Your body can change overnight. So can your relationship to meaning, faith, and “why me.”

Two ostomates share how medical crisis cracked open a spiritual awakening, without preaching.

In this episode, we talk about how our health journeys (Crohn’s, ostomy surgery, medical trauma) reshaped our spirituality, our sense of purpose, and the way we interpret “signs,” connection, and healing.

Trina shares a powerful near-death style experience during emergency surgery, including the feeling of peace, familiarity, and a moment of choice. Nicole shares a different path, a slower awakening through medical hardship, grief, and the search for meaning after everything changed.

We also get into past life regression, why it’s so expensive sometimes, what it’s actually like, and why “woo-woo” labels often miss the point. No conversion attempts. Just two women telling the truth and letting you take what helps.

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

Politics gets personal fast when you’re sick, disabled, or caregiving.
In this episode, we talk healthcare, disability systems, and how division (and algorithms) shape what we believe.

Welcome to Rewired and Desired, where intimacy, mindset, and disability intersect. Today we’re discussing healthcare political issues through lived experience, not “pick a team” debate. We cover Canada’s overwhelmed system, U.S. ER realities, disability supports, pharmaceutical-first mental health, and why respectful conversation matters more than dunking on “the other side.”

This episode is not medical or legal advice. It’s a real conversation about what we’ve lived, witnessed, and questioned, especially when your health journey forces you to look at the world differently.

Links

Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate:
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimateostomate
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@intimateostomate

Nicole Richards – Ostomy Innovations:
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ostomyinnovations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OstomyInnovations222

Community:
Ostomy Body Positive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2093760487654150

Check out our MASTERCLASS! https://www.intimateostomate.com/masterclass

Contact us: rewiredanddesired@gmail.com

#Healthcare #Disability #ChronicIllness #Ostomy #RewiredAndDesired

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

What if confidence isn’t about how your body looks… but how you see yourself?

In this episode of Rewired and Desired, we dismantle unrealistic beauty standards and explore how confidence, mindset, and authenticity shape attraction—especially for people living with disability, ostomies, scars, and medical devices.

We talk honestly about:

● How beauty standards are manufactured (and who benefits)

● Why confidence makes people appear more attractive than “perfect” bodies

● Aging, surgery, scars, ostomies, and learning to feel desirable again

● The difference between hiding your body and being at home in it

● Practical, grounded ways to build confidence without changing your body

This is a real conversation for people who’ve been told—directly or indirectly—that their body is “too much” or “not enough.”

No hype. No fake empowerment. Just truth, compassion, and lived experience.

🔗 Links

Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: https://intimateostomate.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimateostomate
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@intimateostomate

Nicole Richards – Ostomy Innovations
Website: https://ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ostomyinnovations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OstomyInnovations222

Join My Free Course and Community: https://www.skool.com/digestion-ostomy-renewal-8187/about?ref=9fa274f7d99a45faa465fce6882b8547

Community
Ostomy Body Positive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2093760487654150

Check out our MASTERCLASS! https://www.intimateostomate.com/masterclass

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

Tired of being told “everything’s normal” while you feel awful?
In this episode, we share the alternative health tools we’ve personally tried, what helped, what didn’t, and what we’d research before reaching for another prescription.

Welcome back to Rewired & Desired: Where intimacy, mindset & disability intersect. Trina and Nicole talk natural and alternative approaches for common health issues that show up more often with chronic illness, autoimmune conditions, and ostomy life, with a clear disclaimer: this is not medical advice, it’s lived experience and research prompts.

We cover topics like fasting, inflammation, gut support, UTIs, mouth health, detox-style tools, and a few controversial mentions (again: do your research, go slow, and consult a professional you trust).

Timestamps
0:00 Intro + medical disclaimer + Trina’s birthday
1:47 Next episode preview: beauty standards + anti-aging
2:22 Why chronic illness folks deal with “everything”
4:10 Trina’s story: adverse reaction + being dismissed
6:45 Nicole’s car accident + healing outside “the system”
8:00 Where doctors help (and where they don’t)
11:14 Top tool #1: fasting + intermittent fasting
15:16 Fasting caution for underweight people
16:16 Trina’s top tool: going gluten-free
17:23 Omega-3 + vitamin D (what Nicole noticed)
21:53 Trina’s top tool: food-grade diatomaceous earth
28:30 Rapid-fire remedies list (yeast, eczema, pink eye, etc.)
29:14 Stem cells (research topic)
30:59 UTIs: colloidal silver method + other uses
37:05 Creatine for brain fog/nerve pain
38:52 Oil pulling (castor oil) + mouth/gums
41:10 Castor oil packs (Trina’s cyst story)
46:35 Activated charcoal (canker sores/diarrhea notes)
50:04 Skin concerns: Phoenix Tears + ivermectin mentioned
54:03 Chlorine dioxide solution (controversial, strong disclaimer)
59:16 Pink eye: breast milk / silver mention
1:00:06 Methylene blue mention (brain fog/hives story)
1:04:13 Next episode tease + birthday wishes
1:05:00 Trina newsletter + free guide mention
1:05:20 Masterclass mention + monthly plan

Links we promised:

C D S documentaries https://bit.ly/4jiN2dX

R U N from the C U R E documentary about Phoenix Tears https://bit.ly/4aDmXUF

Chase Hughs talking to Joe Rogan about seizures and brain health https://youtu.be/EVkCxP_IiUM?si=4cU8FnOtEczeRCFZ

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

Intimacy after disability or an ostomy isn’t just “physical”… it’s mindset, shame, confidence, and real-life logistics.

In this episode, we talk leaks, bag noises, body shame, proctectomy changes, and how to build desire without pressure.

Welcome back to Rewired and Desired, where intimacy, mindset, and disability intersect. Nicole Richards and Trina Ricketts get honest (and PG-creative) about the realities of intimacy with an ostomy bag, confidence after body changes, and what actually helps when anxiety tries to run the show.

We cover:

● The mind as the biggest barrier (shame, guilt, “what ifs”)

● Practical solutions for bag noises, leaks, and comfort

● Proctectomy (“Barbie/Ken butt”) changes and what women are rarely told

● How to create arousal and connection without rushing to “the usual way”

● Why men and women often bond differently, and how to work with it

Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/intimateostomate
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@intimateostomate

Nicole Richards – Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ostomyinnovations/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OstomyInnovations222

Community
Ostomy Body Positive: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2093760487654150

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

Your self-talk isn’t “just thoughts.” It’s programming. In this episode of Rewired and Desired (where intimacy, mindset, and disability intersect), Nicole Richards and Trina Ricketts unpack how subconscious beliefs shape confidence, relationships, healing, and the way we handle hard seasons.

We talk about the spiral, the reframe, and the real-life tools that help you stop living in the same painful loop, especially when medical trauma, disability, or past relationships trained your brain to expect the worst.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

• Why your inner dialogue runs in the background (and how to catch it)
• How to reframe “Why me?” into something that actually helps
• Why “fake it till you make it” isn’t fake, it’s practice

-Mirror work for confidence in a disabled body (scars, ostomy, stretch marks, all of it)

-Two starter tools: catch-and-switch + daily “I am” affirmations

Want support? Each of us offers a free foundational call. No pressure, just clarity and tools.

Trina Ricketts (The Intimate Ostomate)
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
YouTube: / @intimateostomate

Nicole Richards (Ostomy Innovations)
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
YouTube: / @ostomyinnovations222

Community
Ostomy Body Positive Facebook Group:

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

When your body has been through hell, how do you ever feel soft and safe again?

In this episode of Rewired & Desired: Where intimacy, mindset & disability intersect, Trina Ricketts opens up about something she’s never really talked about publicly: living in survival mode, feeling like she had to be “the strong one” for everyone, and how medical trauma and single motherhood pushed her deep into her masculine, protector energy.

Nicole Richards coaches Trina through:

• Years of being left alone in hospitals and emergency rooms
• Parenting through severe illness, arthritis, and ostomy surgeries
• Leaving a toxic relationship and rebuilding life with three kids
• What it means to never feel truly protected or cared for
• Why asking for help feels unsafe when you’ve always had to cope alone

Together, they unpack the difference between feminine and masculine energy (not gender, but energetic roles): how constant grinding, hustling, and shielding your emotions can block intimacy, softness, and connection… and how tiny moments of crying, sharing, and being witnessed can actually start to rewire your nervous system.

If you’re:

• Living with an ostomy or chronic illness
• A single parent who feels like everything lands on your shoulders
• Stuck in “I don’t need anyone” mode
• Struggling to feel vulnerable, feminine, or emotionally open after trauma

…this conversation will remind you that you’re not broken, you’re not alone, and you don’t have to carry it all by yourself anymore.

Connect with us
🩹 Trina – The Intimate Ostomate
YouTube: @intimateostomate

🌀 Nicole – Ostomy Innovations
YouTube: @OstomyInnovations222

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📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing

What do you do when you haven’t had sex in years, you’re living with an ostomy, and suddenly a gorgeous, wealthy, semi-famous man starts giving you serious attention? In this episode of Rewired & Desired, Trina Ricketts (The Intimate Ostomate) walks co-host Nicole Richards through a live intimacy coaching session about:

• dating with an ostomy
• self-worth and “why would he want me?” thoughts
• fears about being ghosted after sex
• how long celibacy shapes your choices
• whether to wait for “the one” or seize the moment
• reframing power so you choose how your body and intimacy are shared

Connect With Us

Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
YouTube: / @intimateostomate
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards – Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
YouTube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability Advocacy • Ostomy Clothing
Ostomy Body Positive (Facebook Group)
/ 2093760487654150

📌 Connect With Us
Trina Ricketts – The Intimate Ostomate
Website: intimateostomate.com
Instagram: / intimateostomate
Youtube: / @intimateostomate
Books, guides, coaching & resources
Coaching • Books / Guides • Resources • Intimacy Advocacy

Nicole Richards - Ostomy Innovations
Website: ostomyinnovations222.com
Instagram: / ostomyinnovations
Youtube: / @ostomyinnovations222
Coaching • Wellness • Disability advocacy • Ostomy Clothing