The Mothering I Never Got, and What I Do Instead.
Naomi on growing up largely unsupervised from around age seven, making breakfast, emptying the dishwasher, mothering her younger brother while her parents worke, and how that early lack of holding sh...
14 Sep 202214min
The Vagina Called.
Naomi on the last piece of her healing journey to fall into place: her own pelvic floor, after years of urinary and fecal incontinence that Kegels never touched. Why: a pelvic floor that's already bra...
7 Sep 202219min
Dawn M. Rivers: What Happens When You 10x Your Prices.
Dawn M. Rivers a yoga teacher and business coach on radically raising her prices, funding a retreat through crowdfunding, and the discomfort of sitting in "the liminal suck" between who you were and w...
16 Aug 202242min
My husband's vagina massage experience.
Naomi and her husband Ali on the first time he gave her a vaginal massage: the practice she teaches for releasing pelvic holding patterns tied to vaginismus, vulvodynia, and past trauma. A rare male-p...
13 Jul 202236min
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 Apr 202236min
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 Mar 202251min
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 Feb 202253min
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 Jan 202234min
