Truth Meets Taboo
A soul-stirring sensual podcast exploring where truth meets taboo. “Truth Meets Taboo” dives into the raw, real, and revelatory — unbinding shame, reclaiming desire, and exploring sexuality, intimacy, power, and pleasure through a spiritual and educational lens. Where desire is sacred, and nothing is off-limits. Hosted by Sage, founder of DTF (Desire The Forbidden), “Truth Meets Taboo” unpacks the intersections of sex, spirituality, identity, and intimacy. Tune in for juicy conversations, embodied reflections, and interviews that dare to tell the truth — even when it’s taboo.
DTF Better with Sage and Sara: When Pleasure Feels Too Much | The Nervous System Conversation
You say you want pleasure. More connection. More intimacy. More ease in your body.
But when it actually shows up… something tightens. You pull back. You overthink. You start bracing.
This isn’t a mindset issue. It’s a safety issue.
In this conversation, we get into what it really means to receive pleasure and why so many people struggle to stay in it. From nervous system responses to the stories we carry about intimacy, this episode breaks down why feeling good can feel unfamiliar, overwhelming, or even unsafe.
We talk about...
DTF Better with Sage and Sara: Planting Pleasure Seeds | How Intimacy and Connection Grow
Welcome back to Truth Meets Taboo and to another episode of DTF Better with Sage and Sara, the series where we explore how to become more connected, more expressed, and more turned on by life itself.
In this conversation, Sara and I continue unpacking pleasure, but not in the way you’ve been taught to think about it. This isn’t about performance, perfection, or peak experiences. It’s about the small, intentional ways you build a life that actually feels good.
We introduce the idea of “planting pleasure seeds"; tiny, everyday practices that exp...
DTF Better with Sage and Sara: Moving Beyond Pain Management in Sex, Intimacy, and Pelvic Health
I’m officially opening the first-ever Truth Meets Taboo series—a six-month conversation (two episodes per month) on pelvic floor physical therapy, sexual wellness, and healing painful sex without treating pain as the point of sex.
For this series, I’m joined by my co-host Dr. Sara Sohn, a pelvic floor physical therapist, sex counselor, mentor, and professional belly-letting-outer. Sara helps people stop leaking, stop hurting, have better sex, and feel at home in bodies that have changed after weight loss, surgery, or big life shifts—and she talk...
Reclaiming My Body: Intentional Abstinence, Discernment, and Self-Governance
After a year of grief, endings, and major life shifts, this episode opens a new chapter for the podcast.
In this episode, I share why I began a vow of intentional abstinence as an act of self-authority rather than restriction.
After everything that unfolded last year, I realized I needed to slow down, put clear boundaries around my body, and rebuild trust with my own discernment. Growing up in a highly structured military household taught me how to obey, but not how to choose for myself. Over time, that loss of agency showed up in...
Truth, Trauma, and Authenticity: Why We Hide and How We Heal
This episode is about the truth I kept dancing around.
I talk about how hiding became second nature for me. How silence felt safer than honesty. How telling the truth was something my nervous system learned to associate with danger, conflict, and loss.
As I reflect on this year, I share what grief, breakups, and major life transitions have taught me about authenticity. About emotional honesty. About the cost of not being real with myself.
I explore how trauma shapes our relationship with truth, why environments need to feel safe for honesty to...
When Safety Turns You On: Secure Attachment, Intimacy & Energy Transference
This episode is the sound of my pleasure breathing through my grief.
I’ve been having the kind of energetic seggs that makes my chest open, my legs shake, and my past dissolve. The kind of intimacy where a securely attached man looks me in the eyes and says, “Interrupt me. Tell me what you feel. I want you in real time.”
And the moment he does, my nervous system softens.
My grief loosens.
My whole body remembers I’m still alive.
I talk about seggs as spiritual energy ex...
Beyond Banana Condoms: When Sex Ed Meets Soulwork
Intimacy is more than mechanics or performance. It is the sacred art of being fully present with ourselves and with each other. It is laughter and play, tenderness and courage, the softening of shame, and the opening into pleasure.
What I witnessed in this workshop felt like pure magic. Partners leaning into one another until the whole room exhaled. Blindfolded explorations where trust unfolded. A pleasure circle where joy and desire moved like electricity through community.
This is the intimacy education we should have received. A space where connection feels playful, healing is shared, and...
The Sacred Slut: Reclaiming Sexuality & Feminine Power
The sacred slut archetype has been one of the most liberating discoveries on my journey. For years, I carried shame around my sexuality, shaped by purity culture and the stories women are told about desire. Reclaiming the word slut has allowed me to heal, to prioritize my pleasure, and to step into unapologetic self-acceptance.
This episode is an invitation to see your sexuality as sacred, to release the shame, and to embody your own erotic wholeness without apology.
Themes Explored in This Episode
The cultural meaning and history of the word “sl*t” ...Touch Starved: The Epidemic No One Talks About
Touch is where we first learn we are safe, loved, and alive.
In this episode, I open up a conversation about the kind of touch that goes beyond the surface. The touch that calms your nervous system, that says you belong here, that reminds you of your humanity.
We explore why so many of us are starved for it, how cultural conditioning has made touch feel unsafe or performative, and what happens to our bodies and hearts when connection is missing.
I share how touch can heal not just in intimacy...
The Intimacy of Receiving: Boundaries & Emotional Openness
Receiving sounds simple, but for so many of us, it’s one of the hardest things to actually do.
In this episode, I’m diving into what makes receiving feel so unsafe — how our nervous system, old wounds, and social conditioning teach us to block love, compliments, abundance, and guidance even when we’re desperate for them.
I’m sharing the real difference between taking and truly receiving — how surrender, boundaries, and trust open us up to more pleasure, more connection, and more freedom.
You’ll hear personal stories, honest truths, and practical ways you can s...
What My Desires Taught Me About Truth
I used to think desire was something to be feared or managed—especially as a woman raised to be desired, not to desire. In this episode, I unpack how I began to tell the difference between what I truly want and what I was taught to want.
From cultural conditioning to gendered expectations to the psychology of desire, this conversation is an invitation to explore the raw truth beneath our wants. Because desire isn’t just a feeling, it’s a force.
Themes Explored in This Episode
Desire as both a feelin...How Sexual Liberation Saved My Life
For most of my life, pleasure felt like something I had to earn—or apologize for. But claiming pleasure has become a radical part of my healing. In this episode of Truth Meets Taboo, I explore how I went from body disconnection to embracing my sexual desires as sacred.
We talk about community support for relationships, the role of sexuality education, and how prioritizing pleasure has changed my relationship with myself. This is more than a personal journey—it’s a form of protest, a reclaiming of everyt...
Welcome to Truth Meets Taboo
No filters. No pretending.
This is where truth collides with everything we were told not to say.
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