Rewired & Desired Podcast: Where Intimacy, Mindset and Disability Intersect

Unreasonable Beauty Standards & Disability | Confidence & Body Image

Rewired & Desired Season 1 Episode 7

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What if confidence isn’t about how your body looks… but how you see yourself?


In this episode of Rewired and Desired, we dismantle unrealistic beauty standards and explore how confidence, mindset, and authenticity shape attraction—especially for people living with disability, ostomies, scars, and medical devices.

We talk honestly about:

●      How beauty standards are manufactured (and who benefits)

●      Why confidence makes people appear more attractive than “perfect” bodies

●      Aging, surgery, scars, ostomies, and learning to feel desirable again

●      The difference between hiding your body and being at home in it

●      Practical, grounded ways to build confidence without changing your body

This is a real conversation for people who’ve been told—directly or indirectly—that their body is “too much” or “not enough.”

No hype. No fake empowerment. Just truth, compassion, and lived experience.

🔗 Links

Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: https://intimateostomate.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimateostomate
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@intimateostomate

Nicole Richards – Ostomy Innovations
Website: https://ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ostomyinnovations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OstomyInnovations222

Join My Free Course and Community: https://www.skool.com/digestion-ostomy-renewal-8187/about?ref=9fa274f7d99a45faa465fce6882b8547

Community
Ostomy Body Positive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2093760487654150

Check out our MASTERCLASS! https://www.intimateostomate.com/masterclass

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram:   / intimateostomate 
Youtube:    / @intimateostomate 
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram:   / ostomyinnovations 
Youtube:    / @ostomyinnovations222 
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing