The Pleasure Wound: How Patriarchal Conditioning Taught Women to Fear Their Own Joy

Podcast: Hopeful and Wholesome: Wellness, Human Design & Somatic Healing for High-Achieving Women and Entrepreneurs · Hope Pedraza| Functional Health & Human Design for Women

Opublikowano: 2026-08-24

Send us Fan Mail High-achieving women weren't born afraid of pleasure, they were trained into it. In this solo episode, Hope breaks down the pleasure wound: the deep nervous system pattern that links joy, rest, and desire to guilt, shame, or danger. Pulling from history and modern patriarchal conditioning like purity culture and diet culture, Hope traces exactly how women were taught that wanting things and receiving them was unsafe. If you've ever felt guilty for resting, needed to "earn" a treat, or struggled to fully receive good things without over-explaining yourself, this episode names the pattern...