{"podcast":{"title":"Sit Around the Fire","slug":"sit-around-the-fire-7092992","podcast_index_feed_id":7092992,"rss_url":"https://api.riverside.fm/hosting/p7CgHNTy.rss","website_url":"http://www.sitaroundthefire.org","image_url":"https://hosting-media.riverside.com/media/podcasts/a1a89402-3cb2-4d0e-8271-1dc3f9195458/logos/1ca2cda6-5777-4806-9283-839da608aef6.png","author":"Ashlea Dillard","episode_count":62,"summary":"Welcome to Sit Around the Fire — the space where stories ignite transformation. Hosted by a former first responder turned licensed professional counselor and certified hypnotherapist , this podcast blends real-life experiences , powerful teachings, and practical tools for mental and physical health . Each episode invites you to slow down, reflect, and find your spark again. Together, we explore mindfulness, stress management, trauma recovery, and PTSD healing — all through the lens of someone who’s lived it. You’ll hear raw conversations with first responders, veterans, and mental health experts as well as other incredible human beings with amazing stories and missions who share their wisdom on how to move from burnout to balance, from survival mode to thriving. If you’re ready to break free from old patterns and beliefs , reclaim your peace, and live your most abundant, limitless life , this is your community. ✨ What you’ll learn: How to manage stress and trauma while building emotional resilience. Practical mindfulness and mental well-being techniques that fit your lifestyle. Real stories of healing from first responders and military families . 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In this powerful episode of Sit Around the Fire , host Ashlea Dillard sits down with Pauline Ryeland to explore the deeper psychology of relationships, intimacy, and connection. Together, they unpack how self-worth, communication patterns, trauma, and life transitions directly impact emotional and physical intimacy. This conversation dives into the foundations of conscious relating , highlighting how disconnection often stems from unresolved stress, past experiences, and nervous system dysregulation—not just surface-level relationship issues. Pauline shares her journey into sexual education and explains why understanding sexual energy as a life force is key to reclaiming connection, confidence, and fulfillment. You’ll learn how NLP, personal growth, and self-awareness can transform not only your relationship with your partner—but with yourself. Whether you’re navigating a long-term relationship, rebuilding intimacy, or seeking deeper emotional connection, this episode offers practical tools and mindset shifts to help you reconnect, communicate, and thrive. ✨ If you’ve ever felt disconnected, stuck, or unsure how to communicate your needs—this conversation is for you. relationships, intimacy, self-worth, communication in relationships, trauma and relationships, emotional connection, conscious relating, sexual energy, NLP, personal growth, relationship healing, reconnecting with partner, mental health and relationships, nervous system regulation, intimacy issues Self-worth and self-love are the foundation of healthy relationships and intimacy Emotional and physical intimacy start with connection to self Trauma and stress can silently disrupt communication…","meta_description":"What if the biggest barrier to intimacy in your relationship isn’t your partner—but your relationship with yourself? 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