Compelling, vulnerable conversations devoted to the nuanced realms of grief, pleasure and the sometimes messy, always beautiful paradox that exists between the two. Join Kate Leiper, founder of SensuAlchemy School as she asks the question: within a culture that perceives emotional, intuitive and creative intelligence as inferior and avoids pain at all costs, what might change if grief were our compass and pleasure, our medicine?
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33. 5 powerful shifts to revolutionize your Creative Feminine Leadership
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In today’s solo episode, I’m going to share with you 5 powerful ways you can buck the system and revolutionize your approach to showing up and being of service as a woman leader. If you feel like your work, creativity, and leadership has its own distinct flavour and it doesn’t fit into the typical box our society would prefer it to, then let this e…
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32. Remembering yourself through play, sensuality and Burlesque with Laura Jane Foley
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When was the last time you let yourself play, dress up, and express your full sensual self freely and without judgment? I believe that many of us are so hungry for these kinds of experiences… particularly if we’ve become disconnected from parts of ourselves that along the way, we decided were frivolous, silly, too much or over indulgent. Today on t…
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31. Breaking Free from Taboo & Finding Self-Worth through Pleasure with Amy Towle
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When our world as we know it crumbles, the last thing most of us would ever consider is that such a catastrophe might lead us to exactly the life we’re meant to be living. Today’s guest on the SensuAlchemy School podcast has one epic story to tell. From surviving a devastating career tragedy, to awakening to her full powerful expression and helping…
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30. Satiating desire and the creative ache with Jenna Ward
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Do you crave more wonder, creativity, radiance and sensuality in your life? If your whole body answered a resounding yes in longing to this question, then you’re not alone. For most of us, the obligations and expectations long upheld by the modern over-culture make it really challenging to prioritise and devote to a more embodied life, connected to…
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29: What it means to live fully: Confronting the costs of avoiding grief
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Somebody posed the question to me recently, they asked - if I just go on, pushing my grief aside like I always have, will that actually hurt me? If I know it’s there, but I don’t choose to “work on it”, will there be a difference in my life? They said - Because I’m not about to feel all that pain for fun. I need to know there’s a reason to do it. T…
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28. Birth trauma recovery & learning to love your postnatal body with Prudence Todd
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So much of what we believe to be normal as women, particularly in relation to pregnancy, birth and postpartum - and particularly when it comes to the capability of our body and the pain and challenges that arise after babies, is pretty darn concerning. We’re often so accustomed to hiding our physical or emotional challenges to do with our female an…
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27. Owning your power after narcissistic relationships with Ella Cotterell
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Today, my courageous guest Ella Cotterell, shares her story of going no-contact with her father after growing up experiencing cycles of narcissistic abuse and finally reaching a point where she was ready to free herself. It has been one full year of grieving for Ella, and in our conversation you’ll hear what it’s been like for her to choose herself…
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26. Myths of women’s sexuality & new pathways to pleasure with Emily Athena
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This episode with Emily Athena is pure gold. Emily is a somatic sex educator, coach, and the founder of EroSpark Movement, somatic sensual movement to ignite your aliveness. Drawing on her extensive background in dance, somatics, and comprehensive sex education, she supports people to release stress and shame, rediscover pleasure, and confidently e…
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25. Daring to descend and rise again with Carly Mountain
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I believe the more we speak openly about what happens to women in mid-life, the better. More specifically, what happens when our lives as we know them fall apart, initiating us into the deep, dark depths of feminine mystery and metamorphosis. My guest today, Carly Mountain knows this descent into the feminine underworld well. A psychotherapist, psy…
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24. Weaving Grief into Creative Feminine Magic: A Roundtable Conversation
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I invited 3 very special women and past clients to speak with me on today’s episode about their own “fork in the road” moments. You know the ones, the moment that comes where you feel, so clearly and powerfully, that you can no longer live the way that you’ve been living. For these women, Romina Lee, Lauren Prideaux and Christina Curcurato, a major…
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23. Living into what is and creating art from pain with Mary Lofgren
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Despite the fact that both of us have been practitioners of embodiment for some time, today’s guest Mary Lofgren and I get super honest about our own struggles. We also acknowledge how refreshing it is to be reminded that everyone suffers with loss and absolutely none of us have our shit together. Mary Lofgren is a certified feminine embodiment coa…
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22. When life is shaped by death + apprenticing to grief with Elle Sweetman
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At just 25 years old, Elle experienced the sudden and shocking death of someone incredibly close to her and this forever changed the trajectory of her life. Elle shares so much wisdom around what it's like to choose the path of apprentice to grief and how aliveness can be found in the most unexpected places and the most incredible ways. Today, Kate…
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21. The mythical body as a place to come home to with Jen Murphy
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We can learn so much about ourselves through exploring the myths and stories of our ancestors. Even more than that, when we can connect to the archetypal wisdom and power in these stories by engaging with them through a whole body experience, a whole new world of possibilities can open to us. Today on the SensuAlchemy School podcast, I’m beyond thr…
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20. Embodied reclamation through the menstrual cycle with Charlotte Pointeaux
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According to today’s guest, the way we experience our menstrual cycle speaks to our relationship to our bodies, to our caregivers & the way we may have been guided & supported - or not. All kinds of wounding that we’ve experienced in our life can and will play out in the menstrual cycle. I’m speaking with Charlotte Pointeaux, wild feminine cycle co…
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19. The dance of grief and gratitude in life and business with Robyn Gooding
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Meet Robyn Gooding, an Embodied business Strategist who’s approach to supporting women changed dramatically once she found herself navigating a painful fertility journey and devastating miscarriage. Robyn shares openly and honestly about her dance with grief and the ways she’s learned to find gratitude in the struggle. She also speaks to her unique…
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18. 40 midlife promises to my future self
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I’m 40 in a couple of weeks and today I wanted to share something a bit different. I’ve realised that where I’ve absolutely accrued wisdom in the past 40 years of my life, with every new evolution of self that emerges, the more questions I have about who I am and the life I want to live. So, I’m stepping into midlife knowing that I know nothing for…
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17. Celebrating the too-much woman: How to live without apology
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There’s something all too-much women have in common, and that’s the discomfort they create for patriarchy. Today on the podcast, if you relate or you have a too-much woman in your life that you love, I want to share with you how and why it’s time we celebrate what it means to be too much and begin to see how the health of humanity and the planet re…
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16. 9 embodied gateways to aligned and flourishing leadership
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I believe that the more we pour energy into making ourselves “smarter” “better” and “more” to meet the social success narrative, we actually move further away from joy. After slogging my ass off at Uni for 8 years and then working clinically as a Psychotherapist, I began to recognise that I could no longer ignore the ways we’re imprisoned by cultur…
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15. Underworld Initiations and embodied imagining
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Welcome to 2023, sensual sorceresses… As we move into Season 2 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, it feels fitting to begin with a tale of a Celtic shapeshifting underworld goddess and take a moment to imagine - through our sense of loss and longing - what this year may hold for us as women, leaders and creative beings. Are you on the precipice of…
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14. The unexpected ways grief and pleasure reshaped me this year
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Today, Kate shares some of the unexpected ways that grief and pleasure has reshaped her personally this year, in the hopes that maybe there’s something here for you, too. In this episode Kate brings all the spicy details about what went down in 2022 for her, namely: + Why her cervix became Queen and her ultimate guidance system + How she understand…
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13. 3 ways to sabotage your most courageous, creative soul work
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Self-help culture likes to highlight mindset issues, lack of discipline, imposter syndrome as the enemy when it comes to sabotaging your ambitious creative leadership desires. Well… we don’t do shame around here, so in today’s episode Kate explores 3 self-sabotaging patterns that have more to do with cultural indoctrination and less to do with any …
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12. When Loss is Tangled: Is it grief, trauma, or both?
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Today, Kate delves into the messy, entangled nature of loss. What’s trauma, what’s grief and where do they intersect? In a self-help culture that has commodified “trauma healing” as the sexy, most self-aware thing you can do, she also digs into why we tend to run from really knowing our grief, more than we run from our trauma, and how embodied grie…
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11. 5 masks of avoidance that grieving women wear
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Today on the pod, I share with you 5 masks of avoidance that grieving women wear. These masks aren’t labels, they’re not personalities, they’re not prescriptive. They’re not here to instill shame and a sense of failure. I’ve pulled these patterns together and given them names, to invite a gateway into curious somatic inquiry. This is what it is to …
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10. When life is a lot: How to honour your limits and let go to grow
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As Creative Feminine Leaders, it’s fundamental that the idea of meeting our grief edges, both individually and together in community; as well as acknowledging our limits when life feels way too much, is understood as pivotal to leading with embodied integrity. As ambitious (read: over-functioning) women, when a tsunami of grief, overwhelm or strugg…
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9. Embrace your darkness and deepen into potent feminine leadership
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Regardless of whether your leadership extends to a family room, a classroom, a boardroom, or a zoom room; if you’ve traversed your own darkness and befriended the shadows of your grief, your people will find, love and respect you, because of the integrity you bring to the table. I’ve got many thoughts around this, so this week’s podcast is essentia…
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8. The missing piece in women's empowerment (that we struggle to accept)
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In Episode 8 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate illuminates a gaping chasm in the feminist empowerment movement. The fact is, we as women can vote, earn good money, own a house… hell we may be a freakin’ CEO of an enormous enterprise, and yet it seems for the vast majority of women - true embodied pleasure and vitality escapes us. Despite the…
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7. The truth about Women, Grief and Power
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If I had one wish for all women, it would be that we could see ourselves as more intrinsically powerful. Women’s relationship to power is riddled with complexity, and in a time in history where the socio-cultural paradigm is being questioned and dismantled at a convincing rate, we need to get real about how we can love, lead and create in ways that…
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6. Bad Girl Body: Taking back your pleasure, creativity and eroticism
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When it comes to your relationship to your body, particularly if you happen to own a uterus or identify as a woman, the odds are that your sense of self is infused with a very special kind of toxicity that has lived in the bone marrow of your lineage for many, many generations. You might be familiar with the idea of the good girl complex - but have…
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5. Grief is feminine (and a gateway to your embodied liberation)
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Patriarchy, in its need to control, dominate, and make logical sense of the abstract and the indefinable, does not feel comfortable with the feminine. It identifies the feminine at best as unproductive and pointless, and at worse a disruptive force to be boxed in and quietened, because it goes against the systems and structures that maintain the st…
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4. How to trust the wisdom of your broken heart
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Does it feel like your body is an inconvenience or an ally? A broken vessel that lets you down, or a trusted companion? Any answers to these questions are valid. Today, you’re invited to sense where there’s some truth waiting to be accessed within the ache of your heart and the brokenness you feel, and how to begin to find it. In Episode 4 of the S…
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3. Pleasure through the eyes of grief (and vice versa)
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Welcome to Episode 3 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast! When we become really aware of how our body is speaking to us and through us, it’s common that many facets of our emotions and experiences will surprise us. Today Kate unpacks pleasure through the eyes of grief AND grief through the eyes of pleasure; two different angles that might illuminate…
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1. Lifting the veil on grief and feminine leadership
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For many women, the idea of pleasure also awakens a sense of grief. I know it once did for me. There can be an inevitable coupling between a desire to feel free to access and receive pleasure AND a sense of shame, fear, inaccessibility or disempowerment when it comes to the very same desire. If you can relate to the idea of pleasure being laced wit…
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2. How I got here: a story of complicated loss, shame and sensual reclamation
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In Episode 2 of the SensuAlchemy School podcast, Kate takes you on her own personal journey of complex loss and longing - so personal it’s the stuff of vulnerability hangovers. But at SensuAlchemy School of Embodied Grief & Pleasure, we believe that when women share their stories honestly, shame is released and collective feminine power grows. Kate…
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The SensuAlchemy School Podcast - coming soon!
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Welcome to SensuAlchemy School Podcast with Kate Leiper, launching August 17th. Subscribe, share and follow @kate.leiper on Instagram for the latest updates! https://www.kateleiper.com/Por Kate Leiper
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