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The Pleasurehood Podcast is here to revolutionize how humans experience Sex, Pleasure, and Motherhood. Your host Justine Aksoy is an author and pleasure educator on a mission to make sure you’re satiated! Justine will explore what it means to be a mother, a leader, and an all-around badass from a place of self-love, empowerment, and turn-on. Tune in bi-weekly for solo episodes and juicy conversations with guests, as we dive into normalizing self-care, desire, and sexual healing.
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Body Love Series Episode 4: You Are The Ritual
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What is your self love language? I believe it begins with making choices that are in alignment with who you are and building trust with yourself. We must be full in ourselves in order to find the love we desire, and by getting to know our inner selves deeply we can begin this process of cultivating self-love. Easier said than done, right? Realistic…
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Body Love Series Episode 3: Cultivating Safety in the Body
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Do you know how to create safety and cultivate it in the body? Society often intellectualizes safety, while neglecting the importance of feeling safe first in the body. Feeling safe in the body involves physical, emotional, and energetic experiences of safety. And you get to define what that means to you. In this episode of the Body Love Series, I …
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Body Love Series Episode 2: How to Feel More Deeply in Your Body
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How can you deepen your connection with your body and better understand its language? In this second episode of the Body Love series, How to Feel More Deeply in Your Body, we discuss the importance of listening to our bodies and understanding the signals they send us. In my own health journey, I came to the realization that I hadn't been taking car…
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Body Love Series Episode 1: How Body Love Leads to Better Sex
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In this first episode of the Body Love series, we explore one of my favorite topics - how to have better sex! And the answer lies in developing a deep, loving relationship to our body. Having a strong relationship with one's body has a direct impact on sexual experiences, intimacy, and connection. As we expand our understanding of pleasure through …
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Healing Burnout and Cultivating Pleasure as a Mother
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The societal pressure placed on mothers to be perfect, do it all, and prioritize everyone else's needs above their own is enormous. That's why it's essential to recognize and normalize talking about burnout, as many mothers often dismiss their exhaustion and disconnection as a part of the journey they have to manage alone. In this episode, I discus…
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How to Powerfully Navigate Sex in Long Term Relationships
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On this episode of the Pleasurehood podcast, I want to dive into a question that has been brought up time and time again. How do we maintain passion in a long-term relationship or marriage? It’s an important topic and one that affects many of us. Whether you’ve been in a relationship for a few months or several years, it’s natural for the intensity…
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Life Transitions: Embracing Change and Opening Up to Possibility
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In this episode of The Pleasurehood Podcast, we’ll talk about the power of life transitions. Life transitions can be both exciting and daunting. They mark the start of something new and represent a chance to make powerful choices that will shape our lives in profound ways. No matter how big or small, these changes require us to adjust, grow, and ev…
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In this episode, I explore what it means to create a new paradigm for motherhood. A motherhood that is our own creation. That is rooted in self-love, respect for our children, and a sense of empowerment. I'll talk about how to approach the journey with compassion and grace, never forgetting that no two mothers are alike - we all bring something spe…
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Grief as a Ritual: Reclaiming Your Motherhood Story
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Becoming a mother can be an initiation into an unfamiliar world; feelings like a loss of self and grief for one's former life may go unrecognized. Motherhood can often be a challenging transition and it’s important to recognize the grief that can accompany it. Feeling grief when becoming a mother is not uncommon or unusual. It is normal to feel ove…
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The Power to Change: A Practice of Breath, Movement, and Grounding
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Attempting to process all that is happening in the world can leave us feeling overwhelmed, complacent, or burned out. However, there is a method that can help to stay present in these uncertain times. In this episode of The Pleasurehood Podcast I share my Breathe, Move and Ground method that will allow you to connect to how you are feeling. I'm fir…
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Pleasure is an expression of my power. Pleasure is the language that gets me back in touch with what I really want and need, so when I make time for pleasure it comes from a place of power within me. It's no coincidence that when we are feeling good, we feel powerful too! In this episode of the Pleasurehood Podcast we’ll explore what it means to be…
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The truth is that parenting in this day and age isn't easy. We're all feeling the pressure of the post-pandemic world, trying to figure out how to stay afloat while managing all the things life throws at us. It can be overwhelming and exhausting, but know you are not alone in this struggle. But we can also use this opportunity to create something b…
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Sensual Sovereignty and Pleasure, with Dr. Sonali Deepika
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In this episode I have a conversation with one of my favorite people, my dear friend, the sensual alchemist herself, Dr. Sonali Deepika! Dr. Sonali Deepika is a holistic sensuality coach and integrative physician, passionate about guiding people to honor the sacred nature of their bodies and to connect to the deep wisdom which lies within. She spen…
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How to Live the Full Spectrum of Life, with Tamsin Crimmens
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In this episode I have a conversation with a very special guest, my business coach Tamsin Crimmens! Tamsin is a somatic coach working with (quietly) revolutionary female entrepreneurs, coaches, healers and world-changers who want to step into their own version of embodied leadership. She’s obsessed with helping best-kept-secrets who’d love to be mo…
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Healing the Mother Wound, with Vangile Makwakwa
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In this episode I had the honor of sitting down with the amazing and brilliant Vangile Makwakwa. Vangile is the author of 3 books: Heart, Mind & Money: Using Emotional Intelligence for Financial Success and The Holistic Wealth Manifesto Workbook and The Next Level You Money and Womb Journal. She’s a full time entrepreneur and the founder of wealthy…
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In this episode I explore themes that you have heard me speak about over and over again, but I feel it’s important to have these conversations over and over again, because when we hear the same or similar message several times, we hear it differently every single time, because we are a different person from the last time we heard it. It lands diffe…
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Motherhood: A Reclamation, with Mina Aidoo
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In this episode, I had the immense pleasure of sitting down with the amazing Mina Aidoo. I titled this episode Motherhood, a Reclamation because motherhood gets to be an experience of our own making. We get to shape and mold motherhood in our own image, one that leaves us feeling deeply connected to ourselves, our bodies, and our families. During o…
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This episode is a continuation of my Burnout to Radiant story. If you haven’t already, I invite you to listen to part one of my Burnout to Radiant Story to give a little context into what I’ll be sharing with you in this episode. In part two we explore the themes of: Self-love and self-acceptance. How to forgive yourself for the past so you can foc…
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In this week's episode I share my burnout to radiant story. The journey of burnout to radiant for me means coming into the highest truth of who I am. Stepping into my full self-expression. Touching my inner divinity. Coming home to myself. Doing this in a world that wants to keep me small & meek. But I say fuck that. Being your true authentic expre…
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By the time you hear this podcast, the US Supreme Court will have overturned Roe V. Wade the historic case that made abortion legal in the United States of America. I believe that abortion is healthcare. I also believe It is part of reproductive rights. In the first episode of season two of The Pleasurehood Podcast I share my thoughts, opinions, an…
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Sex, Intimacy and Motherhood with The Pussy Fairy, Azaria Menezes
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In this week's episode, I have the pleasure of speaking to the Pussy Fairy herself, Azaria Menezes. Azaria is a trauma informed sex and intimacy coach that works with women, moms, and couples to figure out what that thing is that's holding them back in the bedroom. She supports folks to find their way back to feeling turned on, ecstatic, and orgasm…
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In this week’s episode, we’ll be exploring the sexual seasons and life cycles. Understanding what sexual seasons and life cycles I’m in has transformed how I navigate my sexuality and sensual expression. So often we’re operating outside of a season that no longer serves us or resonates with where we currently are in life. But society tells us that …
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Pleasure As Your Birthright, with Nikka Karli
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This week’s episode is a very special interview with my dear friend Nikka Karli. Nikka is an Erotic Muse, Writer, Medicine Walker, Multidisciplinary Storyteller, Body Poet, Moon Stalker, Ceremonial Activist + Abolitionist, and Yoga Teacher. She has over 20 years of experience coaching in the fields of yoga, fitness, mindset, strength and conditioni…
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In this week’s episode, I’ll be leading you through a meditation that literally transformed how I relate to my body. The meditation I’m going to share with you is so powerful. When you practice honoring your body for everything it is, and everything it isn’t, you begin to build a real and authentic relationship with your body. You realize your body…
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Motherhood - An Invitation to Your Souls' Work
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The motherhood journey looks different for everyone and is much more complex than what we give it. It is an initiation and a sacred portal into your wholeness. What do I mean by that? It means you are invited to be more of your authentic self, an embodied expression of who you truly are. It will ask you to touch parts of yourself that you haven’t s…
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I coined the word Pleasurehood when I knew there was more to this mothering thing than burnout and self-sacrifice. When I decided that practicing pleasure was the only way I was going to survive all the fears that motherhood brought along with it. It was the belief that filling my own cup was going to enrich and enliven not only myself but also my …
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