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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EP13: Jessica Graham on Good Sex: Getting Off without Checking Out, Spiritual Sex, and Self-Love
November 08, 2017 01:59 - 1 hour - 41.3 MBSpirituality and sexuality can be the same thing when trauma moves out of the way. In this episode, Jessica shares her personal story of being raised by beautiful and terrible wolves, and how she arrived at this path of being a spiritual teacher and filmmaker. What Jessica shares: How being raised by beautiful and terrible wolves shaped Jessica’s path, when she was on her own at 14 Where and how she gets the “audas” and takes authority from her experience to write a book and teach w...
EP12: Jessica Durivage on Doing It All, Falling Apart, and Diving in the Depths
October 30, 2017 06:12 - 1 hour - 52.6 MBThis interview is not about offering answers, a strategy or a plan but more how to navigate deep change by embracing the unknown, dancing with mystery and meeting one-self in a tender transparent integrity every step of the way. At the beginning of 2017, Jessica's business and marriage were falling apart, she was sinking into debt and found herself facing an identity crisis in both her personal and professional lives. She made a radical decision to embrace her resistance, step into her de...
E11: Ellen Boeder on Attunement, Attachment, Regulation and Having the Relationships We Want
October 24, 2017 03:10 - 56 minutes - 39 MBThis podcast we discuss attachment theory and the nervous system. We talk about navigating relationships as new moms and as partners, co-dependence vs. interdependence and how mom, partner and baby’s needs can all be met allowing everyone’s cup to be full. In this episode Ellen shares: How attachment affects our nervous systems and relationships with our children and our partners. The reality of coming from an adulthood of independence into motherhood The challenges of preparing f...
EP10: Jennifer Laurin on Tantra 101, Right Relationship, and Unconditional Family
October 10, 2017 19:01 - 1 hour - 44.2 MBJennifer Laurin is the creator and founder of Shunya Gates Temple and a Certified Tantra Counselor. A yoga practitioner and meditator, she is at work on a book entitled Unconditional Family, based on her own experience of maintaining family while dissolving marriage. In this episode, Jennifer shares: What Tantra is Why both men and women need to take the pressure off the cock Is erectile dysfunction actually sexual maturity? How to dissolve marriage without losing family What You’l...
EP9: Tema Mercado on Midwifery, Xicana Cultural Legacies of Birth, and Postpartum Care
October 06, 2017 23:17 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBTema Mercado is a Xicana mother of five children, wife and licensed midwife. I asked her to be on the Magamama podcast because I have had the privilege of watching her practice midwifery. I wanted to ask her about her dual practice in Tijuana and San Diego, to hear about how the birth center project in Tijuana is going, and also to talk about cultural appropriation in the birth community. I wanted to open dialogue for her concerns and desires for how we use the ancient technology in modern t...
EP8: Juna Mustad on Intuition, Anger, and Boundaries with Love
October 02, 2017 03:52 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBIn this episode, Juna and Kimberly talk about intuition. What exactly is intuition? How do you tap into it? What is its role in therapy? As a practitioner, how do you capitalize on your intuition, and also develop accurate discernment? Juna shares some of her gems and insights from her upcoming book, A Good Girl’s Guide to Anger, and much more. Juna Mustad is a Life and Relationship coach, an Intuitive, and a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner focused on helping people create healthy relati...
EP7: Maggie Rintala on Training, “Fitness,” and DNS for Prenatal and Postpartum Recovery
September 18, 2017 03:37 - 48 minutes - 33.1 MBThis podcast we talk about how Maggie giving birth to her two children radically changed her life and her career for the better. We talk about the personal changes within that drew her to find the support she was looking for and her approach to healthy exercise during pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Maggie Rintala is a personal trainer,nutrition coach and movement specialist dancer, mother of 2, lover of the outdoors, a wise wild woman a truly one-of-a kind person who lives life on her ...
EP6: McLean McGown on Postpartum Doulas, Postpartum Care, and Mothering the Mother
September 17, 2017 18:17 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBWhen we recorded this episode she is 1 day shy of 40 weeks! Her daughter, Goldy Wolf, was born three days after we talked. McLean McGown is a mother, wife, Postpartum Doula, Yoga & Pilates teacher, Nutritionist, Buddhist and yoga practitioner living in Los Angeles. Through her own pregnancy and birth experiences, McLean started learning about the birth world and happened upon a career that she never saw coming. Becoming a postpartum doula led her to her truest passion- to support women dur...
EP5: Keli Garza, aka Steamy Chick, on Vagina Steaming and Radical Women's Health Care
September 17, 2017 06:02 - 1 hour - 44.7 MBThis podcast is a steamy one. I met Keli at a vagina steaming workshop and was immediately captivated by her wealth of knowledge, background in quantitative analysis, and grassroots approach to women's health. This podcast is all about vagina steaming, and how it can treat almost every gynecological issue. I know the term “vagina steaming” is not a term many have heard so we will discuss here what it is, how it works, what “the perfect period” actually looks like and my own personal success ...
EP4: Kristin Hauser on Conscious Birthing, Postpartum Recovery and Chinese Medicine
September 17, 2017 05:41 - 58 minutes - 40 MBIn this Magamama episode, Kristen Hauser we talk about the choices she made in her recent birth experience and why she trusted her instinct to choose this route; how it truly takes a village and how important the healing experience is. We also discuss Chinese medicine and postpartum care. She also shares her own unexpected difficulty with breastfeeding after an ecstatic birth experience. Kristin is a Licensed Acupuncturist, herbalist, birth doula, sex educator and yoga teacher. She offers ...
EP3: Layla Centorrino, the Artemis Woman, on Chakras and Energetics of Childbirth and Postpartum
September 17, 2017 05:21 - 48 minutes - 39.2 MBMagamama interviews Layla Centorrino-- a teacher and practitioner for over thirty years including work such as transformational bodywork, counselor, yoga, colon hydrotherapy, shamanism, energy medicine, and psychic clairvoyance. She is the owner of The Artemis Woman. She is the creator of Conscious Coupling and Uncoupling process, creator and doula of conscious baby-making. Layla Centorrino is a seasoned wise-woman guide who tracks and accesses information and understanding, helps open bl...
EP2: Tobin Zivon on Relationship and Intimacy Games
September 17, 2017 04:58 - 41 minutes - 28.2 MBEP2: Tobin Zivon on Relationship and Intimacy Games Tobin Zivon is a longtime friend and soul ally of mine. He is also an accomplished spiritual teacher and counselor, and a man I trust to share the masculine perspective with the Magamama community. He authored the Art of Mindful Living: You Can’t Stop the Waves, But You Can Learn To Surf, and has been teaching groups, couples and individuals for over 18 years. His brilliance shines most brightly when working with men, women and coupl...
EP1:Christiane Pelmas on Relationships, Codependence, and Mother as Soul Guide
September 17, 2017 04:03 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBIn this inaugural episode of the Magamama podcast, Kimberly Ann Johnson is joined by Christiane Pelmas who shares her wisdom as a psychotherapist, Sexological Bodyworker, wise woman, author and mother. She tells me just before the episode that she is not interested in being interviewed. She's interested in co-created conversation. Nevertheless, she is a truth teller and culture maker. She elucidates the difference between codependence and interdependence, and how care-taking can be a form...