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)

Sophie Stitching: Body Hair, Free Bleeding, and Making Peace With Your Body.

Sophie, of Sophie Stitching, on growing out her body hair while living and teaching in Hong Kong, and later choosing to remove it again once it started to feel like a genuine treat rather than a press...

25 Jun 202051min

Fenella Powell: Why Forgiveness Without Healing First Is Toxic.

Fenella Powell, coach, on why "you have to forgive" is often toxic advice when it skips the healing step entirely. On the real difference between anger (healthy, appropriate, worth listening to) and r...

11 Jun 202059min

Ellie of The Enthusiast: Why "She's So Extra" Is an Insult Aimed at Women.

Ellie, founder of The Enthusiast, on why words like "extra," "obsessive," and "basic" are so often reserved for women who love something openly and unapologetically,and why reclaiming that enthusiasm,...

21 Mai 202040min

Sarah Tobin: What Is Tapping (EFT), and Why Does It Work?.

Sarah Tobin, founder of Tapping for Mums, introduces EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) on why anxiety spikes when either physical safety or your sense of self feels threatened, and why that spike is y...

25 Apr 202051min

Jess Cheetham: Making Mum Friends When School Friendships Never Quite Stuck.

Jess on navigating friendships as a new mum: playgroups, toddler groups, and the vulnerability of trying to make connections again as an adult. Both Naomi and Jess trace a thread back to friendships a...

6 Mar 20201h