The first time I understood the enormous impact of 1000s of years of patriarchy on a woman’s health and body was about 9 years ago, watching the movie Dangerous Beauty. In it, Veronica Franco, a well known courtesan in 16th century Venice, is brought before the...
Today I asked the women in my Healing Female Pain community what topics they wanted to cover in our monthly call. I wasn’t surprised by their responses. Here are a few… Rage. Sexual abuse. Connecting with our power. Ways of working with specific traumas/episodes...
If you’ve been struggling with painful sex, lack of desire, not enjoying sex, chronic infections, or other pelvic health issues, it could be that the way you have learned to think about orgasm is part of the problem. Our current model of sex and orgasm, combined with...
One of the most common questions I hear from women wanting to relieve pelvic pain, is…. “But how exactly do I feel emotions?” They suspect that their pain is connected to stress, emotions, or past trauma, but have no idea how to apply that knowledge in order to...
The number one question I hear about mind body pain relief, in some form is “Can this help if __________?” …fill in the blank with some type of physical issue, diagnosis, symptom or injury/surgery/physical trauma. It is common to want to know if it will help...
Of all the emotions, anger is one my clients struggle with A LOT. Not surprising since from the time we’re girls we learn that anger is bad. That we shouldn’t feel it. That if we express it we’re bossy, unreasonable, or too demanding. That we can be rejected for it....
