Trauma Lives in the Body: Somatic Healing & Recovery –  Becky Carter

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

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

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.

How to Heal Trauma & Regulate the Nervous System – Kimberly Anne Johnson

How to Heal Trauma & Regulate the Nervous System – Kimberly Anne Johnson

How can we restore and awaken our nervous system at its own pace, layer by subtle layer, to ensure its felt sense and inner awareness is reclaimed from the ground up, and how does this profoundly affect our sexual embodiment and pleasure? Kimberly Ann Johnson’s new experiential book, The Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use it for Good invites an embodied exploration of nervous system understanding, intimacy, and self-regulation via the senses through a carefully sequenced series of somatic experiences partnered with insightful cognitive understanding.

How Early Touch Shapes Adult Intimacy, Trauma & Sexuality — Dr. Aline LaPierre

How Early Touch Shapes Adult Intimacy, Trauma & Sexuality — Dr. Aline LaPierre

In this inaugural episode, Dr. Aline LaPierre, Creator of Neuroaffective Touch Therapy, discusses the “Arcline of Touch” – the developmental journey of our touch receptors and intimacy imprints beginning from within the Mother’s womb, and their influences on our adult sexuality and intimacy patterns and experiences.