38. How we honor our nervous systems and cultivate pleasure as a pathway towards health // KIMBERLY ANN JOHNSON
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The episode explores how honoring our nervous systems and cultivating pleasure can lead to better health and intimacy, featuring guest Kimberly Ann Johnson.
What healing could be made possible if we began to work in ways that honoured our nervous systems? How could pleasure be a pathway to health? How can we have more true intimacy and eroticism in our lives? Kimberly Ann Johnson is a Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, yoga teacher, postpartum advocate, and single mom. Working hands-on in integrative women’s health and trauma recovery for more than a decade, she helps women heal from birth injuries, gynecological surgeries, and sexual boundary violations. Kimberly is the author of the Call of the Wild: How We Heal Trauma, Awaken Our Own Power, and Use It for Good , as well as the early mothering classic The Fourth Trimester , and is the host of the Sex Birth Trauma podcast. LINKS: Kimberly’s website. Kimberly’s Sex Birth Trauma Podcast To read more about the sympathetic, parasympathetic and social nervous systems, you can download the first chapter of Kimberly’s book for free here. Somatic Experiencing (Peter Levine) Organic Intelligence by Steve Hoskinson The Erotic Mind by Jack Morin The Wheel of Consent by Betty Martin SUBSCRIBE AND FOLLOW 🎙️ The FoT Substack is now live! Become a free or paid subscriber…
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