My Favorite Podcasts

In 2014, I started a blog called Sex After Marriage. I was going through the transformation one does after coming out of an 18-year marriage with a man that I met at 17 years old. I was finding out who I was. I started this blog to chronicle my journey. I figured that if I was inspiring myself, I would surely inspire others. 

In 2024, it’s now been 10 years. I thought it might be time to republish the blog with my “10-Year Take”.  I’m looking forward to seeing what’s changed and what has stayed the same. This is a gift to myself as I come into my 50th year on this planet, the same age my mom lost her 2-year battle with Inflammatory Breast Cancer. In some ways, it feels like I’m on borrowed time. In other ways, I feel like I’m completing her incomplete journey.  Mom, you are missed and I’m not sure I would have gotten here if I hadn’t had to feel the loss of you. Thank you for reading.

Dated March 9, 2015

These are the podcast I currently listen to regularly (if they aren’t clickable, I’m removed the link as they aren’t good links anymore):

Life on the Swingset

Carnalcopia

Savage Lovecast

Sex Nerd Sandra

Ruby Ryder’s Pegging Paradise

Ending the Sexual Dark Age

Polyamory Weekly

The Manwhore Podcast

The Gentle Perverts Social Club

Sex Ed a Go Go

Pedestrian Polyamory (archives)

Ten-Year Take:

My podcast tastes are always changing. Many of those podcast from 10 years ago don’t even exist anymore (hence I’ve removed the links). Here’s the current regulars, as of today:

How I Built This

Diary of a CEO

Money for Couples

Breaking Points

and of course my own podcast The Intimacy Lab, which I host, and Finding Ourself, a podcast I co-host with Keeley Shoup, my co-owner at Cuddlist.com. Yes, I do relisten to my own podcasts, and every episode I’ve interviewed for other podcasts, as a lot of time has usually passed since recording.

Michelle Renee

Michelle Renee (she/her) is a surrogate partner and certified Cuddlist practitioner specializing in trauma-informed therapeutic intimacy. As Co-owner and Director of Training at Cuddlist.com and Co-chair of AASECT's Somatic Intimacy Professionals SIG, she helps trauma survivors reclaim safety, connection, and embodied healing through a collaborative triadic model with licensed therapists.

Michelle's work integrates somatic approaches, EMDR-compatible touch therapy, and nervous system regulation to create corrective emotional experiences for clients healing from sexual trauma, attachment wounds, and relational injury.

Host of The Intimacy Lab podcast and founder of Human Connection Lab, Michelle serves clients in San Diego, Los Angeles, Baltimore/DC, and Pittsburgh, with plans to expand to additional regions.

https://humanconnectionlab.com
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