For far too long women's sexuality and pleasure has been controlled and repressed. This has led to a cultural norm where women often feel numb and disconnected from their bodies, sexuality, and emotional depth.
Today I'm joined by hypnotherapist, Carlie Jade, to explore how women can expand their capacity to feel more of life, reclaim their pleasure and learn to revere their bodies. Carlie shares her personal story of overcoming sexual trauma and a perpetual state of numbness through hypnotherapy, somatic work, and tantric practices. The conversation explores the relationship between pain and pleasure, the significance of sisterhood, and how sexual healing has the power to transform every area of life.
Trigger Warning: In this episode Carlie shares about childhood sexual trauma and refers to sexual trauma throughout the episode.
Somatic Sisterhood Circle
The Somatic Sisterhood Circle is a weekly touch point to attune to the wisdom of your body while being held in sisterhood. Each circle includes embodiment practices and meaningful conversations. The next eight week series will be focused on
Reclaiming Womanhood: Healing from Good-Girl Conditioning.
Society asks girls and women to shrink themselves. Be good, pretty, capable (but not too capable), take care of others, sacrifice yourself, and do it all with a smile. Our depth, magic, eros, fierceness, intellect, and aliveness has been controlled and manipulated. Our wildness has been repressed. This circle is about freeing ourselves from the good girl conditioning and embodying something more raw and real.
Learn more.What is The Marie Embodied Podcast?
The Marie Embodied Podcast is a space to slow down, listen inward, and reconnect with the wisdom of the body. Hosted by, somatic therapist and clinical herbalist, Marie Zak, this show explores embodiment through somatic practices, herbal medicine, nervous system awareness, and other healing modalities that support coming home to yourself.
Marie explores embodiment not as a concept, but as a lived experience. Through conversations, teachings, and practical insights, you will learn how to listen to your body, build capacity, and cultivate presence, resilience, and aliveness.
This podcast is for those who want to feel more grounded, resourced, and at home in themselves, and for anyone curious about somatic work, herbalism, animism, and the many modalities that support embodied healing.