48. We're Living Apart—Together
Sensual Self with Ev'Yan Whitney
Ev'Yan Whitney, Sexuality Doula®
4.7 • 758 Ratings
🗓️ 15 April 2020
⏱️ 40 minutes
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Summary
*Note: This episode was done during the era when this podcast used to be called The Sexually Liberated Woman.
Ev’Yan gives a vulnerable update on the state of her marriage—and talks about why she decided to put intentional physical distance between her and her partner of 13+ years.
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Find more about Ev'Yan Whitney and her work as a sexuality doula at evyanwhitney.com and on Instagram: @evyan.whitney.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey everyone. I'm Avion Whitney and this is the sexually liberated woman. |
| 0:29.2 | Well, first I want to say thank you for all of the love you gave me in the last episode. |
| 0:40.4 | I've been hearing from a lot of you that the practices I shared have really helped you come back into your body and access pleasure during |
| 0:46.4 | these wildly unsettling times. And that makes me so happy to hear. And for those of you |
| 0:53.8 | who haven't yet, definitely check out episode 47 for some accessible |
| 0:59.3 | and easy and also gentle practices to help you ground and reconnect into yourself. |
| 1:08.1 | Okay, so what do I want to talk about today? Well, I think it would be a great time, since all I have |
| 1:16.2 | right now is time, to address an elephant in the room that has been weighing heavily on my mind |
| 1:24.4 | ever since I came back from my impromptu hiatus. And that is the state of my marriage. |
| 1:34.0 | I kind of alluded in the last episode that there have been some big changes happening in my life |
| 1:41.9 | and my relationship has been one of the biggest ones. |
| 1:47.5 | The short version of this is that after a lot of months of hard conversations and many |
| 1:54.0 | back and forths about our individual needs and desires, me and Jonathan, my husband and partner of almost 14 years, are not living together |
| 2:05.3 | at the moment. Here is a long version, and it is long, so strap in. So last April, at exactly around this time last year, I took a trip to Los Angeles |
| 2:25.1 | to teach a workshop on sensual self-portraiture and to do some other fun work-related projects. |
| 2:32.4 | It was the first time I had been back to L.A. properly since I moved |
| 2:36.7 | from there to the Pacific Northwest. And my God, that trip ignited me. At the time, I thought |
| 2:46.3 | it was a combination of the sun, being surrounded by all of my friends, and all of the birds of paradise |
| 2:53.2 | that really awakened me. And that's exactly what it felt like. Like I was finally woken from a |
| 3:00.6 | very long sleep. I was wearing bright colors. I was feeling totally comfortable and at home, not only in my surroundings, |
| 3:09.1 | but in my own body. I was experiencing new levels of agency and ease with my own solitude |
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