Vaginismus & Vulvodynia: It Sometimes Shows Up After You Feel Safer

Vaginismus & Vulvodynia: It Sometimes Shows Up After You Feel Safer

A deep, thorough return to vaginismus and vulvodynia both understood as bracing. Here we discuss why we have to work not just physically but holistically with the body. Vaginismus is held in the pelvis for reasons ranging from sexual assault and childhood abuse to something like an ongoing tension in an unaligned relationship. The insight worth sitting with: pain and tightening sometimes appear only once you're finally safe enough for your body to stop overriding them: which is why "I have a great relationship, so why is this happening now?" is one of the most common and most misunderstood questions Naomi hears. On why dilators and Botox treat the symptom without the holding pattern underneath, and the real place of vagina massage, fascia work, and nervous system regulation alongside, not instead of, medical care.

Also: this podcast has a new name, Ground Floor, after Naomi's book was suppressed on Amazon and rebuilt from scratch to escape it.

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Smear Tests with Vaginismus, Vulvodynia and Fear

Smear Tests with Vaginismus, Vulvodynia and Fear

If the thought of a smear test feels a world away from your reality, this episode is for you. On this episode of Ground Floor I talk about cervical screening when there's pain, fear, vaginismus or vul...

25 Syys 31min

Vaginismus Explained: What Actually Shifted for Elena

Vaginismus Explained: What Actually Shifted for Elena

Vaginismus, Explained: What Actually Shifted for Elena. Why the body sometimes waits until it's safe enough to finally speak A fictional case study, built from repeated patterns Naomi's seen in her pr...

17 Syys 37min

When Rest Doesn't Restore: Why the Pelvic Floor Braces Under Chronic Stress

When Rest Doesn't Restore: Why the Pelvic Floor Braces Under Chronic Stress

If your period pain has gotten worse, your cycle's shifted, or sex doesn't feel the way it used to, your nervous system might be the reason. In this episode, Naomi unpacks why chronic stress and hyper...

10 Kesä 33min

Quietly Furious: What Resentment Is Doing to Your Pelvic Floor

Quietly Furious: What Resentment Is Doing to Your Pelvic Floor

Resentment isn't a character flaw instead it's a signal. In this episode, Naomi unpacks why so many "fine, functioning" women are quietly furious, and why that resentment so often shows up as bracing ...

14 Touko 19min

Why Analogue Feels Like Mothering Myself

Why Analogue Feels Like Mothering Myself

Naomi on the link between digital overwhelm and a nervous system stuck on high alert: flip phones, paper books, Swatch watches, and why she quit Instagram all recorded from a beach in Morocco mid-van-...

22 Huhti 32min

You're Surrounded By People: So Why Do You Still Feel Alone?

You're Surrounded By People: So Why Do You Still Feel Alone?

It's 2026. We understand the solutions so why aren't we living what we already know? Naomi challenges the idea that women actually want the community they say they want, through the story of "Sophia" ...

9 Huhti 28min

Meet Jenna: A Body That Closes, a Body That Says No

Meet Jenna: A Body That Closes, a Body That Says No

Meet Jenna, 35: she lives with vaginismus, where the vaginal muscles involuntarily contract, making penetration painful or impossible. This is a fictitious client profile, one of an ongoing series bui...

26 Maalis 24min

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