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...
If you follow me on Facebook, you may have seen an amazing article I shared recently about postnatal care in France called, “Why French women swear by cooch coaches”. In it the author states, “America doesn’t have a standard postnatal vaginal...
Your vulva is beautiful. She is unique and perfect exactly the way she is! Unfortunately, if you’re a woman reading this post, there’s a good chance that you don’t feel that way. The most common reactions I hear from women in my programs about their vulva range from...
“How will I ever be able to have intercourse?” If you’ve struggled with pain during sex or other types of pelvic or sexual pain it’s likely that this question is very familiar to you — anxiety around intercourse is normal in these situations. (Unless of course...