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Reclaiming Pleasure

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Reclaiming Pleasure

Go ahead, indulge yourself
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What do you think about when you hear the word "pleasure"? Maybe it's sex, sugary foods, or addictive substances—things that we might be made to feel ashamed or insecure about. But pleasure is so much more than that, it can be found in your daily routines, interactions, and in simply living your life to the fullest. These Blinks and Shortcast episodes will broaden your definition of pleasure, teach you how practicing honesty, mindfulness, and self-love can help you achieve a state of pleasure, and offer strategies to let go of harmful narratives surrounding pleasure to reclaim your right to a life full of delight.

Reclaiming Pleasure

Go ahead, indulge yourself
Pleasure Activism
Pleasure Activism
adrienne maree brown
The Politics of Feeling Good
20 min
3.2
The Power of Fun
The Power of Fun
Catherine Price
How to Feel Alive Again
26 min
4.4
Glennon Doyle: Living Wild
Glennon Doyle: Living Wild
Ctrl Alt Delete
What would a wilder, freer version of you look like? Many of us don’t know the answer to this question because we spend so long trying to hold back parts of our truer self or correct them. In this episode, Glennon Doyle—author of New York Times bestselling book Untamed—explores the importance of living wild and learning to re-trust in our deep desires. Glennon will teach you how to recognize the difference between surface-level and deep desires in order to reconnect with a wilder, more authentic version of yourself.
7 min
4.6
Radical Honesty
Radical Honesty
Brad Blanton
How to Transform Your Life by Telling the Truth
22 min
3.2
The 8 Types Of Inner Critic
The 8 Types Of Inner Critic
The Baggage Reclaim Sessions
Isn’t it frustrating when you get presented with a new opportunity or something good happens to you, and immediately there’s a voice inside of you that starts casting doubts? You might think that this is your own good sense keeping you safe. It’s not. It's your inner critic, and you don't have to listen to it. There are 8 types of inner critics, and each of them is driven by an irrational fear. In today’s episode Natalie will show you how to recognize them so that you can start distinguishing their noise from your own true inner voice.
12 min
4.6
Full Catastrophe Living
Full Catastrophe Living
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind to Face Stress, Pain, and Illness
25 min
4.6
Sonya Renee Taylor: Love Yourself
Sonya Renee Taylor: Love Yourself
Simplify Shortcast
We arrive in this world believing we're beautiful, able, and enough. And then, society seeps in. Through images, stories, movies, and cultural mores, we're taught that our bodies are wrong and that we'll always be just shy of perfect. This mindset leads to prejudice and injustice in surprising places, from political to personal. Sonya Renee Taylor, radical self love activist and poet, makes an urgent, elegant case for learning to give ourselves radical self love in order to make the world a better place.
12 min
4.2
Ayelet Waldman: Microdosing for a Megadifference
Ayelet Waldman: Microdosing for a Megadifference
Simplify Shortcast
Do you struggle with the daily pressures of, well—being alive? Or maybe it's dealing with the realities of crippling anxiety or depression? If you're looking for a way to improve your mental health, author of A Really Good Day, Ayelet Waldman shares how microdosing as an alternative self-treatment improved her mental health and helped her enjoy more of her own really good days.
8 min
4.1
Fully Present
Fully Present
Susan L. Smalley and Diana Winston
The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness
21 min
4.5
Emily Nagoski: Let Pleasure Be Your Guide
Emily Nagoski: Let Pleasure Be Your Guide
Simplify Shortcast
We all want to be having good sex. But, how do we define what good sex actually is? In this episode, sex educator Emily Nagoski will not only give us the answer to that question, but she’ll also share valuable advice on how to get there. Contrary to popular belief, one key aspect is paying as much attention to your turn offs as you do your turn ons.
10 min
4.5
Urban Tantra
Urban Tantra
Barbara Carrellas
Sacred Sex for the Twenty-First Century
22 min
4.2
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