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Sex Therapist on Pelvic Pain and Trauma: When the Pain Itself Becomes the Trauma

Sex Therapist on Pelvic Pain and Trauma: When the Pain Itself Becomes the Trauma

What happens when pelvic pain improves, but your body still expects sex to hurt? I'm joined by Romi Terk Brudno, a...

48: Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Why You Can Have It In Your 20s & 30s

48: Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause: Why You Can Have It In Your 20s & 30s

Why do the tissue changes we link to menopause also show up in women on the pill, breastfeeding, or in their...

47. Vulvodynia & Gut Health: Exploring the Vaginal Microbiome Connection

47. Vulvodynia & Gut Health: Exploring the Vaginal Microbiome Connection

In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Christina Enzmann, a board-certified OB-GYN and functional medicine...

46. Pelvic Floor Botox: My Experience & Why My Physio Told Me to Do Less

46. Pelvic Floor Botox: My Experience & Why My Physio Told Me to Do Less

In this solo episode I catch you up on my own treatment. I talk you through what pelvic floor Botox was actually...

45. Postpartum Pelvic Pain: Why Sex Hurts After Birth And What Actually Helps

45. Postpartum Pelvic Pain: Why Sex Hurts After Birth And What Actually Helps

You had a baby, and months later something still hurts. Sex, sitting, the scar. And you've been told this is just...

44. Neurodivergence and Pelvic Pain: What ADHD and Autism Change in the Exam Room

44. Neurodivergence and Pelvic Pain: What ADHD and Autism Change in the Exam Room

Stephanie Berman has lived with vulvar pain since 2011. She spent eleven years being dismissed, misdiagnosed and...

Neurodivergence and Pelvic Pain: What ADHD and Autism Change in the Exam Room

Neurodivergence and Pelvic Pain: What ADHD and Autism Change in the Exam Room

Stephanie Berman has lived with vulvar pain since 2011. She spent eleven years being dismissed, misdiagnosed and...

43. Vulvodynia Medications: Why Nothing Has Worked, and Every Option That Actually Might

43. Vulvodynia Medications: Why Nothing Has Worked, and Every Option That Actually Might

Vulvodynia just means pain in the vulva. It is not a diagnosis - and Dr. Maria Uloko argues that is why treatment so...

42. Supporting a Partner With Vaginismus or Painful Sex: What It Feels Like and How You Can Help

42. Supporting a Partner With Vaginismus or Painful Sex: What It Feels Like and How You Can Help

This episode started with an email from a listener: a man in his twenties whose girlfriend has lived with vaginismus...

41. Vestibulectomy on Screen: Bonnie Gross on Lady Parts and Her Second Surgery

41. Vestibulectomy on Screen: Bonnie Gross on Lady Parts and Her Second Surgery

If you are googling vestibulectomy recovery at 2am, this one is for you. Bonnie Gross has had the surgery twice, ten...

40. The Only Episode You Need to Understand Pelvic Floor Strength, Tightness and Kegels

40. The Only Episode You Need to Understand Pelvic Floor Strength, Tightness and Kegels

What does it actually mean to have a strong pelvic floor - and is strong even the right thing to chase? Kimberlee...

39. Pelvic Venous Disorders and May-Thurner Syndrome: One Woman's Pelvic Pain Diagnosis

39. Pelvic Venous Disorders and May-Thurner Syndrome: One Woman's Pelvic Pain Diagnosis

Olivia lived with chronic pelvic pain for years - a constant dull, dragging ache on her left side that worsened when...

38. Self-Hypnosis For Vulvodynia: The "Silly Fad" That Actually Ended Sheren's 10-Year Pain

38. Self-Hypnosis For Vulvodynia: The "Silly Fad" That Actually Ended Sheren's 10-Year Pain

Sheren Gaulbert lived with severe vulvar pain for ten years — bedridden, on high doses of amitriptyline, and told by...

37. Vulvodynia's $18,000 a Year Cost + a Mini Interview With Origin CEO Carine Carmy

37. Vulvodynia's $18,000 a Year Cost + a Mini Interview With Origin CEO Carine Carmy

What does it actually cost to get taken seriously when you're in pain? For the average woman with vulvovaginal or...

36. Clitoral Nerve Mapping, Botox Update, and the Question Dr. Rachel Rubin Made Me Ask Myself

36. Clitoral Nerve Mapping, Botox Update, and the Question Dr. Rachel Rubin Made Me Ask Myself

What does a groundbreaking study on clitoral nerves, a Norwegian novel about a man who moves into the forest, and...

35. Low Desire in Women: How It Works, Why Pain Affects It, and What Can Be Done I Dr. Corey Babb

35. Low Desire in Women: How It Works, Why Pain Affects It, and What Can Be Done I Dr. Corey Babb

Why does desire so often disappear after sex has become painful - and is there actually anything you can do about...