71. Reclaiming Erotic Aliveness in Midlife: Carly Mountain on Untamed Pleasure

The cultural story about midlife women and sexuality is one of loss. Declining hormones, declining libido, declining desirability. Carly Mountain, somatic therapist with twenty years of experience working with women’s bodies, voices, and desires, is telling a completely different story.

In this episode, we go deep into what a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life. We talk about the Inanna myth and the heroine’s descent into the underworld, what “untaming” really means beyond the idea of wild rebellion, the concept of penetrative energy in women and why reclaiming it matters, and what actually becomes available erotically in your 40s and 50s that was simply not there before.

Carly has spent two decades sitting with women in their descents and witnessing their risings. When a woman reclaims her erotic aliveness, her voice changes. Her relationship with her own body changes. Her female friendships deepen. Her creativity returns.

What you’ll hear in this episode:

🔥 What a tamed woman actually looks like in the everyday details of her life🔥 The Inanna myth and how it maps the heroine’s journey through descent and rising🔥 What “untaming” really means, beyond wild rebellion

🔥 Why penetrative energy belongs to all of us and what it feels like to reclaim it🔥 The erotic upsurge women are reporting in their 40s and 50s, and why midlife might be the first time you truly meet your erotic self🔥 Why you cannot untame at the pace you are currently moving

About Carly Mountain:

Carly Mountain is a somatic therapist and author whose work goes straight to what women have been trained to forget: that the erotic is sacred, that rebellion is natural, and that untaming is not a one-time act but a way of life. Over twenty years in private practice, she has sat with women in the depths of their descents and witnessed the extraordinary things that become possible on the other side. Her first book, Descent and Rise, mapped the heroine’s journey through the ancient Inanna myth. Her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature (launching June 2026), goes deeper into penetrative energy, erotic aliveness, and the specific gifts midlife brings to a woman’s sexuality. This summer she is running the Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary, a course starting July 7th with four guest teachers including Sherry Winston.

Links mentioned:

• Pre-order Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature → [Grab A Copy]

• The Untamed Pleasure Sanctuary Course → [Visit Carly’s Website]

• Find Carly on Instagram → [@carly_mountain]

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