What if your “health issues” aren’t just hormones… or willpower… or the latest supplement trend?

In this episode, Gwyn talks with Dr. Dawn Dalili, a naturopathic physician who connects the dots between sex, food, shame, boundaries, and what we allow ourselves to feel. We dig into how emotional eating often isn’t about hunger, why guilt is a reliable pleasure-killer, how “being safe” can show up as weight, pain, or fatigue… and the concept that might change everything: the pleasure ceiling, aka how good you believe you’re allowed to feel.

You’ll also hear practical ways to rebuild trust with your body (starting with how you eat), plus why “feeling better” can accidentally turn into “doing more”… unless you build space for actual satisfaction.

Some Key takeaways

• A “pleasure ceiling” is how good you believe you’re allowed to feel… and it affects everything.

• Emotional eating is often about safety, belonging, numbing, and regulation, not hunger.

• Shame around sexuality can show up as pain, fatigue, migraines, menstrual symptoms, and chronic conditions.

• Guilt is a reliable way to reduce pleasure… and keep you under your own “upper limit.”

• “B12 won’t fix a boundaries problem” (aka supplements can’t override self-betrayal).

• A true pleasure check includes: how it feels during, 30–90 minutes later, and the next day.

• Rebuilding trust starts small: eat without distraction, chew, listen… stop telling your body to shut up.

• “Feeling better” shouldn’t automatically become “doing more”… ideally there’s some of you left over.

Dr. Dawn Dalili is a Naturopathic Physician specializing in women's health and hormones. She takes a whole life approach to health, often exploring sex and relationship, career satisfaction, and interpersonal skills such as boundaries along side labs, nutrition, and supplements to offer her clients a level of comprehensive care found in few places.

In this episode we mentioned:

Artemesia DeVine - You can visit her website here or listen my episode with her here

Kasia Urbaniak — former dominatrix and author of Unbound: A Woman’s Guide to Power, exploring sexuality, embodiment, and personal sovereignty.

Alison Armstrong — relationship educator whose work on communication, gender dynamics, and intimacy supports the inner-aliveness theme of this episode.

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