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Love, Sex, and Pleasure with Ann Nguyen
This podcast is for soulful, ambitious women who want to have great sex & create thriving relationships.
I’m here to help you fall in love with your pleasure, sensuality, and erotic expression to connect you with your creativity to make your world and our collective a better place.
I’m a Vietnamese-American somatic sex love & relationship coach who’s gone from spiraling in toxic relationships, doubting my power, and having sex to get love from others - to falling in love with pleasure as a deep self-love and spiritual practice, calling in the love of my life, and bravely pursuing my creative power and leadership in the world.
I’m also a certified witch, mystic, humble spiritual practitioner, hip-hop head, and cat lady.
The vibe of this podcast is: we’re chillin’ together, on the couch or at a cute cafe - having a heart to heart conversation about the shit that really matters in our lives.
Sometimes our conversation will be light and deep and funny, sometimes it’ll be heartbroken, confused, and trying to find our way - just like our real, messy lives can be!
Here you're invited to be fully human, and I invite you to see me as a full, fallible, figuring-it-out human too.
Consider me your sexy bestie who’s also walking this path with you, sharing wisdom both from my lived experiences (my greatest training ground) and in my professional experience as a somatic sex, love & relationship coach.
My work is rooted in Buddhism, Tantra, Taoism, and Intersectional feminism - all in devotion to walking the path of Love and in humble reverence to the Great Goddess that lives within us all - regardless of gender.
Let’s learn together loves!
Love, Sex, and Pleasure with Ann Nguyen
19. [DATING SERIES] Toxic situationships, dealing with disappointment, and dating as your authentic self with Stephanie
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In this episode, I interview my long-term 1:1 client Stephanie about her dating journey. We talk about:
- How pleasure-based dating helped Stephanie heal from toxic situationships
- Breaking unhealthy dating patterns and the moment Stephanie said no to someone who was attractive but wasn’t a right fit
- The pros and cons of consuming dating self-help content online
- Releasing shame around being a smart, ambitious, successful woman who still makes mistakes in love
- Embracing her desire for a relationship & the desperate / so far behind narrative that society puts on women who are single
- Embracing her journey and feeling confident as a single person in her late 30s
- How authentic self expression through pleasure practices & self-adornment have boosted her dating confidence
- How she’s keeping her heart open to love while surrendering to the timeline of how long it takes
Episode highlights:
0:02:03 - Stephanie shares where she was on her love journey before working with Ann, including hitting "rock bottom" in a situationship
0:05:35 - Internal feelings and shame that come up when you’re in unfulfilling relationships
0:08:51 - how consuming self-help content on social media can send you into a spiral around dating
0:11:55 - Cultural attitudes towards single women in Western vs. non-Western societies
0:15:00 - The societal double-bind of being desperate for wanting a relationship / shame for not already being in one
0:19:52 - Stephanie shares her surprises and shifts during the pleasure-based dating process, including letting go of timelines and expectations
0:25:00 - Stephanie talks about surrendering her timeline and preconceived notions about where she "should" be at her age
0:27:33 - Stephanie discusses the resilience she built to handle disappointment in dating
0:32:08 - Stephanie elaborates on the role of disappointment and how she learned to navigate it
0:35:00 - Stephanie describes making different dating choices, such as saying no to an attractive but unhealthy person
0:41:07 - Stephanie shares how her self-expression, style, and pleasure practices have been transformative for her dating life
0:49:37 - Stephanie's advice for someone nervous to invest in this inner work
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