The Michaela Boehm Podcast

Join Michaela as she discusses how to offer high quality attention to your partner, how to find time in a busy schedule, and where to direct your efforts when cultivating deep intimacy. 00:00 - Leaking time 03:11 - Relational attention 03:32 - How to give your partner quality attention 05:06 - Ongoing relationship takes skill and practice Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.te...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent in-person Relationship Bootcamp workshop about the #1 mistake people make when giving and receiving compliments, how to make space for connection, how to shift your partner’s bad mood, and how to salvage goodness from dirty fighting. Register for the next Relationship Bootcamp: https://www.michaelaboehm.com/product/the-relationship-bootcampa-3-day-inten...

Join Michaela as she discusses anger including two types of anger, common mistakes when working with anger, how to learn from anger, and the dangers of spiritual bypass and rage circles. 00:00 - How to work with anger 01:12 - Two types of anger 02:33 - Working with anger in one’s practice 03:13 - Anger is an important part of being human 04:58 - Anger vs sadness 06:14 - Anger in relationship 08:23...

Join Michaela as she answers a viewer question about the struggles to find a man in one’s 30s and 40s, how to find and align your values, and whether or not the desire for a relationship betrays feminist ideals. 00:00 - Struggling to find a partner in my 30s and 40s 02:05 - Isabel Angélica Allende and intimacy in later life 03:22 - Pros and cons of dating in your 30s and 40s 04:18 - Am I bad femin...

Join Michaela as she shares the surprising power of an evening routine, reveals her own evening routine, and offers tips about how to construct your own. 00:00 - On routine 01:16 - Why have an evening routine? 01:41 - Your evening starts in the morning 03:08 - The miracle of the human design 03:35 - Evening sunlight and avoiding bluelight 04:58 - Ancient energy 06:15 - Mental health considerations...

Join Michaela for an exploration of attachment theory including secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganised styles. Michaela explains each style and answers a viewer question about how to work with avoidant tendencies in otherwise positive long-term relationship. 00:00 - Trends in psychology 02:30 - What is attachment theory? 03:59 - 4 attachment styles 04:31 - Anxious attachment 06:18 - Avoidant...

Join Michaela and Steve for a Summer catchup as Michaela discusses her own morning routine and Summer practice regime, how to design a personal practice, how to use journalling and other techniques, upcoming creative and teaching projects, and productivity tips. 00:00 - Summer catch-up 02:13 - Michaela’s Summer personal practice 03:30 - What makes a good daily practice? 04:58 - Michaela’s morning...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about the pros and cons of dating successful men who find other women attractive. 00:00 - Why does my man still find other women attractive? 02:19 - Pros and cons of dating successful men 06:11 - Using the Coolidge effect to keep the spark alive Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.templeofthebodyintheworld.com/ For wor...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about dating strategies to find a partner, dating multiple men, and how to regulate fight or flight in relationship. 00:00 - Is it too late for me to find love? 00:44 - Dating strategies to find a partner 03:19 - Dating divorced men 05:06 - Streamlining your dating mission statement 05:44 - Dating multiple men 06:29 - Regulating fight or f...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about female sovereignty throughout history, nature merging, and tells a story of her grandmother’s life struggles. 00:00 - Merging with nature 02:40 - Early morning sun exposure 06:16 - Female sovereignty throughout history 07:54 - Stories about Michaela’s grandmother Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.templeofthebod...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about sourcing vitality, working with deep patterns, when to use structure and when to loosen up, and why a regulated nervous system is not just being Zen’d out. 00:00 - Working with patterns and sourcing vitality 02:56 - Linear vs Non-Linear Movement 03:43 - Introspective awareness 05:20 - Michaela’s wisdom tooth extraction story 07:09 -...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about trauma, how to heal maladaptive coping, curating relaxation, and establishing boundaries. 00:00 - What is trauma? 04:00 - The pain of maladaptive coping 06:04 - How to heal what’s underneath 08:00 - Curating relaxation 10:32 - Establishing boundaries in relationships Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.templeofth...

Michaela Boehm tells a story of how she trained herself to face danger after suffering a home invasion in LA and answers questions in a recent live workshop about how to recovery from traumatic violation, dialogues with a woman who’s massage therapist assaulted her, and describes how to train oneself to be a fighter rather than a freezer. 00:00 - Coping tendencies of victims of violation 01:45 - B...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about why she does not want enlightenment, freedom, codependency in relationships, boundary function, and the power of energy distribution in the body. 00:00 - Why I don’t want enlightenment 03:18 - Enlightenment claims 04:36 - Co-dependency and proper boundary function 10:42 - The secret of energy distribution in the body 14:10 - Conseque...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about spiritual disciplines, gradual training, introspection, and how to direct attention. 00:00 - Spiritual disciplines and preliminary trainings 03:17 - The importance of perception 04:20 - When to go deep and how to direct attention 06:40 - Chronic pain Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.templeofthebodyintheworld.c...

Michaela Boehm answers questions in a recent live workshop about individuation, coping skills, deity yoga, and how the stories we tell ourselves affect our lives. 00:00 - What is a living lineage? 03:26 - Why practice is useful for your life 06:05 - Enrichment and emergency 07:26 - Gaining more pleasure 08:14 - How to choose practices. 09:22 - Why do I experience visual imagery when I practice? Bu...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers questions in recent live workshop about individuation, coping skills, deity yoga, and how the stories we tell ourselves affect our lives. 00:00 - Individual and tribe 02:56 - What is individuation? 04:12 - Coping skills and high functioning trauma 05:58 - The stories we tell about our lives 08:12 - Growing up 09:08 - Should we believe our stories? 10:42 - Myth, a...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers questions in recent live workshop about cosmetic surgery, beauty pressures, bodily changes after ageing and childbirth, and whether or not to go gray. 00:00 Beauty, adornment, and mate selection 03:59 - Beauty rebellion 05:25 - Body changes after children and ageing 06:44 - Should I have cosmetic surgery? 09:19 - Post-50 perspective 11:33 - Go gray or use colour?...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers questions in recent live workshop and shares a powerful method to clear stored anger and pain. Buy Michaela’s Flavors of the Feminine Deck: https://www.templeofthebodyintheworld.com/ For workshops, teacher training and courses: https://www.michaelaboehm.com To order Michaela's book "The Wild Woman's Way" : https://amzn.to/2BQ5WpY Music ‘Deva Dasi’ by Steve James...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers questions in recent live workshop about energy vampires, setting boundaries with toxic people, how to undo a curse, and how to break a bad habit. 00:00 - Giving up smoking and breaking a habit 04:18 - Release and deescalation from fight or flight 08:48 - Clearing accidental pick ups 11:02 - Mental vs bodily imprints 14:32 - Energy vampires 17:06 - Clearing curses...

Join Michaela Boehm as she discusses the powerful impacts that past familial, ancestral, and relational imprints have on one’s current experience of relationship. 00:00 - Love, lineage, and liberation 02:17 - Parental imprints and attachment theory 04:12 - Assimilation and individuation 05:18 - Parental love imprints 10:02 - Ancestral imprints 13:00 - Previous relationship imprints 16:16 - Intimac...

Join Michaela Boehm as she discusses relationship myths associated with Valentine’s Day, considers the pros and cons of cultural myths, shares stories from her own dating life, and gives her tips for how to have a great Valentine’s Day without falling into the commercial traps. 00:00 - Michaela’s Valentine’s Day date anecdote 02:15 - Misconceptions about Valentine’s Day 04:00 - Myth as cultural tr...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers a viewer question about how to remain adventurous in relationship, free oneself from past imprints, and live in the fullness of relational and intimate expression. 00:00 - Erotic skill development 05:23 - Staying adventurous in relationship 08:15 - How to reconnect with pleasure 10:47 - Energy distribution in the body 13:32 - The power of embodying flavours 18:48...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers a viewer question about how to support a grieving partner. Michaela discusses the most common mistakes people make in this area, how to remedy the mommy-son relationship dynamic, why men’s emotions are so often a turn off, new research in stages of grief, and shares her top tips for supporting the grieving. 00:00 - Bad relationship dynamics such as mommy-son 03:3...

Join Michaela Boehm as she answers a viewer question about how to handle change and growth in relationship, the feeling that your partner is holding you back, and how to handle feelings of longing for romance outside of the relationship. 00:00 - Is my partner holding me back? 03:33 - When growth cannot be integrated 05:09 - The benefit of difference 06:55 - Sovereign rate of change 07:34 - Life ch...