Welcome to Almost Awakened.

I'm your host Bill Real.

We explore human development here, spirituality, psychedelics, sexuality, and more.

Our aim, equipping you with tools for a fulfilling post-religious life.

This is Almost Awakened.

Welcome, folks, to another episode of the Almost Awakened podcast.

I'm your host, Bill Real.

I've got my friend here, Natasha Helper.

How are you doing today, Natasha?

I'm doing great.

Thanks for having me, Bill.

This is going to be a fun

conversation. I was just telling you before we started, folks who listened to this podcast,

we'll know this, but the previous six conversations that we've had similar to this setup,

where folks can sort of pick the questions that resonate with them, there's a lot of overlap,

which is good because they're fine for them. They're sharing their unique answers.

But as I try to express the question and share some of my own insights, I notice that I'm starting to

repeat myself. So I want to make sure that doesn't happen. And you made it really easy because you

picked a ton of questions that have not been asked before. And a lot of them in the realm of sexuality, which you have a lot of expertise in. And I'll give you a moment here to share a little bit of a kind of a bio of yourself. But it's a fun topic for me. You heard the intro to our show. It's one of the topics that I love, sex drugs. And instead of rock and roll, I always say reggae. But I'm really excited to have a conversation. We talk about some of the taboo things going on in humans and things we sort of stay away from in proper society. But all of us are really wanting advice on and thoughts on so that we can figure out how to be a better human. So thank you. I love it. Well, you know, I can talk about sex all day, all weekend. Oh, yeah. I love it. Excellent. We're going to do at least an hour and a half or so of this. So let's start off, share a brief bio of yourself. Give us for folks, most folks are going to know who you are in this space, but for folks who don't, share who you are and what your expertise is.

Okay, sure.

So I, by trade, am a marriage and family therapist, and I've been doing that work for 27 years, Bill.

It's almost 30 years.

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