Breaking Cycles, Building Strength: Trauma Informed Consent in Kink with Coach Felyne

Join us on Thursday, October 2nd at 9pm EST for our discussion with Coach Felyne.

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🔍 What We’re Talking About

In this episode, Coach Felyne invites us into the radical possibilities of trauma-informed kink, where awareness, accountability, and pleasure intertwine. With over two decades of lived experience in BDSM communities and a career rooted in wellness and justice, Felyne speaks to the importance of TICK (Trauma-Informed Consensual Kink), a framework created by Black kink practitioners to deepen how we understand consent beyond a surface-level yes or no.

The conversation asks hard but necessary questions: How do our unprocessed trauma patterns show up in play? When does a reaction signal danger rather than desire? And what responsibility do both individuals and communities hold in creating safer, more liberatory spaces? Through explorations of aftercare, embodied self-awareness, and the healing potential of intentional power exchange, Felyne reframes kink as both a mirror and a medicine, capable of either replicating harm or transforming it into strength.

If every scene holds the potential to rewrite the body’s memory, what stories of resilience and freedom are we brave enough to tell through our play?

🎙️ Meet Our Guest

Candace “Coach Felyne” Liger (she/they)

Originally from Mississippi, Candace is a NASM-certified fitness coach, BDSM/KINK coach, consent and harm reduction educator, and founder of the Center for Body Autonomy. With over 20 years of experience in kink and BDSM communities, and a background rooted in social justice and wellness, their work centers pleasure, inclusion, and liberation—supporting all bodies to thrive.

As a BDSM/KINK coach, Candace has facilitated workshops nationwide, including Felyne Fetish Fitness, which blends exercise with power dynamics, spoken word, and radical consent. They have also been featured as a TEDx Speaker and presented at events such as Boston Trauma Conference (MA), Sex Down South Conference (ATL), Woodhull Freedom Foundations, and Whoreible Decisions (TX). A graduate of the National Organization of Victim Advocates’ Academy, they have organized national campaigns examining the impacts of racial and gender-based oppression, sexual violence, and mass incarceration.

Their most recent campaign, #ConsentConscious, calls for comprehensive, trauma-informed consent education to strengthen both wellness and pleasure practices. Central to this work is Trauma-Informed Consensual Kink (TICK)—a reflective framework created by Black kink practitioners to deepen self, relational, and environmental awareness at the intersections of consent, pleasure, safety, and harm.

🌐 www.TraumaInformedKink.com

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