Make It Less Scary
Make It Less Scary — Relax, nothing is under control.
A podcast by Maria Jose Oliver to help you transform fear into growth. Life can throw us into moments that feel overwhelming, uncertain, or downright terrifying. But what if those challenges could become stepping stones instead of stumbling blocks? Make It Less Scary is a podcast about finding courage, building resilience, and uncovering growth in life’s hardest moments. https://stan.store/Makeitlessscary
Make It Less Scary
The Pleasure Codes: How Samantha Jo’s Work Helped Me Heal Through Grief (Part 1)
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In this first part of a two-episode series, Maria Oliver explores a radical truth — that pleasure isn’t indulgent, it’s medicine.
Inspired by Samantha Jo and her transformative framework The Pleasure Codes, Maria shares how she used embodied pleasure as a tool for healing through grief.
Through the lens of neuroscience and lived experience, she breaks down how pleasure expands the nervous system, softens fear, and restores emotional safety.
This episode is a deeply personal testimonial — part science, part soul — about what happens when we stop seeing pleasure as luxury and start recognizing it as a pathway to resilience, regulation, and rebirth.
🎧 Listen to learn how grief and joy can coexist, how oxytocin and dopamine literally rewire your capacity to hold life, and why feeling good might just be the most radical act of healing.
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