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...
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....
I’ve written before about how effective a mind body approach is for chronic pelvic pain relief, including vulvodynia, interstitial cystitis, pelvic floor dysfunction, painful sex, pudendal neuralgia, etc. But lasting pelvic pain relief is not the only benefit of a...
If you are curious about a mind body approach to relieving pelvic pain, but unsure if it may be right for you, I highly recommend Dr. John Sarno’s books about TMS and chronic back pain. The Mindbody Prescription has been a game changer for most of the women I work...
