Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson
213 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 175 ratingsCutting-edge, pioneering conversations on holistic women's health, including sex, birth, motherhood, womanhood, intimacy and trauma with doula, certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and author of Call of the Wild and the Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson.
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EP63: Healing Prolapse without Surgery with Kimberly Ann Johnson
March 25, 2019 18:38 - 30 minutes - 42.4 MBIt's possible to heal prolapse and not just "manage the symptoms." Prolapse is an increasingly common outcome of birth and postpartum practices. To work with prolapse, you need to understand the contributing factors. In this episode, Kimberly breaks down how to figure out what's contributing to your prolapse and how to deal with it.
EP62: Jenna Furnari on Ayurvedic Postpartum Care for Long Term Health
March 22, 2019 04:32 - 54 minutes - 74.9 MBJenna Furnari works as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula in the greater Los Angeles area. She offers phone consultations for families living elsewhere. Jenna hosts an online course to train other doulas, and also offers in-person trainings on Abhyanga, a grounding and gentle bodywork. “The first six weeks after birth really are the foundation behind the way she’s going to show up as a human being, as a mother, as a woman.” “Birth is going to take everything and beyond that out of her. I kno...
EP61: Brooke McNamara on the Poetry of Reality and Mothering as Activism
March 01, 2019 23:23 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBWhat She Shares: How the birth of her son was a psycho-spiritual death experience The rich depth of her postpartum experiences Practicing as a Zen Monk AND parenting About her new course “Write to the Heart of Motherhood” What You’ll Hear: Recognizing when you need to surrender, and when you need to stand in your strength Expanding your boundaries to build resiliency Feeling the pain of childbirth as power Pushing yourself out of love, n...
EP60: Dr. Claudia Welch on the Medicine of Subtraction and Balancing Your Hormones
February 16, 2019 00:36 - 58 minutes - 80.1 MBWhat Dr. Claudia Shares: Why the title of her book is actually backwards Her “aha!” moment when she was studying hormones The difference between sex hormones and stress hormones How our spiritual and emotional choices reverberate through our physical bodies What You’ll Hear: Understanding that your hormones don’t become imbalanced in a vacuum How Western and Eastern medicines support each other to better understand our hormones Viewing hormonal...
EP59: Christine Caldwell on Bodyfulness, Interconnectedness and Somatics
February 01, 2019 22:18 - 54 minutes - 75.5 MBWhat Christine Shares: Her activism centered around the bodylessness present in our culture Translating your physical experience to your social interactions How embracing inquiry and challenges can support your well being How her understanding of the immune system impacted how she runs her psychotherapy practice What You’ll Hear: Incorporating somatic work in your daily life for nervous system health Coming to a practice from pressure, pleasure, or in...
EP58: Lisa Hendrickson-Jack on the Menstrual Cycle as a Vital Sign, Fertility, and Holistic Reproductive Health
January 25, 2019 05:18 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBWhat Lisa Shares: Her journey to understanding female fertility more fully after receiving incorrect information in school How to determine when you’re actually fertile The biology of the menstrual cycle and how different birth controls alter this The importance of male fertility in conception and how to boost male fertility What You’ll Hear: The recent expansion of scientific literature to more fully include the female body Learning about the biology...
EP57: Bari Tessler Linden on Healing Your Money Story and Learning to Earn More
January 22, 2019 18:29 - 1 hour - 92.3 MBWhat Bari Shares: Her journey into perimenopause Learning to lose her shame around money Living through the ebbs and flows of income The phases she guides you through in her year-long money school What You’ll Hear: Responding to the body’s needs through intuitive eating and nourishing movement Respecting the natural ebbs and flows of energy Allowing yourself to expand your financial goals and comfort Moving beyond your current money ceil...
Ep56: Tobin Zivon on Authentic Relating in the Age of #Metoo, Open Relating, Polyamory and Meeting a Partner
January 17, 2019 00:09 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBWhat He Shares: Some of the golden rules of healthy relating The important ingredients to a flourishing relationship How to reduce drama in your relationship, regardless of structure His shift from ‘doing’ to ‘being’ What You’ll Hear: Moving into authenticity and vulnerability to allow a genuine unfolding within a relationship Discerning when to be vulnerable and when to respect your communication boundaries Finding the living sweet spot of aut...
EP55: Brigit Viksnins on Repairing Relational Ruptures, Re-wilding for Resiliency, Following the Wisdom of the Animal Body
January 04, 2019 11:02 - 1 hour - 89.9 MBBrigit is a licensed massage therapist, craniosacral practitioner, a trauma resolution therapist, and believes deeply in the magic of life and the wild wisdom of the body. She especially loves to work with people on boundary repair and stabilization. What She Shares: Sensing your own boundaries for invasions and working towards repair Working with imprints from our own conception and birth to find systemic healing Embracing your family dynamic to foster personal expansi...
EP54: Heng Ou, author of the First Forty, on Slowing Down and Embracing Discomfort to Find Growth.
December 26, 2018 22:38 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBWhat She Shares: Her varied birth and postpartum experiences Learning about nourishing food from her family Becoming a single mom of three and reweaving herself What You’ll Hear: The importance of practicing receiving and recognizing when we’re depleted Ways to slow down and reflect on your feelings so they don’t accumulate and overwhelm Approaching life from a point of maintaining vitality and attending to yourself Embracing the simplicity of ...
EP53: Rahi Chun on De-armoring the Body, Integrating Emotional Energy, and Downloading New Pleasure Software
December 09, 2018 04:38 - 59 minutes - 90.2 MBWhat He Shares: How he came into the path of intentional, sexual healing What a session in NeuroAffective Touch looks like Discovering your own preferences and those of your partner through Full Body Active Consent Working with his own mother to repair rupture in her nervous system How pleasure factors into his work What You’ll Hear: How the lack of sovereignty in our body as an adolescent shows up in our adult embodiment The opportunity to repair ruptures with male authority fi...
EP52: Dan Doty on What Men Want, How They Connect, and How to Navigate Sexual Trauma with a Partner
December 03, 2018 21:10 - 1 hour - 91 MBDan Doty is the founder of Evryman, a father, and a husband. He’s constantly delving into new depths with himself, his wife, and the men in his life. Dan has found incredible liberation through his work helping men connect with each other. What he shares: The core mission of Evryman His ongoing process of opening and exploration, and the feelings that arise Changes he sees every day in men who develop awareness of others and the self The power of the simplici...
EP51: Holly Griggs-Spall on Birth Control, Feminism, and Moving Forward
November 16, 2018 18:51 - 1 hour - 94.9 MBWhat Holly Shares: Untangling hormonal birth control from feminism Why she was on the pill as a teen even before she was sexually active The positive effects the pill had for her The mental health affects the pill had on her Her journey discovering who she was without hormonal birth control What You’ll Hear: The cultural marriage between feminism and the pill The pushback she received against her writing criticizing synthetic hormones ...
EP50: Liz Koch on the Physical and Energetics of the Wild Psoas, Core Integrity, and the Rhythm of Life
November 09, 2018 16:55 - 1 hour - 90.6 MBWhat She Shares: Why she believe the psoas should be considered an organ of perception How the psoas is connected to our emotional states and our nervous system How to find resiliency and tone the nervous system through movement and play What You’ll Hear: Why the psoas, more than any other structure, is expressive and doesn’t fit in a biomechanical box How the psoas relates to our sense of safety and full thriving How a full body orgasm relates to the...
EP49: Jennifer Mayer on Placenta Encapsulation, the Birth World,and What to Look for in Birth & Postpartum Support
November 02, 2018 03:29 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBWhat She Shares: The history of eating placenta Why single CDC case-studies on eating placenta aren’t as trustworthy as are own experiences How her own postpartum period was affected by returning to work after two weeks, being alone with her baby after Day 9, and living with undiagnosed Hashimoto’s How integrated postpartum care would be a dream for new moms How her agency, Baby Caravan, matches women to birth doulas, postpartum doulas, and back-to-work coaching services What Y...
EP48: Kimberly Seals Allers on How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding
October 18, 2018 18:29 - 52 minutes - 71.8 MBEP48: Kimberly Seals Allers on How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding What She Shares: How her book, The Big Letdown, explores the connections between medicine, big business and feminism and their effects on breastfeeding women today. How the environment we are currently in sets us up for failure. The importance of using our power as consumers to start dialogues with our care providers about breastfeeding and lactation. Taking morality and guilt out of the c...
EP47: Kim Anami on Reprogramming for Birth, Sex and Beyond
October 12, 2018 03:37 - 1 hour - 110 MBKim Anami is a sex and relationship coach, vaginal weightlifter, surfer and mom. With decades worth of experience in Tantra, Taoism, Osho and Transpersonal psychology, she has helped countless women and men heal and maximize their innate sexual nature. What Kim Shares: How our sexual, emotional and psychological blocks show up in the birth experience The importance of removing these blocks in order to have an empowering birth Orgasmic birth; what it means and how to create the b...
46 *Jaguar Roundtable: Jaguars SPEAK
October 08, 2018 17:28 - 1 hour - 86.9 MBIn this special episode of the Magamama podcast, my right-hand woman Lynn Wolfbrandt interviews four women who have taken my course Activate Your Inner Jaguar. They share their experiences in the course, from decreased social anxiety, increased intuition and inner knowing, a more comfortable mindset around chronic illness, more congruence between what they desire and what they experience, and a newfound ability to shift from freeze during sex to a more fulfilling intimate relationship with t...
EP45: Jaiya on Birth, Motherhood, and Erotic Blueprints
October 05, 2018 15:39 - 1 hour - 104 MBJaiya, a sexological body-worker, educator, and prolific author, discusses the Erotic Blueprint types and the role that they play in our relationships. In this episode, Jaiya shares how own blueprint has shifted throughout her life and details the different characteristics of each of the five blueprint types. What You'll Hear: What inspired her work on postpartum health How her sexuality shifted after becoming a mom What the Erotic Blueprints are and why they’re important How she he...
EP44: Bethany Saltman on Consent, Kavanagh and Attachment
September 28, 2018 22:18 - 43 minutes - 17 MBBethany Saltman drafted the nation's first "affirmative consent" policy at Antioch College in the 90s. That means she's been having the #metoo conversion and talking about the politics of pleasure for a good long time. She is now at work on a book about attachment- rejecting or revising the work that has been popularized and categorized as "attachment styles." Recorded right before the Kavanagh confirmation, we talk about the behavior during the hearings- body language and attachment style.
EP43: Hunter Clarke-Fields on Mindful Parenting and Creativity
September 16, 2018 19:00 - 1 hour - 86.6 MBIn this episode, “Mindfulness mama mentor” Hunter Clarke-Fields talks about the importance of practicing mindfulness in parenting and how she helps stressed-out moms become more grounded in their daily lives. Hunter also shares about her life as an artist and the role that painting played in own pregnancy and entry into motherhood. Hunter Clarke-Fields is a yoga teacher, “mindfulness mama mentor,” podcaster, mama, and artist who teaches mothers how to implement mindfulness into their paren...
EP 42: Shannon Aganza on How Astrology Maps the Body, Intimacy and Sex
September 08, 2018 04:59 - 1 hour - 100 MBIn this episode, we talk to astrologer Shannon Aganza for a deeper understanding of astrology: both in your own birth chart, and in the current transits (specifically Mars and Venus retrograde). Often we think that astrology is just our sun sign, and that couldn’t be further from the truth. All of the planets—Mars, Venus, Saturn, Mercury, etc—were in a certain sign and house of your chart when you were born. Shannon will tell you how to find Venus and Mars in your own chart, and what that ...
EP41: Rachael Maddox interviews Magamama on the Reparative Power of Connection in Birth and Sex
September 01, 2018 20:32 - 1 hour - 98.7 MBWhat Kimberly Shares Her work with sexuality, birth, and the postpartum time How these often misunderstood parts of our lives can lead to our healing and our soul work Practical tools to start exploring these topics in your own life today What You’ll Hear: Kimberly’s perspective on what helps heal us the most The importance of reestablishing connection and trust The fears that can come up around healing and living a life without feeling your trauma Kimberly describes her unique,...
EP40: Ariel Giaretto on how Somatic Experiencing and Sexual Embodiment Can Change the World
August 24, 2018 14:26 - 1 hour - 85.5 MB“The way to save the world is more embodiment.” “Love all of your body just the way it is.” What You’ll Hear: How somatic experiencing can help us connect to our core self The pervasiveness of “sexuality trauma” in our society The pushback against sexuality in the United States and how it has affected practitioners’ training Ariel’s unique journey to somatic experiencing and what she has learned from over 40 years of being involved in the healing arts What Ariel Shares: Sexualit...
EP39: Marcia Lopez on Womb, Ancestral and Sexual Healing
August 16, 2018 19:18 - 1 hour - 90.7 MBMarcia Lopez is the owner of Women's True Healing. Marcia is an accomplished healer serving the Los Angeles communities since 2005. https://www.womenstruehealing.com/ Marcia uses the old ways in new ways and has been achieving extraordinary results in female reproductive health dysfunction, infertility, and sexual trauma recovery. She blends her expansive knowledge and initiations with her own healing/recovery journey to create a space that is safe, profound, healing, and empowering. W...
EP38: Racha Lawler on Black Midwifery and Systemic Racism in Health Care
August 04, 2018 01:59 - 54 minutes - 74.6 MBWhat Racha Shares: -her personal story as a black midwife in the United States, her pilgrimage to South Africa and initiation into becoming a Sangoma -her insights about the systemic racism within health care -the challenges women of colour are facing on their path to becoming midwives -the sacrifices and decisions she has made to make her career work as a single mother -the need for ‘passing the baton’ and creating a ‘seat at the table’ for black women to affect change within midw...
EP37: Molly Caro May on Female Rage, Writing, Somatics and Motherhood
July 26, 2018 01:44 - 58 minutes - 80 MBWhat You’ll Hear: The inspiration for Molly’s memoir Her exploration of postpartum rage The connection between storytelling and healing Anger in our culture today, how it connects to the postpartum period and what it can teach us about ourselves What Molly Shares: The provocative title of Molly’s book and why she chose it (2:00) How Molly’s journey through birth and early motherhood inspired the book (3:45) Her exploration of and questions about rage (5:45) Childbirth as a...
EP36: Christiane Pelmas on Menopause, Sexuality, and an Emerging Archetype of Womanhood
July 20, 2018 01:43 - 1 hour - 91.9 MBEP36: Christiane Pelmas on Menopause, Sexuality, and an Emerging Archetype of Womanhood What Christiane Shares: - her personal experiences with her cycle, abortion, perimenopause and menopause—and the intelligence of these initiations - how her experience with menopause informed major decisions in her life including her living arrangement with her partner, her pace, her work in the world - the potential for whole listening, erotic sex, generative power and a QUEEN existence from our ...
EP35: Dr. Katherine Zagone on Fertility is Health and Life
July 12, 2018 21:59 - 59 minutes - 81.5 MBWhat You’ll Hear: The relationship between holistic health and optimal fertility What’s missing from the current medical approach Dr. Zagone’s unique, holistic work combining environmental, physical and emotional components How the fertility journey can be a process of internal growth and maturity Success stories from her practice What Dr. Zagone Shares: Her definition of fertility (1:56) What’s missing from the current conversation about fertility (3:40) How cultivating healt...
34: *Jaguar Round Table- 5 Women Share Their Experience of Activate Their Inner Jaguar
July 02, 2018 14:21 - 1 hour - 84.6 MBJaguar Round Table- Five women share what changed for them from Activate your Inner Jaguar - Sex is better - Stopped picking skin on their hands (a longtime habit that had been addressed many different ways) - Learning to how to stay present with what feels good during sex (instead of what doesn't) - How to learn what her system needs and to ASK for it- changing her relationship - Sexual intimacy more open and with more possibilities - Learned better boundaries and said "no" and ...
EP33: Nikki Coffelt on Addiction, Somatic Recovery, and Soul Work
June 28, 2018 01:32 - 1 hour - 93.3 MBNicole Coffelt, PhD is a Licensed Psychologist, a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, provocateur and shamanic artist. Nikki has had the opportunity to travel and experience many diverse cultures including her own ancestral American Indian roots and brings this experience and wisdom to her healing work. Nikki has extensively worked through her own addictions and trauma and offers the gift of her capacity to transmute pain and suffering into healing energy. Nikki is the sole owner of a private...
EP32: Ale Duarte Tunes In To Children from a Somatic Approach
June 22, 2018 00:09 - 1 hour - 78.8 MBAle Duarte is a somatic educator who travels around the world offering training to professionals who work in the fields of psychology, education and body-oriented therapy. What Ale Shares: How he came to work with children combining his experience teaching physical education, Rolfing, and Somatic Experiencing Trauma Therapy. Examples of Ale’s work with children and their families. The importance of using simple solutions, play, and seeing the world through the child’s eyes. The ...
EP31: Eileen Rosete on Motherhood, Miscarriage, and Loss
June 05, 2018 16:38 - 1 hour - 86.3 MB“People don’t know they have the permission to mourn [a miscarriage] the same way they would for someone who had lived longer." Eileen Rosete is the founder of Our Sacred Women and a Marriage and Family Therapist. She is the mother of one daughter and has experienced two losses, which I was honored to be a part of. This episode is about honoring all kinds of births- how to do that and what that process is like. Eileen has an enormous heart of service and is infiltrating the fashion world w...
EP30: Ellen Heed on Hormones, Pheromones and Postpartum Sex
May 25, 2018 02:25 - 1 hour - 84.5 MBEllen Heed and Kimberly Johnson, co-founders of STREAM School for Postpartum Care talk about what's missing in the dialogue about sex postpartum, the biological realities of the postpartum time, and how these affect libido. “Postpartum can be an initiation into deeper sexual potential.” What Ellen Shares What she is hearing from postpartum women in her office. How attachment, or lack thereof, between parents affects the dynamics of the family and the health of the child. What’s mis...
EP29: Emilee Saldaya on Free Birth and Waking Up from the Amnesia of Birth
May 18, 2018 01:31 - 1 hour - 86.8 MB“Birth is normal and it is biologically meant to work, it can feel incredible and you can have an incredible postpartum; but it takes a level of curiosity, courage and willingness to take responsibility for yourself that we have been hypnotized not to do.” Emilee Saldaya founder of the Free Birth Society boldly challenges the conventional birth process and refers to the ‘amnesia’ modern women embody when it comes to biological natural birth. She discusses why birth is a feminist issue, wh...
EP28: Uma Dinsmore-Tuli on Yoga, Feminism and the Postpartum Period
May 11, 2018 18:49 - 1 hour - 88.2 MB“If you actually understood what a woman has been through: the conception journey, pregnancy, birth, the whole process—what’s happening demands full respect and a deep care. To imagine that people would just snap back into their size 0 jeans and walk out, it begs disbelief. There’s no respect for what’s arisen. And in the yoga world, we’ve fed right into that.” Uma Dinsmore-Tuli is a yoga teacher, a yoga teacher trainer, and wrote the tome Yoni Shakti: A Woman’s Guide to Power and Freedom ...
EP27: Amy Jo Goddard on Sex Education, Sexual Empowerment, and #MeToo 3.0
May 01, 2018 04:38 - 1 hour - 94.8 MBAmy Jo Goddard, author of bestseller Lesbian Secrets for Men and Woman on Fire hails from a Military Dad and Recovering-Catholic-Proudly-Sandra-Dee-Mom; she had no other choice but to become a sex educator just to sail the shaky waters of human experience and help her family survive. She is an activist and that has taken many forms, including a gynecological teaching assistant, ising her body to teach pelvic exams, taking on the medical community re: power and consent in her film, At Your C...
EP26: Deej and Uma on Sexological Bodyworker- What is it? Who needs it? And who would make a great practitioner?
April 20, 2018 01:04 - 45 minutes - 61.9 MBThis episode breaks down: what is Sexological Bodywork? What kind of people need Sexological Bodywork? Who would be a good fit to take this training. Deej & Uma are international Sexological Bodywork teachers and teacher trainers. I traveled to Australia for them to be my guides and I cannot recommend this training, and them as teachers highly enough. This year, they’ll be teaching the program in LA, a huge opportunity for those of us in the US! Take a look at their website to learn mo...
EP 25: Centehua Sage on Body Image, Plastic Surgery, Self- Love and Intergenerational Mother Healing
April 15, 2018 21:09 - 1 hour - 89.1 MBCentehua shares her personal journey with her body image-- of becoming a mother at 19, taking on her mother and grandmothers' assessment of her body, and deciding to get a mommy makeover. She takes us through her journey of deciding to remove the implants at 40 as a ritual of self-love and self-reclamation. She does so without general anesthetic so that she can be fully present in the reclamation, and minimize the trauma to her system. What Centi Shares: -How she shifted fro...
EP24: Joelle Hann, the Brooklyn Book Doctor, on The Fourth Trimester and Writing Your Book
March 23, 2018 04:01 - 57 minutes - 79.1 MBThis episode is a whole lot of fun. I hope that those of you with book dreams still have them by the end of it, because I hysterically laugh talking about so many parts of the my book writing process, that kind of play out like a blooper roll. But Joelle is a master. She knows how to escavate the soul of a book and make you a better writer in the process. If you want to write a book, my number one piece of advice is find an incredibly editor and stay with them from start to finish. This epis...
EP23: Carlos Marin Interviews Kimberly about Natural Birth, Gender Roles, and Explorat
March 18, 2018 14:17 - 1 hour - 110 MBEP: Magamama talks about natural birth, gender roles, and exploratory sex with Carlos Marin Jr. In this episode, I share: My birth story and soul calling to write The Fourth Trimester; the realities of postpartum care today Information for men postpartum, role of the masculine in birth, and why we’re not optimizing our biology How to reframe sex postpartum; why childbirth is the one thing that makes us reconsider the way we’re doing sex Why birth is also a death and other thoughts ...
EP22: Dr. Kelly Brogan on Childbirth, Motherhood, and Postpartum as a PsychoSpiritual Awakening
March 07, 2018 18:36 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MB“We blame the victim, and medicate her as the only offering.” Dr. Kelly Brogan is a board-certified non-prescribing psychiatrist. She is the author of NYT Bestseller, A Mind of Your Own. (Get your copy ASAP). She is revolutionizing the way that we view mental health and how people heal. She is a pioneer and a trailblazer and this interview is full of the fire that propels her. I was honored that she shared her own experience of childbirth and motherhood, and why she didn't think she was "m...
EP21: Ellen Boeder on Motherhood, Feminism, and the Real Costs of Overvaluing Independence
February 16, 2018 17:52 - 58 minutes - 22.6 MBWhat Ellen Shares: Her exploration of feminism and motherhood Her new understanding of career after motherhood How the cultural standards of having to do it all, alone, sets mothers up for burnout How burnout and health issues allowed her learn how to receive help and collaborate with community Her desire to add motherhood, bodies, and intuition to the feminist conversation; plus giving women the permission and agency to do what’s right for them What You’ll Hear: How Ellen’s work ...
EP. 20: Ellen Heed on Un-shaming, Radical Sexual Autonomy, and the Real Deal on Pelvic Touchwork
February 06, 2018 01:53 - 53 minutes - 20.7 MBEllen and Kimberly Share: The inside scoop on Exiting the Shame Matrix course and why comes first in STREAM training Lots of great information about the four domains of pelvic health: the biochemical pelvis, the biomechanical pelvis, the all important scar tissue domain, and the emotional pelvis Most importantly, what the shame matrix is, how it affects access to life as a whole, and why freeing yourself from it is *essential* before helping others with their sexuality Your right to s...
EP19: Sil Reynolds on Mothering and Daughtering “Better” (Not Easier) with More Connection and Support in the Digital Age
January 30, 2018 20:26 - 52 minutes - 36.1 MBEP18: Sil Reynolds on Mothering and Daughtering “Better” (Not Easier) with More Connection and Support You are really in for a huge treat in meeting Sil Reynolds. She and I have connected intermittently over the years. Although our contacts have been brief, she has given me gems that have stuck with me over time. At a time when I felt deeply insecure about mothering and especially single mothering, she told me, a child needs ONE person to securely attach to. And she is a person you liste...
EP18: Bern Mendez on Finding the Love You Want
January 25, 2018 19:00 - 49 minutes - 33.7 MBEP 18: Bern Mendez on Finding the Love You Want Bern Mendez from YourGreatLifeTV helps women find their soulmates, and it works! He believes in big epic love and helps women get there. I love inviting wonderful men on the podcast. Bern’s heart is as big as the world. I hope you love the conversation as much as I loved having it. I am proud to call Bern a dear friend. What Bern Shares: Why he works with women (hint: women will save the planet) How standards work: differentiating betwee...
EP17: Ellen Heed on the Four Domains of Pelvic Health- Biomechanics, Biochemistry, Trauma/Emotions and Scar Tissue
January 16, 2018 05:18 - 46 minutes - 31.7 MBEllen Heed on the Four Domains of Pelvic Health- Biomechanics, Biochemistry, Trauma/Emotions and Scar Tissue What Ellen Shares: How to assess the origins of pain in the body, and the four domains of health Your unconscious mind lives in your body! How castor oil and self-massage can to help heal your scar tissue How those with elastic connective tissue are drawn toward yoga and veganism … and how that can contribute to tears and injuries during birth How diet (especially eating an...
EP16: Deborah Claire Bagg on Same Sex Fertility and the Vulnerability of the First Year of Motherhood
December 18, 2017 16:06 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MBEP16: Deborah Claire Bagg on Same Sex Fertility and the Vulnerability of the First Year of Motherhood Today I have a guest who is going to charm you like you haven’t been charmed quite yet. She has the best accent and a very warm heart. Deborah Claire Bagg is the owner and founder of the yoga studio, LoveisJuniper in Brooklyn- which is a yoga center, flower shop and has treatment spaces. Deborah is a yoga teacher, yoga teacher trainer, doula, somatic therapist and new mom. I met her online...
EP15: Erin Telford on Breathwork, the Role of Emotions, Grief & Redemption
December 11, 2017 19:30 - 1 hour - 41.9 MB**Trigger Warning** We cover sexual assault in this episode, and we go into deep grief space as Erin lost her sister in a brutal way. In this episode, we talk about breathwork as a therapeutic modality that bypasses the mind, the role of emotions, and dealing with grief. We ended up in some deep archetypal shizzle. The story of Erin's family, her mother and her sister has so many miraculous and redemptive elements for them as souls and family, but for us all. This episode took me to a pl...
EP14: Ellen Heed on STREAM School of Pelvic and Sexual Health, Sexological Bodywork, and True Health
December 01, 2017 03:22 - 1 hour - 46.5 MBEP14: Ellen Heed on STREAM School of Pelvic and Sexual Health, Sexological Bodywork, and True Health Today you will meet Ellen Heed- my mentor, the person who helped me heal my own birth injury and who paved the way for the new model of health that is culminating in our work in the STREAM school. We have taught STREAM together in England and 2018 is the first year we will bring this new radical model of pelvic and sexual health care to the US. Ellen is a Visionary Craniosacral practitioner...