PLEASE NOTE: This interview originally aired on Sounds True One, where you can enjoy early, ad-free access to episodes of Insights at the Edge. Sounds True One is our premium membership platform built around live classes, online events, award-winning specials, intimate learning experiences and Q&A sessions with the world's leading wisdom teachers. Get your first month FREE at https://bit.ly/4ctecMn CONTENT NOTE: This episode includes candid discussion of sexual abuse and sexual wounding, including Kimberly Ann Johnson's own experience. Most of us were handed one story about women's sexuality: it peaks young, and everything after is decline. Kimberly Ann Johnson has spent decades with the evidence that this is wrong. In this episode, Tami Simon speaks with Kimberly Ann Johnson—sexological body worker, somatic experiencing practitioner, birth doula, and author of The Fourth Trimester and Call of the Wild—about her new Sounds True book, Erotic Seasons: Tuning In to the Rhythms of Women's Sexuality and Spirituality. Her claim is simple and quietly radical: the female body is its own spiritual path, and its thresholds carry rites of passage we were never taught to recognize. Together, they explore: ·Erotic sovereignty—your relationship to your own life force, and why it stays with you across every season ·Why the goal isn't a more regulated nervous system, but a more responsive one, and what it means to run more charge ·The four erotic seasons—maiden, mother, virgin, crone—and the surprising reason virgin comes AFTER mother ·Why hormonal transitions are "wet clay": golden opportunities for repatterning that our culture teaches us to rush past ·Menopause as a death rehearsal, and the life review that arrives decades before we expect it ·Hot sex and warm sex—widening the range beyond adrenaline, and learning the language of the pause ·"Hormones are gods": the collective endocrine system, and why living intergenerationally may be the original hormone therapy ·Becoming a sexual alchemist—arousal as healing energy, and why care is the whole ethic Kimberly also speaks candidly about the sacred wound and her own early sexual wounding, with a clear insistence that none of that pain is being glorified or bypassed. Whether you are twenty-five or seventy-five, Kimberly offers a map for meeting your body's changes as thresholds rather than losses. ABOUT INSIGHTS AT THE EDGE: Insights at the Edge is Sounds True's flagship podcast hosted by founder Tami Simon. For over 20 years, Tami has interviewed leading spiritual teachers, authors, and thought leaders, exploring the growing edge of human consciousness and transformation. New episodes release weekly. Subscribe to Sounds True's YouTube Channel ► https://bit.ly/SubscribeSTYT Sounds True is a mission-driven learning and media company, and a recognized leader in wellbeing, personal growth, and spiritual transformation. Partnering with the world’s foremost wisdom teachers and best-selling authors, the company reaches millions worldwide with its unique programs, digital learning experiences, and worldwide events. The company also features a variety of original series, weekly shows, and live online experiences on Sounds True One, its global platform and community with members across more than 125 countries. Sounds True is a Public Benefit Corporation and also the home of the Sounds True Foundation. Connect with us: ▪️Facebook: http://bit.ly/2XFIIeE ▪️Instagram: http://bit.ly/2UlEoiH ▪️Website: http://bit.ly/2tOl02d #KimberlyAnnJohnson #EroticSeasons #Menopause #SomaticHealing #WomensHealth #InsightsAtTheEdge #SoundsTrue #EmbodiedSpirituality