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Nectar Drops from Dr. Caite

Weekly pieces for women on intimacy, relationships and the inner patterns that run our lives shared by an HSP who is equal parts mystic oracle and mezcal lover.

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When Helping Isn’t Helping

What to offer someone you love when they're struggling

Trying to fill God-sized holes with romantic love.

What if our deepest longing for romantic union is really about something we can't achieve in partnership?

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If you've ever felt like you need too much...

but needing less isn't really working out.

Falling off the good girl pedestal

My bad girl era, making enemies, and the price of personal integrity.

I thought I was available for love...

The hidden protective strategies that shape our relationships.

Slow Pleasure is Deeper Pleasure

Why the way you experience pleasure shapes your brain, your relationships, and your capacity for joy.

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The Good Girl

The woman who learned that belonging was safer than being fully herself.

The Achiever

The woman who learned to earn love instead of receive it.

The Romantic

The woman who mistakes longing for love.

The Island

The woman who learned that needing no one was the safest way to love.

The Alpha

The woman who learned that if she carries it all, she can’t be disappointed.

🌹 Why Pleasure Changes Throughout Your Cycle

Why (and exactly when) your hormones influence the way you experience intimacy, orgasm, and pain.

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Life wisdom from BDSM: How pushing the pain button leads to more pleasure ⛓️

Part 2 of the Pleasure Paradox content this month. Listen to the previous episode for more context.

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The pleasure paradox and why everything you've been taught about pleasure is wrong.

There is a lot of nuance to this topic of depression that I didn’t address in this clip.

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You say you want community, but are you willing to do what it takes?

I just had yet another conversation with someone remarking on how hard it is to make friends as an adult.

Becoming magnetic depends on this ONE thing.

It all starts with being a yes at a very important moment.

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The Desire Tourniquet Kills Romance in Long-term Partnership

And what being the "good girl" costs you

What your hair is trying to tell you

There was a time in my life when my hair started falling out and didn’t stop for months (this has actually happened a few times).

There *is* a short-cut to more vitality, but you won't like it

Take it from a personal development junkie: most of the wellness work, the spiritual work, the self-improvement work, is shame avoidance with better branding.

Are you addicted to heightened states?

What drives chronic stress, burnout, and chaos cycles and stops us when we try to slow down...

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