Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

Five very different women share their experiences in MotherCircle: a monthlong dive into the physical, emotional, psychological, relational, sexual and spiritual shifts of becoming a mother. 

What Azita Shares:       Her own experience with trauma and how it shaped her personal and professional path       How she received support to leave her abuser and begin treatment for her trauma       How motherhood uprooted her sense of control       Her fertility and birth journey What You'll Hear:       Understanding that relational abuse and trauma can take many different forms   Finding the p...

What Kendra Shares:       Her realization that there is no mythical 'daddy' figure that she missed out on       The parts of single parenting that work really well for her       The parts of her pregnancies that brought forward wisdom What You'll Hear:       Allowing the relationships in your life to be what they are, without searching for perfection       When we relate to others as whole human b...

What She Shares:       The history of women and psychiatry       How some medical research data is currently being safely collected on pregnant women       Her intention for her new book to be a preventative guidebook to reduce postpartum depression       How her new podcast is intended for maternal health and support What You'll Hear:       How the scare around Thalidomide affected research into...

Rachelle Garcia Seliga, founder of Innate Traditions,   http://www.innatetraditions.com/ancestral-grief/ , shares: What is ancestral grief and how is it showing up postpartum Defining and finding community support as if your life depends on it, because it does How she found her life partner New forms, new paradigms, and new models in partnership and business Her personal story of financial health...

Five women share their stories about what changed for them after taking the Forging a Feminine Path course.    All of the women mention that understanding women's arousal was groundbreaking for them.   Molly Coeling (pronounced Cooling) was able to claim her sexuality for herself, and claim the essence of who she is, through the course. She also found that the course helped her with communication...

It's possible to heal prolapse and not just "manage the symptoms." Prolapse is an increasingly common outcome of birth and postpartum practices. To work with prolapse, you need to understand the contributing factors. In this episode, Kimberly breaks down how to figure out what's contributing to your prolapse and how to deal with it. 

Jenna Furnari works as an Ayurvedic Postpartum Doula in the greater Los Angeles area. She offers phone consultations for families living elsewhere.  Jenna hosts an online course to train other doulas, and also offers in-person trainings on Abhyanga, a grounding and gentle bodywork. "The first six weeks after birth really are the foundation behind the way she's going to show up as a human being, as...

What She Shares:       How the birth of her son was a psycho-spiritual death experience       The rich depth of her postpartum experiences       Practicing as a Zen Monk AND parenting       About her new course "Write to the Heart of Motherhood" What You'll Hear:       Recognizing when you need to surrender, and when you need to stand in your strength       Expanding your boundaries to build resil...

What Dr. Claudia Shares:      Why the title of her book is actually backwards      Her "aha!" moment when she was studying hormones      The difference between sex hormones and stress hormones      How our spiritual and emotional choices reverberate through our physical bodies What You'll Hear:      Understanding that your hormones don't become imbalanced in a vacuum      How Western and Eastern m...

What Christine Shares:      Her activism centered around the bodylessness present in our culture      Translating your physical experience to your social interactions      How embracing inquiry and challenges can support your well being      How her understanding of the immune system impacted how she runs her psychotherapy practice What You'll Hear:      Incorporating somatic work in your daily li...

What Lisa Shares:      Her journey to understanding female fertility more fully after receiving incorrect information in school      How to determine when you're actually fertile      The biology of the menstrual cycle and how different birth controls alter this      The importance of male fertility in conception and how to boost male fertility What You'll Hear:      The recent expansion of scient...

What Bari Shares:      Her journey into perimenopause      Learning to lose her shame around money      Living through the ebbs and flows of income      The phases she guides you through in her year-long money school What You'll Hear:      Responding to the body's needs through intuitive eating and nourishing movement      Respecting the natural ebbs and flows of energy      Allowing yourself to e...

What He Shares:      Some of the golden rules of healthy relating      The important ingredients to a flourishing relationship      How to reduce drama in your relationship, regardless of structure      His shift from 'doing' to 'being' What You'll Hear:      Moving into authenticity and vulnerability to allow a genuine unfolding within a relationship      Discerning when to be vulnerable and when...

Brigit is a licensed massage therapist, craniosacral practitioner, a trauma resolution therapist, and believes deeply in the magic of life and the wild wisdom of the body. She especially loves to work with people on boundary repair and stabilization. What She Shares:      Sensing your own boundaries for invasions and working towards repair      Working with imprints from our own conception and bir...

What She Shares:      Her varied birth and postpartum experiences      Learning about nourishing food from her family      Becoming a single mom of three and reweaving herself What You'll Hear:      The importance of practicing receiving and recognizing when we're depleted      Ways to slow down and reflect on your feelings so they don't accumulate and overwhelm      Approaching life from a point...

What He Shares: How he came into the path of intentional, sexual healing What a session in NeuroAffective Touch looks like Discovering your own preferences and those of your partner through Full Body Active Consent Working with his own mother to repair rupture in her nervous system How pleasure factors into his work What You'll Hear: How the lack of sovereignty in our body as an adolescent shows u...

Dan Doty is the founder of Evryman, a father, and a husband. He's constantly delving into new depths with himself, his wife, and the men in his life. Dan has found incredible liberation through his work helping men connect with each other.   What he shares:      The core mission of Evryman      His ongoing process of opening and exploration, and the feelings that arise      Changes he sees every d...

What Holly Shares:       Untangling hormonal birth control from feminism       Why she was on the pill as a teen even before she was sexually active       The positive effects the pill had for her       The mental health affects the pill had on her       Her journey discovering who she was without hormonal birth control What You'll Hear:       The cultural marriage between feminism and the pill   ...

What She Shares:       Why she believe the psoas should be considered an organ of perception       How the psoas is connected to our emotional states and our nervous system       How to find resiliency and tone the nervous system through movement and play What You'll Hear:       Why the psoas, more than any other structure, is expressive and doesn't fit in a biomechanical box       How the psoas r...

What She Shares: The history of eating placenta Why single CDC case-studies on eating placenta aren't as trustworthy as are own experiences How her own postpartum period was affected by returning to work after two weeks, being alone with her baby after Day 9, and living with undiagnosed Hashimoto's How integrated postpartum care would be a dream for new moms How her agency, Baby Caravan, matches w...

EP48: Kimberly Seals Allers on How Medicine, Big Business and Feminism Undermine Breastfeeding What She Shares: How her book, The Big Letdown, explores the connections between medicine, big business and feminism and their effects on breastfeeding women today. How the environment we are currently in sets us up for failure. The importance of using our power as consumers to start dialogues with our c...

  Kim Anami is a sex and relationship coach, vaginal weightlifter, surfer and mom. With decades worth of experience in Tantra, Taoism, Osho and Transpersonal psychology, she has helped countless women and men heal and maximize their innate sexual nature.  What Kim Shares: How our sexual, emotional and psychological blocks show up in the birth experience The importance of removing these blocks in o...

In this special episode of the Magamama podcast, my right-hand woman Lynn Wolfbrandt interviews four women who have taken my course Activate Your Inner Jaguar. They share their experiences in the course, from decreased social anxiety, increased intuition and inner knowing, a more comfortable mindset around chronic illness, more congruence between what they desire and what they experience, and a ne...

Jaiya, a sexological body-worker, educator, and prolific author, discusses the Erotic Blueprint types and the role that they play in our relationships. In this episode, Jaiya shares how own blueprint has shifted throughout her life and details the different characteristics of each of the five blueprint types. What You'll Hear: What inspired her work on postpartum health How her sexuality shifted a...