Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

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**Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson**

Cutting-edge, pioneering conversations on holistic women’s health, including sex, birth, motherhood, womanhood, intimacy and trauma with doula, certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and author of Call of the Wild and the Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson.

Latest Episodes:

EP92: Liz Koch on ReWilding Psoas, Making Birth and Trusting Your Animal Power Apr 01, 2020

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What She Shares:

Why psoas is a central part of birth
Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues
Psoas as innate expression
Being coherent with nature
Beginning your journey home to yourself

What You'll Hear:

Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum
Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness
Trusting the animal body's knowledge of birth
Unlocking your physical organism
How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies
Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth
Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself
Trusting your own power
Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women
Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood
Examining appeasement and fawning responses
Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies
The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth
The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing ourselves
Finding your biological intelligence in your core
The nervous systems as expression
Why investing in your birth experience is a radical and loving act
Making birth choices that support the earth and the human species
How your birth experience affects your infant's nervous system
How a sedentary lifestyle impacts a developing fetus
Separating consciousness from the nervous system
Psoas as "muscle of the soul"
Landing into your bones and embracing the fetal curl

EP91: Astrology March 2020 Breaking Down Old Systems and Creating Something New with Shannon Aganza Mar 24, 2020

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What Shannon Shares:

Using astrology to survey time and cycles
Why astrologers have been looking towards 2020 for many years
What it means to see Jupiter and Saturn come together in Aquarius for the first time in 600 years

What You'll Hear:

Examining planetary transits that have not culminated for hundreds of years
Breaking down old structures so that we can build new ones that are suitable for our current society
Why the United States is experiencing an even bigger shift than other nations
Why Saturn's time in Capricorn has helped us address outdated systems
How Saturn's transition into Aquarius supports individuals and societies in innovation
Expecting introspection and realizations during the next 3 months.
Why July 1- Dec 16 will be an important time for productive building
Understanding how planets move through the signs by examining the sun's movement
Transitioning from a state of 'undoing' to 'creating'
Looking forward to positive things coming as 2020 moves into 2021
Why we're being called to undo old patterns around parenting and relating
Using the energy of Cancer to relax and go within during this time of discomfort
The various planetary ways we can see that stability is being disrupted physically and energetically
Moving into a new economic system
Committing the time and focus to come inward so you may soften the transition
Using Venus in retrograde this spring to figure out what it is we want
Saturn and Jupiter coming together in an air sign is supporting innovation and communication
Viewing Mars retrograde in Aries this fall as a productive fever
Astrologically moving from solid infrastructure to electrical infrastructure
Developing comfort in verbal communication
Being creative and deliberate with how you create social structures in an era of increased online presence
The north node in Cancer supports us in coming into our authentic inner selves
The necessity of being clear in ourselves before we start adding to the collective conversation

EP90: Jane Clapp on Moving Through Stress Cycles and Accessing Your Vitality Mar 04, 2020

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Jane Clapp's approach is to weave her diverse training in holistic and mindful strength and movement coaching with trauma-informed mindfulness and nervous system regulation interventions, transforming emotional and physical overwhelm into embodied strength, mobility, and vitality.

What Jane Shares:

How personal necessity inspired her on her path
Discovering coherence in her system when she became a mother
Why she helps people move into sympathetic arousal in order to relax
Ways to access your vitality

What You'll Hear:

Seeing ourselves as more than just has happened to us
Finding healthy attachment responses within yourself
Experiencing active responses to challenges during birth
Looking at differences in maternal care between countries through a realistic lens
Defining healthy maternal leave
How the structure of parental leave can affect long term parenting dynamics
Developing a deeper understanding of our sexuality within motherhood
Why moving into full vibrancy requires an understanding of healthy sexuality
Why accessing your vital life force energy is necessary for sexual and creative energy
Using movement interventions to come out of shut-down
Adjusting the rhythm of your life to match your biology
Traveling through stress and activation cycles in order to settle and relax
Building movement into your life for
Coming into healthy sympathetic states to create repair
Understanding that whatever you're dealing with is broader and bigger than just you
Tapping into your healthy aggression
The nuances of health and balance

JAGUAR JAMBOREE- Roundtable Testimonials Feb 27, 2020

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Find out the possibilities of what can grow and change in you, your life and your relationships as a result of the Activate Your Inner Jaguar class. In a roundtable format, women share about the unexpected transformations they experienced in their lives from the content, the spaceholding, and the group container or people coming together in a process of rewilding and deeper humanness.

EP88: Zhaleh Boyd Phillips on Navigating Trauma, Joy, and Vaginal Steaming as an Empath Feb 21, 2020

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Dr. Zhaleh Boyd Philips is an intuitive healer, a Certified Vaginal Steam Practitioner, and a co-host of the Hot Steamy Podcast. She's also a doctor in sociology specializing in human sex trafficking. Zhaleh was the magic behind all of the write-ups and graphics behind the Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam study and has developed a vaginal steaming course specifically for empaths.

What Zhaleh Shares:

Her personal history with sex trafficking and how it shaped her path
Realizing she couldn't be in anti-trafficking work forever
Becoming a joy junky
Receiving information from her ancestors and how it's guided her

What You'll Hear:

The complexity and difficulties of working with law enforcement
Finding accessible ways to support trafficking victims
How sex trafficking is different in different communities
The need for balance within your interests and time commitments to avoid burnout
Developing tools as an empathy to reclaim your body from other people's emotions
Safeguarding your health by knowing your own limits
Being in service to yourself as much as you are to other people
Re-connecting with joy and going on a trauma-fast
Vaginal steaming for healing from trafficking, assault, and trauma
How connecting in with the ancestors allowed her to get a fuller picture around clients
Communicating with organs and finding trapped emotions
Receiving sufficient financial exchange for your energetic output
The five dimensions of existing in our physical forms
Finding ways to support yourself beyond your physical body
How caring for an empath differs
Steaming for empaths

EP87: Kim Krans, of the Wild Unknown, on Blossoms and Bones: Drawing a Life Back Together Feb 12, 2020

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What Kim Shares:

How she used the beauty of imagery to stay in the heaviness of her memoir
How studying archetypes helped her art make sense to herself
Navigating major transitions by being with the tensions
Her experiences with miscarriage

What You'll Hear:

Examining all the parts of who we are and who we're expected to be
Feeling the tension of duality without buckling
Allowing a new creative solution to come forth from tension or difficulty
Using your personal practice to get through difficult times
Relating to work that you've released into the world
Allowing the true emotional experience to surface
Having space for the rich emotional experiences of life
Tending radical simplification in your life
Titrating your work to promote stabilization of the nervous system
Prioritizing your sense of self over external accomplishment
Resourcing yourself so that you're able to navigate the tension of duality
Holding yourself through each new phase
Why having a felt container is important in opening
Exploring the line between personal and professional life in the era of social media
Stretching your capacity for joy and connection
Choosing love, sensuality, pleasure, sex, and fun during the conception journey

EP86: Ash Robinson on the Intersection Between Motherhood, Business, and Self Feb 06, 2020

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Ash Robinson bootstrapped two of her own startups; raised over $12M in funding; sold to a public company right before the recession and consulted with hundreds of business owners and executives- most of whom were women. Ash started a company called Purpose to Profit specifically for women entrepreneurs to more effectively lead sustainable and wealth-creating businesses. Now she consults for non-profits, corporations, and entrepreneurs, especially when they are at critical junctures or need people solutions.

What Ash Shares:

Where she got her experience and foundation in business
How she navigated business and new motherhood
Re-creating business with a model that works for women

What You'll Hear:

Creating safety for freelancers during the fourth trimester
Allowing your postpartum experience, without needing it to be 'perfect'
Culturally ingrained postpartum care
How providing parental leave supports companies in the long term.
Why working with your nervous system is important in building your business
Why developing your business from a human-centric model might be what you need
Offering your work to the world even when you've experienced failure
Re-orienting around work after birth
Building a career while raising young children
Noticing what you want to be acknowledged for
Doing better by slowing down
Structuring your business to be authentic to yourself
Noticed if difficulties arise from a business structure issue or for a personal reason
Distinguishing between yourself and your business
Determining what you're good at in your own business
Recognizing the resources available within your relationships
Expanding women's power through financial earning

EP85: Michel Odent on Becoming Bilingual in Intuition and Science, Learning to Phrase New Questions, and the Socialization of Birth Jan 31, 2020

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Michel Odent, MD, is a French obstetrician trained as a general surgeon known for his tireless research on how environmental factors present during pregnancy and birth affect babies, children, and our communities. He is the founder of the Primal Health Research Centre and authored the first articles on the initiation of lactation and the use of birthing pools. He has authored 15 books and continues to publish cutting edge research.

What He Shares:

Why birth is an important subject not only for birth workers, but for all people interested in the future of our species.
Why the period of birth is a critical period in a person's life
The inability to study the long-term, non-specific affect of modern pregnancy and birth practices
Exploring the changes in Homo sapiens resulting from birthing practices

What You'll Hear:

How birthing hormones affect our biological programing
Understanding the needs of a laboring person
Why the microbiome of a newborn baby affects a their lifelong health
How the future of our species is being modified based on birth environments
Discovering the correlation between birth choices and children's behavior
Developing appropriate questions around new pregnancy and birth practices
Improving research ability to answer unknowns
The difficulty of understanding the long term risk factors of birthing choices
Prioritizing the development of new research questions
Why pregnancy is not the best time to educate yourself on these issues
Expanding our view beyond the individual choices to the medical establishment
Becoming bilingual in the languages of intuitive knowledge and scientific research
Exploring how making birth a social event altered the fetal ejection reflex
How technological advancements have altered birth

EP84: Deirdre Cooper-Owens on Medical Bondage, Racial and Gynecological Trauma Jan 21, 2020

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What She Shares:

The relationship between slavery and modern medicine
Learning to read between the lines of the medical literature produced during slavery
The emotional strain of researching archives of enslaved people
Her own gynecological experience as a black woman

What You'll Hear:

The racist background of gynecology and obstetrics
How the presumption that Black bodies feel less pain is founded in slavery
Understanding that the first men practicing gynecological surgeries were interested in protecting an economic system
Recognizing the Mothers of gynecology while respecting their privacy
Having an embodied since of history and homeland
Examining the legacy of anti-blackness and xenophobia in medicine
How nonviolent direct action helped fan the popularity of her book
Using education to dismantle the anti-black medical system
Attending to the maternal health of Indigenous women
How race and class still affect how a person is treated in a medical office
Allowing the present to be a part of historical studies
Considering that stress responses signify a healthy, coherent system
Understanding that black women face higher maternal health risks because of institutionalized anti-blackness, not because of their race

Deirdre Cooper Owens is a griot, and a teacher who performs may functions in her community, especially in this 21 st century. Her practice is rooted in the West African and Gullah traditions of gathering and telling stories. She's an award-winning historian and popular public speaker as well as a Professor in the History of Medicine and Director of Humanities in Medicine Program at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln. Dr. Cooper Owens is the author of "Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology."

EP83: The Sacred Window, Supporting New Mothers, and Ayurvedic Doulas with Christine Eck Dec 21, 2019

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What She Shares:

How her own postpartum story inspired her to learn and teach postpartum care
The history of the school and about its founder, Ysha Oakes
The layout of the Ayurvedic Doula program from the School for Sacred Window Studies

What You'll Hear:

The lineage of the School for Sacred Window Studies
Preventing postpartum mood disorders with appropriate care for mothers
Why it's important to have a postpartum care provider who personalizes care
Prioritizing comfort and peace during the fourth trimester
How doula training has expanded outside of DONA certification
Getting clear on the services you provide as a postpartum doula
How having a care provider for a new mom affects the mother-baby relationship and nervous system regulation
Why Ayurvedic postpartum bodywork is helpful in reducing PMADs
Finding your boundaries after birth
The value of hiring a postpartum care provider with training and expertise
Understanding how food can impact a person's postpartum experience and healing
Taking care of yourself as a postpartum care provider to avoid burnout
Approaching the fourth trimester holistically and not as a form of crisis management
Investing in postpartum support
The professional and social benefits of a group practice
Balancing your personal responsibilities with caring for others as a doula
The potential effects of hiring a doula for just a few hours a week
Moving the cultural dialogue on postpartum through scientific research

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