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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Episoder(37)

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 Jan 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 Sep 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 Jun 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 Mar 20211h

Annamaria: Creating Healthy Boundaries Without the Guilt.

Annamaria: Creating Healthy Boundaries Without the Guilt.

Annamaria: boundary coach, mental health advocate, and autoimmune warrior on the panic attack on the London Underground that became the turning point in her own people-pleasing and codependency, and ...

17 Okt 202053min

Kate Codrington Second Spring  and Retiring the Word "Menopause" for "Life Autumn".

Kate Codrington Second Spring and Retiring the Word "Menopause" for "Life Autumn".

Kate Codrington a menstrual and menopause mentor who trained at Red School on why she's ditched the words "menopause" and "perimenopause" altogether in favour of "life autumn," extending the seasonal ...

24 Sep 202046min

Charmaine of Love Hair: Vegan Salons, Perfectionism, and Managing Mental Health Long-Term.

Charmaine of Love Hair: Vegan Salons, Perfectionism, and Managing Mental Health Long-Term.

Charmaine the founder of Love Hair by Charmaine, a vegan and cruelty-free salon in Manchester on what actually makes a hair salon vegan (no beeswax, no animal-tested products, ever), starting hairdres...

12 Sep 202056min

Amanda of Head and Hands: Building a Business Around Slowing Down.

Amanda of Head and Hands: Building a Business Around Slowing Down.

Amanda, founder of Head and Hands and Hold Space, on building a business entirely around the art of slowing down: a curated lifestyle store, workshop space, and London hire venue, all rooted in self-...

30 Jul 202058min

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