EP 20: Rated E – Sex, Sensuality and Self Confidence in Your Diabetes Journey with Erika Arff

Confidence and sexuality can be a deep rooted topic especially when you are living with a chronic condition. Any shame and guilt we carry in our disability can easily carry through to other areas of our life.

Inside this episode, I’m hanging out with Erika Arff, Sex & Confidence Coach and fellow type one diabetic. Inside this episode, she teaches us how to change the habit of compartmentalize our diabetes and bring it into our self love journey. 

Erika Eileen works through the lens of HAES (health at every size) and sex positivity. Erika is a Type 1 Diabetic & has been living with this disability for 21 years. Erika believes that every person is deserving of confidence inside and outside of the bedroom.

Erika has been featured in Cosmopolitan and was nominated as a Top 10 Sex & Love Experts on TikTok. Erika encourages her audience to define confidence for themselves and what it means to be a rad, bad bitch. When she’s not shaking her ass on TikTok, you can find her skateboarding on the boardwalk, listening to Latin music, with an overpriced iced coffee in hand.

Here’s whats inside today’s episode:
– How Erika went from burnt out with her T1D, living in Australia to loving her body, disability and all.
– The importance of expressing your needs inside of your diabetes management and all other areas of life.
– How to explore sensuality as a person living with a disability
– How to make pleasure something you accept and create intentionally 

RESOURCES:
– Apply for the Skin Grip Diabetes Scholarship
– Follow Erika on Instagram
– Listen to Erika’s podcast, Rated E for Erika 

SHOW NOTES

• ⏰ (1:06): Welcome + disclaimer + introducing today’s guest
• ⏰ (3:22): Let’s get the lowdown. Like who are you? What do you enjoy? Let’s just like kind of sprinkle in who Erika is.
• ⏰ (9:41): Internal ties that we don’t realize we’re building 
• ⏰ (12:42): Figuring those things out 😉 (sorry mom!)
• ⏰ (17:00): Understanding that diabetes does have these other impacts on our body. Like our libido, our mood, our energy, etc.
• ⏰ (20:29): I want you to allow yourself to remove yourself from the idea that your intimacy always has to include your genitals 
• ⏰ (22:33): How would you recommend that someone listening right now can explore their own sensuality?
• ⏰ (32:29): Erika’s biggest frustration with diabetes
• ⏰ (34:45): The ability to surrender 
• ⏰ (38:34): Like anything else, the journey has to start somewhere
• ⏰ (46:30): What you do, who do you help, how you support them, and everything in between
• ⏰ (49:38): Where can people find you? I know you’re on Instagram, you have your own podcast, give us all the places to stalk you.
  – Follow Erika on Instagram
  – Listen to Erika’s podcast, Rated E for Erika
  – TikTok
  – Website 
• ⏰ (50:38): Thank you so much for coming on

Disclaimer: Nothing inside of Keeping it 100 Radio or our resources is intended as medical advice. Always consult a physician before making changes to your insulin doses, diet or general wellness.

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