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Sovereign Self is a podcast about erotic embodiment, relational sovereignty, and intimacy as a lived practice.Hosted by Megan Phippen, a licensed sex and relationship therapist, the show explores the relationship between sex, love, and spirit through a grounded, body-based…
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Ep 16: You're Not Broken, You're Descending: On The Feminine Journey of Down and In (opens the original)
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I have been quiet lately. And the reason I have been quiet is exactly what this episode is about. Life has been asking me to turn towards myself, to conserve, to grieve, to tend more carefully to my own heart. And I am not interested in performing some perfectly regulated, endlessly resourced version of myself so that you believe I am qualified. That place does not exist for any of us. Here's what we get into: What the descent actually is, that pull down and in towards the body, towards the self
Ep 15: Eros & Thanatos: What Grief Reveals About Desire (opens the original)
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I lost my cat Pumpkin last week. Completely unexpectedly. And I almost didn't record this because I am still in it, still dissociated, still catching myself tracking the door waiting for him to scratch at it. But grief takes the whole conversation about optimization and perfection and just scraps it. And there is something so magnetic about that realness. So here we are. Here's what we get into: The difference between surprise and shock, why shutdown, numbness, and dissociation after loss are no
Ep 14: You've Been Lied to About Sensuality (opens the original)
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I recorded this one recovering from surgery, hot, itchy, sticky, and in pain. Not exactly the soft-lit, silk-and-candles version of sensuality we've all been sold. And that's the whole point. We've branded sensuality as an aesthetic, coded it as feminine, and turned it into something you curate rather than something you already are. This episode is me pulling that apart in real time, from inside a body that isn't performing the way I'd want it to. Here's what we get into: Why sensuality has been
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