The Pleasurehood Podcast is here to revolutionize how humans experience Sex, Pleasure, and Motherhood. Your host Justine Aksoy is an author and pleasure educator on a mission to make sure you’re satiated! Justine will explore what it means to be a mother, a leader, and an all-around badass from a place of self-love, empowerment, and turn-on. Tune in bi-weekly for solo episodes and juicy conversations with guests, as we dive into normalizing self-care, desire, and sexual healing.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 13 hours 55 minutes
episode 4: Body Love Series Episode 4: You Are The Ritual
What is your self love language? I believe it begins with making choices that are in alignment with who you are and building trust with yourself. We must be full in ourselves in order to find the love we desire, and by getting to know our inner selves deeply we can begin this process of cultivating self-love. Easier said than done, right? Realistically, living in self love can be as simple as embracing mundane moments and allowing yourself to become something new...
episode 3: Body Love Series Episode 3: Cultivating Safety in the Body
Do you know how to create safety and cultivate it in the body?Society often intellectualizes safety, while neglecting the importance of feeling safe first in the body. Feeling safe in the body involves physical, emotional, and energetic experiences of safety. And you get to define what that means to you.In this episode of the Body Love Series, I share my personal experiences of feeling safe and practicing hypervigilance, particularly in new environments...
episode 2: Body Love Series Episode 2: How to Feel More Deeply in Your Body
How can you deepen your connection with your body and better understand its language? In this second episode of the Body Love series, How to Feel More Deeply in Your Body, we discuss the importance of listening to our bodies and understanding the signals they send us. In my own health journey, I came to the realization that I hadn't been taking care of myself in a way that prioritizes my vitality and well-being. Like so many of us do, I was coping with burnout through unhealthy habits...
episode 1: Body Love Series Episode 1: How Body Love Leads to Better Sex
In this first episode of the Body Love series, we explore one of my favorite topics - how to have better sex! And the answer lies in developing a deep, loving relationship to our body.Having a strong relationship with one's body has a direct impact on sexual experiences, intimacy, and connection. As we expand our understanding of pleasure through the body, we discover the key to experiencing and embracing pleasure in other facets of life...
episode 8: Healing Burnout and Cultivating Pleasure as a Mother
The societal pressure placed on mothers to be perfect, do it all, and prioritize everyone else's needs above their own is enormous. That's why it's essential to recognize and normalize talking about burnout, as many mothers often dismiss their exhaustion and disconnection as a part of the journey they have to manage alone. In this episode, I discuss the signs of burnout and offer valuable strategies to navigate and overcome it...
episode 7: How to Powerfully Navigate Sex in Long Term Relationships
On this episode of the Pleasurehood podcast, I want to dive into a question that has been brought up time and time again. How do we maintain passion in a long-term relationship or marriage? It’s an important topic and one that affects many of us. Whether you’ve been in a relationship for a few months or several years, it’s natural for the intensity of passion to shift over time. But that doesn’t mean it has to dwindle away completely...
episode 6: Life Transitions: Embracing Change and Opening Up to Possibility
In this episode of The Pleasurehood Podcast, we’ll talk about the power of life transitions. Life transitions can be both exciting and daunting. They mark the start of something new and represent a chance to make powerful choices that will shape our lives in profound ways. No matter how big or small, these changes require us to adjust, grow, and evolve in order to move forward with confidence...
episode 5: A New Paradigm for Motherhood
In this episode, I explore what it means to create a new paradigm for motherhood. A motherhood that is our own creation. That is rooted in self-love, respect for our children, and a sense of empowerment. I'll talk about how to approach the journey with compassion and grace, never forgetting that no two mothers are alike - we all bring something special to this amazing experience...
episode 4: Grief as a Ritual: Reclaiming Your Motherhood Story
Becoming a mother can be an initiation into an unfamiliar world; feelings like a loss of self and grief for one's former life may go unrecognized. Motherhood can often be a challenging transition and it’s important to recognize the grief that can accompany it. Feeling grief when becoming a mother is not uncommon or unusual. It is normal to feel overwhelmed by the shift in identity and lifestyle that can come with this type of change...
episode 3: The Power to Change: A Practice of Breath, Movement, and Grounding
Attempting to process all that is happening in the world can leave us feeling overwhelmed, complacent, or burned out. However, there is a method that can help to stay present in these uncertain times. In this episode of The Pleasurehood Podcast I share my Breathe, Move and Ground method that will allow you to connect to how you are feeling. I'm firm in my belief that emotions are more powerful than any of us realize...