The Lost Art of Self-Devotion — Pleasure, Nourishment & the Initiation of Midlife with Jenny Glick

What if caring for yourself wasn’t another thing to accomplish…but an act of devotion?This week on the Vital Goddess Podcast, I’m joined by the magnificent Jenny Glick for a rich and delicious conversation about pleasure, nourishment, marriage, midlife—and the lost art of becoming deeply devoted to ourselves.Jenny has spent more than 25 years guiding women and couples toward richer, more resonant relationships and lives, drawing from her background in couples counseling, sex therapy, family systems, somatic healing, trauma therapies, and decades of spiritual and personal practice.And ohhh…the places we go.We explore the subtle ways so many women have been conditioned into urgency, performance, holding, and striving—and how underneath so much of that may be a longing to finally feel safe.Jenny offers a beautiful reframe: rather than making ourselves another project to fix or regulate, what if we became interested in nourishing ourselves?What if we learned to receive?What if our calendars became altars to what we are truly devoted to?We talk about pleasure as a natural blooming of safety, the initiation of menopause and midlife, becoming the authority of our own bodies, honoring each woman’s unique “tone of truth,” and allowing our relationships themselves to become places of maturation and awakening.Jenny also shares intimately from her own midlife passage and how it invited her to slow down, listen differently, and reorganize her life around what truly matters.This conversation is an invitation to soften the clench.To come back into the body.To become deeply nourished.And perhaps to discover that self-devotion isn’t something we have to add to our lives.It’s a way of meeting the life we already have.In this conversation, we explore:🌹 Safety, receptivity, and our capacity for pleasure🌹 Moving from performance and urgency into nourishment🌹 Why self-devotion feels different from self-care🌹 Jenny’s beautiful practice of orienting to the “back body”🌹 Seeing your calendar as an altar🌹 Midlife and menopause as an initiatory passage🌹 Reclaiming authority and honoring your own “tone of truth”🌹 Why there can be many right ways for women to navigate their bodies and lives🌹 Marriage as an initiation rather than another project to fix🌹 How turning our gaze toward ourselves can transform our relationshipsJenny also shares about her program Your Marriage Is Your Ashram and her forthcoming book, Marriage as Mystery School.And Jenny has a beautiful gift for the Vital Goddess community. 🌹She’s offering 50% off Your Marriage Is Your Ashram, her self-study course for women who want to explore their marriage as a pathway of self-discovery, maturation, and deeper relationship with themselves.You can explore the course here:https://jennyglick.com/ymiyaSimply use the code VITAL50 at checkout to receive 50% off.This one is rich, loves.Pour yourself something delicious, settle into your back body, and join us. 🌹Dive deeper with Jenny:Visit Jenny's siteFollow Jenny on InstagramFollow Jenny on YouTubeFind Jenny on Substack