In this episode of Making Love: A Podcast with Sarah Rose Bright, Sarah sits down with Christiane Pelmas for a rich exploration of power - what it is, how it's misunderstood, and what makes female power distinct.

Here's what we covered:

• Defining power as the neutral capacity to mobilise resources and create impact - and why how we use it is never neutral
• The different "flavours" of power - personal, role, status, systemic, universal, and the power of communication and charisma
• Why most relational damage comes from underestimating our power, not overestimating it
• The biological and evolutionary roots of female power - tending, befriending, and weaving community
• How power shifts (or doesn't) at menopause, and why women's productivity often peaks in their ‘Queen years’
• Erotic and sexual power as forms of power, and how they have been co-opted by dominator culture
• The legacy of Me Too and the recent "Motherless" site controversy - what it reveals about porn, violence, and the erotic
• Female rage as a generative, ecological force, and why it's been pathologised
• Real-world examples from indigenous women-led activism to Mothers Against Drunk Driving
• The role of grandmothers as culture-keepers and agents of social change
• Where to start if you want to reconnect with your own power

Christiane Pelmas is a therapist and mentor, Somatic Sex Educator and Writer working in the intersectional terrain between Belonging, Wellbeing and the Ecology of Ethics.

RESOURCES FROM CHRISTIANE

ChristianePelmas.com

InstituteForEroticIntelligence.com

TheVerdantCollective.com

RESOURCES FROM SARAH

Work With Sarah - Whether you're a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.

The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/

If you've ever shut down in intimacy, felt overwhelmed by too much, too fast, or wondered why you need so much more time, space and emotional connection than it seems like you “should” - this episode is for you.

Sarah delves into the unique needs of sensitives and empaths in intimate relationships. She shares her own journey of coming to understand her sensitivity, and why the phrase "let your sensitivity be your strength" unravelled for her.

In this episode:

• What it actually means to be a highly sensitive person (HSP) and how that differs from being an empath, and where this is different from trauma
• Why up to 20% of the population may be highly sensitive, and why so many carry shame about it
• How mainstream sexuality - hot, fast, goal-oriented, is so different to how a sensitive opens and experiences pleasure
• What sensitives actually need to feel safe and open
• How to track your own thresholds before shutdown happens, and how to name what you need rather than withdraw
• Why slowing down can open up whole new territory for a partner too
• The connection between the energetic Erotic Blueprint and sensitivity
• Human Design gates 19, 37 and 57 as lenses for understanding sensitivity
• How honouring your sensitivity doesn't limit intimacy - it expands your experience

One listener shared:

“Listening to this podcast brought about a chandelier's worth of lightbulb moments - the most powerful is that I can be okay with how I am and how I breathe in this world. - I sense more confidence about future relationships, and that's seismic! Thank you Sarah Rose. xx”

Whether you're exploring this for yourself or navigating it with a partner, this episode offers a compassionate conversation about a very common, and very rarely talked about experience.

Book recommendation - Sensitive is the New Strong by Anita Moorjani

Sarah Rose Bright is an Erotic Embodiment and Intimacy Guide, authorised teacher of The Making Love Retreat®, and host of Making Love, a podcast on the evolution of love, sex, and relationships. She guides women and committed couples who feel stuck and unfulfilled in their intimate lives - and know this is the missing piece. Women come home to their bodies, awaken their desire, and reclaim their power. Couples create an erotic life of depth, passion, and love. Find out more: https://sarahrosebright.com/

RESOURCES FROM SARAH

Work With Sarah - Whether you're a woman ready to come home to your body and your desire, or a couple wanting to deepen your erotic life, she offers bespoke private coaching online. The first step is a conversation. Book a call here.

The Making Love Retreat for Couples, 12th - 18th October, 2026

For a free e-book, How Relaxed Love Making Can Transform Your Sex Life and to explore Sarah's work - including private coaching, group programmes, courses, retreats and her podcast - visit www.sarahrosebright.com

MUSIC: Trust and Surrender by Ayla Schafer. You can explore more of her beautiful music here - https://www.aylaschafer.co.uk/