The Pleasure of Commitment

Listen in to hear about Jamie’s shift from a responsive provider to a teaching creative, and how Joan’s practice of centering pleasure has led to several successful endeavors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, Joan and Jamie reflect on season 4 and look ahead to season 5. We get a behind-the-scenes look at their creative process for making the podcast and building the Experiential Anatomy community. We get to drop in on a live coaching session where Joan walks Jamie through her to-do list angst, and they remind us that our bodies are made for creativity, not productivity. The hosts touch on previous topics of death and rebirth, ritual and ceremony, rupture and repair, and weave in their experiences with pleasure throughout each theme. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan and Jamie share similar anecdotes of their bodies working with bodies, a fun announcement, and a peek at next season! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, our hosts dive into the deep end of pleasure. We get to hear from Joan and Jamie about their experiences with sex and orgasms, and the journeys their bodies have taken in relationship with other bodies. Jamie shares about her old pattern of dissociating with various partners and the safety she’s found in monogamy, while Joan reflects on the steady changes over time with her husband. They bring their differing experiences to the discussion and keep the juiciest details for the After-Dark conversation on Substack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan and Jamie share about their Mother’s Day and the connection between health insurance and the safety net of living in community. We also drop in on a special conversation between Joan and her boys. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, four special guests from The Refuge join our hosts for a conversation on finding pleasure in community. Our guests share a bit about what drew them to The Refuge and the transformations they’ve undergone as they work towards showing up with authenticity, curiosity, and flexibility. They discuss how relational wounds require relational healing, and how an ideal community will both meet our needs and feel good in our bodies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan and Jamie elaborate on several recurring themes of sovereignty, capacity, and pleasure, and weave in a bonus discussion on parenting future men. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mouse Bird joins Jamie and Joan to talk about creating ceremony in everyday life. Jamie and Mouse share a bit about their friendship and experience in body work, and give us a peek at what their future plans hold. They explore themes of personal transformation, evolving relationships, and the rippling impacts we have on those around us. And they explain the importance of ritual to orient our bodies and usher in pleasure–for ourselves and our broader communities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Listen in as Joan shares about finding pleasure in dancing among colleagues, and Jamie works through the complex timing of this season’s topic while losing her precious Crawley. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today, our hosts discuss the term sovereignty and what it looks like in practice as bodies in community. They explore the theme of modern systems that currently overwhelm our bodies, and how practicing sovereignty can bring pleasure amidst the chaos and noise. Jamie gives us an update on her beloved feline companion, and Joan ends the show with an invitation to join the After Dark segment for some juicy gossip! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices