Consent, Pelvic Trauma & Sexuality After Baby – Tema Mercado
From trauma and numbness to cervical awakening and erotic sovereignty, Ariel Szabo explores how reclaiming pleasure restores voice, power, and embodied truth.
Pleasure Beyond Pain: Chronic Pain & Sexuality – Emily Royce
Is the process and methodology for holding space for sexological bodywork for those with chronic pain or differently-abled bodies any different than for non-differently-abled bodies? The answer may surprise you as Emily Royce, who specializes in working with communities who are on the outskirts of mainstream sexuality, shares her insights and experiences of her own journey of re-inhabiting pleasure, and how she holds space for this journey with her clients.
Healing Sexual Trauma & Rebuilding Intimacy – Dr. Laura Jurgens
Dr. Laura Jurgens, certified Sex & Intimacy Coach & Somatica Practitioner, shares her journey of re-inhabiting and reclaiming her body, her sexual pleasure, and re-writing the sexual intimacy in her marriage after years of dissociation as a survivor of childhood physical and sexual abuse.
Trauma Lives in the Body: Somatic Healing & Recovery – Becky Carter
Thanks to Becky’s many areas of expertise, we cover a lot of ground in this episode including how to identify pre-verbal traumas in the body, resolving issues specific to male sexual trauma survivors, how compounding injuries of racial and sexual abuse and/or aggressions experienced by marginalized communities affect the nervous system and holding space for their resolution, and working with adoptees and their families – all from a somatic approach and awareness.
Childhood Imprints & Sexuality: Healing Early Trauma Patterns – Kimberly & Nina
How can we release unhealthy coupling with sexual pleasure from the body’s tissues and cellular memory, and re-condition healthy and empowering pleasure patterns? Today, we hear from two special guests, Kimberly and Nina, who share their experiences of how sexual pleasure was coupled with desired attention, and with parental shame, during childhood, how these affected their sexual embodiment and behaviors into adulthood, and how they each released and replaced these with new empowering associations and the resulting changes in their lives.
The Pace of Trust: How the Body Heals Trauma Safely — Pamelah Landers
Every body’s journey of sensual & sexual reclamation from past sexual abuse is unique to their body. Pamelah shares with tremendous insight how her unique path involved her memories of child abuse returning via breath work, how she learned to give voice to her embodied feelings, and the roles Tantra, Yoni Massage, and Sexological Bodywork played in the reclamation and realization of her body’s full erotic pleasures and wholeness.