LET IT OUT10 Loka 2019

276 | painful sex, the loneliness of shame, embarrassment and the importance of community and personal storytelling with Allison Behringer

I'm so happy to have storyteller and audio producer Allison Behringer on the podcast this week. She’s the creator of a podcast called BODIES. We talk about her podcast Bodies, what the process of making it taught her, and why women telling their stories about their bodies is so cathartic. This is an intimate episode. We've talked about sex a lot on this show but in this episode you’ll hear me let it out on something I was particularly scared to share. I had a lot of shame around the fact that I had vaginismus. It's a condition making sex painful or difficult. Brené Brown says shame can’t exist when it’s shared and I think that’s why personal storytelling are so wonderful. We talk about why telling personal stories is so important, community, the importance of mothers and daughters talking about sex, and much more in this conversation.

Show Notes

-Allison Behringer's website | instagram | facebook group | twitter

-Bodies Podcast

-Podcasting 101 Panel audio

-Kaitlin Prest - The Heart and The Shadows

-A Kind of Miraculous Paradise by Sandy Allen

-New York Times Modern Love Column College Essays

Likes and Learns

-Kaitlin Prest - The Heart and The Shadows Podcast

-The LIO Facebook group

-Frances Ha movie

-Gratitude journaling again

Cool Things to Check Out

-Let A Podcast Out is now open for enrollment! If you're interested in starting your own podcast, try out the first few modules for free and see if our course is for you. We are having a Q&A call October 14th - feel free to come ask me any questions you have about the course! You can also follow Let A Podcast Out on Instagram ~

-Read my latest piece on The Fullest - Writing Doesn't Heal All Wounds But It Does Heal Some

-Have you listened to my new podcast with Serena Wolf? Check out Spiraling Podcast. Episode seven coming soon!

-Follow @letitouttt on Instagram

-Join our Secret Facebook Group

-Support the podcast on Patreon

If You Liked This Episode

-Episode 213 with Kimberly Johnson

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