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 a vagina reading?

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24 Mars 202314min

Sex can hurt but shouldn't

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Naomi on a recent smear test that turned into a stark reminder of how little the medical system understands about pelvic pain: a nurse who works with cervixes daily and had never heard of vaginismus o...

15 Feb 202323min

RIP Social Media and WTF Is Substack?

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Naomi on stepping back from Instagram: the 40-minutes-gone feeling, an example of Instagram taking down a creator's post about unsolicited DMs, and a specific case for email over social: 1,200 Substac...

8 Feb 202325min

Your Vagina's Holding Pattern

Your Vagina's Holding Pattern

Naomi on "holding patterns": her framework for how the pelvis stores unprocessed experience, from inherited patterns (a mother or grandmother's endometriosis, PCOS, miscarriage, or unspoken trauma) th...

25 Jan 202323min

My husband told me I wasn't accessing my joy

My husband told me I wasn't accessing my joy

In this episode, I personally reflect on why and how I started really diving into daily joy. I share what that looks like and how that unfolds throughout my week. There's a little more on how to do th...

15 Dec 202218min

Emma Wilson: What Egg Freezing Actually Involves: And Why She Did It Alone

Emma Wilson: What Egg Freezing Actually Involves: And Why She Did It Alone

Emma Wilson, the Turning 30 Coach, walks through egg freezing in real detail: the daily hormone injections, follicle monitoring, trigger shot, and retrieval under anaesthetic, and why she did it in Is...

19 Okt 202249min

10 Days of Silence: What Vipassana Actually Did to My Body

10 Days of Silence: What Vipassana Actually Did to My Body

Naomi on a 10-day silent Vipassana meditation retreat: no talking, touching, journaling, music, or movement beyond basic stretching, 4am starts, and two-hour meditation sessions built around observing...

12 Okt 202230min

Laura Wallace: How to Tell When You're Out of Alignment

Laura Wallace: How to Tell When You're Out of Alignment

Laura Wallace (aka Laura Aura), alignment coach and host of the Gutsy Podcast, on reading the small daily signals, an uncomfortable outfit, a rushed breakfast, ongoing frustration at work as the same ...

5 Okt 202240min

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