Ep. 84: Untamed Pleasure: Unleash your true erotic nature with Carly Mountain.
“Our bodies are made for pleasure”, yet we are tamed and shamed into cages that domesticate our sexuality and relationships. - Carly Mountain
I am so excited, grateful and honoured to welcome Carly Mountain back to the Podcast! Since our last conversation a year ago, Carly has completed her second book Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature which launches THIS FRIDAY! Huge congratulations dearest Carly!
In this conversation, Carly shares the story behind her new book and invites us into the world of Untamed Pleasure - a deeply moving, gently stirring, and invigorating journey into embodiment, desire, aliveness, and the untamed wisdom that lives within us all.
More about Carly - Carly is a writer, psychotherapist somatic sex therapist and sacred space holder. She facilitates women and the people who love them, to remember, reclaim and reconnect with their sensual, emotional, embodied aliveness and instinctual knowing that is rooted in the earth. Drawing on more than twenty years of embodied practice, training, and space-holding experience, Carly brings a trauma-informed approach to her work.
In this conversation we talked about:
❤️🔥 Carly's new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature—what it means to alchemise (internalised) shame, meet our unique untamed energy, and enter a wider space where we can be more fully ourselves.
❤️🔥 How this work is both disruptive and reparative. We live in a culture in which sexuality is often taboo, shrouded in shame and silence. And just as work with the menstrual cycle challenges outdated narratives, Untamed Pleasure invites us to dismantle the systems that disconnect us from our bodies and our pleasure.
❤️🔥 The cages—cultural and personal—that domesticate women's pleasure, and how to begin finding the keys to rewild and reveal your untamed pleasure.
❤️🔥 What eros and eroticism actually mean, and why they are so much bigger than sex. The difference between sensual and sexual energy.
❤️🔥 The wild, poetic nature of female anatomy—the incredible body of our clitoris, which, as Carly writes so beautifully, “when she is aroused, spreads her wings into orgasmic flight.”
❤️🔥 The commitment, devotion, and soft discipline untamed pleasure asks of us, and how, if we dare to say yes, we unearth a multiverse of embodied knowledge and a fiercely authentic way of being ourselves.
Enjoy!