Reconnecting with Pleasure

This week we’re exploring the question of: “Who am I when I strip everything else away?” as a part of our Radical Reconnection miniseries on Reconnecting with Pleasure Podcast. This question in and of itself feels radical, and we get vulnerable discussing what it means to each of us. Women are handed so many titles and roles throughout our lives, it can be a radical practice of remembering who we...

This week we’re talking about radical listening on the podcast, and it may not be in the ways that you’d expect. As we’re doing this Radically Reconnecting miniseries, we’re diving deep. We’re talking about the radical act of listening to yourself. Of creating time and space to receive information and wisdom, and to really tune in. Because we know it’s important to listen well to others, but we of...

This week for our Radical Reconnection miniseries we’re sharing a personal story about a decision we recently made. When we launched Reconnecting with Pleasure we committed to letting it feel like pleasurable work and to let that influence our decision making, and this week we really put that into practice. We’re sharing all the details on how we listened and trusted ourselves, created space for l...

We’re so excited about this Radical Reconnection miniseries, and today we’re dropping our first episode - Slowing Down . And while we realize that this might be a strange place to start, there is really nothing more radical than slowing down in a culture that demands urgency, is there? Reconnecting with ourselves and with our desires and pleasure requires us slowing down enough to listen. To notic...

We have a fun announcement and mini series coming your way… You may remember Pleasure Summer Camp – I mean, who could forget it, honestly?! Well. We had so much fun with that mini series that we decided to do it again. But different. Introducing Radical Reconnecting: a Reconnecting with Pleasure mini podcast series where we’ll be chatting about the various ways that we can radically reconnect with...

We were immediately taken with this headline in the New York Times and the article that followed about Come as You Are author and sex educator, Emily Nagoski, so naturally that’s what we’re chatting about this week on the podcast. Emily changed the game for so many of us in how we think about, talk about, and understand sex and desire. To hear that even she can face challenges with sex and desire...

Hello Pleasure Babes! Your girls are back again, and committed to more consistent podcasting in 2024– or at least the first half of the year, then we’ll re-evaluate to see what’s feeling pleasurable. You know how we do! ;) Anyway, if you’ve been hanging out with us for a while now, you know that we’re generally proponents of doing less and slowing down . But what happens when there’s pleasure in m...

Happy 2024 Pleasure Babes! This week we’re back with a New Years episode. We’re unpacking our In + Out lists and talking about some goals we have for the New Year. In this episode we get real, sharing our goals for inviting in my curiosity and compassion, self-accountability, and having the hard conversations. All the things we know contribute to living more pleasurable lives, and frankly all the...

It’s been a minute and we have missed you !! We’re back this week with a very special retreat recap, sharing some of the magic with you. In case you didn’t know, we hosted a retreat in October near Joshua Tree, California to Reconnect with Pleasure, and it was absolutely delicious. We hosted 2 amazing women in a gorgeous house amongst the Joshua Trees, supporting them in reconnecting with themselv...

We’re so excited to share another episode of Reconnecting with Pleasure with you, and this week we’re talking about just that… YOU! You deserve to be your own priority and that’s exactly what we’re chatting about this week. Putting yourself on your calendar, taking yourself on a date, and carving out time just for you– to do whatever you want! We’re sharing real strategies that you can implement t...

We’re so excited to share our first ever Reconnect with Pleasure Retreat with you! Last week we wrapped up Pleasure Summer Camp. We had so much fun, and we hope you did too!  But this week we’re sharing the details on our retreat to Joshua Tree, California this October and it’s so juicy and delicious, we can’t wait for you to hear all about it. And as of today, the doors are officially open for yo...

We’re rounding up on our last week of Pleasure Summer Camp, can you believe?! We’ve had so much fun and we hope you have, too. This week it’s… That One, Time at Band Camp... And we’re talking about sex toys and all the fun, pleasure tools we love to enjoy. From pleasure boxes, to vibrators, to dildos, we’re talking about all the toys we love and all the way we love our toys. Including the toy that...

Happy Tuesday!! First up we wanna know how you’ve been playing this week? Seriously, reply and let us know! We hope last weeks episode inspired you to find a little more time for play in your busy life and we’d love to hear about it! Next, it’s Tuesday! And you know what that means… Pleasure Summer Camp is back and this week we’re “ Birdwatching ” which is our ridiculous and campy name for talking...

This week we’re talking all about play. Not just playing with yourself, but also playing for the sake of play. We’re talking surf lessons (yes, Victoria did that last week!) and board games (Dana’s favorite!) and all sorts of other ways that we lean into finding joy and silliness in our busy, adult lives. We hope you’ll give this episode a listen, share it with friends who you think would enjoy it...

Happy Tuesday, Pleasure Babe! You know what Tuesday means… another week of Pleasure Summer Camp on the podcast! This week is a Choose Your Own Adventure, you know the free space in your summer camp calendar when you get to decide what you feel like doing? The decision is all yours, babe. Our only hope is that we’re having fun and giving us all something new to think about! This week we’re chatting...

Welcome Back, Pleasure Campers!  We’re back with more pleasure summer camp, and this week it’s time for the “Three Legged Races & Smore’somes” also known as three-or more!-somes or threesomes and moresomes! Yum! We’re unpacking what we thought a threesome was about and what we’re now imagining it could be about. Fantasizing, playing, and having some fun imagining how good a three-or s’more!-so...

Welcome back to Summer Camp, Pleasure Babes! This week we’re doing the ropes course and playing tug-o-war, because we’re talking about ropes, restraints, blindfolds, and more! That’s right, we’re talking pleasure, pain, and power, and we’re having so much fun doing it! From tie me up , to spank me , to blindfold me … we’re jumping in and having so much fun! We discuss whether our feminism can inte...

It’s week 2 here at Pleasure Summer Camp and that means it’s Hot Girl Summer time! We hear so much about hot girl summers, beach bodies, and how we’re supposed to be something to have a summer. So we’re reclaiming our Hot Girl-ness and declaring this summer a HOT GIRL SUMMER because we are hot girls (and hot theys!) and that’s enough for a hot girl summer! In this episode we throw away the idea th...

If we were at summer camp we’d be splish splashing in the pool or lake, but at pleasure camp we’re splashing around in… some other things! 😉 We’re jumping right in a vulnerable and sexy conversations about all the fluids and splashing that comes with yummy sex. We’re talking squirting, come, lube and our wonderful, splash-proof blankets. This episode is quick and dirty, and we’re normalizing lean...

In the spirit of summer, we are introducing Pleasure Summer Camp! Just like the summer camps, and all the summer fun we cherished as kids, we are bringing back that sense of excitement and anticipation, but this time with a delightful twist for adults. Each week, we will explore different summer camp-themed topics that will make you smile, laugh, and reconnect with the pleasure that’s within you....

May is National Masturbation Month, and we are celebrating! Join us in this celebration, and also the realization that we started this journey together a year ago this week! Follow Us: Website:  reconnectingwithpleasure.com Instagram:  @reconnectingwithpleasure YouTube Sign up for newsletter  here .

In this episode, we’re talking Grown Ass Friendships and Platonic Love. Yup, we’ve got more to say on this topic, so this episode is entirely dedicated to platonic love and friendships. We’re smitten and hope that you are too! Dana shares about her platonic life partner and we both gush about how in love we are with our friends and friendships! We share a bit of our own origin story and how we dov...

This week we're shootin' the shit about what's bringing us pleasure lately and how life has been. Real talk, we love doing this podcast because we love chatting with each other about things we care about! So this week instead of coming up with a specific topic, we decided to just connect and talk to each other. We had a ton of fun and dug into a number of topics, and we hope you you en...

This week we’re talking about something that's been so ingrained in our philosophies that we almost forgot to talk about it explicitly- pleasure as liberation! We believe that abundant pleasure requires a liberatory mindset and this week we’re talking about what that means to us. Liberating ourselves from expectations, people pleasing, perfectionism, and “shoulds” cultivates a more abundant life o...

This week we’re talking about the importance of fantasy and imagination in cultivating and pleasure-centered life. We can’t be what we can’t see, right? So taking the time to visualize and imagine the things that we want helps us lay the foundation for receiving it. Also, we talked about how sex is a good motivator for working out– not because of how we look, but so we can be flexible and have the...