by Lorraine Faehndrich | Jan 18, 2024 | Sexual Pain and Pleasure
Are you suffering with chronic pelvic pain including pain or burning during sex, vulvodynia, pelvic floor dysfunction, interstitial cystitis, pudendal neuralgia, persistent pain after UTIs or yeast infections, irritable bowel syndrome or endometriosis? Have you been...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Jan 11, 2024 | Sexual Pain and Pleasure
If you’re experiencing pain during sex, either on its own or along with another pelvic pain syndrome like vulvodynia or interstitial cystitis, it is so important to look at the mind-body factors to heal it. While there can be medical reasons for pain during...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Oct 2, 2023 | Reclaim Your Life, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
Did you know that when you experience pleasure, your brain and body are bathed in health-enhancing and pain-inhibiting chemicals, including nitric oxide, beta-endorphin, serotonin, and dopamine? This is why YOUR pleasure matters for pain relief and for your overall...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Mar 31, 2022 | Home, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
When I began coaching women to help them relieve vulvodynia, anxiety, and other pelvic pain it was a pretty radical to be a “pelvic pain relief coach,” and even more radical to include female pleasure in my mind body approach to relieving pelvic pain. To be honest, I...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Mar 17, 2022 | Sexual Pain and Pleasure
Many years ago listening to a podcast with Dr. Bernie S. Siegel, I heard him share that the wisdom he had acquired about the body’s self healing capacity came from years of working with his patients. What he actually said, when asked, was something like, “It just...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Feb 16, 2022 | Sexual Pain and Pleasure
When you’ve seen the doctors, tried every remedy they suggest, and you still can’t seem to get lasting relief from female pain, it can leave you feeling frustrated at the very least and angry if you’re honest. Why is this happening? What causes pain during sex,...