102: Learning to Play With Sex, Money and Food with Alexandra Harbushka

 

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Welcome to this episode of The Sex, Money and Food podcast! Does money, sex and/or food run your life? How do you know?

 

On this edition of the Sex, Money, and Food Podcast, we’ll talk about how to know if one of these areas is running the show, and how to switch it up so you are playing with these areas instead. You’ll hear specific examples on how to do this and you’ll hear why self-love is the best foundation on which to build your life.

 

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Since few of us are given an education on any or all of these areas let’s jump right in and talk about each subject. We’ll start with sex.

 

Sex is your life force energy, it's your creative energy. If you've been listening to this podcast you know what I'm saying! If not, think of it like your pilot light - it keeps you on. Sex allows women to be feminine, to create and it helps us use that energy in all areas of our life. It is that fire that keeps you lit and energized and vibrant.

 

Now food also keeps you lit up and energized. Food is fuel for your body, just as your car needs fuel to run so does your body. Without fuel your car won't go and neither will you! Fortunately today there is a growing movement towards more whole foods like salads, fruits, nuts, chicken, etc.

 

Another thing we need to survive today is money. In our society we pay for things with money and we earn an income based on what we do for our clients and/or the value we provide for our employer.

Even if we went back to trade and barter that's still a form money because things have a certain value and we exchange them for other things - just like we do with money.

 

Often we get out of alignment with an area because we don’t have much (if any) education about it. Think about sex for example. Even if we had sex education growing up through school and/or at home, odds are it was not extensive. We were probably taught to not get pregnant, but not much else.

 

No one talked to us about the different types of sex, if we should only sleep with our spouse or significant other, how to integrate into our lives, etc.

 

Similarly, food also doesn't get talked about much. We aren’t taught how to eat, what to eat, what is healthy and what is not. There are stigmas about being overweight, especially for women.

 

And finally comes money. We aren’t given much education on this topic, not directly. But indirectly most of us have a money story from our parents, or primary caregiver who raised us.

 

Often something happened to us when we were growing up that created the money story we have today. We may think we'll always be poor because we grew up poor, money may be scarce in our lives now because it was scarce when we were little. Unless we do something to change that story it will be the story that continues in our lives.

 

These are all explanations that make my point: don't let sex, money and food run your life, instead learn to play with them in your life. Learning to play with each area starts by having a foundation of self-love and having a loving relationship with yourself first and foremost.

 

You can start your self-love journey by carving out time for yourself. Whether it’s going out of your way to get your favorite coffee, or taking a bubble bath or reading that book you’re so excited about, make a date to take care of yourself.

 

On today’s show I talk about my personal journey with self-love and how I began it by giving love to everyone I met throughout my day. Listen in to for that story as well as why you must make yourself a priority before anyone else will. Hear that and more on episode 102 of the Sex, Money and Food podcast!

Tweetable: “When you are radically in love with yourself it overflows.” - Alexandra Harbushka

Episode Resources

• Me on Kristy Arnett’s WTF AM I Doing With My Life? podcast
• The Self-Love Checklist
• Connect with me on Instagram
• Sign up for my Five Day Self-love Challenge
• Follow me on Twitter
• Emotional Therapy Diffused Enrollment Kit

 

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