#15 - A Portal To Conscious Kink with Tim Chang

Kicking off Season 2 of You Like It, Eamon and Madeline join Tim Chang at The Portal in Marin for a wide-open conversation on the meaning of conscious kink.

They why shame is erotic rocket fuel, how unconscious desire loops run your life, what pop culture keeps getting wrong about kink, and what it was like to sit down with IFS founder Dick Schwartz for the first time the field formally engaged kink.

Enter the Portal is the podcast of The Portal, an urban sanctuary for transformational growth and community in Mill Valley, CA, hosted by Tim Chang.

Links:

The Portal

The Portal (@theportal_house)

Timestamps:

• (09:00) Origin stories: how each of them arrived at this work
• (13:00) Born in Japan
• (18:00) Power dynamics as a live practice
• (25:00) Shame as erotic rocket fuel
• (32:00) Existential Kink, Carl Jung, and the loops you eroticize without knowing it
• (38:00) Shamanic shadow hunting
• (44:00) The nice-guy tightrope, accountability, and moving at the speed of trust
• (57:00) Baby Girl, pop culture kink, and the modeling problem