The Pleasurelit Perimenopause Show
by Pleasurelit Patricia
7 pillars to feel healthy and hot in perimenopause at https://pleasurelit.com/links The Pleasurelit Perimenopause Show by Pleasurelit Patricia explores perimenopause, women's health, wellbeing and pleasure, with the intention of helping women feel informed, supported and empowered in their changing bodies. Real life experiences, practices and tips to help you build a pleasurable relationship with your body, so you can feel healthy, hot and deliciously in love with yourself and life, especially in perimenopause and at times of disconnection.Disclaimer applies as listed at pleasurelit.com
Episodes
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What Helps With Perimenopause? 7 Ways to Feel Healthy and Hot
After I shared over 30 perimenopause signs and symptoms on the show, my inbox filled with messages from women who recognised themselves in almost every one. Then came the next question. Now what? What helps? What can I do to feel like myself again? In this episode I answer that question with the...
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30+ Perimenopause Symptoms: Early Signs You Might Be in Perimenopause
If you’ve been searching “What are the first signs of perimenopause?”, “Could I be in perimenopause in my 30s?” or simply wondering “I don’t feel like myself. What is going on?”, then this episode is for you. “I thought it was just me.” That’s the message I get every time I talk about the...
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Libido & Nervous System for High Achieving and Anxious Women in Perimenopause with Rachel Dorneanu
Libido and nervous system regulation for high achieving and anxious women in perimenopause can look different when the inner critic is loud, the perfectionism and overthinking takes over. We talk about why somatic pleasure, breathwork and movement regulate the nervous system, the difference…
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Pleasure Tip: Write about your pleasure experiences
Welcome back to my Pleasurelit Tip Series. Today’s pleasure tip is: write about your pleasure experiences. It is a way of stepping back inside a moment that was yummy, delicious, one that keeps surfacing in your mind days or weeks later, and actually feeling it again in your body. ↓ Feel...
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Pleasure Tip: Wear what makes you feel good
Welcome back to my Pleasure tips Series. Today’s pleasure tip is: wear what makes you feel good. Think about that jacket, that dress or that one piece sitting in your wardrobe reserved for the special occasion. You are the special occasion, every single day. This is the heart of a pleasure...
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Pleasure Tip: Flirt with Yourself
Welcome back to my Pleasure Tips Series. Today’s tip is one very simple, very delicious practice: flirt with yourself. There are so many moments across your day that can become an opening to your pleasure, if you let them. ↓ Feel deliciously in love with yourself, your body and life itself...
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Pleasure Tip: Pleasure First Principle
Welcome back to my Pleasure Tips Series. Today’s tip is the pleasure first principle. Do you treat pleasure like a reward, something you get to have once the to-do list is done, once the hard day is behind you, or once you have achieved the thing you set out to achieve? This tip asks you to flip...
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Pleasure Tip: Body Pleasure Mapping
Welcome back to my Pleasure Tips Series. Today’s tip is pleasure body mapping. A beautiful, delicious practice for exploring your own body, learning what you like and how you like it, and just as importantly, what you don’t. Taking note of that is how you open yourself up to more pleasure. ↓ Feel...
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Pleasure Tip: Conscious Breathing
Welcome back to my Pleasure Tips Series. Today’s tip is conscious breathing. I know that sounds simple, but it is one of the most effective and powerful tools you have with you at all times. It shifts your energy and shifts your entire being within seconds, within minutes. Think about the moments...
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Pleasure Tip: Explore Your Own Body
Welcome back to my Pleasure Tips Series. Today’s tip is one I cannot say loud enough: explore your own body. Depending on where you are at, you can start really slow. Maybe that looks like getting more comfortable being naked in your own space, no mirror, just you. Maybe it looks like actually...
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Coming Home to Your Body in Perimenopause with Nancy Parker
Nancy Parker, somatic embodiment coach and founder of In Body Wisdom and The Ecstatic Feminine, shares her own experience moving through perimenopause, including the changes she noticed in her cycle, sleep, intuition, brain function, libido and relationship with her body and how simple practices...
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When the Doctor hands you a Vibe in Perimenopause - Midlife with Karen Bigman
Karen Bigman, sexuality educator & intimacy coach, shares her personal experience of perimenopause and menopause, including some of the early signs, the changes she experienced in her pleasure, and how those experiences ultimately led her deeper into the world of sexuality and intimacy. We also...
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Regenopause: Perimenopause Upgraded with Melissa Louise
Melissa Louise calls it regenopause, a regeneration rather than an ending, an upgrade, a time to party and at nearly 54 she says she has never felt more alive. We talk about changing cycles, unpredictable desire, dating and sexuality in midlife, the importance of listening to your body, and why...
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Perimenopause Tips: Sleep for Health and Pleasure
When sleep gets broken during perimenopause it can affect all other areas of our life, out mood, energy, hunger, metabolism, resilience, stress, health and pleasure. Making sleep a priority is important for our health, wellbeing and pleasure. The more we can rest and recharge the better we can...
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Perimenopause Tips: Somatic Pleasure
During perimenopause, there is a risk that we disconnect from our bodies, to avoid feeling we distract, function, perform,… It’s important that we stay connected. The more you are connected to your body, the more present you are within yourself, the more you can experience yourself and feel your...
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Perimenopause Tips: Nervous System Regulation for Health and Pleasure
Portal 3 of the 5 Portals to Pleasure in Perimenopause is Nervous System Regulation. Tantra, somatic, breathing, movement and pleasure practices are even more important during perimenopause, to feel safe in your body, to experience life, to feel yourself, and to expand your capacity for pleasure.…
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Perimenopause Tips: Fitness - Build a Strong Body for Health and Pleasure
Strength training in perimenopause isn’t just about body composition and changing how you look. It’s about building a body that is strong for living your life. During perimenopause muscle and bone health is even more important. Weight lifting can help you to feel good in your body, lift your…
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Perimenopause Tips: Nutrition for Health and Pleasure
Let's enter perimenopause the Pleasurelit Way - with pleasure, body connection and self-care. We explore what happens during perimenopause, including changes in your menstrual cycle, sleep, mood, energy, appetite, body, libido and nervous system, and why pleasure is key for women. This is my…
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Pleasure Tip: Undress Intentionally
I’m inviting you to try intentional undressing. Instead of rushing to take off your clothes or change, slow the whole experience down and give yourself time to notice your body. Feel the fabric sliding across your skin. Look at yourself in the mirror, or close your eyes and let your other senses...
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I'm in Perimenopause at 38 and these are the signs I noticed first and what I do now
I'm in perimenopause and these are the first signs I noticed: shorter cycles, mood swings that shift by the hour, disrupted sleep, brain fog, bloating, and even anxiety around driving my car. Since I know I'm in perimenopause I made it my mission to expanding my capacity for pleasure through...
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Pleasure Tip: Do The Dishes The Pleasurelit Way
The dishes need to be done anyway. So why not make them pleasurable? This Pleasure Tips explores how to turn an ordinary household task into a simple somatic pleasure practice. Instead of rushing through the dishes while thinking about everything else on your to-do list, allow yourself to be…
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Pleasure Tip: Take Yourself Out On A Solo Date
Take yourself out on a solo date, and I mean the whole thing. In this Pleasure Tip, I walk you through how to plan a solo date that actually turns you on: building it from your pleasure menu, writing yourself an invitation, prepping everything ahead of time so you can be fully present, and…
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Pleasure Tip: Create a Pleasure Bucket List
Learn how to turn curiosity, fantasy and desire into a living, evolving list you can return to for years. I share how my own pleasure bucket list has evolved over the years, why curiosity can be a powerful pathway into pleasure, and how moments from movies, books, dreams, conversations and things...
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Pleasure tip: How to Create a Pleasure Menu
Learn how to create a Pleasure Menu, a simple embodied practice for discovering what brings you pleasure and intentionally experiencing more of it every day. This is one of my many pleasure practices I teach within my programs. Full template is available within my Substack Pleasurelit Community....
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Pleasure in Perimenopause and Midlife
As I approach 40, I’ve started noticing changes in my body. I realised I’ve entered perimenopause. Instead of seeing midlife as something to fear, I asked myself: How can I make this Pleasurelit? When we hear conversations about perimenopause and menopause, they are often about what changes in a...
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Somatic Practice When You Feel Lonely During Perimenopause
A gentle somatic practice for the moments you feel lonely during perimenopause. In this practice, I guide you back into your own warm company, using simple touch, your voice and grounding so your nervous system remembers: you are here, and you are not alone in your own body. Come back to this...
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Somatic Practice When You Feel Anxious During Perimenopause
If you're feeling anxious, overwhelmed, caught in racing thoughts or carrying tension in your body during perimenopause, this short somatic practice is here to help you come back to yourself. This is an invitation to reconnect with your body, regulate your nervous system and create a little more...
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5 Senses Pleasure Awakening Practice with Elodie Joy
A guided somatic practice you can do at home, or anywhere else to awaken your 5 senses, connect with your body and awaken your pleasure - guided by Elodie Joy. You can do this as a full ritual with candles and music, as a two minute reset at your desk, in partner play with a blindfold, or in your...
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The Pleasure First Principle: Boundaries & the Full Spectrum of Being a Woman with Elodie Joy
In this episode, Elodie Joy and I explore the Pleasure First Principle, feminine embodiment, somatic healing, nervous system regulation, boundaries, consent and what it means to embody the full spectrum of being a woman. Together we unpack why pleasure isn't something to earn, but something that...
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Somatic Pleasure Practice
Feel radiant, regulated and deliciously turned on by yourself and life itself - at https://pleasurelit.com Welcome pleasure being, I’m Patricia I grew up as the “good girl”, achieving, performing and unable to receive. After surviving a D V marriage, I spent years...
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Somatic Yin Yoga | 15 Min Nervous System Reset
Slow down, soften, and reconnect with your body in this gentle 15 minute beginner Somatic Yin Yoga practice. This short sequence includes Child's Pose, gentle spinal twists, knee-to-chest movements, hip opening, and a restful Savasana to help you release tension, regulate your nervous system, and...
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Nervous System Reset by Ally Canales
Feeling disconnected from your body, overwhelmed or stuck in your head? This gentle 5-minute somatic practice, guided by Ally Canales, helps you slow down, reconnect with your body and regulate your nervous system through breath, awareness, sound and movement. Perfect for busy women who want to...
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Pleasure Is Truth: Women's Desire, Nervous System Healing & Feminine Leadership | Ally Canales
In this deeply honest conversation, Ally and I explore what pleasure truly means beyond the bedroom, self-care, and feeling good. We dive into women’s nervous system, feminine leadership, sensuality, desire, trauma healing, relationships and building a successful life and business without...
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Quick Nervous System Reset Meditation
When life feels busy, overwhelming, or disconnected, it can be easy to live from your head and lose touch with your body. In this short guided embodied nervous system reset meditation, you are invited to pause, breathe, and gently reconnect with yourself through simple somatic awareness. This...
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Tantra Practice with Deborah Kat
This short tantra practice combines breathwork, sound, movement and pelvic floor activation to help you reconnect with your body, awaken sensation and expand your capacity for pleasure. Through conscious breathing, vocal toning and energy awareness, you will be guided to move energy through the...
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Somatic Yoga Flow | 30 min Beginner
This beginner-friendly somatic yoga flow for women invites you to slow down, notice sensation, explore breath and movement, and build greater body awareness. Feel yourself again at https://pleasurelit.com I’m Patricia. I grew up as the "good girl", achieving, performing and unable…
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Somatic Self-pleasure for Women: Nervous System Regulation, Healing and Feminine Embodiment
In this episode, I explore somatic self-pleasure for women as a practice of nervous system regulation, self-love, healing, and feminine embodiment. Learn how somatic pleasure can help you feel more connected to your body, expand your capacity for pleasure and reconnect with your desire, aliveness...
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Women's permission on desire, self-pleasure and kink with Deborah Kat - Tantra breathwork practice included
In this episode, Deborah Kat and Patricia talk about what it feels like to grow up sensual and playful and then have someone look at you like you are too much. About discovering kink before you even had a word for it. About self-pleasure as a self-love practice. About orgasm, the nervous system,...
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Crying to Pleasure - Somatic Pleasure Alchemy
In this deeply personal episode, I share what happened after getting unexpectedly hit in the face by a soccer ball and how that moment triggered an old trauma response connected to surviving D V and having my nose broken years ago. Even though I knew logically that I was safe, my body didn’t feel...
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Praying After Self-Pleasure with Kiki Marie Yonilicous
In this deeply honest conversation, Patricia sits down with sexologist, educator and founder of Yonilicious, Kiki Marie, to explore pleasure, shame, sexuality, nervous system healing and what it truly means to reclaim your body and pleasure. Together they speak about growing up as the “good…
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Dating Red Flags, Women's Intuition, Self-trust and Nervous System
Have you ever dated someone and suddenly your body started reacting? Maybe it was headaches, anxiety, exhaustion, bloating, skin breakouts, UTIs, BV, losing your libido, gaining weight, losing weight, feeling emotionally confused or simply feeling “off” after spending time with them. In this...
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Pleasure for Self and within Relationship with Leo & Dan from the Us Project
Leo and Dan share openly about their individual and couple journey to deeper pleasure and intimacy within relationship. They speak into their personal pleasure blocks, such as stress and frustration, and their portals to pleasure, such as dance, movement, breath, touch and riding a motorbike…
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Closed to Love - He is still controlling your life
Have you been telling yourself you have high standards, but underneath that is the fear of getting hurt again? In this episode, I share my own journey from a DV marriage through hyper-independence, high-functioning and emotional armour, to realising the men who hurt me were still controlling my...
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Women perform healing and wellness
Why high-functioning women perform wellness, self-care, and healing without feeling real change. You can have the perfect morning routine, know all the healing tools, and still feel disconnected. I share how somatic pleasure, nervous system regulation, embodied healing, and listening to my body...
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Build Self-trust for Pleasure
I share my experience of somatic healing for self-trust and nervous system regulation. Somatic pleasure helps high-functioning women reconnect with their desires and communicate their boundaries. Do you know your body’s yes and no? Or are you making decisions from your mind while overriding what...
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Feminine Embodiment with Lauren Venables
In this conversation I get to connect with Lauren Venables, a woman who grew up as the "good girl" and found somatic healing through dancing, sensuality and feminine embodiment. Somatic pleasure feels like a long exhale to her. Lauren Venables is a feminine embodiment and intimacy coach with over...
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Why somatic Pleasure & Tantra for Nervous System Regulation
Somatic pleasure and tantra are the next level of nervous system regulation and healing. In this episode, Patricia shares how high-functioning women, overachievers, and independent women can move beyond mindset work into embodied healing, expanding their capacity to feel, receive, and experience...
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Attracting the same kind of men and relationships
Patricia shares why high-functioning, independent women often attract the same men and relationships, from narcissistic patterns to the “I don’t need a man” phase, and how nervous system regulation and somatic pleasure embodiment shift your love life - speaking from lived experience. Feel…
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Burnout Recovery with Elizabeth Munoz
Pleasure, burnout recovery, nervous system regulation, feminine embodiment, embodied leadership and conscious AI for high-performing women. In this episode, we explore how disconnection from the body leads to burnout and how reclaiming pleasure transforms your business, relationships, motherhood...
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Pleasure for Better Sleep
My pleasure-led approach to better and good quality sleep for high-functioning women. How to use pleasure to improve your bedtime routine, regulate your nervous system, and truly rest - especially when you cant switch off and keep overthinking. Feel radiant, regulated and deliciously turned on by...
About this show
7 pillars to feel healthy and hot in perimenopause at https://pleasurelit.com/links The Pleasurelit Perimenopause Show by Pleasurelit Patricia explores perimenopause, women's health, wellbeing and pleasure, with the intention of helping women feel informed, supported and empowered in their changing bodies. Real life experiences, practices and tips to help you build a pleasurable relationship with your body, so you can feel healthy, hot and deliciously in love with yourself and life, especially in perimenopause and at times of disconnection.Disclaimer applies as listed at pleasurelit.com
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