Hosted by Laura Ellen, intimacy educator and practitioner with over six years of experience, Better Loving explores the inner and relational landscapes of love, sex, and connection. Drawing on Eastern philosophy, depth psychology, clinical insight, and lived, embodied experience, the podcast invites a more attuned, honest, and alive way of relating—to yourself, to others, and to the life you’re living.
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Work with Sancya: https://www.pathoftherose.com/ (https://www.pathoftherose.com/)We’ve all been told to “trust our gut” but sometimes that’s the very thing blocking us from the true creative power of our intuition.
In this episode, Laura & Sancya explore intuition as a vital sense perception. An instinctive human experience rooted in our ability to feel, discern and relate with the world inside and around us.
We unpack the difference between intuition and emotion, exploring anxiety, nervous system states, and psychological protections, and why meeting those parts matters in order to have a clear intuitive channel.
We look at how intuition is shaped by both personal and collective conditioning, translated through the body, and starved or fed depending on how much trust we have in the unknown.
And we discuss why deep listening isn’t just an individual skill, but part of belonging to a responsive web of life that we’re all co-creating with, now matter where or who we are.
You can train your intuition like a muscle.
You can revive it, refine it, reclaim it.
We share practical examples of how to do this, so you can start today.
As always, take what resonates. Leave the rest.
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With love,
Laura Ellen & Sancy Luz
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7 Apr 2026
Body Image & Light's On Confidence
I’ll be brief today because it’s assignment season and all of my writing eggs are going into the uni basket.
This episode is for anyone who feels like something is missing in their intimacy, who struggles with body image, and wants to form a sexual self-identity that feels… Free.
I share some insights on how to cultivate the confidence you need to be yourself in intimate contexts, and connect to the parts of you that feel like they can’t.
This will be helpful for you if:
* You struggle to speak up during sex
* Identify with the people pleaser archetype
* Hide your body during sex
* Feel disappointed or defeated after sex (even if it was good)
As always, take what resonates. Leave the rest.
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With love,
Laura Ellen
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[…] So number one is start with the body. And for this particular circumstance, start with medical first. Always rule out medical causes. So pelvic floor tension, hormonal shifts, vulvodynia, birth injuries. These are real and valid. Find a trauma-informed pelvic physio or GP. This isn't about bypassing science. It's about including it and including it respectfully. Number two is addressing their somatic and psychospiritual roots of this numbness or pain that you're experiencing. So if there's no clear physical cause, that's when we can start to turn inward. What has this part of your body lived through? […]
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