HeyJaredClaiming Pleasure with Malika
Claiming Pleasure is a podcast dedicated to helping people own their inherent right to pleasure, playfulness, and healing — not as luxuries, but as essential parts of being human.
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Aftercare: The Deepest Well, the Nervous System, and Finding Your Tribe (opens the original)
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Myke has the most wonderful giggle. That's where Lilli & I start. We speak about how he has done the hard and vital work of coming back to himself and choosing joy. In this Aftercare episode, we unpack what stayed with us from the conversation with Myke: the way he talked about kicking depression in the face every morning, the distinction between what happened, who he is, and of not being believed by people closest to you. Lilli delves into Nadine Burke Harris's The Deepest Well. A book about th
Coming Up for Air After Trauma & Depression and Embracing Living a Full Life - Myke (opens the original)
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Myke is an engineer, a quiet economist, a budding DJ, and a man who spent years driving a meat puppet around without ever really being inside it. We talk about what it means to come back to yourself after childhood trauma and depression. Not in a tidy, linear way, but in the messy, incremental kind of healing way. We talk about the body holding on and what it takes to get back to ourselves. Forest bathing. Healthy anger expression. Why community is the thing that makes the positive difference. W
Aftercare: Rest, Rhythm, and Reconnecting with the Body (opens the original)
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In this Aftercare episode, Malika and Lilli sit down to unpack the conversation with Sonia Houria-Rivas - starting with a moment of honest self-reflection, then diving into the difference between healing and simply swapping one addiction for another. They talk candidly about disconnecting from the body as a survival mechanism, why rest still feels like a guilty pleasure for busy people, and what it takes to reclaim something as simple as dancing in public after it's been used against you. The ep
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