Description

Somatic trauma therapist Andrea Glik explains why it isn’t helpful to pathologize everything about us, but it’s more important to increase our capacity for pleasure and presence. In this episode, Andrea walks us through attachment styles, the relationship between pain and pleasure and how lessons from kink can help us relate to more healthy sex. 

We discuss

• How to identify the resources and tools you already have
• Using the breath as a neutral tool for somatic experience
• Where to start when “be here now” feels unsafe
• How it is unhelpful to over pathologize and over diagnose experiences
• The relationship between pain and pleasure
• How our capacity for pleasure can signify healing
• Working through shame around pleasure, which can also be about worthiness
• Looking at attachment styles and how they affect relationships
• How to cultivate your capacity and consciousness around pleasure in your life
• What kink has to teach us about communication, consent, play and body awareness
• How the earth holds so much pleasure for us

LINKS

If you enjoyed the episode, check out —

Episode w— Langston Kahn
Episode w— Lindsay Mack

More about our guest —

Andrea's website
Andrea's IG

Mentioned in the episode —

Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma, book by Peter Levine

Pleasure Activism, book by Adrienne Maree Brown

Wired for Love, book by Stan Tatkin

Come as You Are, book by Emily Nagoski

Anchored: How to Befriend Your Nervous System Using Polyvagal Theory, book by Deb Dana

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