Welcome to my edgiest interview yet! A conversation with Darshana Avila, an “erotic wholeness” coach.

I began working with Darshana in 2021 as the stress of the pandemic amplified a need to examine old programming around sex and reclaim more of myself.

In this episode On Sexual Healing and Reclaiming Your Erotic Self we explore Darshana’s one-of-kind work and my learnings from it over several years including:

• One simple question that can change your whole life along with your sex life
• How to love ourselves into wholeness and access our highest wisdom
• Why safe, shame-free spaces are needed for the unfolding of our erotic selves
• How we grow our capacity for pleasure in all of our lives

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com.

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people.

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

This week I’m speaking with Tovi Scruggs-Hussein about racial healing and how my own journey began in earnest with a shame-filled moment of her calling me in, back in 2020.

That moment and how Tovi met it and me, taught me how to work with shame in a way I never have before. It sent me on an ongoing path to be more forgiving of myself when I inevitably get things wrong. To grow my confidence in my ability to make an ongoing impact through radical self-love and acceptance.

This conversation is not only about racial healing work that I believe to be some of the most important work of our time. It’s about a path to finding our voice along with our humanity.

In this episode On Racial Healing and Untethering from Shame, Tovi and I dive into:

• The limitations of quick fixes for systemic racism and the need for ongoing self-reflection
• How shame sabotages our ability to heal and use our voices
• How the medicine of forgiveness and compassion grow our capacity to do hard healing work
• The therapeutic and healing nature of racial healing autobiographies, and how they can set people free and change their mindsets

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

📓For full show notes, visit www.cara-jones.com. To learn more about Tovi’s work and download the latest edition of Racial Healing Autobiographies visit: https://www.ticiess.com/racial-healing-autobiographies-ebooks

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people.

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.

There is a quality that lives in all of us and I think is essential in our ability to heal, speak, create, make art, make a ripple here in this world.

And that quality is willingness.

Willingness has driven all the twists and turns on my path.

Willingness is a unique flavor of courage that puts the soul in the drivers seat. That helps us stop fighting the resistance and instead welcome it.

In this episode on The Willingness to Be Seen I dive into:

• A song that is supporting me to shift out of validation-seeking work and into something truer
• An experience of willingness from my childhood that holds an ongoing lesson
• How the willingness to be seen can open up new possibilities
• A willingness prayer to guide you next time you face a scary decision to put yourself out there and be seen.

✨For more true stories, practical wisdom, and contemplations on speaking your truth, showing up and being seen in your life, and your soul-driven work, I welcome you to my email list. Click here to sign up.

📓For full show notes and to learn about Cara’s work, visit www.cara-jones.com

Meet your host, Cara Jones

Untethered Voice is hosted by me, Cara Jones, a former Emmy award-winning journalist, storyteller, visibility guide, and human cheeseball.

I bring a 25+ year career in journalism, filmmaking and coaching (including deep trauma-informed study and somatic practice), to support you in telling the stories that will magnetize your people and allow you to authentically grow your business. I help you untether your voice and unearth the one-of-a-kind wisdom in your lived experience, so your purpose work can reach your people.

I’m also the proud dance partner of my husband Don, mama to dog Henry, and 7-year-old Ellie whose naturally untethered voice inspires my work every day.