Skin and Soul™: Beyond the Pale with Gwenm A. Carsley

What happens when you mix a sex-positive grandma, a childhood spent figure-skating on frozen lakes, and a lifetime of dismantling religious shame… with modern parenting, porn, and kids with iPads?

In this episode of Skin and Soul: Beyond the Pale, I... more

Poet, author, and sound artist Tawhida Tanya Evanson joins Gwenm to explore eros, death, mysticism, lucid dreaming, and the divine in Book of Wings.

What happens when becoming yourself collides with a world obsessed with identity — when truth, politics, and love all live in the same body?

Teegan Toftley transitioned in her late forties — not to prove a point, but to stop living divided. Now in h... more

What’s the difference between pleasure and purpose — between the quick hit of happiness and the quiet satisfaction of meaning?

In this episode, Gwenm sits with Justin McSweeny, philosopher of mind and host of an interview series exploring sense-maki... more

In part 2 of our Embodying the Practice conversation, Andrew Marshall returns to talk about intimacy - with the medicine, and with the ones we love. We explore his experiences with Ayahuasca - the openings, the purges, the raw honesty of meeting hims... more

He chased the highs - the fight, the women, the thrill that felt like freedom.

But it wasn’t. It was escape dressed up as aliveness.

Andrew Marshall, Master Coach, Jiu Jitsu black belt, husband, father - lived the performance of freedom until his ... more

Bedroom boredom isn’t about running out of positions or toys. It’s about the slow leak of presence — the touch that doesn’t land, the kiss that no longer opens, the silence that grows cold between bodies. In this episode, Gwenm drops raw into her own... more

Women are praised for being selfless — but the cost is often desire: starved, silenced, abandoned. The marriage that quietly goes cold. The body that goes numb. The fire that flickers out.

Melissa Barnes knows this terrain. Outwardly successful, inw... more