Today Pete speaks to Dee Larson, a conscious sexuality practitioner. Dee works with intimacy, body confidence, anxiety and sexual issues. She works and teaches both individuals and groups using the school of sematics to become aware of what they need in life, to heal and to become their authentic selves.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

• Dee grew up with anxiety and shame around who she was in her body and who she was on this earth. When she moved to England for university she realised that culturally there were differences around how English people spoke about sexuality and how they were with nudity, at least in comparison to where she grew up.
• Dee moved back home and worked as a social worker, particularly with children of neglect and abuse. She progressed in her career and after having children worked on her own personal journey and started to see a connection between her self-esteem, sexuality and the differences between how she was taught culturally about these topics vs other cultures and religions.
• Our bodies physicality links to the older part of our brain, when talking about things such as abuse and neglect Dee finds it’s important to incorporate things like breathing and how a person is holding themselves to produce more effective results in therapy. This is also what she is talking about when she talks about being body conscious, connecting the mind to the body, not just about how we ‘feel’ about our body.
• The body can be an uncomfortable place to go to for some, it can be a place of repression, tensions and shame. So, when some people try to connect with the body it can be very difficult and take a lot of practice. This is something Dee specialises in.
• Step back and watch the conversations that take place daily. Consider and think about the things that are said because that is what you, or the other person, is ‘supposed’ to say, and how much feels truly authentic.
• The School of Sematics is an exploration of the emotions, memories and associations that are held in the body at any one time.
• Dee was working as a senior practitioner in the health trust, her marriage had broken down. She got an intense migraine and rash and ignored these symptoms to meet the demands of her job and home life, she hadn’t had time to process a lot of her emotional trauma. She ended up being hospitalised, they didn’t know what was wrong with her, she was exhausted for a year afterwards. She believes this was her bodies way of forcing her to face up to her emotions and to rest. It was the catalyst for a bigger change, in her life journey, to becoming her truly authentic self and helping others do the same.

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The ‘Mighty Pete Lonton’ from the ‘Mighty 247’ company is your main host of ‘Fire In The Belly’. 

Pete is an Entrepreneur, Mentor, Coach, Property Investor, and father of 3 beautiful girls. Pete’s background is in Project Management and Property, but his true passion is the ‘Fire in The Belly’ project itself. His mission is to help others find their potential and become the mightiest version of themselves. Pete openly talks about losing both of his parents, suffering periods of depression, business downturn and burn-out, and ultimately his years spent not stoking ‘Fire In the Belly’. In 2017, at 37 years of age that changed, and he is now on a journey of learning, growing, accepting, and inspiring others.

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