This Is What God Is with Rae Halder

This Is What God Is with Rae Halder

From Happy Slut by Samia Mounts

June 3, 2026 · 58 min · Season 1 · Episode 9

About this episode

Rae Halder discusses her journey as a childhood sexual abuse survivor and her work as a trauma resolution and erotic embodiment coach.

Content warning: Mentions of sexual assault and child sexual abuse. We live within a system that allows sexual abuse of all kinds to flourish without much accountability, and because of that, a lot of us carry deep trauma around sex and intimacy. Rachel (Rae) Halder is one of those people, and she's also a certified trauma resolution and erotic embodiment coach with over a decade of experience helping others heal the same wounds she's been working to heal within herself. This episode deals with some heavy themes, buuuut we also talk about the Italian hippie who worshipped Rae like a sun goddess...so it's not all doom and gloom. Hehe! This is Happy Slut, after all! In this episode: Rae's journey from childhood sexual abuse survivor to trauma resolution and erotic embodiment coach Recovering a repressed memory years after the abuse occurred Why our nervous systems dissociate, freeze, and fawn during sex How unprocessed trauma gets stored in the body The devastating gray area of consensual encounters that become traumatic experiences Why some people intellectually want sex while their bodies experience it as unsafe The surprising ways trauma can masquerade as asexuality Growing up…

People in this episode

Host: Samia Mounts

Guest: Rae Halder

Topics covered

  • sexual abuse
  • trauma resolution
  • erotic embodiment
  • intimacy
  • patriarchy
  • sexuality

Keywords

  • sexual assault
  • child sexual abuse
  • nervous system
  • consensual encounters
  • trauma
  • Mennonite
  • goddess worship
  • tantra

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