Sexual Healing Approaches
Here are a collection of articles for women about approaches to healing and reconnecting to your body and sexuality, especially after emotional or sexual trauma or difficult relationships with men.
The Wheel of Consent: Discovering What You Want
Going along with things you don't really want. Not knowing what to ask for. Guilt about pleasure. These patterns are connected, and two surprisingly simple questions can help you see why.
From Childhood Trauma to Self-Love: In Her Own Words
After a lifetime of childhood trauma, vaginismus, and abuse by the professionals meant to help her, one woman found the safe healing she had been praying for. Read about her three-year journey from self-hatred and shutdown to discovering her sexuality, her beauty, and her own worth.
From Body Shame to Empowerment: In Her Own Words
After years of body shame, pain during sex and avoiding relationships entirely, one autistic woman took the brave step of exploring touch in a safe environment. Read how a single session shifted her from feeling that sex was something "done to" her — to feeling in control of her own pleasure and sexuality.
From Self-Doubt to Self-Worth: In Her Own Words
Read, in her own words, how one woman transformed from hating herself to setting clear boundaries and loving who she is, through bodywork and Wheel of Consent practices.
Rebuilding Confidence and Intimacy After Abuse: In Her Own Words
A powerful testimonial, in her own words, of a client who transformed her relationship with intimacy after childhood trauma. Discover how practical tools, gentle guidance, and compassionate support helped her rebuild trust, rediscover passion with her partner, and find confidence in herself again.
Recognising Trustworthy Men: A Guide for Women Healing from Trauma
Many women feel wary about trusting men after difficult relationships - it's a natural protective response. This practical guide helps you move beyond simply being protective to developing confidence in your ability to recognise trustworthy behaviour and spot warning signs.
Healing Through Tantric Bodywork: In Her Own Words
What's it like to go on a journey of healing from trauma, using Tantric Bodywork? Read a client’s own words about her experiences.
Nurturing Your Femininity: A Guide to Sensual Breast Massage
Discover the nurturing power of sensual breast massage. Learn techniques to enhance body awareness, release tension, and cultivate self-love.
Yoni Mapping — Beyond Orgasm: In Her Own Words
What is yoni mapping in a sexological bodywork session like? And what benefits can it bring? Read a client's own words about her experiences.
Advice to a man about emotional connection
When a man asked me how to develop emotional connection, this is the answer I gave him...
Considering a Tantric or Yoni Massage? 11 Essential Questions to Ask Yourself
Thinking about booking a tantric or yoni massage? These 11 questions help you honestly reflect on your readiness: from how you feel about your body and vulnerability, to your relationship with touch, men, and your own pleasure. With each question, practical suggestions for building your capacity to fully receive.
How to Choose a Sexuality Professional: Questions to Ask and Warning Signs
Choosing someone to work with on sexuality and intimacy is a big decision. This practical guide covers the questions to ask any practitioner about qualifications, how they work, safety and boundaries, and the warning signs that tell you to walk away.
Discovering What You Really Want
Knowing what you really want is the key to setting boundaries, discovering who you are and getting the wonderful, erotic life you desire. Here's a practical exercise to connect to your body and intuition to discover what you really want.
What is a Yoni Massage?
Yoni massage is a specific type of conscious touch for the vulva and vagina. That touch can heal emotional and traumatic pain and numbness. And it opens possibilities of pleasure and of spiritual experiences that bring your creative erotic energies into all aspects of your life.
Is vaginismus curable?
Sex shouldn't be painful. By using practices from Sexological Bodywork, you can discover pleasure and an enjoyable sex life.
Tantric Massage – Awakening the Goddess
Authentic tantric massage is a heart-connected celebration of your femininity. Relax into your sensuality and feel your energies awaken.
Resolving trauma with inner wisdom and metaphor
When you have complex, painful experiences that seem impossible to escape, is there a way forward without re-experiencing the pain?
The answers might be in your own inner world of symbols and metaphor.
What is Sexological Bodywork?
Sexological Bodywork is a professional, structured way to solve sexual problems and explore new body experiences. So what is this approach to embodiment and sex?
Is bodywork right for you?
Bodywork is a powerful way to resolve emotional and sexual trauma in your body. But having someone touch you can be daunting, if not impossible, for some people. Fortunately, there’s a range of approaches to working with the body, starting online, fully clothed and with no touch involved. Let’s find out what’s possible...
Healing emotional and sexual trauma using sensation and pleasure
Both Tantric spiritual practice and Sexological Bodywork teach that sensation and pleasure can be a route to healing and, ultimately, freedom and enlightenment. So how does that work in practice?