Self-Led in Bed: An IFS and Sexuality Podcast
Self-Led in Bed: An IFS and Sexuality Podcast
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Self-Led in Bed: An IFS and Sexuality Podcast offers curious people a space to learn more about their fascinating internal sexual landscapes and to discover their authentic sexual Self, a resource we all have within which can lead and enrich our sexual lives. We will do this through the lens of Self-Led Sexuality, an integrative approach developed by your host which is rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS). You will be educated, entertained, and invited to get to know the diverse parts of yourself who have roles in the unfolding of your unique sexual story.
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The podcast covers a range of themes including body image, trauma, societal oppression, and self-compassion, with episodes like Body Trust and Sexuality discussing the intersections of eating disorders and sexual expression, and Collective Legacy Burdens and Touch examining the impact of historical trauma on intimacy. The content encourages listeners to confront cultural pressures and reclaim their embodied experiences.
Self-Led in Bed: An IFS and Sexuality Podcast offers curious people a space to learn more about their fascinating internal sexual landscapes and to discover their authentic sexual Self, a resource we all have within which can lead and enrich our sexual lives. We will do this through the lens of Self-Led Sexuality, an integrative approach developed by your host which is rooted in Internal Family Systems (IFS). You will be educated, entertained, and invited to get to know the diverse parts of yourself who have roles in the unfolding of your unique sexual story.
Disclaimer: This episode includes candid discussions of sexuality. Listener discretion is advised.
In this episode Patty talks to Randi Hall, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Grief Tender and Facilitator about Authentic Relating (AR) — a practice of realness, presence, and in-the-moment connection through simple games and conversations. We discuss AR as an open source social technology, its principles (curiosity, empathy, ownership), how it creates safety for vulnerability, and its natural synergy with IFS.
We discuss applying AR to sexuality to build attunement, consent, and presence before intimacy, and play two live games which are surprisingly (yet not surprisingly) vulnerable and revealing. Randi highlights AR’s versatility across joyful, tender, and conflict spaces, and shares how she fell in love with these practices.
Randi Hall is the founder of Realness Rising and her work centers on creating honest, spacious, embodied containers where people can show up as they are without fixing, performing, or pretending. Randi brings together clinical training, lived experience, ritual, and years of facilitating grief circles and connection spaces to help people feel less alone in both grief and relationship.
Connect with Randi:
IG: @realnessrising
FB Group: realnessrising and the realness rising community
Podcast: Getting Real with Grief
https://www.authrev.org/what-is-authentic-relating
Tik Tok: @RealnessRising
Follow Patricia on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/patriciarichconsulting/
Join the Self-Led Sexuality Free Facebook Community: https://www.facebook.com/groups/selfleds3xualitywithpatriciarich
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