3 Questions with Kat & Val

Kat and Val spent decades steeped in religious "purity" culture, only to abandon that limiting and restrictive worldview for a much more expansive one. Welcome to sex positivity! Our hosts laugh heartily as they unpack delightful words like "kink" and "power play" and embrace the freedom to explore whatever lights us up.
*This podcast is for entertainment purposes only
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in most episodes:
RADICAL ECSTASY - Dossie Easton; Janet W. Hardy
How to Change Your Mind (Netflix Docuseries) Micheal PollanThe Gottman Institute: Dreams Within Conflict
Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Jill Johnson Young- grief talkerFive Stages of GriefIntuitive eating.orgNAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Tell Me I'm Fat - This American Life
Prentis Hemphill
Vitamin D gummies!!!!!!Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism; The Politics of Feeling Good
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Book by Emily NagoskiAttached - Book by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understanding Dopamine: Love Hormones And The Brain

Kat and Val have each had first hand experience with depression. Add to that, our hosts have spent literal decades trying to understand depression, how it impacts the brain and themselves. Kat and Val bring us all this knowledge and a far amount of warmth and laughter as they break down this topic. They gift us creative ideas of how to both hold space for it while also allowing depression to move through us.
*This podcast is for entertainment purposes only
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in most episodes:
Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole by Susan Cain
Jill Johnson Young- grief talkerFive Stages of GriefIntuitive eating.orgNAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Tell Me I'm Fat - This American Life
Prentis Hemphill
Vitamin D gummies!!!!!!Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism; The Politics of Feeling Good
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Book by Emily NagoskiAttached - Book by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understanding Dopamine: Love Hormones And The Brain
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD

Kat and Val get into their relationship experiences when faced with what appears to be an “unsolvable problem”. With love, laughter and candor, our hosts share what it looks like to “manage” this kind of core-values conflict. As always, understanding ourselves better makes a path forward so much more clear. Join us!
*This podcast is for entertainment purposes only
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in most episodes:
The Gottman Institute: Dreams Within Conflict
Rejection Sensitivity DysphoriaJill Johnson Young- grief talkerFive Stages of GriefIntuitive eating.orgNAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Tell Me I'm Fat - This American Life
Prentis Hemphill
Vitamin D gummies!!!!!!Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism; The Politics of Feeling Good
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Book by Emily NagoskiAttached - Book by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understanding Dopamine: Love Hormones And The Brain
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD

Welcome to the grief episode mother fuckers! Kat and Val have both experienced big losses in their lives. They are not strangers to profound grief. With their characteristic humor and irreverence, our hosts walk us through some hard earned insights about grief, healing and learning how to re-organize ourselves after collective and individual loss, tragedy, and trauma.
*This podcast is for entertainment purposes only
Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in most episodes:
Jill Johnson Young- grief talkerFive Stages of GriefIntuitive eating.orgNAAFA National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance
Tell Me I'm Fat - This American Life
Prentis Hemphill
Vitamin D gummies!!!!!!Adrienne Maree BrownPleasure Activism; The Politics of Feeling Good
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life
Book by Emily NagoskiAttached - Book by Amir Levine and Rachel S. F. Heller
Understanding Dopamine: Love Hormones And The Brain
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD

Why hello super cool humans! We are Kat and Val and we heartily welcome you to our podcast. Each week we will focus on a specific topic and dive into our 3 favorite questions.

1. What is bringing you pleasure?
2. What are you learning?
3. What is moving around for you?

We are lovingly referring to this episode as our origin episode. You'll hear each of us share a lot more about who were are and how we got here. Super relatable shit like how we met in Bible College, were both Pastors in a conservative evangelical pentecostal denomination, and how we each deconstructed from that worldview.
We learn about Val's passion for therapy, cracking the perfect joke while playing pickleball, and her long term marriage to a talented, hilarious, brazilian businessman named Rafick. Val (she/her) is deeply wise, warm and candid as she shares about their journey to make peace with childlessness.
We also learn about Kat's choice to end a long term marriage to the father of her two kids, then discovering she is in fact, gay as hell. Kat (she/they) credits a tremendous amount of personal transformation to the body liberation movement and her work as a fat artist.

• Reminiscing about bible college and evangelical culture (4:10)
• Exploring our evolutions, throughout of 26 year friendship (6:53)
• Val shares about her life and who she is today (8:37)
• Kat shares about her life and who they are today (13:17)
• Closing thoughts on pleasure, growth, evolutions, and gratitudes (27:00)

Find us on Instagram:
Kat and Val Podcast
Val's offerings:
So This is Love Club
Reset Yourself for Love Program
Instagram So This is Love ClubKat's offerings:
Fat Liberation Art -Fat Mystic Etsy Shop
Instagram Fat_Mystic_Art
Additional resources/definitions referenced in this episode:
Enneagram
The Four Tendencies
Myers Briggs Personality Profiles
Highly Sensitive People (HSP)
Fat Liberation Movement
Lipedema
Exvangelical/deconstructing from Christianity
ADHD