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Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright

Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright

Written by: Sarah Rose Bright
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Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright is a podcast exploring the evolution of love, sex, relationships, and life - and the future we are co-creating. Through intimate and soulful conversations, I speak with love revolutionaries and pioneering voices - from grassroots visionaries to global leaders - who are reimagining how we connect, how we love, and how we live. Music: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/.2026 Sarah Rose Bright Hygiene & Healthy Living Relationships Social Sciences
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  • Are you trying to cure yourself of yourself? Unshaming with David Bedrick

    Are you trying to cure yourself of yourself? Unshaming with David Bedrick
    Oct 12 2026
    When was the last time someone asked you, and really wanted to know, "what's it like to be you?”Not "how are you?" followed by "fine." I mean a real genuine desire to know what your world us like, whatever your answer.In this episode, Sarah Rose is joined by David Bedrick, a counsellor, teacher and author who has spent more than 40 years exploring one of the most common and most hidden human experiences - shame.David shares how growing up with a violent father and a mother who couldn't see what was happening shaped his life's work. For David, shame isn't simply a feeling - it’s an internalised witness, the voice that looks at our experience and asks, "what's wrong with you?"What touched Sarah most were his stories. David shows what happens when we meet symptoms with curiosity rather than judgement. He describes a woman whose stutter hid a fierce, powerful voice, a woman who hadn't left her home in ten years and the client who insisted her childhood was "fine" but carried a lifetime of feeling that she didn't matter.He also explains why we can't cure ourselves of ourselves, and why love begins with truly seeing another person.In this episode we explore:Why shame is an internalised witness rather than just a strong emotionHow most shame stays invisible, even to the person carrying itWhat "unshaming" means, and how it differs from denial, gaslighting and pathologisingWhy symptoms can carry intelligence and medicine and are not just problems to “fix”The danger of comparing your pain ("it wasn't that bad")How untold stories pass down through generations, including the storytellers of Hiroshima and NagasakiThe single most powerful question: *What's it like to be you?*A simple daily practice to begin unshaming your inner criticDavid's beautiful definition of love as seeing, feeling and believingContent note: This episode touches on tender and sensitive themes, including childhood trauma.David Bedrick, J.D., Dipl. PW, is the founder of the UnShaming Way — a depth-psychology approach built on one conviction: your symptoms, struggles, and survival strategies carry intelligence, not pathology. He is the author of five books, including The Unshaming Way (North Atlantic Books), endorsed by Gabor Maté, MD. He has trained hundreds of clinicians and taught thousands of individuals. Before psychology, he practiced law; before law, he survived the home that taught him everything the books later confirmed. That is his deepest credential: he knows both harms — the violence, and the denial of it — from the inside. His work has appeared in Psychology Today and reaches hundreds of thousands of readers through his essays on trauma, shame, and the witness.RESOURCES FROM DAVIDwww.davidbedrick.com https://www.instagram.com/david.bedrick/ Free course: Masterclass on Unshaming EssentialsRESOURCES FROM SARAHSarah has two gifts for you 🥰Awakening Sensuality Through Breast Massage — a practice for womenArriving Slowly — a connection practice for couplesSign up to receive both at www.sarahrosebright.comTo explore more of Sarah's work, including her courses, retreats, and her podcast, Making Love, visit www.sarahrosebright.comABOUT YOUR HOSTSarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    55 mins
  • Penetration with Presence with Graeme Waterfield

    Penetration with Presence with Graeme Waterfield
    Sep 14 2026
    In this episode, Graeme and I talk about penetration, specifically penis-vagina penetration with all its cultural and personal histories.When we think of improving penetration, we think of trying new positions. We never consider other ways to explore. We go deep into what becomes possible when we bring real, embodied presence to penetration instead of rushing towards a goal.In this episode we explore:How most of us learned penetration as a mechanical act, not an intimate oneWhy letting go of the script and be uncomfortable and how to navigate those momentsChecking in before penetration, and why this simple practice can be so healingHow childhood wounding and old conditioning can show up in intimacy and how we've learned to navigate that togetherThe Taoist concept of "the way" - learning to listen and move with what's actually happening, rather than following a scriptHow to practice presence in the everydayConscious penetration as a healing pathway through peri / menopauseWhy arousal doesn't have to come first and how willingness and openness can be a doorway into intimacyThe Making Love scissors positionHow to play with subtletyHow penetration can be a practiceWhy women not orgasming through penetration says more about the style of sex we've learned than anything being ‘wrong’ with themPassion as fire and how it becomes a life-giving forceCheckout two other podcast episodes mentioned in this one:Episode 61 on sex and menopauseEpisode 68 on the pleasure of planned intimacyIf this piques your curiosity, join us for our Making Love Retreat for couples in Devon in October - a full week dedicated to exactly what we talk about in this episode, through embodiment practices, teaching, and practice time. There is space left for two couples.You can find out more here: https://sarahrosebright.com/making-love-retreats/Graeme Waterfield is a men’s coach who guides men into deeper presence, embodiment, and self-awareness. His sexual energy mastery training, blends meditation, Taoist principles, and nervous system awareness to transform sexual energy into love, vitality, and consciousness. Moving away from performance and intensity, his work emphasises relaxation, heart connection, and integrating sexuality into everyday life, helping men deepen intimacy, authenticity, and inner ease.Graeme and Sarah teach The Making Love Retreat®. Together they guide couples into deeper dimensions of intimacy, lovemaking, and conscious connection.RESOURCES FROM GRAEMETo explore Graeme's work in meditation, embodiment and sexual energy mastery for men, including courses, coaching, retreats and teachings, visit: https://www.graemewaterfield.comGraeme’s Sexual Energy Mastery Training for men - a training for men exploring meditation, embodied awareness and the deeper potential of sexual energy as a pathway into embodiment. This course starts April 14th, 2026 (though you can join up to April 21st).You can also find Graeme on Facebook.RESOURCES FROM SARAHThe Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026For free gifts for women and couples and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.comABOUT YOUR HOSTSarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • Untamed Pleasure with Carly Mountain

    Untamed Pleasure with Carly Mountain
    Aug 10 2026

    Carly Mountain, psychotherapist, sex therapist, and author of Descent & Rising, joined Sarah to talk about her new book, Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature.

    She shares that we weren't born tamed - we get trained into cages, that keep us from our own erotic nature. Carly's book offers twelve keys to find our way back out.

    In this conversation, Carly joins Sarah to explore what it really means to untame, they talk about the twelve keys and cages framework at the heart of her new book, what emerged from interviewing over sixty people aged 23 to 71 about their erotic lives, why creative transgression was the hardest chapter to write, and what midlife opens for women reclaiming Eros.

    Carly shares the "pleasure paradox," rewilding orgasm and what it looks like for couples to untame together, including taking penetration off the table as a gateway to deeper intimacy.

    What you’ll hear:

    • Defining "untamed pleasure" - why not "wild," and the difference between returning to something innate versus learning something new
    • The twelve keys and cages framework: physical, mental, emotional, energetic, relational, soulful
    • Communication as a "skeleton key" for every cage
    • What over 60 interviews (ages 23–71) revealed
    • What untaming brings up: grief, fear of family rejection and more
    • Midlife as a threshold for reclaiming Eros
    • The chapter she found hardest to write, and why
    • Why midlife is such a specific threshold for reclaiming Eros
    • The "pleasure paradox" — why the road to pleasure isn't always pleasurable
    • Rewilding orgasm beyond quick and genital-only
    • What it looks like for a couple to untame together

    If you've ever felt like there's more available to you, more pleasure, more aliveness, more permission - this conversation is for you.

    Carly Mountain is a somatic psychotherapist, sex therapist, sacred space holder, breathworker and author of Descent & Rising: Women’s Stories & the Embodiment of the Inanna Myth and Untamed Pleasure: Unleash Your True Erotic Nature. She is passionate about facilitating people to reconnect with their inherent erotic aliveness, power and pleasure. She lives in Sheffield, England with her husband and two daughters.

    RESOURCES FROM CARLY

    https://carlymountain.com/

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/carly_mountain

    Facebook Carly Mountain

    Substack https://substack.com/@carlymountain

    RESOURCES FROM SARAH

    The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

    Visit www.sarahrosebright.com

    ABOUT YOUR HOST

    Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

    MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/
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    1 hr and 1 min
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