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Sovereign Self
by Megan Phippen, MA LPC
Sovereign Self is a podcast about erotic embodiment, relational sovereignty, and intimacy as a lived practice.Hosted by Megan Phippen, a licensed sex and relationship therapist, the show explores the relationship between sex, love, and spirit through a grounded, body-based lens.Sovereign Self invites you to unlearn inherited shame, question conditioned relationship norms, and cultivate a deeper relationship with desire, sensation, and truth.Liberation begins inside your own skin.
Episodes
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Ep 16: You're Not Broken, You're Descending: On The Feminine Journey of Down and In
I have been quiet lately. And the reason I have been quiet is exactly what this episode is about. Life has been asking me to turn towards myself, to conserve, to grieve, to tend more carefully to my own heart. And I am not interested in performing some perfectly regulated, endlessly resourced...
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Ep 15: Eros & Thanatos: What Grief Reveals About Desire
I lost my cat Pumpkin last week. Completely unexpectedly. And I almost didn't record this because I am still in it, still dissociated, still catching myself tracking the door waiting for him to scratch at it. But grief takes the whole conversation about optimization and perfection and just scraps...
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Ep 14: You've Been Lied to About Sensuality
I recorded this one recovering from surgery, hot, itchy, sticky, and in pain. Not exactly the soft-lit, silk-and-candles version of sensuality we've all been sold. And that's the whole point. We've branded sensuality as an aesthetic, coded it as feminine, and turned it into something you curate...
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Ep 13: How to Assess for Relationship Compatibility
Most people say they are looking for compatibility. What they are actually doing is running everyone they meet through a filtered checklist built on surface optics, appearance, lifestyle, politics, preferences, and calling it discernment. Megan is here to push on that hard. This episode is a...
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Ep 12: Shame and the Threshold of Desire
Most of us are not afraid of desire. We are afraid of what happens when we actually follow it. This episode sits right at that edge. The moment you arrive at what you want and then collapse, not because the desire wasn't real, but because something old and protective shows up first. Shame is...
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Ep 11: Your Liberation Is Inside of Your Anger
Anger has been alive in the field lately. My clients are feeling it, the collective is feeling it, and I woke up this morning feeling it too. So instead of waiting for it to settle, I recorded from inside it. What follows is me making the case for why anger is not the thing to get past and why…
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Ep 10: Erotic Embodiment in the Age of Sexual Fragmentation with Sureya Part 2
In this episode, Sureya and I explore the nuance of what people often call “leaky” sexual energy and why these conversations around sexuality, desire, and intimacy are rarely as black and white as the internet makes them seem. Together, we unpack how unconscious relational patterns, nervous…
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Ep 9: Erotic Embodiment in the Age of Sexual Fragmentation with Sureya Leonara Part 1
This episode felt like dropping into the living edge between sexuality, embodiment, desire, and truth. Sureya and I explore what it means to relate to erotic energy as life force itself, not something confined to the bedroom, but something woven through creativity, connection, intimacy, and the…
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Ep 8: Activated & Alive - Staying Present with Fear, Anger & Your Truth
In this episode, I’m bringing you directly into a real-time, activated moment in my body, because this is where the work actually lives. This isn’t about being perfectly regulated; it’s about staying with yourself in the intensity, practicing emotional regulation, and choosing how you respond…
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Ep 7: Novelty and Erotic Aliveness
In this episode, we explore the subtle but powerful relationship between novelty, perception, and our erotic aliveness. I’m inviting you into a deeper inquiry around how desire isn’t something we chase, but something we reconnect to through presence, awareness, and sexual embodiment. This...
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Ep 6: The Cost of Fragmentation
In this episode, I’m naming something deeper beneath the surface of sexual harm, shame, and silence… what happens when we become disconnected from our bodies and our truth. This conversation moves into the territory of nervous system regulation in relationships, and how our capacity (or lack of…
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Ep 5: How to Actually Talk About Sex
In this episode, I’m dropping you into the heart of what it actually takes to talk about sex without abandoning yourself. As a sex and relationship therapist, I see over and over that most people aren’t struggling because they don’t care; they’re struggling because their nervous systems were…
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Ep 4: Why Talking About Sex Feels Impossible (And Where to Start)
In this episode, I drop into one of the most foundational pieces of sexual healing: learning to stay with yourself. As a sex and relationship therapist, I see every day how our nervous systems, our conditioning, and our silence shape the ways we relate to desire. This conversation explores why...
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Ep 3 : Conflict, the Nervous System, and Staying Connected
In this episode of Sovereign Self, I explore why conflict in relationships can feel so intense and what is actually happening inside the body when we’re activated. As a sex and relationship therapist, I often remind people that conflict is physiological before it is verbal. When our nervous…
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Ep 2: Sexual Sovereignty
In this episode of Sovereign Self, I’m exploring how the practice of sovereignty shows up in one of the most conditioned areas of our lives: sexuality. As a sex and relationship therapist, I see again and again how inherited shame, cultural messaging, and early relational patterns shape our…
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Ep 1: What Does It Mean to Be Sovereign?
In the first episode of Sovereign Self, we explore what it truly means to live from sovereignty. Through a somatic and trauma informed relationships lens, we examine how conditioning shapes our identity, our attachment style, and the way we show up in intimacy. This conversation invites you back...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Sovereign Self is a podcast about erotic embodiment, relational sovereignty, and intimacy as a lived practice.Hosted by Megan Phippen, a licensed sex and relationship therapist, the show explores the relationship between sex, love, and spirit through a grounded, body-based lens.Sovereign Self invites you to unlearn inherited shame, question conditioned relationship norms, and cultivate a deeper relationship with desire, sensation, and truth.Liberation begins inside your own skin.
HOSTED BY
Megan Phippen, MA LPC
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Sovereign Self is a podcast about erotic embodiment, relational sovereignty, and intimacy as a lived practice.Hosted by Megan Phippen, a licensed sex and relationship therapist, the show explores the relationship between sex, love, and spirit through a grounded, body-based lens.Sovereign Self...
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