Beyond the Mind: Heart Practices for Intimacy and Resilience with Chloe Macintosh
In this episode of the Harvest Series, Rose Claverie speaks with Chloé Macintosh about courage, intimacy, and the intelligence of the heart. Recorded by the sea during Harvest, the conversation explores pleasure as a healing force and the role of embodied practice in emotional wellbeing.
Chloé Macintosh shares how trauma shapes attachment, why we fear vulnerability, and how healing happens through relationship rather than isolation. A powerful invitation to reconnect with life through the body and the heart.
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Chapters
00:00 – Welcome to Harvest
00:29 – Shame, disconnection, and intimacy
01:08 – Courage and authenticity
02:18 – Pleasure as a pathway to wellbeing
03:00 – Why pleasure feels blocked
03:40 – Trauma, numbness, and the senses
04:03 – Courage as an open heart
05:12 – Why we don’t practice with the heart
06:00 – Heart intelligence and coherence
06:52 – The heart before the mind
07:35 – Emotional signals and awareness
08:12 – Why the heart is hard to access
09:14 – Awareness as embodied intelligence
10:09 – The heart beyond symbols
11:02 – Fear, pain, and emotional avoidance
12:02 – Healing wounds through practice
13:14 – Childhood heartbreak and attachment
14:29 – Separation and emotional safety
15:34 – Repeating patterns in relationships
16:00 – Healing in relationship, not isolation
17:01 – Communication, triggers, and transparency
18:32 – Vulnerability and desire
19:06 – Intimacy, miscommunication, and distance
20:29 – Pleasure, thoughts, and the body
21:47 – From pleasure to heart work
22:27 – Depression and aliveness
23:10 – Sexual energy and embodiment
24:36 – Dissociation and numbness
25:15 – Re-centering and grounding
26:10 – Layering pleasure and heart work
27:05 – Creating practical methods
28:33 – Trauma, trust, and safety
30:13 – Receptivity as self-love
31:05 – Practice as devotion
32:11 – Everyday rituals and awareness
33:27 – Intention, water, and presence
34:06 – Intimacy with life
35:08 – Personal breakthrough with the heart
36:31 – Trauma, shutdown, and safety
37:00 – Reopening the heart through service
38:55 – Healing others through relationship
40:13 – Closing reflections
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Credits:
- Sound editing by: @lesbellesfrequences
- Technician in Kaplankaya: Joel Moriasi
- Music by: Chambord
Harvest Series is produced in partnership with Athena Advisers and Capital Partners
Harvest Series Founders: Burak Öymen and Roman Carel
