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Navigating Depression In Intimate Relationships

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JoEllen Notte, author of In It Together : Navigating Depression with Partners, Friends, and Family joins us to discuss how we can all show up more fully for the people in our lives who are living with depression. We ALL know someone who struggles with depression, and in this podcast episode we explore how we can love one another more fully while steering clear of the resentment, guilt and shame that can damage our most intimate relationships.

“Depression does not inherently break our bonds, but our inability to navigate depression can lead to avoidance, hurt feelings, and anger” ~ JoEllen Notte, In It Together

Also be sure to check out JoEllen Notte’s first book, The Monster Under the Bed: Sex, Depression, and the Conversations We Aren’t Having

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JoEllen Notte is a writer, speaker, and mental health advocate whose work explores the impact of depression on sex and relationships. Since 2012 she has written about sex, mental health, and how none of us are broken on her award-winning site The Redhead Bedhead

Cockwarming, Docking & Engulfment

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Cockwarming, Docking & Engulfment are all names for different applications of a similar erotic move, where we hold an intimate part of the body inside our holes, bodies or crevices. This warm, wet, intimate embrace is an erotic technique that we can all explore in our own way, and this episode explores this move in depth revealing all the powerful erotic energies and arousal arcs it can be a part of.

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Responsive Kink

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On the other side of curiosity there is a boundless playground of pleasure, intimacy and connection. When we listen to what other people find pleasurable about their kinks and turn-ons, we can start noticing the responsive desire that stirs within, and find our own Responsive Kinks!

In this episode we invite you into the practice of turning towards other people’s pleasure with more curiosity, wonder and willingness to discover new parts of your own erotic being.

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Stretching Into Pleasure

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What would it feel like to stretch a little more? How much release, relaxation, relief and pleasure are just a stretch away?

In this episode we invite you into stretching into more pleasure – with both the physical practice of stretching whenever and however it feels good to you and the emotional practice of stretching open into receiving more pleasure, joy and love.

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