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Stoking the Fire
Stoking the Fire is a podcast that explores practices of wellness and spirituality from a nuanced perspective. With different guests on the show each week sharing their own experiences, we discuss practices that stoke the fire within, those that extinguish it, and the mysterious phenomena along the way. Themes include: cultural and social structures, trauma, Eastern medicine, addiction, cults, bodily autonomy, sexuality, abuses of power, feminist spirituality, the wounded masculine, the prison industrial complex, psychedelics, and more.
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Stoking the Fire
The intersection of sexuality and spirituality with Gwen Walsh
Gwen Walsh is a sexuality and spirituality consultant. She has a Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from Columbia University, and works with individuals, couples, and corporate clients such as Durex, K-Y, and L,Oreal. She has been featured in Refinery 29 and Marie Claire magazine, and currently works within the Maine Community College System to advise students on sexual and relationship violence prevention and wellness promotion.
In the episode, we talk about:
- Deconstructing Catholicism from a modern perspective and if its possible to be a Catholic witch
- Why do so many faiths consider sexuality to be wrong or dirty?
- Sex education from a Catholic priest who used milk and oreos as props
- How to survive in a world where our elected officials don’t value our health or safety
- How Catholicism has blended with indigenous spiritual practices
- Lilith and the Adam and Eve origin story
- How to have conversations with our loved ones who have political beliefs that make us feel unvalued
- Trump was elected- now what?
- What to expect in a sexuality or spirituality consult session with Gwen
- Plato vs. Aristotle
- How to have better communication with your partner
Links/Resources we mention:
https://www.instagram.com/gwenwalsh/
https://www.plannedparenthood.org/