Somatic Sexual Healing
Heal Sexual Trauma, Restore Pleasure and Reconnect to Your Body
Your body is not broken. It adapted.
Somatic sexual healing restores the body’s capacity to feel, trust, and open again – by working directly with sensation, the nervous system, and embodied awareness.
Trauma, conditioning, and life experiences shape how we experience intimacy, pleasure, and connection. When those patterns are held in the body, they cannot be resolved through thinking alone.
When the body feels safe enough, autonomous and resourced – it naturally reorganizes:
Sensation returns
Pleasure becomes accessible
Intimacy deepens
The body begins to trust again
This is where healing moves beyond understanding — and becomes embodied.
What Is Somatic Sexual Healing?
Somatic sexual healing is a trauma-informed, body-based approach that works directly with sensation, breath, touch, and awareness to restore the body’s natural capacity for pleasure and connection.
Rather than focusing only on the mind, this work recognizes that trauma lives in the body—and must be resolved through direct embodied experience.
This work supports:
- Healing sexual trauma and early imprinting
- Restoring sensation after numbness or disconnection
- Deepening intimacy and relational connection
- Expanding pleasure and embodied awareness
How This Shows Up in the Body
- Numbness or lack of sensation
- Hyper-sensitivity or overwhelm
- Difficulty relaxing into touch or intimacy
- Disconnect between mind and body
- Feeling “shut down” or guarded
What You’ll Learn:
- How trauma and early imprinting shape sexual experience
- Why the body—not the mind—is the gateway to healing
- How to rebuild safety, trust, and sensation
- How pleasure becomes a pathway to wholeness
Podcast Episodes
ON SOMATIC SEXUAL HEALING TOPICS
Trauma & Nervous System Healing
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.
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
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.
Reclaiming Pleasure & Sexual Healing
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.
Reclaiming Pleasure After Sexual Trauma – Violet Lange
What does the journey of reclaiming and restoring our organic sexual embodiment and nature involve when healing from childhood sexual abuse? There are as many paths as there are sacred journeys to healing. Today, we have the privilege of listening to one such journey, as Violet Lange shares her experiences, both as a survivor of sexual abuse, as well as a guide and coach for women to live a life of pleasure, attuned and in alignment with their embodied feminine nature.
Hormones, Energy & Regulation
Hormone Balance, Jing Energy & Sexual Vitality – Kris Gonzalez
How can we live in harmony with the natural rhythms of our body for activity and restoration, within each day and across the 7-year natural cycles of our lifetime? Kris Gonzalez, Founder of The Way of Yin, shares the TCM perspective of how to cultivate and nourish our precious Jing Qi Essence and when to channel it into vital activity, how one’s vaginal ecology is a reflection of their overall health, and the Three Golden Opportunities for menstruators – all of which influence the vitality and enjoyment of our sexual health and energy.
Want to go deeper?
The body remembers how to heal, how to feel, and how to open again to pleasure.
If you’re ready to actively restore sensation, connection, and aliveness:
Reclaim your body’s natural capacity for sensation, intimacy, and pleasure through guided somatic practices.
