The Dissected Woman Podcast With Natasha De Grunwald

I remember after recording this episode with my friend Natasha De Grunwald I felt shaky, I didn’t realise how much I’m still affected.

It is a heavy listen in some places, so if the following themes are difficult for you, maybe skip it.

** Severe ME, mental health, Faith deconstruction, eating disorders **

I got real about my journeys with:

• Being raised in a religious household
• Faith deconstruction and recovering from Evangelical Christianity and Purity Culture
• Rehab from chronic illness, severe M.E., and mental illness
• Being hospitalized with M.E. and living in care homes

We also talked about:

• Being a Good Christian Girl
• Being a teacher’s pet and a goody two shoes 
• How far can you go
• Developing a spiritual belief and practise through Christian meditation
• Christian dogma of “good” vs “bad”, that anything spiritual that is outside of the Christian umbrella is deemed as “demonic”
• Anger as a transformative emotion
• Trauma theory
• Not wanting to tell people I lived in a care home when I moved to Eastbourne
• Having horny fantasies and sex dreams
• My first sexual and romantic experiences
• How I got into the “sex world”
• Letting go of sexual shame and having real pleasure
• Getting into the woo-sphere
• Women and sexual shame
• Understanding your sexual story
• How your sexuality and spirituality can be a portal to the divine
• Why your sexual shame is actually very logical considered your story
• Slut shaming and necklines
• Celebrating your sexuality and the erotic
• Why we need to be in sex affirming communities
• When women feel that sex is a duty and what to do
• Starting from the body first and working from the basics
• Why you have access to wellness, joy, and pleasure here right now
• Why it’s unrealistic and unhealthy to try to always avoid triggers, but we can go slower
• When people hop from workshop to workshop to retreat and not being able to function in everyday life
• Learning to be with feelings
• Why sex may not always be mind-blowing-ecstatic-oh-my-goddd and it’s ok

And this biggie: The crossover of Evangelical Christianity and the new age/coaching/wellness world of high intensity environments, having ecstatic experiences, and crashing.

Listen on Apple Podcasts here and on Spotify here.

If you listened to it, what part touched you the most? I’d love to hear it. Tell me in the comments below.

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