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)

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

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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...

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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

Melissa Rose Hirsch: Singing From the Pelvis

Melissa Rose Hirsch: Singing From the Pelvis

Melissa Rose Hirsch a singer, vocal coach, and birth doula on the direct link between the voice and the pelvis: why so many of her students cry mid-lesson, and a striking clinical observation from her...

28 Sep 202249min

The Mothering I Never Got, and What I Do Instead

The Mothering I Never Got, and What I Do Instead

Naomi on growing up largely unsupervised from around age seven, making breakfast, emptying the dishwasher, mothering her younger brother while her parents worke, and how that early lack of holding sh...

14 Sep 202214min

The Vagina Called

The Vagina Called

Naomi on the last piece of her healing journey to fall into place: her own pelvic floor, after years of urinary and fecal incontinence that Kegels never touched. Why: a pelvic floor that's already bra...

7 Sep 202219min

Dawn M. Rivers: What Happens When You 10x Your Prices

Dawn M. Rivers: What Happens When You 10x Your Prices

Dawn M. Rivers a yoga teacher and business coach on radically raising her prices, funding a retreat through crowdfunding, and the discomfort of sitting in "the liminal suck" between who you were and w...

16 Aug 202242min

My husband's vagina massage experience

My husband's vagina massage experience

Naomi and her husband Ali on the first time he gave her a vaginal massage: the practice she teaches for releasing pelvic holding patterns tied to vaginismus, vulvodynia, and past trauma. A rare male-p...

13 Jul 202236min

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