You are tuned in to Lightworkers Lounge, a podcast for spiritual souls on their journey of enlightening the world.

I'm your host, Stephanie Powers. Welcome.

Good morning, Lightworkers. How are you guys? Hey, we survived Mercury retrograde. It's over.

You know, I want to change my verbiage. I don't want to say we survived. I want to say, congratulations. How is your Mercury Retrograde? You know, it's not a bad thing. I'm actually to the point now where I look forward to it because it's like a forced break from the universe. It's forcing us to slow down, go within, and

think about things rather than be in constant masculine mode. Oh, see what I did there.

Mercury retrograde forces us to tap into our feminine and be quiet and go within and think

and use our intuition and reassess, re-evaluate, you know.

So that's what we're going to talk about on today's podcast episode is my heavy masculine energy.

And okay, I'm just going to stop y'all right here.

If you didn't go listen to last week's podcast, Feminine versus Masculine Energy and Relationships,

featuring Jake Woodard, the incredible Jake Woodard, please go listen to that before you

listen to this. Because we talk a lot about what feminine and masculine energy is, but then

Jake and I apply it to my own life. I vulnerably shared my story and my personal experience

with being raised but in masculine energy and then carrying that over into my personal relationships

today. So in this episode, I bring on my boyfriend J.L. The lovely, the one and only. And I ask him, because, you know, first of all, I bring on my boyfriend, J.L., the lovely, the one and only.

And I ask him, because, you know, first of all, I'm so lucky to have a partner that I can openly discuss things like this.

And we can share things that, you know, we're doing wrong or that's not so evolved or what's the word I'm looking for?

Our higher selves and our relationship.

Everybody has their shit, right?

So I just feel lucky that J.L. and I are so open to hearing what the other needs from us, from the other.

So in this relationship, I talked to J.L. about my masculine energy

and how it affects him in this relationship. Because, for example, a lot of you know, as you

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