I’m officially opening the first-ever Truth Meets Taboo series—a six-month conversation (two episodes per month) on pelvic floor physical therapy, sexual wellness, and healing painful sex without treating pain as the point of sex.

For this series, I’m joined by my co-host Dr. Sara Sohn, a pelvic floor physical therapist, sex counselor, mentor, and professional belly-letting-outer. Sara helps people stop leaking, stop hurting, have better sex, and feel at home in bodies that have changed after weight loss, surgery, or big life shifts—and she talks about bodies and sex the way real people actually live in them.

In this first episode, we talk about moving from pain-centered sex to pleasure-centered sex, pelvic health and pleasure, nervous system regulation, sexual counseling, kink and intimacy, intentional abstinence, watering the rose garden metaphor, choosing 2026 mantras, and staying authentic while identity and desire evolve.

This series is where truth meets taboo—and where pleasure finally gets a seat at the table.

🌹 In This Episode We Explore:

• The difference between moving away from pain vs. moving toward pleasure
• Why our nervous systems often cling to suffering
• How shame shapes our relationship to seggs, bodies, and worthiness
• The connection between pelvic floor pain and emotional safety
• Self-abandonment, resentment, and boundary collapse
• Burlesque as body reclamation
• Abstinence as self-authority and erotic agency
• Ritual vs routine: cultivating pleasure intentionally
• Rewriting body narratives after weight loss or surgery
• Living “many lives in one lifetime”

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• Follow the podcast for new episodes in this six-month Truth Meets Taboo series
• Share this episode with someone navigating pleasure, pelvic health, and identity shifts

Connect with Sara:

• IG: https://www.instagram.com/confidentpelvicrehab
• Website:
  http://www.confidentpelvicrehab.com

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After a year of grief, endings, and major life shifts, this episode opens a new chapter for the podcast.

In this episode, I share why I began a vow of intentional abstinence as an act of self-authority rather than restriction.

After everything that unfolded last year, I realized I needed to slow down, put clear boundaries around my body, and rebuild trust with my own discernment. Growing up in a highly structured military household taught me how to obey, but not how to choose for myself. Over time, that loss of agency showed up in my relationships, my boundaries, and my relationship with sex.

Now 21 days into my abstinence journey, I reflect on reclaiming autonomy, ending cycles of self-betrayal, and coming back into relationship with my body from a place of choice.

This episode marks a shift — into deeper self-authority, clearer boundaries, and a more intentional relationship with desire, agency, and self-trust.

This conversation is for anyone navigating self-authority, sexual boundaries, and learning how to trust themselves again.

In this episode, I talk about:

• Why I chose intentional abstinence as an act of self-authority
• How a highly structured, military upbringing shaped my relationship to obedience and safety
• The connection between people-pleasing, lack of boundaries, and sexual self-betrayal
• What I’m learning about discernment and self-governance 21 days into abstinence

Listen & Connect

• Follow the podcast for new episodes
• Share this episode with someone navigating self-authority and boundaries

Timestamps to help you navigate this episode:
0:00 Intro
4:51 The Journey of Abstinence: Reclaiming Self-Authority
11:30 Breaking the Link Between Sex and Validation
18:11 Why a Boundary Comes Before Discernment
25:09 When Intimacy Became Armor

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This episode is about the truth I kept dancing around.

I talk about how hiding became second nature for me. How silence felt safer than honesty. How telling the truth was something my nervous system learned to associate with danger, conflict, and loss.

As I reflect on this year, I share what grief, breakups, and major life transitions have taught me about authenticity. About emotional honesty. About the cost of not being real with myself.

I explore how trauma shapes our relationship with truth, why environments need to feel safe for honesty to exist, and what it looks like to build relationships that can actually hold the truth without punishment.

If you’ve ever felt afraid to name what you really want, this episode is for you.

Connect with me:
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desiretheforbidden
justasuccugirl

Website
https://www.desiretheforbidden.com/