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Wholehearted: Love, Life + Intimacy

Want wild confidence, a harmonious relationship + lasting desire? Welcome to Wholehearted Love, Life + Intimacy - the podcast here to help you create harmonious relationships, an inspired life + wholehearted intimacy. Join Isiah McKimmie, Couples Therapist, Sexologist + intimacy guru as she shares inspiring interviews, practical tools and the latest research-based advice for wild confidence, epic pleasure and a WHOLEHEARTED life. From dating, confidence and communication to successful relationships, having epic orgasms and living a life you LOVE - this podcast has it all. Isiah McKimmie is a Couples Therapist, Sex Therapist, Sexologist + Coach who’s been helping women and couples discover love, intimacy, lasting desire for over a decade. If you have a guest suggestion, a question or topic you’d like to see Isiah cover on the podcast, head to https://www.isiah-mckimmie.com/blog-pod/
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Apr 30, 2019

In this episode of Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, Gina Swire, a truly inspiring self love expert, speaker, author, mentor and manifesting queen joins me to share her journey to loving herself one million percent and shares her tips on how you can too!

Gina is on a global mission to help a billion women fall madly in love with themselves. After struggling with her own self-worth and image issues, Gina quit her career as a plus-sized model at the height of her fame in order to embark on her own journey of transformation.

Today she travels the world leading live workshops, hosting retreats, coaching private clients, and speaking on stages from Burning Man to Bali Spirit festival, as she inspires women everywhere to love themselves, love their lives and use it all to do good for the planet.  

 This episode explores:

  • What Self-Love is
  • The simplicity of self love and how you can practice it whilst you go about your busy life
  • Why it’s important to be kinder to ourselves
  • That voice in your head… is it effective or ineffective for your life?
  • Body image and the shame categories we have for our appearance
  • Gina’s experience modelling and the way women don’t feel enough
  • The importance of taking compliments
  • How to play the ‘Appreciation Game’
  • Tips for how to realise your ‘enoughness’ just as you are
  • Remembering ‘should-ing’ yourself (saying the word should about you/ your behaviour) is giving yourself a hard time. And you need to be kinder to yourself.

We hope you enjoy this episode and can learn to love yourself even more after hearing it.

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Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section.  

This week’s question is: Who in your life would you want to share this message with?

 

Explore these Resources

Gina’s work has been featured in Vogue Magazine, Elephant Journal, Yoga Guide Magazine, Psychologies magazine, The love challenge. You can learn more about Gina and become a part of this self love movement at www.ginaswire.com or follow her on socials.

Gina Swire | gina@ginaswire.com

IG @ginaswire

FB @ginaswire and https://www.facebook.com/groups/infiniteselflovesociety/

 

Tips to Realise Your ‘Enoughness’:

  • Give yourself Time and Space- just for you.
  • Have a mindset shift… that you are ALREADY
  • Spend time with people that lift you up and that model the changes you want to make in yourself.
  • Have a social media clear out or detox; look at the accounts you see the most...and just ask yourself ‘do I feel good?’ And if it doesn’t – lovingly get rid (unfollow). And follow positive pages/ people that make you feel good/positive and show up as the kind of person that you want to show up as.
  • Gratitude Journal and/ or daily forgiveness practice.
  • Practice ‘Bliss-ipline’- do things daily that actually make you feel good.
  • Give yourself 15 minutes a day (at least) to practice self-love. You inspire people in the process.
  • Give yourself permission and let yourself celebrate the things you are good at – you give other people permission to do the same!

 

If you are a new listener to Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, we would love to hear from you.

Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!

Apr 23, 2019

In this episode of Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, we are joined by the wonderful Susana Frioni.

Susana has been vocal in the space of sex, intimacy and desire for so long starting the ‘Love, Sex, Desire’ podcast five years ago.  We've been on each others' podcasts before - sharing similar views on the need for us all to be more open when it comes to talking about relationships, sex and intimacy.

Susana is a podcaster, personal coach and embodiment teacher igniting women through erotic empowerment via her brand LOVE SEX DESIRE. With an audience in over 190 countries, Susana produces and hosts a weekly podcast series alongside her Sacred Dance events and online program, Dance Yourself Free.

She joins me for this podcast to discuss how you can reconnect to your sexuality, innate wisdom and learn how to prioritise yourself to fuel all areas of your life.

In this episode, we discuss:

- How people reacted to Susana starting her podcast and being so open about talking about Love, Sex and Desire. And how Susana’s journey evolved to get to this point.

- The need for all of us to be more open about these topics.

- How intimacy with self, intimacy with others and intimacy with life are core.

- Dance as a modality to intimacy and connection to your sexuality and innate wisdom.

- Seeing sex and relationships as skills that you need to learn, you’re not just born with the ability to be a master of them. Give yourself a break and time to develop these skills.

- You as a ‘Woman, Lover, Mother’ and how by prioritising yourself, filling your own cup, taking care of yourself and cultivating yourself as an individual without all the other labels or roles that you play.

 

Want to learn more?

Follow our Podcast and Blog

Follow our Host - Isiah McKimmie - Couple Therapist + Sexologist

Join the conversation in our Facebook Group - Wholehearted: Love, Sex + Intimacy

 

Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section.  

This week's question:

What do you wish you'd be told about sex and relationships when you were growing up?  What would you tell your younger self now?

 

Explore these Resources

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

Susana’s Website

The Love Sex Desire Podcast Series

E: susana@susanafrioni.com

Apr 15, 2019

In this episode of Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, we open the floor to you, our amazing listeners, and answer the burning questions you've submitted on the website or through our Facebook page.

We can’t get to them all in this episode, but there will be many more Q & A episodes to come. So if there is something you would like to ask me (+ it can be anonymous) click this link

Today, we discuss:

  • how you can take more control in the bedroom,
  • how you can increase your desire for sex when the feeling fades and (a big one)…
  • "Do I stay quiet to keep the peace or voice my concerns with my partner?"!

Thanks for listening, we hope you enjoy it.

Isiah + Bec. x

 

 

Our favourite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. So be sure to connect on our blog page, facebook group or on Insta.

This week's question:

What would you like to ask me? Click here to ask.

 

If you are a new listener to Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, we would love to hear from you. Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today!

Apr 9, 2019

In this episode of Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, I asked one of my team members, Bec Dent, to ask the burning questions the average person has around open relationships and how to navigate them. 

Our guests, Richelle and Jeremy are relationship experts, but have been in numerous open relationships themselves.

They offer a very candid insight into their transition into open relationships. They explain how they first knew this was the type of alternative relationship they would like to pursue and they share the pleasure and pitfalls of this choice.

We also get their top tips for making an open relationship work well and ask:

  • How do you take care of everyone’s needs in this kind of relationship?
  • How do you keep emotion separate? Can it really be JUST sex?
  • What is ethical non-monogamy?
  • How were your relationships affected by introducing other people into them?

Listen in and enjoy!

Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section. So be sure to connect on our blog page, facebook group or on Insta and answer me this: 

This week’s question is:

Question: Do you think an open relationship can just be sex with no emotional connection?

Thanks to Richelle and Jeremy for being so incredibly open. If you'd like to know more about them and the work they do check out the following resources:

Jeremy's website

Richelle's website

And a special thank you to Bec Dent for being a great co-host.

Apr 1, 2019

How would you feel if the person you loved wanted a relationship with someone else?

In this episode of Wholehearted: Love Sex + Intimacy – The Podcast, Victoria Redbard joins me to discuss open relationships and polyamory. 

Victoria is a coach, counsellor, speaker, author, open relating expert and self pleasure activist. 

She has studied Tantra and Sexuality and helps people have relationships that make them feel free and expansive.

She believes that by integrating our sexuality with our spiritual practices we can achieve anything in life.

She advocates for a new paradigm (and way of being) that creates space for us to move away from the expectations and traditions society had built up over time to move into a state of thriving.

Victoria’s message: how can we start to claim our desires and start to voice these things to the people that mean the most to us? 

Join us as we delve into:

  • What is an open relationship? and what's the difference between Polyamory and Open Relating
  • How social conditioning influences our views to this form of relationship
  • How can we claim our desires and voice them with the people that mean the most to us?
  • Jealousy and Envy … where those emotions come from and how to handle them when they arise in your relationship
  • Tips on how to approach the subject of open relating with your partner.

 

Our favorite part of recording a live podcast each week is participating in the great conversations that happen on our live chat, on social media, and in our comments section.  

This week’s question is:

Have you tried an open relationship? Is it for you?

 

Resources related to this episode:

In this episode, we mentioned the following resources:

www.victoriaredbard.com

Instagram: tantric.witch

Facebook: Victoria Redbard Tantric Witch

 

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