EP 20: Rated E - Sex, Sensuality and Self Confidence in Your Diabetes Journey with Erika Arff Keeping It 100 Radio: Uncensored Diabetes Conversations

Confidence and sexuality can be a deep rooted topic especially when you are living with a chronic condition. Any shame and guilt we carry in our disability can easily carry through to other areas of our life.

Inside this episode, I'm hanging out with Erika Arff, Sex & Confidence Coach and fellow type one diabetic. Inside this episode, she teaches us how to change the habit of compartmentalize our diabetes and bring it into our self love journey. 

Here's whats inside today's episode:


How Erika went from burnt out with her T1D, living in Australia to loving her body, disability and all.
The importance of expressing your needs inside of your diabetes management and all other areas of life.
How to explore sensuality as a person living with a disability
How to make pleasure something you accept and create intentionally 


SHOW NOTES:


⏰ (1:06): Welcome + disclaimer + introducing today’s guest

⏰ (3:22): Let's get the lowdown. Like who are you? What do you enjoy? Let's just like kind of sprinkle in who Erika is.

⏰ (9:41): Internal ties that we don’t realize we’re building 

⏰ (12:42): Figuring those things out ;) (sorry mom!)

⏰ (17:00): Understanding that diabetes does have these other impacts on our body. Like our libido, our mood, our energy, etc.

⏰ (20:29): I want you to allow yourself to remove yourself from the idea that your intimacy always has to include your genitals 

⏰ (22:33): How would you recommend that someone listening right now can explore their own sensuality?

⏰ (32:29): Erika’s biggest frustration with diabetes

⏰ (34:45): The ability to surrender 

⏰ (38:34): Like anything else, the journey has to start somewhere

⏰ (46:30): What you do, who do you help, how you support them, and everything in between

⏰ (49:38): Where can people find you?;

⏰ (50:38): Thank you so much for coming on



Resources for this episode:


Apply for the Skin Grip Diabetes Scholarship: https://bold.org/scholarships/skin-grip-diabetes-scholarship/
Follow Erika on Instagram: //instagram.com/erikasconfidenceco_
Listen to Erika's podcast, Rated E for Erika: https://open.spotify.com/show/4jnSsH8bfD972QLSvKLbJU 
Join us inside the Keeping it 100 Diabetes Coaching Experience: https://bit.ly/3E5TX5W
Grab the Keeping it 100 Diabetes Journal: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BB5ZL6R8?ref_=pe_3052080_397514860
Check out our blog: https://bit.ly/3AkABcm
Follow us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3hMqhU9
Check out our free resource hub: https://bit.ly/3tF2tnC
Try Skin Grip and use the code "LISSIE" at skingrip.com
Check out our favorite products: https://www.amazon.com/shop/needlesandspoons_?ref=ac_inf_tb_vh

*Disclaimer: Nothing inside of Keeping it 100 Radio or our resources is intended as medical advice. Always consult a physician before making changes to your insulin doses, diet or general wellness.