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Embodiment for the Rest of Us - Season 2, Episode 3: Molly Adler

 

Chavonne (she/her) and Jenn (she/her) interviewed  Molly Adler(she/her) about her embodiment journey. 

 

Molly is a Certified Sex Therapist with the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (AASECT). Her practice Sex Therapy New Mexico is based in Albuquerque, New Mexico on Tiwa land. She works with a lot of clients who are LGBTQ2S+, BIPOC, anti-racist, activists, polyamorous, and/or kink identified. Her approach is compassionate, grounded, pleasure-centered, light-hearted & social justice oriented. She enjoys the micro-level therapeutic work, as well as working towards structural change by offering training for healthcare providers and institutions who want to be more inclusive of sexual and gender diversity in their work.  Previously she co-founded and co-directed Self Serve Toys, New Mexico’s first and only sex-positive, health- and education-focused adult shop and resource center for its first eight years. 

 

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Molly’s Email List

Molly’s Instagram

 

Content Warning: discussion of privilege, discussion of diet culture, mention of mental health struggles, mention of dissociation, mention of rape culture

 

Trigger Warnings:

33:12: Molly discusses sexual violence and abuse

1:09:59: Chavonne uses a term that is harmful to some of those experiencing gender expansiveness

 

The captions for this episode can be found at https://embodimentfortherestofus.com/season-2/season-2-episode-3-molly-adler/#captions/

 

A few highlights:

4:55: Molly shares her understanding of embodiment and her own embodiment journey

15:37: Molly discusses how the pandemic has affected her devotion to embodiment, what lights her up up on a regular basis to feel embodied how to make this accessible for everyone

35:46: Molly shares how one’s sense of embodiment impacts sexual pleasure and vice-a-versa

49:30: Molly discusses her understanding of “the rest of us” and how she is a part of that, as well as her privileges

1:09:38: Molly discusses gender expansiveness and embodiment practices for those experiencing it

1:21:35: Molly shares her definition of pleasure liberation

1:29:10: Molly discusses Self Serve and Aliso Roots Community Collective and why physical spaces are important in fostering liberation

1:42:12: Molly shares how listeners can make a difference based on this conversation

1:47:37: Molly discusses where to be found and what’s next for her

Links from this episode:

Adrienne Marie Brown

Betty Martin

Bodymind

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy

Cuddle Parties

DSM-5

Fatness Spectrum

Fight-Flight-Freeze-Fawn Response

Functional Fixedness

Gender Dysphoria

Internal Family Systems Therapy

Interoception

Janina Fisher

Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Lucie Fielding

Marcia Baczynski

Mating In Captivity

Medical-Industrial Complex

The Nap Ministry

Pleasure Activism

PTSD

Reid Mihalko

Self Serve

Sensate Focus

Sensorimotor Therapy

Skin Hunger

Sonya Renee Taylor

Trans Sex

Tricia Hersey

 

Also, two extra resources Molly wanted to pass along!

Curvy Girl Sex

Honor Native Land Tax

 

Music: “Bees and Bumblebees (Abeilles et Bourdons​)​, Op. 562” by Eugène Dédé through the Creative Commons License

 

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