About this episode

In this episode, Aurika Valan discusses with Chantelle Raven how stress and emotional suppression affect natural beauty and the importance of loving one's body through all life stages.

We're taught beauty is something to chase with Botox, filters, fillers. We're under constant pressure to look forever 30. But what if real beauty isn't manufactured, it's uncovered? In this episode, I sit down with Chantelle Raven, a tantra teacher and founder of the Embodied Awakening Academy, to talk about what actually makes a woman beautiful, and why stress, suppressed emotion, and disconnection from the body erode beauty faster than any wrinkle ever could. Chantelle shares how her cervical cancer diagnosis cracked open a lifetime of suppressed emotional and feminine energy, completely changing the trajectory of her life. We talk about why loving your body through every season of life, instead of fighting to freeze it in place, is the most radical beauty practice there is. We also get into anger as a vital source of personal power, the difference between a need and a boundary, and what it means to build an Inner Union between your own Masculine and Feminine so you're not outsourcing your peace and wholeness to a partner (or your worth to a needle). And lastly, we also explore the deeper nuances of what it takes to deepen sexual desire, even after years of being together (it's…

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