067: This rich episode expands on the themes introduced in Dr. Brittney's article A Priest’s Daughter’s Pathway from Shame to Pleasure and Self Love. Brittney shares how stepping into her role as “the Therapusst” has reshaped dynamics, deepened conversations around birth and lineage, and illuminated the cultural “pleasure gap.” With honesty and nuance, she unpacks the impact of porn and quick-fix stimulation on intimacy, the weight of shame and conditioning, and how awareness and pleasure practices in Valchemy can open the doorway to connection, sovereignty, and self-love.

Feeling the Pulse On

• What did ‘owning the Therapusst’ title mean for Brittney, and how has stepping into that role impacted her relationship dynamics and how her family shows up for her
• What would she most want her family to ask, if they were stepping into her inner world
• How has her understanding of sexuality, pleasure, birth, both personally and across her lineage, shaped her ideas about intimacy and connection in her work with VAlchemy
• Her stance on porn and vibrators and reflective questions to ask yourself
• How do shame, upbringing, or religious conditioning around sexuality show up in the way people masturbate, pursue pleasure, or relate to their bodies—and how we begin to unlearn that
• What the orgasm gap reveals about the cultural undervaluing of women’s pleasure, and how awareness can help us change this
• What reclaiming sexual sovereignty looks like in day-to-day life—and how VAlchemy supports that

Thank you to our contributors

• Portrait created in collaboration with Joana Quijada

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