• #187: Herpes Ruined My Life… Until It Didn’t. Ft. Christopher Pickering
    Mar 8 2026
    What if a herpes diagnosis didn’t ruin your life… but became the thing that forced you to rebuild it?In this episode, I sit down with the face of male herpes advocacy Christopher Pickering for a raw, honest and unexpectedly empowering conversation about herpes, shame, dating, disclosure, rejection, confidence and identity.I wont lie, the conversation about HSV is getting boring for me. But not when it's with the intelligent mind of Chris Pickering. Together we talk about the emotional spiral so many people enter after diagnosis, the stories we attach to herpes that often hurt more than the virus itself, and why healing is about so much more than managing outbreaks. Christopher shares how herpes gave him purpose, changed his relationships, bettered his sex life, and pushed him to become stronger, clearer and more honest in every part of his life.This conversation is for anyone navigating shame, fear of rejection, anxiety around disclosure, or the belief that their life will never feel normal again. In this episode you will learn tools to turn your pain into your power and work with logic to realise how easy breakthrough can be, once you decide its the only way forward. If you have just walked out of the doctors office and need two humans to shine a torch for you, this episode is it. In this episode, we cover:What to do in the first days after a herpes diagnosisWhy dating is still absolutely possible with herpesHow to disclose without shame, overexplaining or trauma dumpingThe biggest mindset shifts for rebuilding confidenceWhy rejection is survivable — and not the end of your love lifeHow herpes can actually become a catalyst for healing, growth and self-respectThe truth about shame, identity, outbreaks and living a normal sex lifeTimestamps:00:00 Why a herpes diagnosis can feel life-altering02:54 What people most need to hear on day one06:26 How to cope when you’ve just found out15:09 Why shame does not disappear on its own19:18 How to rebuild your confidence after diagnosis34:19 How to disclose without sounding ashamed44:35 How to handle rejection and keep dating01:08:04 How to enjoy sex again without anxietyConnect with Me:Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my upcoming Mastermind, Breakthrough School, today. Want to join our September Somatic Expansion Retreat? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a connection call and find out more details. Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolmentConnect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)Connect with Christopher Picking on IG: @pickeringfitness
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    1 hr and 11 mins
  • #186: How to Break the Pattern That Keeps Breaking You
    Mar 1 2026

    Have you ever sworn you were “done” with a man, a job, a pattern… and then found yourself right back in it? This episode is a deep dive into why we loop the same patterns over and over again, and what it actually takes to be complete, not just “healed enough” to cope.

    I share the story of a Bali clothing brand I adored but that kept leaving me feeling disrespected, and how walking out of that store for the last time cracked open a much bigger pattern of self-abandonment, body image, and identity. I also take you into the trauma-bonded relationship with my ex, the man my inner child went to for safety, and the final straw that forced me to create that safety inside myself instead.

    This is an episode about energetic real estate: why nothing new can land when you’re still half in, half out with the old.

    For the woman who knows better in her mind, but her body keeps going back.


    For the woman who can feel a bigger life calling, but is still entangled with past pains and limitations.


    Timestamps

    00:00: Why you keep looping patterns in love, work and behaviour (even when you “know better”)
    04:00: “Readiness isn’t being healed, it’s being complete” – the distinction that changes everything
    07:02: The Bali goddess clothes: loving the product, hating the disrespect, and starting to outgrow an identity
    21:08: The stylist, the changeroom and old bullying wounds – when body image trauma hijacks your self-expression
    39:22: The $650 bag and the full-body “never again” – declaring completion and finding a new store the same night
    47:01: The ex who felt like safety: trauma bond, little-girl need, and the sentence that shattered my nervous system
    53:03: Creating safety for the inner child instead of acting from the wound, and finally cutting the cord
    59:01: Energetic real estate, calling in the final lessons, and becoming a magnet for what (and who) you actually desire


    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my upcoming Mastermind, Breakthrough School, today.

    Want to join our September Somatic Expansion Retreat? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a connection call and find out more details.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment.

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #185: The Night Her Baby Died: A Mother’s Story of Love, Grief and God
    Feb 22 2026

    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains detailed discussion of child loss, emergency medical situations and the lived experience of a grieving mother. Please listen with care.

    There’s a moment in every mother’s life where the thing she has always named as her greatest fear… actually happens.
    This conversation lives in that moment, and in everything that comes after.

    In this episode, I sit with Megsy Ann, a mother who lost her one-year-old son, Rambo, suddenly – and chose not to collapse, numb out or disappear, but to walk herself through the darkest initiation a human can face and somehow become more loving, more powerful, and more present to life.

    This isn’t a “bounce back” story. It’s an honest and tender exploration of what grief really does to a woman’s body, her faith, her family and her relationship with pleasure and power… when the worst thing you can imagine actually happens and the sun still rises the next day.

    We talk about:

    • The night Rambo passed and the moment she found herself doing CPR on her own child.

    • Creating her own rituals for his afterlife care, bringing his body home and letting her daughter say goodbye.

    • Parenting one child on earth and one in another realm, and how grief reshaped her family.

    • Staying connected to sensuality, intimacy and life-force in the middle of loss.

    • What she would say to any mother who doesn’t believe she can survive this.

    Key Timestamps

    00:00 – The moment every parent fears
    07:30 – “I realised I hadn’t moved in three weeks”
    11:40 – The day Rambo died
    19:20 – Afterlife care and bringing his body home
    27:40 – Supporting Sunny through losing her brother
    34:40 – Refusing the taboo around death
    57:00 – Sex, pleasure and intimacy in the landscape of grief
    1:02:00 – A message for mothers who don’t think they can survive this


    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this April? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment

    Connect with Megsy Ann on IG: @megsy_ann

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)

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    1 hr and 17 mins
  • #184: He Died 7 Days Before Trial: The Reality of Reporting Childhood Sexual Abuse
    Feb 15 2026

    TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains discussion of childhood sexual abuse, grooming, coercion, PTSD/C-PTSD, the criminal justice process, suicide, and family betrayal. Please listen with care.

    Some secrets don’t just live in your mind.


    They live in your body. Your relationships. Your appetite. Your nervous system. Your ability to trust.


    In this episode, I sit down with Tracie Callaghan for a raw, deeply important conversation about childhood sexual abuse, the choice point that made her finally speak, and what it actually looks like to pursue justice years later.


    Tracie shares what it’s like to report abuse decades after it happened, how the system can retraumatise survivors through the process, and the gut-punch reality of a trial that never eventuated. We also go where most conversations won’t: the psychological warfare of grooming, the confusing truth that a body can respond to stimuli during abuse, and why blaming survivors keeps abuse alive.


    This is an episode for the woman holding a secret.
    For the woman who thinks it’s “too late.”
    For the woman who’s terrified of the consequences of telling the truth.

    Because speaking isn’t the aftermath.
    Speaking is the beginning.


    Timestamps

    00:00: Tracie shares the truth: childhood sexual abuse, multiple perpetrators, and choosing prosecution
    03:09: The “sliding doors” moment: the choice point between silence and liberation
    07:10: Telling her mum at 8… and being sent back anyway (the cost of not being protected)
    10:19: How trauma shaped her body, autonomy, risk-taking, and relationships (C-PTSD + “I didn’t believe I could say no”)
    11:12: The identity shift: coming out later in life, and untangling truth vs protection
    24:27: The justice system reality: 4 years, 150+ offences reduced to 12 charges, and the retraumatisation of “evidence”
    32:42: The day everything collapsed: he died 7 days before trial, no note, and the grief of stolen justice
    55:24: What changed after: shame leaving the body, capacity for love, and reclaiming sex, intimacy, and worthiness


    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.


    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment


    Connect with Tracie Callaghan on FB or IG: @traciecallaghan


    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)

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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • #183: Herpes: The Most Misunderstood Virus on the Planet…
    Feb 8 2026

    There’s a moment in every human journey where the thing you think is the problem turns out to be nothing more than the doorway to the real work.
    Herpes isn’t the villain in this story.
    Shame is.


    And shame only survives when it goes unexamined, unspoken, and unchallenged.

    In this episode, I sit down with Adrienne (The Yoni Nutritionist) and Christopher Pickering, two people who’ve lived the diagnosis, dismantled the stigma, and rebuilt their identities on the other side of it.

    But this isn’t a conversation about sexual health.


    It’s a conversation about the human tendency to build entire identities from untested fears, and then mistake those fears for truth.

    We explore why people cling to victimhood even when freedom is available, why disclosure becomes a litmus test for trust, why men and women metabolise shame so differently, and what happens when you stop organising your life around avoidance and start organising it around agency.

    It’s a conversation about story; the one you inherited, the one you created, and the one you finally choose to let go of.


    Timestamps

    00:00 — Intro

    02:14 — The problem is rarely the problem; the story is.
    06:40 — Shame’s favourite hiding places.
    12:58 — Adrienne on reclaiming her body after years of fear.
    18:23 — Christopher on the “black-pill” mindset and learned hopelessness.
    25:01 — Disclosure, trust, and the psychology of intimacy.
    33:44 — Why humans choose familiar pain over unfamiliar freedom.
    41:20 — Dating, polarity, and what shame does to desire.
    52:55 — The moment life shifts when you stop negotiating with your worth.



    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment

    Connect with Adrienne The Yoni Nutritionist on IG: @yoninutritionist

    Connect with Christopher Pickering on IG @pickeringfitness

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)

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    1 hr and 46 mins
  • #182: When Your “High Functioning” Is Actually Survival
    Feb 1 2026

    Most women don’t realise their ambition is running on adrenaline… until their body, bank account, or peace makes the truth impossible to avoid.

    This solo episode is about the pattern I spent 2025 unraveling: rushing through life, calling it “drive,” and then having to clean up the mess that speed created.

    I break down why foundations felt “boring” to me for so long, why it’s so hard to quit a pattern that produces results (especially results disguised as “healthy” results), and how leverage, not motivation, actually creates change. I tell the story of burning my curls out twice, injuring my chest because I refused to slow down, and ignoring the basic maintenance my body and business were quietly begging for.

    This isn’t an episode about productivity.
    It’s about safety, self-trust, and learning to create from a regulated nervous system instead of panic.

    Because abundance doesn’t reward chaos. It backs the woman who has the nervous system to hold what she’s asking for.

    Key Timestamps


    01:10 Why “boring” foundations are the thing that saves your future
    08:00 The real reason change sticks
    13:00 Partnership, pressure, and the woman you deserve to be
    29:00 Self-trust reps: “I say we do”
    39:00 Injury loops + health anxiety: what rushing creates
    54:00 Business systems, money leaks, and cleaning up old mess
    56:20 Abundance doesn’t enter rushed spaces
    1:00:20 High functioning vs. regulated
    1:08:00 Not all good change feels good at first
    1:10:40 Resigning from survival patterns


    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)


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    1 hr and 14 mins
  • #181:The Courage to Choose Divine Love with Hayley Michelle Andrews
    Jan 25 2026

    Some people talk about “not settling.”
    Hayley Michelle Andrews lived it.
    What happens when the life you’ve built is good… but your soul is quietly whispering this isn’t it?

    This conversation is the collision point between destiny and doubt, where biology, timelines, and fear meet the inconvenient truth that almost-love still isn’t love. And where a woman learns to trust the ache instead of numbing it.Hayley is a devoted mother, a sacred-union teacher, and a woman who walked away from a safe, stable relationship at 34 with the biological clock screaming at her, because she could feel, in her body, that her real love existed somewhere she hadn’t met yet.
    And then she met Sam.
    A man she recognised not from logic, but from memory.In this episode, we explore the entire emotional ecosystem behind soulmate-level partnership: the longing, the leaving, the ache, the self-trust, the timelines, the grief, the shadows, the courage, and the exact moment divine love arrives.

    And then the story takes a turn, because the love of her life ends up being sentenced to nine years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
    And she chooses him anyway.This isn’t a story about romance.
    It’s a story about conviction, devotion, identity, and the difference between desperation and desire.

    Inside this episode we explore:
    • The moment Hayley realised “good enough” is still a form of self-abandonment
    • Why the ache is not a problem to fix, but the compass that leads you home
    • Age, timelines, and the mythology of ‘running out of time’
    • The mythic feeling of meeting “your one”
    • The shadows that sacred partnership exposes
    • What actually creates secure love
    • Prison, devotion, and redefining commitment
    • Motherhood as initiation|
    • How Hayley rebuilt her life from the ground up

    This conversation is a masterclass in feminine self-trust, emotional courage, and what it means to refuse the life that’s “almost right” in service to the life that is fully yours. It is an ode to the women who are waiting, aching, praying, doubting, strengthening, and holding their standards even when it’s hard.If you’ve ever felt torn between the comfort of certainty and the truth in your body, this episode will feel like someone finally put your experience into words.

    Connect with Me:

    Apply for Success School Today and receive a free social media and website audit when you join. Apply for Success School Here. (https://successschool.typeform.com/to/ZPuQjEGW)

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment

    Connect with Hayley Michelle Andrews on IG: @hayleymichelleandrews

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)


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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • #180: Herpes, Online Hate & The Orgasm Gap: Why Sexually Free Women Get Punished (ft. The Yoni Nutri
    Jan 18 2026

    The internet claims to value honesty, yet consistently punishes women who speak plainly about sex, pleasure, and their bodies.

    In this episode, I’m joined by Adrienne Rommel, known as The Yoni Nutritionist, for a conversation about herpes, online shaming, and why the backlash is rarely about the topic itself. When women talk openly about sex, what they often trigger isn’t moral outrage, it’s unprocessed shame.

    We explore how herpes doesn’t create insecurity so much as expose what was already there: fear of rejection, perfectionism, religious conditioning, and long-held doubts about worthiness. What many women experience as a sexual health issue is often a nervous system issue, a body responding to a lack of safety.

    We talk about why women struggle to orgasm when they don’t feel emotionally safe, how trauma lives in the body long after the mind has moved on, and why symptoms often appear when intuition is ignored in dating and relationships. The body isn’t sabotaging women, it’s communicating.

    We also unpack the absurd stigma gap between cold sores and genital herpes, the unseen impact viral mockery has on healing women, and why trying to be universally palatable online leads straight to self-abandonment.

    This episode isn’t really about herpes.
    It’s about self-respect, safety, and refusing to let shame decide how openly you live.

    Key Timestamps

    00:00 Being called sluts, whores, 304’s, and receiving death threats, the cost of speaking openly
    05:30 Going viral, 3,000 hate comments, and the women who got re-triggered
    09:20 “All I saw was hurt men and wounded little boys”
    14:00 When the troll is identifiable: the temptation to contact HR (and why she didn’t)
    18:30 The NZ TikToker drama, community protection, and public apologies
    31:00 “Hands up if…” the universal wounds herpes tends to amplify
    54:10 Nervous system safety + orgasm: why the body won’t open when it doesn’t feel safe
    1:09:40 Cold sores vs genital herpes: same virus, completely different shame
    1:12:15 The brother who judged her… until his sister got herpes and wanted to die

    Connect with Me:

    Want to work with me? Click this link (https://rebeccaantonucci.com/breakthrough-call) to book a breakthrough call and join my signature method, The Breakthrough Blueprint, today.

    Ready to join us at The Bridge Experience in Gold Coast this February? Sign up www.thebridgemethod.org and use the code SEXANDLOVE to save 20% off your enrolment

    Connect with Adrienne The Yoni Nutritionist on IG: @yoninutritionist

    Connect with me on socials by saying hi over on IG: @rebecca.antonucci (http://www.instagram.com/rebecca.antonucci)

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    1 hr and 17 mins