Healing Sexuality + Sensual Connection with the Body Beyond Trauma

This episode we dip our toes into they ways the body responds to stress, trauma, and shame show up in the body and impact one's sexuality. We discuss various aspects of women's health, including the impact of trauma, the importance of self-discovery, and the connection between physical and emotional well-being.

This conversation touched on topics such as sexual expression, intimacy, and the significance of building a healthy relationship with one's body, while also addressing common health issues and the need for community support in navigating these areas.

SHOW NOTES:

• Intro: Meet Brittney

• Physical connection to the body

• Pelvic floor issues and sexuality

• Self discovery and body connection

• Pelvic floor issues and understanding connection with the body

• Sexuality and periods

• Emotional safety and physical intimacy

• Hormonal birth control and the impacts on mental health

• Trauma, the bodies response to it

• High desire for sex and self fulfillment

• Understanding one's bodily functions in relation to the bladder and the pelvic floor

• Stress, emotions + energetic stories and the connection to the pelvis

• Learning about the body and navigating shame, grief, sadness, and anger

• Relationship to anger and rage

• Trauma stored in the body

• Pain, infections, irritations, surgery, scars, urgency, hip pain, reproductive issues, and discomforts in the pelvic area and taking care of the body as a preventative method

• Claiming your power and surrendering into self compassion and the reality of what is

•  TTC, pregnancy, pressures on sex + timing, and accepting the course

• The ways we build a connection with our bodies creates opening

• Intimacy in every form and connectivity to the body

• Showing up for self with open curiosity, presence, and availability to hear bodies expressions

• Merging of wellness from a holistic lens and rituals around navigating sexual expressions

• Play vs. performance and pace

• Resistance and self pleasure

• Experimentation and sex lab

• The healing impacts of being messy

• Beginning to build better body liberation, agency + choice

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