{"podcast":{"title":"Fun & Bliss Show","slug":"fun-bliss-show-7840070","podcast_index_feed_id":7840070,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/2DgvuIt8.rss","website_url":"www.funandbliss.com","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/f2c4330e-f4b7-4d3b-8562-f8267c7cfd89/logos/008a316c-60f3-4854-b581-9fc987e239e6.jpeg","author":"Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer","episode_count":24,"summary":"The Fun & Bliss Show is a weekly invitation for everyone who is ready to stop postponing joy and start living with genuine ease, radiance, and aliveness. Co-hosts Monick Halm and Moneeka Sawyer explore how everyday fun and intentional bliss practices—what they call the Blissciplines—can open the door to clarity, connection, emotional freedom, and a life that feels deeply aligned. Through inspiring conversations, soulful stories, and simple five-minute “Fun & Bliss Sparks,” the show helps listeners reconnect with themselves, soften into presence, and remember that bliss isn’t a far-off dream—it’s a lived, daily experience. This is your space to breathe, to laugh, and to join a global movement where fun is the practice and bliss is the lifestyle.","last_synced_at":"2026-09-02T22:22:54.943459+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070"},"episode":{"title":"The Pleasure of Feeling Alive: Play, Intimacy & Permission with Andrea","slug":"the-pleasure-of-feeling-alive-play-intimacy-permission-with-andrea","published_at":"2026-08-04T20:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070/the-pleasure-of-feeling-alive-play-intimacy-permission-with-andrea","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/fun-bliss-show-7840070","url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/b0f30334cb0abce4a92aa719b8e9271520f53a7b3556dc38aaec590e055a79a1/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyYWIyM2QyOS1iMmI2LTQ5NDMtYTExYy0xMmY0ZmJjOGViZWEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmMmM0MzMwZS1mNGI3LTRkM2ItODU2Mi1mODI2N2M3Y2ZkODkiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTMyMjA1ZWU2MzE4YzVmYWI2YmJiOWQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE3MTI4ZTBhYzUzZjA5ODJmNTNlNjQxL21vbmVla2Etc2F3eWVycy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi04LTRfXzEtNDgtNDgubXAzIn0=.mp3","audio_url":"https://api.riverside.com/hosting-analytics/media/b0f30334cb0abce4a92aa719b8e9271520f53a7b3556dc38aaec590e055a79a1/eyJlcGlzb2RlSWQiOiIyYWIyM2QyOS1iMmI2LTQ5NDMtYTExYy0xMmY0ZmJjOGViZWEiLCJwb2RjYXN0SWQiOiJmMmM0MzMwZS1mNGI3LTRkM2ItODU2Mi1mODI2N2M3Y2ZkODkiLCJhY2NvdW50SWQiOiI2OTMyMjA1ZWU2MzE4YzVmYWI2YmJiOWQiLCJwYXRoIjoibWVkaWEvY2xpcHMvNmE3MTI4ZTBhYzUzZjA5ODJmNTNlNjQxL21vbmVla2Etc2F3eWVycy1zdHVkaW8tY29tcG9zZXItMjAyNi04LTRfXzEtNDgtNDgubXAzIn0=.mp3","summary":"What happens when pleasure stops being something you earn and becomes something you allow? In this deeply thoughtful and refreshingly playful conversation, Monick and Moneeka sit down with Andrea, a couples and sex therapist, pleasure advocate, and founder of Peak Couples and Sex Therapy, to explore what it really means to feel alive, connected, and fully yourself. Andrea shares how her fascination with relationships began in high school, why pleasure is essential to mental and emotional well-being, and how high-achieving women can become disconnected from their bodies, desires, and sense of play while managing careers, families, relationships, and endless responsibilities. Together, they explore why pleasure can feel frivolous or unproductive, how guilt keeps women from choosing themselves, and why there is often more time available for pleasure than we realize. Andrea also explains how shame begins to soften through empathy, vulnerability, and safe connection, and why couples do not need to wait until their relationship is in crisis to seek support. The conversation also dives into playfulness in relationships, the connection between life inside and outside the bedroom, the power of novelty and savoring, and the importance of paying attention to the beauty, pleasure, and aliveness already present in everyday life. You’ll discover: Why pleasure is not frivolous, but deeply restorative How performance and productivity can disconnect women from themselves Why playfulness can reduce pressure and deepen intimacy How vulnerability becomes an invitation into your partner’s inner world Why shame cannot thrive in the presence of empathy and care How everyday novelty, movement, beauty, and connection can create more aliveness A simple way to begin noticing more pleasure in the…","meta_description":"What happens when pleasure stops being something you earn and becomes something you allow? 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