Summary
Regina Thomasauer, known as Mama Gina, emphasizes the importance of women reconnecting with their desires and pleasure in a recent conversation. As the founder of the School of Womanly Arts, she has dedicated nearly three decades to empowering women to embrace their sensuality and reclaim their feminine power. In her latest book, "On Our Knees," she explores the impact of societal shame on women's confidence and self-expression, arguing that pleasure can serve as a source of creativity and self-possession.
Mama Gina shares her personal journey, revealing how her experiences with childhood trauma led her to discover the transformative power of pleasure. She highlights the significance of sisterhood in overcoming shame, suggesting that women can support one another in reclaiming their desires. The discussion also touches on the physiological benefits of pleasure, explaining how it can help heal trauma and foster emotional resilience. Mama Gina encourages women to prioritize their desires and engage in practices that reconnect them with their bodies, emphasizing that doing so can lead to profound personal transformation.
Show Notes
In this episode, Caggie is joined by Regena Thomashauer, also known as Mama Gena, founder of the School of Womanly Arts and author of On Our Knees, for a powerful conversation on desire, pleasure and reclaiming feminine power. Together, they explore why so many women have been taught to disconnect from their bodies and desires, how shame can impact confidence and self-expression, and why pleasure can be a powerful pathway back to ourselves. Regena shares her own journey of reconnecting with her body and erotic aliveness, the role of sisterhood in dissolving shame, and how our wounds and triggers can become gateways to our greatest power, offering a provocative new perspective on what can happen when women learn to trust their desires and fully inhabit who they are.
Topics covered in the episode:
🪐 Why women have been taught to disconnect from their pleasure and desire
🪐 Reframing desire as something sacred rather than selfish
🪐 How our wounds and triggers can become gateways to our greatest power
🪐 The relationship between the body, nervous system, pleasure and healing🪐 How shame disconnects women from their confidence and the role sisterhood can play in dissolving it
🪐 Reclaiming our erotic life force and learning to trust what our bodies are telling us
This conversation is an invitation to question the shame and conditioning we may have inherited around our bodies, pleasure and desires and to consider what might become possible when we begin listening to them instead.
A reminder that reconnecting with ourselves isn’t about becoming someone new, but reclaiming the parts of ourselves we may have learned to leave behind.
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