The Womben Wellness Podcast

I recently sat down with somatic sex educator and relationship expert Hannah Johnson (The Libido Fairy) to face something that still stirs so much discomfort in me: my own sexuality. Despite years of teaching womb health, sex has remained a largely private and unspoken topic in public work for me. Growing up in a Catholic household where my body and sexual expression were shamed, I share how early conditioning shaped my relationship to pleasure, desire, and visibility. Here's what you can expect… 00:00 - Introduction & why sex is still so hard to talk about 03:40 - The anatomy lesson: why women often don't orgasm during sex 08:13 - Knowing your own body before expecting a partner to 12:40 - Live somatic session: working through sexual shame in real time 17:00 - "If I step into my power, I'll lose everyone I love" 26:00 - Why repressing desire makes it stronger, not weaker 33:00 - What self-forgiveness after sexual trauma actually looks like 37:21 - Why women's libido is tied to emotional connection 41:47 - Mismatched libido affects 80% of couples - what to do 01:02:24 - Using fantasy, kink, and imagination to heal and connect I share personal stories of early sexual exploration, confusion, and the long journey toward understanding my own anatomy and pleasure. Hannah reframes sexual self-knowledge as empowerment, agency, and liberation - encouraging women to reclaim pleasure without waiting to be "rescued." The conversation moves into a live somatic exploration, where Hannah gently guides me through body-based inquiry around sexual power, fear, and safety.  This episode is an invitation to release shame, reclaim aliveness, and remember that sexual energy, creativity, joy, and power all come from the same source. Connect + Continue 🔥Register now for my FREE class, From 1:1 to Group Magic: https://bit.ly/3PqF2fX 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness   Want to learn more from Hannah? Hannah is a sex educator and coach with a specialty in helping women in relationships increase libido and enjoy sex. If you'd like to explore your sexuality with her, check out her free Libido Quiz here: https://freebies.thelibidofairy.com/libido-quiz   🌐 Website: https://www.libidofairy.com/ ▶️ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW-m6oSPQcoMV1dhN2hhZqg 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thelibidofairy  

If you feel called to lead healing women's spaces but keep getting stuck in "who's going to take me seriously?" or the sense that you need to be 100% perfect before you lead, listen up.    In this episode, I take you through the secrets behind guiding over 11,000 women in healing circles for the last 11 years.    Transformational healing goes way beyond just being good at "holding space", and in this episode I'll break down for you some of the most important pillars successful graduates of my programs integrate in order to become torchbearers of this work in their communities.    It's time to move out of isolation and back into the circle. In this episode, you'll learn how to share your medicine as we explore:   The truth about Imposter Syndrome How to differentiate between the fear that keeps you hidden and the healthy barometer that tells you it's time to build a solid framework.   Creating Coherence & Harmony through Principles and Agreements Why Confidentiality and Choice are the bones of a healing space. When you give women the power to listen to their own bodies over yours, the pressure to be a perfect leader vanishes.   The Kite String of Nervous System Regulation How to use your own breath and presence to anchor the energy of a room. You'll learn why your own embodiment is the greatest tool you have as a facilitator.   Attunement over Perfection Why being a levitating, enlightened healer isn't the goal. Real healing happens when you have the capacity to simply be with another woman in her humanity without trying to fix her.   Healing the Witch Wound How to let your freak flag fly and step out of the broom closet. We discuss how to create spaces where women can finally feel safe enough to be seen.   Rites of Passage and the Womb Portal Why women's physiological transitions (menarche, pregnancy, menopause) are natural altered states that require a village to hold and honor them.   This episode is an invitation to start reclaiming the original oral and healing traditions that belong to us all.   Connect + Continue   🔥 Lead Women 🔥 Register now for my Womb Circle Facilitator Training: https://bit.ly/4rFS2gi 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness  

Hey there - scroll down for a free gift from Alison!    For years, I struggled with my relationship with men. Were they stupid? Inconsiderate? Just plain simple? Society told me YES, but something in my heart told me that I wasn't hearing the whole story.    After finding Alison Armstrong's work, I put away the sword I always had at the ready to cut, slice, and protect myself from men and start relating to them in a healthy way.   In this episode, you'll learn how to do the same as we explore:    Responsibility without shame Alison reframes responsibility as your part - not blaming yourself for everything, and not blaming men for everything either.   How fear silently shapes our behavior Many of the ways women shut men down come from fear and frustration (not malice). Understanding this can unlock compassion and real change.   The covert ways we erode connection Withholding attention, appreciation, admiration, affection, or trust often feels safer than asking directly - but slowly starves intimacy.   Why boundaries create softness When you trust yourself to set and hold boundaries, you no longer have to walk through the world on guard, making partnership far simpler possible.   Why being understood doesn't always change behavior Many men are wired to prioritize productivity and duty over feelings - which means talking about hurt doesn't always lead to different action.   Attraction, novelty, and trust Attraction is hardwired; choice is behavior. What matters most isn't what catches someone's eye - it's where their energy, commitment, and care consistently go.   This episode is an invitation to step out of defensiveness and into partnership - with clarity, compassion, and agency.   Connect + Continue 🔥 Lead Women 🔥 Register now for my Womb Circle Facilitator Training: https://bit.ly/4rFS2gi  💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness   Want to learn more from Alison Armstrong? As a member of the Womben Wellness community, you can now get Alison's eBook, Making Sense of Men: A Woman's Guide to a Lifetime of Love, Care & Attention from All Men, for FREE.   Go to: https://www.alisonarmstrong.com/products/makingsense.html Just click on "FOR ME", and then enter this promo code at checkout: AlisonGift2025 🌐 Website: AlisonArmstrong.com ▶️ YouTube: YouTube.com/user/PAXPrograms 📚Facebook: facebook.com/UnderstandMen 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/TheAlisonArmstrong  

This conversation with Serena Gold invites you into a felt experience of the body - how sensation, tension, emotion, and awareness live in the pelvis and ripple through the rest of the system. We begin with something simple and familiar: one day feeling open, light, and at home in yourself… and the next waking up braced, heavy, and carrying the weight of everything. That moment is a reminder of something we're rarely taught - that the body is not separate from our stress, our sexuality, our emotions, or our history. About Serena Gold Serena Gold is a Somatic Sexologist and Pelvic Care Specialist devoted to midwifing transformation for women, men, and couples ready to meet themselves more deeply. Her work bridges the four domains of pelvic health as whole-body health - biochemistry, biomechanics, emotions, and scar tissue - through a nervous-system-based, body-led approach that brings the sacred back into the flesh. A SomatIQ Breathwork Practitioner, Erotic Blueprint Lead Coach, and facilitator of kink, tantra, and fantasy, Serena works where science meets soul, and healing meets raw aliveness. Her sessions are equal parts ceremony and initiation - an invitation to reclaim eros, embody truth, and remember the intelligence pulsing inside the soma. This is a grounded, unshaming, body-led exploration of how women store stress, trauma, and conditioning in the pelvis - and what becomes possible when we slow down enough to listen. In this conversation, we explore: 🌑 Why pelvic health might be the missing link in how you feel in your body 🌑 How the body remembers stress, trauma, and unspoken experiences 🌑 What numbness, tension, and scar tissue are trying to communicate 🌑 How performance, control, and perfectionism shape pleasure 🌑 Why slowing down restores sensation and safety 🌑 The Erotic Blueprints and how desire actually works 🌑 How relaxation becomes a doorway to embodiment and freedom We talk about scar tissue as more than a physical phenomenon - how emotional, sexual, and spiritual imprints can live in the tissues, and why some areas of the body won't soften until the story is witnessed. We explore numbness not as something broken, but as a protective strategy of the nervous system. And we name how modern sexuality often mirrors productivity culture - goal-oriented, pressured, disconnected from presence. Serena also introduces the Erotic Blueprints, a framework that helps women understand how they're wired for pleasure, why certain types of touch shut them down, and how to reclaim desire without forcing or fixing themselves. This episode is for you if you feel disconnected from your pelvis, overwhelmed by stress that lives in your body, curious about eroticism beyond performance, or ready to come home to yourself through sensation, softness, and truth. Connect + Continue 🔥 Get Undomesticated - Register for Liberated Womb: http://bit.ly/4pVyao3 💌 Get the Weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness Want to keep learning from Serena? 📸 Follow her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mistressofthebody/ If this episode stirred something in you, please subscribe, download, and share it with a woman who needs this.

In this episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast, I sit down with Ayurvedic physician and women's health expert Dr. Varalakshmi to explore how the world's oldest medical system can help modern women heal from burnout, bloating, and period pain.   Ayurveda, often called the mother of all medicine, gives us a handbook for life - from how to wake, eat, and rest with the seasons to how to live in harmony with our own cyclical nature. Together, we bridge ancient wisdom with modern science to reveal what it really means to live in balance as a woman today.   You'll hear about…   🔥 The Power of Agni: how your digestion shapes your mood, metabolism, and menstrual health 🌿 Your Unique Formula: understanding Prakruti + Vikruti and why there's no one-size-fits-all approach to health 🩸 The Doshas of the Menstrual Cycle: how Vata, Pitta, and Kapha move through your body each month   And so much more.   If you've ever felt confused about how to balance your hormones and how to reclaim your body's natural rhythm, this conversation could bring you some much-needed clarity.   Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness   Learn more about Dr. Varalakshmi 🌐 Website www.drvaralakshmi.com 📸 Instagram: @drvaraayurveda   If this episode inspired you, share it with your friends on Instagram and tag me! @wombenwellness  

In this powerful episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast, I sit down with the woman who helped me heal naturally from lyme disease using bee venom therapy. After a Lyme disease diagnosis, I was at a loss. How could I be unwell, while my whole life was centered around wellness? How would I continue to provide for my daughter as a single mother when my body was degenerating? That's when I turned to nature's medicine to reclaim my health - and it worked. This conversation reveals how the healing power of bees can unlock wellness on a cellular level - please share with anyone moving through chronic illness or a difficult diagnosis. Joy McEwen is a beekeeper with over 25 years of experience keeping bees using organic and biodynamic methods. She is on the Board of the American Apitherapy Society and the International Federation of Apitherapy. She is also the Chair of the Medicinal Keeping Commission for the International Federation of Apitherapy and the author of Guidelines for Medicinal Beekeeping. We dive into: 🐝 Bee Venom Therapy - How getting stung by bees activates your immune system, clears chronic pain, and supports healing from Lyme disease, autoimmune conditions, and more. 🧬 Healing the Nervous System - How bee venom therapy works through the central nervous system, offering an alternative to traditional treatments. 💥 Mind-Body Connection - The physical and emotional shifts that happen when we trust nature's medicine, with a personal story of Usha's transformation. 🌿 The Sacredness of Bees - Why beekeeping and using bees as medicine has been an essential part of Joy's life for over 25 years. 🔥 The Power of Initiation - How bee venom therapy isn't just a physical treatment, but a deeply spiritual experience that can change the way we relate to our bodies and the Earth. 🧘‍♀️ The Role of Willingness in Healing - What it takes to commit to the healing process, including the willingness to feel discomfort and trust in nature's wisdom. If you're curious about alternative healing methods or are struggling with chronic illness, I really hope this episode will leave you inspired. All the answers are in nature - it's just on us to tune in. Connect + Continue 🔥 Get Undomesticated 🔥 Register now for Liberated Womb: http://bit.ly/4pVyao3 💌 Get my weekly Womben Wellness Tea Newsletter: https://www.go.wombenwellness.com/join 🌐 Website: https://www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wombenwellness Want to learn more about Joy's work and bee venom therapy? Get 5% off her Apitherapy course by using the link below, or with the following coupon code: WOMBEN5 🌐 Website: https://digginlivin.mykajabi.com/offers/UkdkCG4x?coupon_code=WOMBEN5 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/diggin_livin_farm_and_apiaries/ If this episode sparked your curiosity, I invite you to drop a comment with your thoughts, or share it on Instagram and tag me.

In this episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast, I sit down with pelvic therapist and energy worker Shannon Tinder to dive into a part of the body most women only meet in pain or during a pap smear: the pelvic bowl. Shannon Tinder is a Holistic healer, Intuitive Guide, and Earth Medicine Mama.  She brings over 25 years of experience in women's health, somatic healing, and energy work. Her approach blends herbal wisdom, body-based practices, and ceremonial living to support deep healing and transformation. From internal vaginal work to anal release, we explore how the tissues of the pelvis hold memories, trauma, and survival strategies - and how gentle, consent-based touch can help you unwind years of tension, shame, and "good girl" conditioning. If you've ever experienced pain during sex, numbness, prolapse, postpartum depletion, or that deep sense of hypervigilance that lives right at your tailbone, you should definitely tune in for this one. You'll hear about… What internal pelvic work really is Not " orgasm coaching," but slow fascial unwinding of the vagina, cervix, labia and pelvic bowl to release stored tension and shame. How trauma can surface when the body finally feels safe Shannon shares clients' stories of recovering long-buried memories of childhood abuse after internal work Postpartum pelvic care nobody told you about Why birth leaves the pelvis "cold," how warmth and rest prevent prolapse, and simple at-home practices (steaming, wraps, castor packs, Moxa, self-massage) to restore vitality. Pain during sex as a message, not a life sentence The many reasons sex can hurt - from oxalates and diet to scar tissue and unsafe partners - and how to discern when your body is saying "no more." Hypervigilance, control & the "tight a$$" survival pattern How chronic stress, motherhood, people-pleasing and constantly "tracking" everyone else's needs show up as clenching in the anus, sacrum, and pelvic floor. Working with numbness & disconnection from your pelvis Step-by-step ways to begin feeling again: heart-womb/pelvic breathing, belly massage, pelvic mapping, and using your own hands as medicine. Why you can't think your way to healing The limits of talk therapy, why the body moves at its own pace, and the power of somatic work to do what the mind can't. Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness Want to find out more about Shannon? 🌐 Website: https://www.shannontinder.com/ 📸 IG: https://www.instagram.com/shannon_tinder/ If this episode brought you any relief, share it with a sister who needs to hear it too.  

In this super-special episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast, I sit down with my first-ever team member and one of my dearest sisters, Kristina, to talk about something so many women quietly carry: the sister wound, under-support from our communities, and the deep craving we have for real village. From getting her IUD removed in India and burying it on the banks of the Ganga… to rebuilding community again and again across continents… Kristina's story is a live transmission of what it means to root down and let sisterhood be a pillar of your healing. We dive into: 💊 Kristina's birth control awakening - how a public-health feminist on the pill and IUD for years realized she was missing the "vital sign" of her cycle, and the moment she chose to remove her IUD 🧬 Menstrual blood as monthly rebirth - how bleeding cleanses not only physical debris but stored emotions, and why every cycle is a chance to get a "new body" 💔 The sister wound as survival strategy - jealousy, betrayal, needing to be "the favorite," and how patriarchy and the church taught women to fight each other instead of the system 🌿 Imprint vs. blueprint - Usha's teaching from her teacher Dr. Ray Castellino on imprints keep us from accessing our "original design," and how women's circles help us remember our village blueprint 🤱 Postpartum without a village - Usha's lonely COVID pregnancy and birth, "paying women to be her friends" through bodywork, and the grief of going through a primal initiation without in-person sisterhood 🪺 Layers of support - the two-layer support model (mother + another) and why so many women break down when they realize they don't have dependable human support 🌳 If you want a village, be a villager - how Kristina stopped running, rooted in Germany, and practically built community from scratch using yoga studios, WhatsApp groups, and brave first moves 🧠 Healing your sister wound in real life - nervous system-aware steps for women who feel safer with men than women, including micro-risks, noticing your stories, and letting small interactions co-regulate you 🔥 Circle vs. cage - why the women you surround yourself with shape who you become, and how programs like Liberated Womb and Womb Circle help you find a circle that expands you instead of keeping you small If you've ever been hurt by women, felt alone in motherhood, or secretly wished for a real-life coven who "gets it," this conversation will help you understand why it's so hard, and what's possible when you stop running and start re-villaging. Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness Want to learn more about Kristina? 🌐 Website: www.lovewithkris.com 📸 Instagram: @lovewithkris_ If this episode touched your heart or reminded you of a sister you love, share it on your story and tag me @wombenwellness so more women can find their village again.  

Let me start this off with a big disclaimer: this episode is NOT just for hopeful moms. It's for every woman who wants to feel alive and deeply connected to the fertile bounty in her body. There's a lot of fear out there right now about fertility, and I get it. Literally every day, I get messages from women in their 20s and 30s asking how to know if they're fertile, how to check their fertility, and what they can do to prepare their body for pregnancy. And the reality is that our fast-paced, male-centric world is impacting EVERYONE's fertility - men and women alike… but there is some good news 🌿 There are ancient, time-tested tools that can help your body return to balance, restore vitality, and prepare you to welcome new life with ease. In this episode, I'm sharing the Ayurvedic wisdom & personal experience I would have wanted to have if I planned on getting pregnant in the next year. Here's what we're chatting about today… 🔥 How to strengthen the root of fertility (according to Ayurveda) 😌 Why stress hormones and sex hormones compete, and how to actually relax your way to fertility 🍲 What to eat if your system feels stagnant vs depleted And more secrets I've learned through years and years of women's work, midwifery, and herbalism. Let's Connect: 🌐 www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness  

In this episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast, I sit down with Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, Holistic Chef, Certified Gaps Practitioner, Mother, and Regenerative Food Educator, Kate Pope to talk about what it really means to nourish ourselves and why the revolution begins in the kitchen. From eating steak on camera to teaching mothers how to heal their children's guts, Kate is redefining what food freedom looks like for women who are done outsourcing their power. We dive deep into the science and the sacred - exploring how returning to ancestral foods and local economies can heal our bodies and our families. If you've ever felt shame about what you eat or confusion about what's "healthy," this conversation will remind you that true sustainability starts within. You'll hear about… The body's wisdom beyond diet dogma & why the biggest super food is the one you can digest  Bone broth vs. meat stock and how to prepare your own  How to heal your gut - are probiotics the only answer?  Why the key to healing your children lies in healing yourself  How to incorporate meat back into your diet after being vegetarian/vegan And lots more… Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness Learn more about Kate Pope:  🌐 Website www.regenerativecookingschool.com 📸 Instagram: @wildnutritionist If this episode awakened something wild and wise in you, share it on your story and tag me @wombenwellness   

Welcome back to the Womben Wellness Podcast with me, Usha Anandi. 🌹 This episode was a hard pill to swallow for me. I'm not comfortable talking about my sexuality online - but I wanted to shed light on a completely different take on sex than what I usually hear in today's world. This is a tell-all about the year and a half I chose celibacy - and no, not as punishment.  I share how growing up in a strict Irish Catholic home shaped my sexuality, what happened during a powerful womb-lifting training in Thailand (hello, energetic cords and old lovers resurfacing ✂️), and why stepping away from partnered sex helped me reclaim sovereignty, desire, and my own pleasure. If your womb feels full or stagnant, if you're tired of carrying expectations - partner, family, culture - and you're ready to feel yourself again, this one might be for you. You'll hear about… The moment everything flipped: visions, messages from past partners, and realizing our tissues can hold energetic imprints. From repression to performance to truth: how shame, birth control messaging, and "cool girl" culture influenced my early choices (with nuance and respect for access + autonomy) Why celibacy can be a cleanse: treating it like a fast that sharpens senses, clarifies boundaries, and restores vitality. Breaking the validation loop: noticing where we outsource approval and redirecting that energy back into aliveness. Try this inquiry: Where am I outsourcing my pleasure or self-worth? What would it feel like to give myself what I'm asking others to provide? Gentle Content Note: Brief mentions of consent violations and religious conditioning. Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness If this episode woke something wild in you, share it on your story and tag me @wombenwellness so I can witness your freedom.  

In this episode, we're stirring the pot with something deeply personal (and pretty controversial 👀): why, after nearly a decade as a vegetarian and vegan, I started eating meat again. This is a story about listening to your body, breaking free from dogma, and reclaiming the right to nourish yourself in the way only YOU know how. I'll share the dreams that haunted me (spoiler: I kept showing up as a predator animal 🐆), the 30+ lbs I gained, the loss of my menstrual cycle, and the wisdom from Ayurveda, TCM, and blood type diets that finally made it all click. If you've ever felt trapped in dietary rules, struggled with fatigue, bloating, or missing periods, or just want permission to follow your body before following the crowd, this episode is for you. You'll learn… Why my health completely crashed while vegan, and how reintroducing meat brought me back to vitality What Ayurveda, TCM, and the blood type diet actually say about meat (hint: it's not one-size-fits-all) The role of intuition in guiding our body's needs 3 Ayurvedic tips to strengthen digestion, whether you eat meat or not Let's Connect: 🌐 www.wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness Take this vow with me: "I give myself permission to grow, learn, and change. I vow to follow my body before following any teacher, any guide. I vow to listen to myself." 💋 Did this episode stir something in you? Share about it on Instagram and tag me @wombenwellness so I can be a part of your transformation.

WELCOME to the very first episode of the Womben Wellness Podcast with me, Usha Anandi. 🌹 Pretending to be something I'm not exhausted me for so long. That's why this episode is an invocation for the woman who's done trying to be good and is finally ready to be set loose as her free, feral self. I'm pulling back the curtain on what inspired this podcast, the spiritual initiation that shaped me into the teacher I am today, and why I'm no longer interested in fitting into anyone's definition of "good." From growing up in an Irish Catholic home steeped in shame, to faking orgasms, suppressing my bleed, and outsourcing my power, I share how I spent years silencing my wildness to be accepted. You'll hear about… 🔥 What motherhood taught me about sitting in the fire instead of fleeing from it 🌑 Why darkness isn't bad  (it's the fertile ground of creation and power) 💫 The legacy we can leave when we finally stop running and come into ourselves If you've ever felt like you're too much, too weird, too emotional, or too wild, this one's for you. Connect + Continue 🌐 Website: wombenwellness.com 📸 Instagram: @wombenwellness If this episode woke something wild in you, share it on your story and tag me @wombenwellness so I can witness your freedom.