Episode 90: Exploring your Sensual Self with Ev’Yan Whitney
“You get to choose how you want your sexuality to come through. You get to choose what is on the table when it comes to having sex.”
-Ev’Yan Whitney, The Everything Belongs Podcast
Today on the Everything Belongs Podcast, Madison is in conversation with Ev'Yan Whitney. Ev’Yan (they/she) is a sexuality doula®, sex educator, and sensualist. For more than a decade, Ev'Yan has been dedicated to sex education and sexual activism for women and non-binary folks, helping individuals reclaim their unique sexual expressions and reconnect to their sensual bodies. Their work focuses on decolonizing, unshaming, and liberating sexuality at the intersection of identity, pleasure, trauma resolution, and embodiment. Ev'Yan's wildly successful Sensual Selfie Challenge on Instagram as well as her digital courses and guides have encouraged hundreds of thousands of folks heal, explore, and reclaim their relationship to sex and their own bodies.Ev'Yan's work has been featured extensively, most notably in Vogue, Buzzfeed, Rolling Stone, GQ, Goop, and The New York Times. She is the author of Sensual Self, a forthcoming self-guided journal that will help you come home to yourself through your senses, and hosts a podcast of the same name. In this episode, Madison and Ev'Yan speak on finding sex education and liberation as someone who never received it early in life, navigating life without having had proper sexual & sensual developmental experiences, breaking the sexual rules we learned and becoming the full spectrum of ourselves, decolonizing sexuality, marriage, sex, sensuality, and so much more…
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In this episode, we talk about:
What is a sexuality doula®, sex educator, and sensualist?
Ev'Yan's story of coming into this work
Finding sex education & liberation as someone who never recieved it early in life
Navigating life without having had proper sexual & sensual developmental experiences
Breaking the sexual rules we learned & becoming the full spectrum of ourselves
Decolonizing sexuality, marriage, sex, sensuality and more
Ev'Yan's experience of sexual liberation while inside a relationship
Dealing with projections of others through relational navigations
Dispelling myths about being A-Sexual/Ace & about our own sexuality
Levels of desire and just allowing ourselves to exist
Rest, being busy & how it interplays with the body and sensuality
Where to find more of Ev’Yan:
For more about Ev'Yan's work, go to www.evyanwhitney.com and follow her on Instagram @evyan.whitney.
