Rituals, Adventure and Relationships (S2

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Rituals, Adventure and Relationships

with Jaye and Joe

(Season 2 | Episode 81)

[Tessa] I met Jaye on my wanderings on Facebook. Little did I know that Jaye and Joe would share such intimate details about their relationship crisis and how they managed it. It was an affair that had been going on for two years. It shook their relationship to its core. Like a wildfire sweeping through everything. It was devastating. Yet it became a catalyst for their future together.

Jaye and Joe: Relationship Tripping and The Pleasure Report. An episode full of “connecting moments.”

And a quick comment about Joe. He and Jaye work with groups/couples in which they see inside each other’s relationships. And he makes such a good point. It is so rare that one can learn so much from others in a safe way like in the groups they have created. And another way is, indeed, this podcast.

About Jaye

Working across mediums, from radio, film, print, and interactive media, Sue Jaye Johnson has investigated the US criminal justice system, women in sports, the legacy of apartheid, and girls in South Africa. As a TED Resident, she is examining our current relationship with pleasure and sex through intimate interviews with people from all walks of life asking what they believe about sex and why. She is working on a book about rethinking how we talk about sexuality and sensuality fostered by this series of interviews. Her TED Talk, What We Don’t Teach Kids About Sex, has been viewed more than 3 million times and translated into 27 languages.

Jaye is a two-time Peabody-winner and recipient of a Creative Capital award for her pioneering interactive documentary about US prisons. Her first feature film, T-Rex (PBS, Netflix) followed 17-year-old boxer, Claressa Shields, from Flint, Michigan to the gold medal at the London Olympics. Her work has been broadcast on PBS, NPR, WNY and published in the New York Times and The Washington Post.

She studied Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University and Interactive Telecommunications at New York University. She lives in New York City with radio producer and frequent collaborator Joe Richman and their two daughters.

The Pleasure Report

THE PLEASURE REPORT, created by writer, journalist, and filmmaker Sue Jaye Johnson, is a publication and community dedicated to investigating our relationship to pleasure. We are defining pleasure in an infinitely broad sense. We interrogate our pleasure in grief, in rage, in pain, in culture, in politics, and in our longing for a better world. Each month we have a theme.

We can experience pleasure passively, or, we can MAKE our pleasure.

Together, we will explore the tenants of pleasure: attention, awareness, sensation, and acceptance. You will learn tools, be exposed to new ways of thinking, and being in your body, in this world. We are an engaged community of pleasure researchers. I invite you to join us.

Subscribe to the Pleasure Report

Resources for You

We want to provide you with support and many many resources for your own Open Nesting Journey. Our resource page has so much to offer as does our private discussion group on Facebook about queerness and other topics of interest:

Open Nesters Resource Page

The Open Nesters Private Facebook Group

About Tessa

Tessa Krone is the engine behind and the face of The Open Nesters.

Tessa holds an MA in Consciousness Studies and is a speaker, coach, program and journey facilitator & leader, author and, of course, Podcaster.

Her offerings are based in her mission to help people open to their most self-expressed, loving selves. Tessa’s specialties include embodiment from all the senses and elements of our inner and outer lives, ranging from mindfulness, dance, play, and sensory exploration in nature. If she had one superpower, it would be to help people, especially as they age, to live more open hearted lives.