041: euni's back on the show for an open conversation with Brittney about intimacy, sexuality, connecting with others in many capacities, and how it relates to the pelvic floor and overall pelvic health. A little background on her: euni is a multi-disciplinary artist, facilitator, educator + somatic practitioner who guides integrative practices for healing, intimacy + pleasure. She curates trauma informed spaces through private sessions, educational resources, experiences, workshops, and retreats. The work of Self Study is founded on a blend of evidence based principles, spiritual + cultural wisdom, and eastern + holistic wellness modalities to ignite agency, power, openness, expression + deeper, more intimate connections for individuals and people in relationships. euni is studied, trained and expanding methods to increase understanding and integration of how we exist in our bodies and to increase the ways we feel pleasure, play, and liberated to be more authentic + expressive in all the parts of ourselves.

Feeling the Pulse on

• Brittney and euni's backstory for this episode recording on intimacy
• Being in your body when you have a history of dissociation
• What does it mean to be intimate with someone else, in romance and friendship
• Why intimacy matters and how it relates to pelvic health
• euni's relationship with her pelvic floor and how it speaks to her
• Committing to oneself and what that looks like in a nonlinear way, connecting intimacy to art and expression
• The cycle of feeling a physical sensation/intuition, ignoring it, and her pelvic floor speaking louder until she listens
• Developing a language with your body and TRUST with yourself in relationships
• Becoming bigger and living more vibrantly
• Dick pics, DMs, and graciousness when you have the capacity
• Creating a new space that merges art, traditional practices (yoga, breathwork), and sexual wellness

Connect with our guest, euni

• Website Selfstudylab.com
• Social: sensoryplayspace.substack.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/selfstudylab
• The Sensory Playspace Podcast: selfstudylab.com/sensoryplayspace

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040: Join Brittney in this dynamic conversation with Dr. Jennifer Sandoval about a variety of relationships and sexual issues that come up for many people. As a licensed clinical psychologist and certified sex therapist with 25 years of experience, Dr. Jen works with individuals and couples helping them to improve themselves their relationships and their sex lives - as well as helping them cultivate the VERY IMPORTANT sense of self. From interesting examples and tangible practices, this is an episode you don't want to miss and can apply to your life right now to improve your own relationships.

Feeling the Pulse on

• Dr. Jen and Brittney's connection
• How sex therapy couples well with pelvic physical therapy and how Dr. Jen got started
• The big issues people are experiencing in their sex lives like desire discrepancies, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, or pain
• Differences between desire discrepancies, hypo-active sexual desire disorder, responsive and spontaneous desire
• The relationship is the focus in therapy, not just one person
• Dr. Jen’s Pie Graph exercise to help couples
• Sense of self and co-dependency
• Difference between co-dependency and enmeshment, with examples
• How to break the cycle and cultivate a stronger sense of self
• Coping skills and toolbox for taking ownership of their emotions and wellbeing
• Pursuer/avoidant dynamics and how to navigate when there’s been a rupture and ongoing repair
• The role of self compassion and self love in your inner dialogue
• Family of origin interview as a couple’s exercise, parts work, inner child work
• Sex and spirituality within a religious or purity upbringing
• Being a Christian and a sexual being
• Being addicted to pornography and trying to find congruent sexual expression
• Who’s responsible for pleasure within the relationship and more on sense of self

Connect with our guest, Dr. Jennifer Sandoval

• Instagram @Drjensandov2
• Website http://drjensandov.com/index.html#/

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039: As a brand new naturopathic doctor AND mother, Dr. Kate Purvis walked through the transformational fire of her first postpartum experience after a beautiful birth. Through her personal trials and by working with babies and mothers separately over the years, she's come to realize this *isn't* how postpartum care is best served. Her vision of support for reimagined postpartum care and the ripple effect it has on families and society is amazing AND possible. Listen in to ignite your own imagination to make postpartum the beautifully transformative experience it can be.

Feeling the Pulse on

• How Dr. Kate's first postpartum experience led her to her life’s work
• What was different about her second postpartum experience
• Practicing embodiment beginning with basic body needs
• How we’ve normalized postpartum feeling crummy
• What we need to unlearn and how we can reframe what postpartum can be like
• What support can actually look like for a mother baby dyad
• Mother wounds and what Dr. Kate experienced working with hers
• Dr. Brittney’s experience with her mother wound and womb healing
• Healing other aspects of your pelvic health in postpartum, including sexuality, and thinking of it as WHATEVER you want it to be
• Grieving AND celebrating the maiden phase
• Collaborating with other providers for the most holistic support
• Tips for pregnant women: gather your providers before birth!
• How important looking at both mother and baby is, AND how to involve the partner in postpartum
• Having the conversation, making the implicit explicit

Connect with our guest, Dr. Kate Purvis

• Instagram @drkatepurivs
• Website https://www.drkatepurvis.com/

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