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(49)

Socialising is not rest

Socialising is not rest

After a socialising-heavy Easter weekend, Naomi hits her limit and loses herself with her son over a lost chocolate rabbit: the flashpoint for a wider point: socialising isn't rest, even when it's fun...

13 Apr 202315min

How to Transition Into Spring

How to Transition Into Spring

As the UK shifts into spring, Naomi on why rushing the transition:saying yes to everything just because the sun's out backfires on the nervous system the same way skipping proper rest during your peri...

5 Apr 202313min

97% of Your Thoughts Matter

97% of Your Thoughts Matter

The subconscious is estimated to direct around 97% of our thoughts and decisions. Naomi on "protectors", the coping mechanisms (self-sabotage, numbing, sudden anger, online shopping) that form in chil...

29 Mar 202322min

What is a vagina reading?

What is a vagina reading?

Naomi explains vagina readings: a modality combining light, cranial-sacral-level fascia work with tarot, built around the idea that the body (and specifically the vagus nerve) directs the mind far mor...

24 Mar 202314min

Sex can hurt but shouldn't

Sex can hurt but shouldn't

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?

RIP Social Media and WTF Is Substack?

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 Des 202218min

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