This is a Global Player Original podcast.

Welcome to this episode of Dirty Motherpucker.

I'm your host Anna Whitehouse, the founder of Motherpucker.

I'm joined by

P-Dog. Hello, hello. Polly Hazelwood in the house. Now, this is a very special episode because

coming up, we have the co-founders of the Somatica Institute, Daniel Harrell and Celeste Hirschman.

Now, this is an episode close to Polly's heart because she's

been training to be a sex and relationships coach with the Somaticate Institute. And we are going to be

delving into doing it postpartum, the trauma of childbirth and how to have an orgasm, even an orgasmic birth, some might say.

That's all coming up.

But I wanted to get stuck into the change, Polly, not the menopausal change.

The change I've seen in you since you've taken on this course, has just been extreme.

Yeah, it has been extreme. It's been enlightening. I will say that.

But at 40, yeah, 42, 40 really. Everything started to kind of shift for me and change.

And I'd had a lot of therapy. It had a lot of talking therapy. I think therapy

that I do is very different because it's somatic. And so that means of the body. So you're really

delving into what is stored in your body. You're listening to it. You're coming into connection

with your mind and your body as one. So, you know, we can tell ourselves a lot of lies when we're in therapy.

We want to connect the dots. We don't like uncertainty. So it's very easy to create narratives

where there are, you know, there are none. And I think whereas when you're listening to

your body, it's very hard to avoid the truth to know what's in there. Because the body

stores trauma. It stores stores everything it stores our

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