Something Positive for Positive People

SPFPP 414: Stigma Made Simple - The Metaphysics of Identity with Sheikha Sakina M.MSc

When you receive a herpes diagnosis, it is incredibly common to let that one virus overwrite your entire sense of self—disregarding every other amazing aspect of your bei

SPFPP 413: Saying the Thing Over Saying it Perfectly - with Lena Peak

Are you letting the pressure to say things "perfectly" stop you from experiencing the pleasure you deserve? This week on Something Positive for Positive People, Courtney

SPFPP 412: What's the Best That Can Happen

Are you letting the fear of rejection keep you from experiencing genuine connection? Broadcasting from the Black Yoga Teachers Alliance Conference, Courtney Brame takes a

SPFPP 411: Access Points for Exploration - with Kiki Maree

How does our understanding of "cleanliness" perpetuate STI stigma? This week on Something Positive for Positive People, Courtney Brame is joined by Australian sexologist

SPFPP 410: The Undercurrent of Communication - No Means No

SPFPP 410: The Undercurrent of Communication - No Means No Are you telling yourself "no" before giving anyone else the chance to say yes? This week on Something Positive

SPFPP 409: What We Don't Metabolize Will Metastasize

If you don't metabolize your trauma, it will metastasize into your life. This week on Something Positive for Positive People, Courtney Brame returns for a deeply personal

SPFPP 408: Safe Sex is Communicative Sex - with Tamar Weir

SPFPP 408: Safe Sex is Communicative Sex - with Tamar Weir What happens when you find out you've been exposed to an STI you've never even heard of? This week on Somethin

SPFPP 407: Presence Over Performance

I had a support call go sideways and was hung up on for the first time since I started doing this work in 2017 supporting people living with herpes. I had to learn for my

SPFPP 406: Right Use of Energy - Brahmacharya in Action

Are you bleeding energy into things that don't serve your highest self? This week, Courtney is back with a massive life update and a profound shift in the podcast's direc

SPFPP 405: You're Entitled to Compensation

A herpes diagnosis can make you feel taken from, or like God took away your ability to have sex. What exactly was taken from you? Reality is that you are still capable of

SPFPP 404: How to Communicate an STI Exposure

There's a statement phrase that goes, "Can't do, teach" and I don't know the punctuation exactly, but it means those who don't have the bravery to have the experience bec

SPFPP 403: Courtney's 13 Year Herpes Anniversary

It was March 23, 2013 I woke up and had my first herpes outbreak. It was a whole 13 years now of living with herpes. The past 9 years of running SPFPP and the podcast, I

SPFPP 402: Herpes is the End of the World

A few times this past week, people on support calls have shared that when they talked to their therapist, a friend, or even the suicide lifeline, that they were met with,

SPFPP 401: What Herpes Taught Me About Authenticity - Part 2

What if a herpes diagnosis didn't take away your freedom, but actually freed you from an energetic cage you didn't know you were in? In Part 2 of "What Herpes Taught Me A

SPFPP 400: What Herpes Taught Me About Authenticity - Part 1

Finally! We celebrated me closing out the 400th podcast episode it took me damn near 3 months to record, only for me to realize I’m not closing it out after all. My optio

SPFPP 399: What Herpes Taught Me About God

I had every intention of making my last podcast episode being on this topic but I was called to take a different route based on the direction this episode went. I intervi

SPFPP 398: Practicing Perfection

I interview _Laurentellsstories (Instagram page) who reached out to me yesterday. She and I recorded today and spoke about what inspired her to tell her story about datin

SPFPP 397: What Herpes Taught Me About Addiction

I interviewed a man named John who speaks with me about his experience in recovery for sex addiction. We open with me challenging him on how he introduced himself only fo

SPFPP 396: What Herpes Taught Me About Sex

Herpes has taught me more about sex than any of my sex education teachers, girlfriends, educators, have. And honestly I can't even say it's sex I've learned, it's intimac

SPFPP 395: Southern Charm

Hailing all the way from Alabama, well, actually Florida, but Alabaman roots, our guest this week. Jade is the founder of Essentially Prepped, integrating essential oils