by Lorraine Faehndrich | Dec 6, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, reclaim your sexual self, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
Today I wanted to share with you one of my absolute favorite practices for optimal health, pleasure, and overall well being for women…self breast massage. I have been practicing breast massage a few times a week for the past year, and it has completely...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Nov 15, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, reclaim your sexual self, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
One of the most difficult aspects of vulvodynia or any other type of pelvic or sexual pain can be the inability to enjoy sex and intimacy. When intercourse or orgasm is painful, has been painful in the past, or causes burning or pain afterward, it makes sense that you...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Nov 1, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief
Having a diagnosis of Vulvodynia, Dyspareunia (painful sex), Interstitial Cystitis, or any other type of pelvic pain does the opposite of making you feel safe. While you may feel some initial relief in finding a diagnosis, that relief can be short-lived, and followed...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Oct 18, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
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...
by Lorraine Faehndrich | Oct 10, 2018 | Chronic Pain Management, Living Through Pelvic Pain, Mind Body Healing, Pelvic Pain Relief, Pelvic Pain Relief Success Story, Sexual Pain and Pleasure
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...