In this episode of the Observatory Podcast, Scott and LaRae Wright sit down with Dr. Stormy Hill for a deeply personal conversation about aliveness, intimacy, sensuality, pleasure, and what it means to fully participate in your own life. Stormy shares the unexpected path that took her from medicine to occupational therapy and intimacy coaching, including her son’s serious heart condition, the end of her marriage, and her discovery of Tantra and sacred sexuality as pathways toward embodiment, connection, and a more expansive understanding of intimacy.
As Stormy approaches her 50th birthday, the conversation turns toward the second half of life, relationships, nervous-system patterns, what she calls “adaptive inertia,” and the ways we can unknowingly adapt to lives that make us smaller. She also shares her recent 85-mile hike around Mont Blanc, her return to writing poetry after nearly 25 years, and why she is shifting her measure of a meaningful life away from achievements and toward awe, creativity, receptivity, pleasure, and the question: what makes you feel most alive?
Timestamps:
[00:00:03] Welcome to The Observatory Podcast
[00:00:18] Introducing Dr. Stormy Hill and the pursuit of aliveness
[00:03:43] Expanding intimacy, pleasure, and sensuality beyond the bedroom
[00:05:14] Approaching 50 and discovering the common thread of aliveness
[00:07:46] Medicine, motherhood, and her son’s rare heart condition
[00:14:45] Tantra, sacred sexuality, embodiment, and the divine
[00:19:18] Growth, the nervous system, and “adaptive inertia”
[00:25:08] The second half of life, relationships, and creating what comes next
[00:30:08] Turning 50, resilience, and hiking Mont Blanc
[00:38:12] One long blink of a life and helping people feel more alive
[00:40:02] Keeping score with the wrong scorecard
[00:49:24] What makes you feel alive and the practice of intentional participation
[00:52:05] Poetry, grief, and rediscovering creative expression
[00:58:24] Letting go, receptivity, and making room for what comes next
[01:03:29] Living now instead of waiting for later
Notable Quotes:
- “We are wired for growth, but we are also wired for pattern recognition.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:20:26]
- “We give this one long blink of an eye of a life if we're lucky, and how do we bring aliveness and pleasure and joy to it?” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:38:14]
- “I was keeping score with the wrong scorecard.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:40:02]
- “What makes you feel most alive? What keeps you from feeling alive? And how about we do more of what makes us feel more alive?” - Dr. Stormy Hill [00:50:02]
- “You arrive in innocence, you lose your innocence, and then at a certain point in life you realize that you've been innocent all along.” - Scott Wright [00:57:40]
- “Nobody on their deathbed says they wish they worked more.” - Dr. Stormy Hill [01:03:29]
Relevant Links:
www.Instagram.com/docstormy1 — on IG for more on aliveness
www.Drstormyschiller.com — for speaking inquiries
www.Lovedeeplab.com — for intimacy coaching
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