In this nourishing conversation, I’m joined again by sacred sexuality mentor Janine to explore what it really looks like to live a sensual, embodied life as a real woman in a very full season — business, kids, partnerships, responsibilities and all.

We unravel the pressure we put on ourselves to “do embodiment right” — the 3-hour practices, the perfect morning routine, the ideal conditions — and instead anchor into the truth that our power lives in the micro moments: being present with your morning coffee, watching your children play, driving under a rainbow, feeling the sun on your skin.

Together we speak to:

• Why pressure kills pleasure — in sex, business, motherhood and life

• How to start (or restart) sacred sexuality and embodiment practices when you feel tired, busy, or resistant

• The power of 2–5 minute “micro practices” and how they actually rewire your system over time

• Moving from destination obsession (orgasms, goals, milestones) into savouring the journey

• Remembering that you are cyclical — and why your practices should change with your seasons and your bleed

• Using your inner signals (yes/no, expansion/contraction) as your compass rather than external “shoulds”

• How reclaiming your sensuality and presence impacts your children, your relationships and the next generation

This episode is an invitation to stop trying to “keep up”, to let go of perfection, and to remember that your inner power has always been within you. It all starts with one tiny, loving micro practice.

Listen in if you’re ready to feel more alive in your everyday life, reconnect to your body and pleasure, and create a new normal where you are no longer on the back burner — you are at the centre of your own sacred, sensual life.

Jannine MacKinnon, Sex, Love, and Relationship Coach, supports moms in thriving as their most radiant and happy selves. Through using tools like breathwork, inner child healing, pleasure practices, and approachable rituals, she creates a pathway for holistic, long-lasting transformation in building confidence, connecting to your authenticity, awakening to pleasure, trusting your intuition, and softening into your feminine energy.

Connect with Jannine here: https://www.instagram.com/jannine.mackinnon/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this episode of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast, Monique sits down with somatic sexologist, therapeutic yoni massage practitioner, and aura photographer Sarah Silverstein for a deeply real and liberating conversation about coming home to your body.

Together, they unpack how a busy, overthinking mind is often a clever protection mechanism that keeps us from feeling what’s really living in our bodies — our emotions, our pain, our truth… and our pleasure.

They explore:

• Why dropping into the body can feel terrifying when you’ve lived in your head for years

• How somatic work, breathwork, and therapeutic yoni massage can gently reopen sensation and safety

• The shame and taboo surrounding vulvas, pleasure, and sexuality — and how reclaiming these parts of us changes everything

• The witch wound, sisterhood wound, and the grief of living without true village and elders

• How listening to your body’s “yes” and “no” shifts your relationships, work, and self-worth

• Simple ways to bring more everyday pleasure into your life (that have nothing to do with the bedroom)

This is a conversation for the woman who feels “too in her head,” numb, shut down, or “broken” around intimacy — and is ready to remember that there is nothing wrong with her, and that deeper love, connection, and pleasure are absolutely available.

Sara Silverstein is a Somatic Sexologist, Therapeutic Yoni Massage Facilitator, and International Breathwork Guide who guides women and vulva-havers back to their pleasure, power, and aliveness. With a background in nervous system regulation, therapeutic touch, and embodiment practices, Sara weaves together science and soul to help clients release shame, reconnect with their bodies, and expand their capacity for joy - inside and outside the bedroom.

Connect with Sara here: https://www.instagram.com/sarasilverstein/

Monique Carmela is a feminine embodiment mentor, somatic guide, and host of The Good Girl Unleashed Podcast. She supports women to unravel “good girl” conditioning, regulate their nervous systems, heal the deeper layers of shame and self-abandonment, and come home to their bodies so they can live rooted in love, truth, and authentic expression.

If you’re resonating with this conversation and feeling the pull to soften out of your busy mind and into deeper connection with your body, pleasure, and self-worth, Monique offers group programs, immersions, and spaces for women to heal, be witnessed, and rise in their power. You can connect with her, explore her current offerings, and continue this journey of Living in Love via her online community, programs, and social channels.

Connect with Monique here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/

In this Q&A episode, I’m answering your heart-questions around feeling safe in love, navigating separation, manifesting new relationships, and learning how to trust life, the divine, and yourself again.

We explore what it really means to feel safe in relationship when your nervous system is still recalibrating – that pendulation between “I feel safe” and “I don’t feel safe” – and why that doesn’t mean you’re broken or doomed, it means you’re growing and expanding your capacity. We talk about the difference between knowing you are always safe at a soul level, and not feeling safe in the moment… and how to tend to yourself when you want to run.

I share a personal story from my relationship with Liam about feeling deeply triggered, holding my boundary, and not going into the old spiral of pulling up the past, attacking, or running — and how that actually created more safety and trust between us.

Inside this episode, we move through questions around:

• Struggling to feel consistently safe and wanting to run from the relationship

• Navigating separation, anxiety, overwhelm, fear & sleepless nights

• How to connect with your feminine energy when you feel stuck in your masculine and the need to control everything

• Manifesting new relationships with your children, yourself, and a potential life partner

• Releasing generational mother wounds, people pleasing & the need for outside validation

• Feeling afraid of not being taken care of and learning to lean back, trust, and receive

• Manifesting from pure alignment vs. ego, and being fully supported by life & the divine

• Balancing surrender with taking aligned action (and why it was always about who you’re becoming)

• Releasing the last layers of doubt and fear around receiving and allowing your manifestations to unfold with more ease, grace, and joy

If you’re in a season of big emotions, relationship questions, or you’re in the thick of manifesting “your next level” and wondering if you can actually trust it… this episode will meet you there with tenderness, truth, and nervous-system-aware support.

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If you’d love to go deeper into this work, check out my signature programs here: https://www.moniquecarmela.com/work-with-me

And if you’re unsure where to start, reach out or book a discovery call and we can feel into what’s most supportive for you right now.

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