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PODCAST

The Vital Goddess

Dianne Shepherd

The Vital Goddess Podcast is a sensual, soulful space for midlife women who feel the call to come home to their bodies. Through embodiment practices, sacred feminine wisdom, Taoist and Tantric teachings, and intimate reflections, each episode invites you out of the thinking mind and into the living intelligence of your body.This is a place to soften, remember your pleasure, reclaim your power, and explore what it truly means to live from embodied love, radiance, and desire—on your own terms.

health & fitness sexuality

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24:46

The Feminine Face of Tantra

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/03/28

If feeling irritated, wired and tired is your normal, you're not alone. If accessing your sensual pleasure and feminine flow state has been a struggle, again, you're in good company. We live in a world that makes feeling good in your skin a major challenge. Many women feel depleted, exhausted and done by the time they hit midlife. (Men too btw). Things are massively out of balance and it shows in our bodies, in our emotional state and in all of our relationships, especially in our most intima...

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30:07

How Perfectionism Kills Our Pleasure & How to Turn it...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/03/21

Perfectionism is sneaky thing. It's usually creeps in during childhood as an attempt to feel safer in a world that didn't actually feel that safe. In response to a confusing and overwhelming world (even if our parents did a great job), our young selves can easily feel uneasy and take on a belief that if we do things perfectly, we'll get our needs met. We'll feel safe. We'll feel accepted. We'll prove ourselves worthy. We'll earn the love we crave. We'll be ok. It's a trauma respon...

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31:04

Yin Power/Living From the Inside Out

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/03/14

If you're anything like most women in my world, you want to change the world. You know deep in your heart that there's got to be a better way. A way to create more harmony, beauty & love in the world. A way for all of us to feel more joyful, blissful, ecstatic even as we explore this human experience. You came here to this garden planet to fully live the magical adventure you signed up for. And create your life from the core essence of who you truly are. Although this knowing is hard wire...

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22:51

Falling in Love With the Dark Goddess/ Desire Clarity...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/03/07

These are no ordinary times. And you are no ordinary woman. If you’ve been in my world for a while, I’m sure you’re interested in harnessing the power of the sacred feminine. That creative, sacred essence that lives inside of you. The energy that creates worlds and at the same time is uniquely yours. And I’m sure you’re down for exploring ways to tap into more of that power. And live your life more aligned with your desire. From the inside out. This is where the Dark Goddess comes in. This in...

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27:10

Midlife, Menopause & Beyond/ The Call of the Wild

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/02/28

I'm sure you've noticed: We're bombarded daily with toxic, disempowering narratives on what it means to age as a woman. Constant attacks designed to leave us feeling invisible and "put out to pasture.” Fear mongering and "it's the beginning of the end" story? It can really mess with you. On a bad day, you may even start to believe all the bs. We've been trained to seek outside of ourselves for pretty much everything. It's a huge distraction. Truth is, everything we seek, we already have...

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28:27

Revive Your Libido With The Taoist Jade Egg Practice

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/02/21

The Taoist Jade Egg practice is one of the most curative and empowering practices on the planet for the female libido. So many women (of all ages) are struggling with low libido, unfulfilling sex lives; feeling numb, bored, exhausted or experiencing pain in their intimate lives. Some women give up on sex entirely. Some grin and bear it and get really good at faking. Many end up blaming themselves and feeling exasperated with what's on offer in the realm of modern medicine. There's a better wa...

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26:21

Living in Love/Some Tantric Truth on Romance

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/02/14

Happy Valentine's Day! 🌹🎉💘 A day when many people celebrate love. All kinds of love, but especially romantic love. Romantic love is a powerhouse isn't it? And so layered. It's one of the most compelling experiences a human can have. I think most people would agree; to swoon is divine. We see the world differently in that rose-colored state. Our mood soars. We're tapped into our creative genius. We feel limitless. We look and feel radiant, vital and alive. Our immunity gets a huge boost....

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45:20

Releasing Stuck Emotions & Reclaiming Vitality With...

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/02/08

The evidence on the impact our emotions have on our quality of life is impossible to refute. Our emotions play a huge role on how we feel in our bodies. Our health and vitality are greatly effected by our emotional state. Not to mention our pleasure, sensuality and intimacy. Emotions are a part of our human experience but how we process them (or not) is intrinsic to our wellbeing. We focus a lot on emotional release and alchemy in my work and today I want to introduce you to a woman who...

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27:18

How to Stay Aligned With Your Goddess Vision Everyday

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/01/31

It's so important to have a big picture, North Star, Goddess Avatar vision.But showing up in alignment with that vision on a daily basis? Doing all of the daily things?That's a challenge!No pressure but...we are emitting a frequency in every waking moment whether we realize it or not. And the quality of that frequency determines much of our life experience.Short term and long term.Ultimately how we "be" in all of the doing we do influences our long term vision being realized. Or not.As we nav...

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22:51

Your Intuition is Gold How to Tap into it & Dial it Up

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/01/24

These are wild times we're living in.So much going on.So much uncertainty.So many things clamoring for our attention & concern.It's huge.It's heartbreaking.And It can be so easy to collapse into overwhelm, fear and doubt.Have you found yourself in that dead end space of trying to make sense of all?Trying to figure it out?I hear you!We've been trained to rely on and over use that part of our brain.To go there for the answers to life's increasingly complex challenges.And I'm sure you've not...

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32:50

3 Common Manifestation Blocks and How to Handle Them

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/01/17

Sometimes our biggest obstacles are hiding in plain sight.If you’ve ever felt stuck or stalled in manifesting the life of your dreams you’re in good company.And it’s not your fault.We’re always manifesting.And we all carry unconscious & semi-conscious blocks that keep us in cycles of drawing in what we don’t actually want. We can recite positive affirmations on wealth, health & love all day long but if our vibration is not in tune with our desires, it won’t work. But we can ...

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24:39

The Art of Receiving/Activating the Venus Codes

The Vital Goddess ·

2025/01/10

Here's a Tantric truth bomb for you:As a woman, receiving is your spiritual superpower.Getting good at it will awaken your feminine consciousness.And change your life.Why?Here's my take on it?Pleasure is the portal into activating your The Venus Codes.Your innate, intrinsic energetic signatures for Beauty, Abundance, Passion, Ecstasy & Love.When you're able to truly receive pleasure you activate your unique expression of these codes. You literally get access to embodying the Goddess you w...

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25:54

Hang Back, Refine Your Desire & Stay in Your Vibe...

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/12/13

I don’t know who needs to hear this but…So cliche, I know, but really.(Actually, I need to hear it too, so here goes)...Have you been in overdrive?Trying too hard to make things happen?Racking your brain to figure it out?(Whatever your “it” of the moment is) to the point of exhaustion & exasperation?Head in a beehive?Way too much going on?Take a deep breath with me.Let out a huge sigh.I feel you.And great news!The Universe is sending you an awesome holiday gift this year!A legit permissio...

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29:44

Your Eat Pray Love Adventure Begins in Your Own Backyard

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/12/06

When the book Eat, Pray Love came out I was worlds away from grabbing my passport and hopping on a flight to find myself.I love the book (and love travel) and I think Elizabeth Gilbert is amazing, but the adventure she so beautifully describes; one woman's search for everything, wasn't happening for this woman. Not then.At the time EPL hit the stands I was hitting the gas on my Mom Taxi hard.Literally and figuratively. I was in the midst of raising & homeschooling 3 boys (which ...

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26:07

Get Real With Your Desire in 2025

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/11/29

Most people have a complicated relationship with desire.So many are running on an outdated, disempowering script on desire that's simply not serving them.We've been conditioned to be skeptical of desire, to short change, to shun it and even shame it.It doesn't have to be that way.We can live into a new enlivening and empowering script on desire.And set it free from choke hold of thousands of years of misguided guidance.We can choose to work with desire, not against it. And come more full...

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52:49

Own Your Venus Magic/ A Journey Through the Signs

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/11/22

Do you believe in magic?Do you believe in your magic?That's the real question. It's no secret that modern life can feel anything but magical.We can so easily find ourselves wired, tired, high and dry.Desperately craving the spark, juice, the aliveness and inspo that we know in our hearts is possible. Well, I'm here to tell you that the magic is in you.And you can make the bold choice of owning that magic.Your Venus holds the key. 🗝️In today's episode: We'll take a deep dive into what Ven...

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19:40

Wild Love & Radical Radiance in the Age of Aquarius

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/11/15

Things are shifting...We're about to experience a powerful astrological transit that we'll all be feeling over the next 19 years.After cleaning house and working its shamanic death and rebirth medicine on systems of all kinds in Capricorn since 2008, on November 19th Pluto will move into freedom-loving Aquarius.Shifting the focus of transformation and healing from shining the light on what's not working, letting old ways die and systems crumble, towards unleashing our wild love and step...

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28:32

When a Woman Inhabits Her Sensuality...Welcome to the...

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/11/08

What does sustainable pleasure look like?What would be possible if you had better access to more of your calm, ease, flow & wisdom more of the time?No matter what's going on.What happens when a woman truly inhabits her sensuality? We live in wild times, no doubt.In the chaos and confusion of the world it's so easy to lose connection to who you are.To be cut off from your inner knowing.Your radiance.The love that you are.It's often said that there is no "silver bullet"; no simple and ...

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31:51

Tantra & Astrology/ Embodying Love in an Uncertain World

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/11/01

These are no ordinary times.And you are no ordinary woman.In times like these it can be easy to forget that you were born for this.But you've got what it takes.It's not a mistake that you're here.All you seek is inside of you.And your Astrological natal chart can help you remember.Astrology gives language to the beauty, magic and power of your soul.To the nuances of you.The light you shine.The medicine you bring.The love that you are.When things get unsteady, astrology has long been a beacon ...

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24:49

Nourish Your Libido/Reclaiming Your Erotic Innocence

The Vital Goddess ·

2024/10/25

Low libido is often described as one of the things that “just happens” when a woman reaches a certain age or begins her journey into Menopause.If you’ve been handed the “it’s the beginning of the end” script, you know how disempowering and even infuriating that can feel. But low libido and vaginal dryness is not just an “older woman” thing.These days many women in their 20s and 30s are showing up to their doctor's office with the same chief complaints. I feel like it’s t...

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