The Feminine Rebellion: Pleasure, Power + Unapologetic Living for Midlife Women7 Aug

81. How Do You Want to Feel? The Question That Stopped My Divorce (The Tables Turn with Dr. Emma Smith)

The tables turn this week. My friend — and my go-to sex therapist — Dr. Emma Smith puts me in the guest chair, and I tell the story I've never told this completely: the Wednesday morning I sat in couples therapy and said "I want a divorce, and I have a lawyer." I wasn't bluffing. And then my therapist asked me a question so strange I almost laughed at him — and it shot straight into the middle of my soul, ended the divorce, and started everything you now know as The Feminine Rebellion.

What you'll hear:

🔥 The full origin story: the bomb I dropped in therapy, the question that undid me, and the vision — my grandmother's ragù, Jerry Garcia, my husband's beard on my neck — that told me what I actually wanted

🔥 Why softening is the hardest part for capable women: "we can do it all, so we do it all" — and what it costs when your body never gets to receive

🔥 The day a yoga teacher handed me a book on the feminine and I wanted to punch her in the throat — and the 88 keys I've learned to play since

🔥 The magic of midlife: why we are the wisest humans on the planet, and what a woman fueled by pleasure pushes into the world

🔥 Pleasure is a spectrum — orgasm is 1% of it — and the five-pound-weight way back to wanting anything at all.

The framework: This episode lives in The Reclamation — my own. Desire, softness, and the right to feel, taken back one drop at a time.

About Dr. Emma Smith: Dr. Emma Smith is a sex therapist and researcher, creator of Desire Recalibration, and the woman I trust most with this conversation. Instagram: @emmasmithphd

🎟 The Desire Recalibration Masterclass — Thursday, August 14, FREE, on Zoom: Dr. Emma, Alex West (former SEAL Team Six operator turned somatic clinical counselor), and me — for couples who still love each other but lost the erotic thread, and for every woman ready to unearth her desire. Partners genuinely welcome. Save your seat: soliloquie.myflodesk.com/rebellion

Come get a taste of me first: my FREE community — where I've been leaving morning audio love notes from the forest, and where we do our Q&A.

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