Reframing Touch & Pleasure Through Pain — with Angel Rowe

What happens when your relationship to touch is completely transformed by chronic pain?

In this heartfelt and insightful episode, I talk with professional sex coach Angel Rowe about his personal journey with CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndrome). He shares the emotional and physical challenges of living with chronic pain—and how it reshaped his understanding of pleasure, connection, and embodiment.

We explore how Angel reframed his experience through breathwork, sensate focus, and even learning to use his non-dominant hand. He opens up about the power of practice, the joy of training dogs, and how touch can be reclaimed in surprising ways.

One powerful takeaway: Even if you don’t believe “everything happens for a reason,” choosing how you respond—like Angel has—can be a profound form of healing.

Resources mentioned:

• Sensate Focus in Sex Therapy: The Illustrated Manual by Linda Weiner & Constance Avery-Clark

• The Breathwork app

• Find Angel at albertasexcoach.com or follow him on TikTok as @wolfyrain (adorable dogs included!)