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Your Sexual History: How Negative Relationship Experiences Shape You – Episode 74

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Today’s episode continues the Your Sexual Self series, and focuses on the ways that negative relationships can shape your sexual life and beliefs. Being aware about the way you think of yourself sexually, is so important!

Join me today as we look at the many ways that rough relationship experiences can influence you:

  • emotional/verbal abuse
  • infidelity
  • regret
  • sadness when a relationship ends
  • broken trust

Jump on in; it’s your very-important-self!

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Your Sexual History: How Negative Sexual Experiences Shape You – Episode 73

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This episode continues the Your Sexual History series, and begins the focus on how negative experiences can shape you. Of course positive ones can too, but I wanted to begin the discussion with some of the ways that sexuality can “go bad” or cause you to bear “erotic wounds.” In future episodes we will talk about the flip side to negative sexual experiences… Positive ones.

Since it is often more difficult to discuss our negative experiences, it can also be a good place to start. Although they shape us and can influence who we are, the more we talk about them as reality, the more we can start to reframe our ideas about our sexuality by understanding issues that we have that we might need to overcome to find our best sexual selves.

In this episode we’ll look at the following issues affecting women and their sexuality:

  • Rape/assault
  • Interactions with creepy people
  • Imagery/sexual violence in the media
  • “Bad” sexual experiences
  • An unwanted pregnancy or abortion

Difficult though it may be to discuss, we have to start somewhere…

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Naked Pictures: The Beauty of the Boudoir Shot – Episode 61

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This episode talks all about the reasons why I say “Go for it!” when it comes to posing in the nude or for a boudoir photo shoot! Don’t tell me you’ve never thought about it… You know you have!

The unexpected thing about posing for these photo shoots is that the experience can be empowering for you if you enter into the occasion feeling ready and comfortable! Here are some reason why…

  • You’ve gained/got enough confidence that you can face the photographer in naught but your skin or skivvies (and choosing a photographer your trust or know is key!).
  • Acting sexy for the photo shoot = Feeling sexy = Acting sexy. It’s a big cycle that feeds on itself and leaves you feeling beautiful (with photos to prove it afterwards!).
  • The photos document your body at a specific moment in time (i.e. before a big life/body change like having a baby or growing older).
  • You remind/allow yourself to become the beauty standard in your home… You’re a pin up now, of course!

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Getting Married: To Change Your Name or Not To Change Your Name – Episode 52

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This episode explains a little bit about why some women change their names when they get married and some don’t. I explain why I chose to change my name in the (nontraditional) way that I did and what other options there are open to you.

You’ll be surprised at how many different ways of changing your name (or not changing it) there are out there! So, if you’re thinking about getting married sometime soon or if you’re just wondering about it, check out this episode for insight into the why, the how, and the implications of making the naming choice you want!

And check out A Woman and Her Names: Meaning and Identity, Part 1  and A Woman and Her Names: Meaning and Identity, Part 2 for more information about a woman’s names and her identity!

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A Woman and Her Names: Meaning and Identity, Part 2 – Episode 28

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This episode is Part 2 dealing with this topic, and where Part 1 focuses more on family names, Part 2 looks at nick names and private names that you call yourself or that others call you.

This episode discusses the importance of names, their meaning and power! Not only do the names that you choose for yourself have power and importance in your life, so do the nick names, pet names, and other names that other people choose to call you. Knowing someone’s names gives you a certain connection to them, and knowing the more private or intimate nick names that they have gives you an even deeper understanding.

Women are expected to have many names throughout their lives… What will yours be and what will they mean to you?

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A Woman and Her Names: Meaning and Identity, Part 1 – Episode 27

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This episode idea came from my recent adventures in changing my name (I just got married and decided to change my last name… Now I have two of them!). It was an interesting experience, to say the least!

This episode discusses the importance of names, their meaning and power! Not only do the names that you choose for yourself have power and importance in your life, so do the nick names, pet names, and other names that other people choose to call you. Knowing someone’s names gives you a certain connection to them, and knowing the more private or intimate nick names that they have gives you an even deeper understanding.

Women are expected to have many names throughout their lives… What will yours be and what will they mean to you?

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What “Womanhood” Means to Me – Episode 23

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This episode is one of my personal favorites so far in O Woman! Podcast history (herstory)! The idea for this episode kind of sprung up on me as I was driving home from work yesterday in my old station wagon. I have a lot of history with this wonderful and clunky wagon, seeing as it was the car I owned when I was 18 through 24 years old. I recently reacquired it from my parents, and during my first day driving it again I was reminded of my young womanhood and how I grew up to become the woman and person I am today.

This episode is close to my heart! In it I talk about what being a woman means to me personally and also my universal ideas about womanhood and humanhood. To me, your womanhood is personal but also universal, and your idea of womanhood should be centered around yourself and the person you want to be, valuing traits that you admire (and that you have!).

Your womanhood is less about personality and physicality and more about a morality that reflects your life and our shared human condition! Your womanhood is framed by your experiences (like learning to ask for what you want, being your naked self, or a natural childbirth experience) and your continually growing wisdom.

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