasting changeHow somatic awareness can help you step out of survival and into connection, energy, and joyThis episode is for women ready to stop surviving and start thriving. If you’ve been exhausted, overworked, or disconnected from yourself, this conversation will give you one less thing to fail at, and a path forward to more ease, presence, and aliveness.Connect with AngelaWebsite: ⁠https://www.somashift.org/⁠Socials:https://www.instagram.com/theangelarivero/⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556510103080

Nancy Parker ON: The Heart Yes: Medicine for Empaths. What if real change didn’t have to come through suffering or big breakthroughs? In this episode, we explore how transformation happens in small, steady doses that give your nervous system space to reorganize. Movement and pleasure act as medicine, a catalyst for healing. And when resistance shows up, play becomes the access point that opens the door to deeper connection, intimacy, and alignment for empaths and sensitive souls.About Nancy Parker: she is a master of empowerment through embodiment. With 20+ years of experience guiding empaths and intellects, she brings a playfully deep, grounded energy to every space she holds. Her gift is helping women return home to the wisdom of the body , where truth, joy, and power naturally live. Through her signature modalities of energy mastery, relational intelligence, and ecstatic self-care, she has helped thousands of sensitive souls deepen connection to their “Heart Yes.” Her work invites greater integrity, intimacy, and freedom in your body and relationships.Connect with Nancy:​Instagram: @nancyparkerembodiment​Facebook: InBodyWisdom​YouTube: NancyParkerEmbodiment​LinkedIn: Nancy Parker EmbodimentConnect with me, Keara:​Website: somashift.org​Instagram: @theangelarivero​Work with me: somashift.org/work-with-me

Tash Doherty ON: Shamelessly Sexy Writing, Desire & Becoming Unapologetically YouToday’s guest is Tash Doherty, a British-Irish-American author, creator of the blog and podcast Misseducated, and writer of the debut spicy, coming-of-age novel These Perfectly Careless Things. Tash left the corporate world behind after Wharton to fully embrace her passion for writing, living boldly, and helping others explore sexuality through story and self-expression.In this episode, we explore:  What it really means to be shamelessly sexy, and why it’s about so much more than appearance or performance  How writing can be a tool for exploring desire, intimacy, and self-knowing  The three fundamentals of becoming shamelessly sexy: knowing what you want, believing you deserve it, and asking for it  Tash’s creative journey, from corporate to creative, and what it takes to step into your unapologetic selfThis conversation is equal parts playful and profound—an invitation to embrace creativity, desire, and self-expression as pathways to intimacy and liberation.Connect with Tash: Instagram: ⁠@misseducated_⁠ | ⁠@tashdoherty_⁠ TikTok: ⁠@misseducated_⁠ Twitter/X: ⁠@misseducated__⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠here⁠Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/misseducated.bsky.socialhttps://www.facebook.com/tash.dokerty/ Check out her debut novel These Perfectly Careless Things and keep an eye out for her upcoming Sex Journal (Fall 2025).⁠https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61556510103080⁠⁠https://www.somashift.org/

Pamela Madsen ON: Menopause myths, the power of pleasure as medicine, and embracing body-friendliness over body perfection.In this conversation, we talk about why menopause doesn’t have to pause your pleasure, how sexual wellness is essential to overall health, and the freedom that comes when we stop trying to “love everything” about our bodies and instead focus on body-friendliness.Pamela Madsen is a Certified Somatic Sex Educator with a Master's degree in Education, and the founder and president of Back to the Body retreats, now in its fifteenth year. Back to the Body, the world’s foremost sexual wellness retreat, offers monthly women’s retreats held at locations around the globe, as well as at their expansive new Joshua Tree compound, established in October 2024. A pioneer in fertility and sex advocacy, Pamela was formerly the Founder and first Executive Director of The American Fertility Association. She is a veteran speaker, educator, and has been a columnist for The Huffington Post, Psychology Today, and more. She has been called a “vagipreneur,” as well as an “OG in the world of sexual wellness” by Condé Nast Traveller, and has been featured on CNN, Sex with Emily, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Vogue, Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health, Buzzfeed, 60 Minutes, USA Today, and The New York Times. Pamela is also the author of Shameless: How I Ditched The Diet, Got Naked, Found True Pleasure and Still Got Home In Time To Cook Dinner (Rodale, January 2011), and was featured in Orgasmic Leadership by Rachel Braun Scherl. She is a fearless advocate for women’s health and integrated sexuality who leverages her raw honesty and well-informed wit to help strip the stigma from women’s wellness, female desire and pleasure, body image, and infertility.Links & Resources:🔗 Website: https://backtothebody.org/📸 Instagram: @thepamelamadsen | @backtothebodyorg📘 Facebook: Back to the Body▶️ YouTube: Back to the BodyIf you loved this episode, follow the podcast, share it with a friend, and leave a review to help more women discover this work.

Patty Alfonso ON:What if your body was the sacred key to unlocking everything you’ve ever desired?What if pleasure wasn’t indulgent or extra, but a divine portal to healing, power, and wholeness?In this episode, I sit down with Patty Alfonso—a speaker, author, and internationally recognized leader in the fields of somatics, energy healing, and embodied sensuality. Known as “The Orgasmic Body Whisperer,” Patty is a true Erotic Priestess, here to remind us that sensuality and spirituality are not separate, but deeply intertwined.Together we explore:​How reclaiming sensuality becomes a path of liberation​What it means to honor your shadow and your light, without shame​Why pleasure is not just about sex, but about fully inhabiting your life​How dismantling patriarchal conditioning around the body opens doors to deep healing​The role of play, desire, and embodiment in spiritual evolutionThis conversation is rich, raw, and full of permission to meet yourself exactly as you are, in your power, your longing, your truth.Bio-Patty Alfonso is an Erotic Priestess, healer, life coach, speaker and dancer who has devoted the last 20 years to helping women reclaim their bodies, their pleasure, and their power. Known as The Orgasmic Body Whisperer she guides women through embodied transformation by weaving together spirituality, sensuality, and sexuality in the most sacred of ways. Her signature temple experience, Embodying the Goddess, is an initiation into sovereignty, through pleasure, emotional alchemy, and deep feminine devotion. She holds a BA in Sociology, certifications in Body/Mind Counseling, Energy Healing Therapy, S Factor, and is an Erotic Blueprint™ Coach.​Website: www.pattyalfonso.com​Instagram: @thepattyalfonso​Programs + Offerings: www.pattyalfonso.com/goddessTag us on Instagram with your takeaways!Leave a review or share this episode with a friend who’s ready to reclaim her sacred, sensual self.🌀 Ready to reconnect with your own body, desires, and feminine wisdom?Join us at www.somashift.org for upcoming retreats, 1:1 work, or somatic journeys into healing and wholeness.

Jackie Shea ON: how chronic illness and trauma reshaped her connection to herself, her body, and her boundaries. Jackie is a wife, mother to two toddlers, and a trauma-informed life, health, and business coach, writer, and speaker.We talk about healing beyond productivity, mothering while tending your nervous system, and the surprising ways your body might be asking for a different kind of intimacy: one that starts with you.3 Key Takeaways:​Saying No Can Be Intimate: Boundaries aren’t rejection, they’re an invitation to deeper honesty, presence, and trust. How saying “no” became one of the most intimate, pleasurable things she could do.​The Body Keeps Score, but It Also Keeps Wisdom: Chronic illness teaches us to slow down, listen differently, and ask what our bodies have been trying to say all along.​You Can't Pour from a Leaky Nervous System: Whether you’re a parent, entrepreneur, or healer, your capacity to serve starts with how you care for your own body and energy.Connect with Jackie:🌐 Website: jackieshea.com📸 Instagram: @sheajackieBook Mentioned: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0062470809/?bestFormat=true&k=doing%20harm&ref_=nb_sb_ss_w_scx-ent-pd-bk-d_de_k0_1_10&crid=R7BAET1HXID7&sprefix=doing%20harmwww.somashift.orghttps://www.instagram.com/somashiftwithangela/

In this soul-stirring conversation, I’m joined by Sheeana Leigh, sacred embodiment facilitator, somatic sex coach, and poetic midwife for women reclaiming the wild truth of their bodies.This is for every woman who’s done all the “right” things… but still feels a quiet ache.Disconnected from her body. Her pleasure. Her power.We explore the missing piece so many women skip, and how your erotic aliveness is not optional, but essential.You’ve done the therapy. The yoga. The organic food, the journaling, the mindset work.You’re successful, spiritual, high-functioning… and still, something feels off.There’s a missing piece that most women are never taught to include—their pleasure. Their erotic aliveness. Their sacred sexuality.Whether you’re moving through chronic symptoms, grief, numbness, or just the quiet ache of disconnection, this episode offers a reframe that could change everything.✨ 3 Core Takeaways:Erotic Innocence Is a Sacred Truth, Not a PerformanceThis isn’t something you earn, master, or perform. It’s primal. It’s your original essence, alive beneath shame, survival strategies, and social conditioning. Reclaiming it is how you come home to your body and your truth.Somatic Work + Reclaiming Sexuality: The Missing LinkIf you’ve done the inner work, therapy, mindset shifts, spiritual growth, but still feel stuck, disconnected, or shut down, what’s often missing is the body. And with it, your sexuality. Somatic and erotic reclamation go hand in hand. Together, they create the safety and presence needed to access what talk-based approaches can’t reach.Pleasure Is Not a Distraction—It’s MedicineTurn-on, erotic energy, and embodied desire are not indulgent. They’re essential. Especially for women dealing with anxiety, chronic fatigue, pain, or autoimmune symptoms, pleasure is often the missing piece that restores aliveness, not from effort, but from connection.🌀 Guest Bio:Sheeana Leigh is a sacred embodiment facilitator and somatic sex coach, weaving together the realms of feminine embodiment, pleasure, and holistic healing. With a background in somatic therapy, breathwork, tantra, and womb studies, she midwifes women into the full expression of their liberated, feral, and free selves. Through her poetic storytelling and raw, unfiltered approach, Sheeana guides women to transmute pain into power and embody their most magnetic, authentic becoming.And don’t forget to download Sheeana’s free resource, The Pleasure Codes—a potent e-book to help you reconnect with the wisdom and power of your body:👉 sheeanaleigh.com/pleasurecodeshttp://www.instragram.com/sheeanaleighhttp://www.facebook.com/sheeanaleighxhttps://www.sheeanaleigh.com/Every woman should hear this. Please share!Connect with Angela: www.somashift.orghttps://www.instagram.com/somashiftwithangela/

Anne More ON: Phases of womanhood. Sexuality as we age. Why pleasure doesn’t have an expiration date, and why it matters that women deeply, truly know this.Anne brings such a grounded sense of beauty, permission, and hope for women who may believe their desire, their pleasure, their erotic aliveness is over... impossible... or simply no longer meant for them.Maybe you’ve thought: “I shouldn’t want this anymore.” Or “It’s selfish to have these needs now.” Or “It’s too late for me.”We explore Erotic Blueprints™ , a framework that helps people understand their unique ways of experiencing and expressing desire, connection, and pleasure, showing how everyone has their own pattern that shapes what feels truly satisfying. We also dive into STREAM (Scar Tissue Remediation, Education, and Management), a specialized approach focused on healing physical and emotional trauma held in the body’s scar tissue. Though distinct from each other, both offer powerful pathways to deepen intimacy, release stuck tension, and open up new possibilities for pleasure and connection.And we name something that’s rarely said out loud:For so many women, there’s a quiet belief that we’re not supposed to have needs. Or if we do, we shouldn’t ask for them directly. After all, shouldn’t our partner just know?And here’s the other side of that:Men, especially in long-term relationships, have also been taught that they should already know how to do this. How to please. How sex and intimacy are supposed to work.So they don’t ask. Because if they have to ask, it means they’ve somehow failed.But what they “know” may be based on things they learned 20 or 30 years ago...or from sources that were incomplete, confusing, or even harmful.This is how couples get stuck.Women feel disconnected from what they actually want, need, or desire... so they don’t voice it.Men feel they should know, so they don’t ask, don’t check in, don’t get curious.And of course... the relationship suffers. The bedroom goes quiet.She feels unseen, unmet.He feels confused, unsure, maybe even rejected.It’s no wonder so many couples—especially the ones who deeply care about each other—feel lost or out of touch.But it doesn’t have to stay that way.This episode gently unpacks how these patterns shift. How couples can reconnect. How women can rediscover their own desires, not just in the bedroom, but in life. And how men, too, can feel relieved of the impossible pressure to “just know,” and instead become curious, connected partners again.About Today’s Guest:As a Somatic Sexologist, older woman, mother, teacher, coach, bodyworker, and mentor, Anne More delights in supporting long term couples and high achievers in exploring mature sexuality and devotional eroticism. Great sex - deep, connected, joyful sex - does not depend on age, anatomy, or performance. Anne can help you learn how to make sex safe, amazing, and playful again! She brings profound knowledge of the body and nervous system from her years of experience in Sexological Bodywork and Somatic Scar and Trauma Resolution as a STREAM practitioner, to guide your healing, education, and expansion.Connect with Anne:Website: www.yesannemore.comhttps://www.facebook.com/anne.more.351Instagram: @yesannemoreConnect with Me:Website: www.somashift.orgInstagram: @somashiftwithangelaDownload the free guide: ‘Uncovering the Roots of Feeling Unwanted’Loved this episode?Leave a rating, write a review, and follow the show. It helps more women find these needed conversations.