The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 12, with host Karen Yates You want to explore kink but aren’t ready to engage a partner. What to do? Our panel of sexperts discuss options and how to slowly move out into the wider kinky world. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Click on guest name(s) for all podcast appearances Browse episodes by […]
New Relationship Energy–Thrills & Spills
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 10, with host Karen Yates Our panel discusses new relationship energy–the fantastic feeling when you’re just starting to date and getting to know someone. What happens when it fades? Can it be addictive? We cover all the bases. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Click on guest name(s) for all podcast appearances Browse episodes […]
S4E6 | Dating After An Abusive Relationship
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 6, with host Karen Yates Panelists answer a Patreon listener question about how to trust your intuition and avoid old patterns with new partners after leaving an abusive relationship. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Elmo Painter-Edington – Somatic therapist and empowerment coach Clark Hazel – Individual and couples therapist […]
S4E4 | Coming out as queer — or anything else! [Rebroadcast]
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 4, with host Karen Yates Has your identity shifted? Do you want to tell others about it – and if so, how? Panelists answer a listener question on the value and meaning of coming out as queer (or as anything!). Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Matthew Amador – Psychotherapist […]
S4E3 | Sexual Trauma, Somatic Healing
The Wild & Sublime PodcastSeason 4, Episode 3, with host Karen Yates What is somatic healing and how does it work? Karen speaks with three somatic-based professionals on different techniques. They discuss the possibilities for healing sexual trauma and getting back into your body. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Cassie Porter – Sexological bodyworker & body-centered counselor […]
#S2E51 | Working through pre-sex anxiety
Podcast Season 2 Episode 51 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 20:55 min A listener asks what to do about feeling anxious before sex with a new partner. Panelists offer techniques to get present, reframe spinning thoughts, and set the scene for pleasure. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Erica Washington – Sex-positive holistic mental […]
#S2E45 | Coming Out as Queer
Podcast Season 2 Episode 45 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 8:40 min Has your identity shifted? Do you want to… tell anyone about it? Panelists answer a listener question on the value and meaning of coming out as queer (or as anything!). Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links Matthew Amador – Psychotherapist for love, […]
#S2E41 | Easy Sex with Friends + “Topless”
Podcast Season 2 Episode 41 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 20:24 min “Do I enjoy sex with friends, and risk losing the friendship? Or do I find strangers, and keep my friends separate?” Panelists weigh in on mixing sex into established platonic relationships, and a storyteller recounts the terror and thrill of going topless onstage. Episodes Topics […]
#S2E33 | “How do you move a fantasy into real life?”
Podcast Season 2 Episode 33 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 14:59 min We tackle a listener question about how to make a sex fantasy reality. Our sexpert panel give you important things to consider and how to overcome shame in order to have the sex you want. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Guests Episode Subjects Episode Links […]
#S2E20 | From Pro Domme to Psychotherapist
Podcast Season 2 Episode 20 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 48:51 min What can kink teach us about community, energy work, and trauma? In this erotic biography episode, somatic psychotherapist Elmo Painter talks about her history as a professional dominatrix, and how working with the body and energy then directly informs her therapeutic practice today. Karen Yates […]
#S2E15 | What Turns You On?
Podcast Season 2 Episode 15 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 22:23 min How can we discover what turns us on? Does “the erotic” come from taboo, longing, surprise? How can we get more of it to juice our relationships and fantasies? Panelists offer tips to cultivate more eroticism in our lives. Episodes Topics RSS Episode Chapters […]
#S2E8 | Get Into Your Body
Podcast Season 2 Episode 8 Host: Karen Yates Running Time: 27:47 min If you’re not in your body, where are you? In a sneak peek of a recent Q&A from The Afterglow, somatic educator, body worker, and empowerment self-defense teacher Diane Long; kinkster and relationship coach MksThingsHappin; and psychotherapist Matthew Amador respond to a listener who asks […]
