Ground Floor: on vaginismus, vulvodynia, and other ways we brace

Ground Floor: on vaginismus, vulvodynia, and other ways we brace

Women's bodies were never designed for permanent survival mode. Reasonable women have done the therapy, the books, the pelvic floor work, and still do not feel a sense of home and belonging in their bodies.


Vaginismus and vulvodynia are one example: a vagina that closes involuntarily. At the same time, vaginismus is just one way women brace.


This podcast is for women who still feel numb, perform, over-function, hold it all.


Hosted by Naomi Gale, a pelvic health educator, mother and author. Each episode moves between real conversations, named myths corrected with the evidence behind them, and the deeper question underneath: what happens when a woman stops trying to fix herself and starts trusting what her body's been saying all along.


This isn't a conversation on self-help; it's a return to you: a reasonable woman in an unreasonable world. Naomi is the author of Ground Floor and The Reasonable Woman, published by nomestia.

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What Is Pain In and Around the Vulva?

What Is Pain In and Around the Vulva?

Naomi breaks down three conditions that get conflated constantly: vaginismus (the vaginal muscles involuntarily tightening against penetration — tampons, fingers, a partner, a toy), vulvodynia (persis...

6 Huhti 202236min

Kayleigh Castle: Breaking the Cycle, One Awkward First Period at a Time

Kayleigh Castle: Breaking the Cycle, One Awkward First Period at a Time

Kayleigh Castle, mental health coach, on menarche (first period) as a mirror for the mother-daughter relationship, breaking a generational pattern of emotional neglect with her own son, and what she's...

29 Maalis 202251min

Adriana Zaccardi: Maiden to Mother, and the Myth of Descending Instead of Ascending

Adriana Zaccardi: Maiden to Mother, and the Myth of Descending Instead of Ascending

Adriana Zaccardi, guide, "spiritual midwife," and teacher of maiden-to-mother rites of passage on menarche (being told by a doctor at 16 that she was "broken," then put on the pill for seven years wit...

23 Helmi 202253min

What Is a Vagina Massage, Anyway?

What Is a Vagina Massage, Anyway?

Naomi explains vagina massage in detail: a fascia-release technique (imagine smoothing creased cling film over water) distinct from clinical pelvic floor therapy because it works with the emotional ch...

25 Tammi 202234min

All Things Vaginismus

All Things Vaginismus

Naomi's full explanation of vaginismus: the tightening that makes penetration: tampons, sex, a smear test painful or impossible, and why a doctor finding "nothing visible" doesn't mean nothing's there...

18 Tammi 202220min

Lauren Barber: How Four Years Without a Period Kickstarted Her Healing

Lauren Barber: How Four Years Without a Period Kickstarted Her Healing

Lauren Barber a womb yoga teacher and sacred business mentor on four years of hypothalamic amenorrhea brought on by chronic stress, over-exercise, and restrictive dieting, and the nervous-system work ...

30 Syys 202145min

Natalie Keighley: Why Self-Compassion Isn't Optional

Natalie Keighley: Why Self-Compassion Isn't Optional

Natalie Keighley is a mental health nurse of over a decade and founder of Value Your Mind: Natalie discussed Compassion Focused Therapy (developed by Paul Gilbert), and the pattern she saw again and a...

10 Kesä 202151min

Siobhan Strode: The Copywriter Who's Also Running for Office

Siobhan Strode: The Copywriter Who's Also Running for Office

Siobhan Strode is a copywriter, "word witch," and founder of This Is Describes on helping female founders find their voice on the page, and her parallel life as a local Labour councillor who stood in ...

31 Maalis 20211h

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