September 4th was World Sexual Health Day.
I am a little behind with this post. But let's talk about sexual health anyway! What is sexual health? The World Health Organization describes it like this: Sexual health is a state of physical, mental and social well-being in relation to sexuality. It requires a positive and respectful approach to sexuality and sexual relationships, as well as the possibility of having pleasurable and safe sexual experiences, free of coercion, discrimination and violence. So good, right? Wellbeing. Being well in my physical body, my mental body and in my community or socially. Sexually well. What a concept. And when we look at that world wide, we have a ways to go. Violence is real. Coercion is real. Rape is real. Genital mutilation is real. It can be rather depressing to think about. But I want to bring it closer to home. Change starts with you and me, and if we can focus on our own sexual health my knowing is that it ripples out into the world. So what about you? Yes you!! What is your sexual health like? Let me ask you a few questions and you can assess.
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And Who Doesn't Want Great Vaginal Health?Food is medicine. We hear that all the time. And there is always a lot of debate about what foods and in which combinations are best for our bodies in general, though we don't often talk about foods for vaginal health.
Which foods, of course, are conditional on who is doing the eating. We are all put together chemically and energetically quite differently despite our seemingly sameness. Sex is also medicine. Whether it’s with oneself or with another, we all know it’s benefits if only in the way that it makes us feel. (I won’t bore you with the chemistry of hormones and endorphins right now. This isn’t a discussion about what foods to choose on that promising first date. You know . . . so that it might lead to the sex is medicine part, but I do want to have a conversation about food and your Yoni. (sanskrit for Vagina, or Vulva) Food is medicine for your Yoni. Food keeps your tissues hydrated. It can help with cramping, stave off infections, and keep your vaginal tissues in proper pH balance. (Vaginas are slightly acidic) Food can bring more blood flow into the vaginal canal helping to increase orgasm. And food can increase sexual desire. It's so important to look at foods for vaginal health! So which foods might do all of this?Let me tell you!
Looking for Homeopathic Remedies For When It Hurts To Pee? 9 Ways To Increase Your LibidoHave you lost that loving feeling? Are you finding that you just don’t have it in you to respond to your partner’s advances, let alone start something fun? Do you want to boost your sex drive naturally?
You are not alone. Hormonal shifts and changes have huge impacts on a woman’s sex drive. And I don’t know about you, but I want to keep my sex drive. Sex is both a head and body game. Ideally both have to be in it for sex to be satisfying. I’m going to break this article down into two sections, things you can do, and homeopathic remedies you can take. First, what’s a woman to do? Keep an open mind about some of these suggestions. Do any resonate enough with you that you’d like to try them out?
Of course there are many remedies that boost your sex drive. Talking with a homeopathic practitioner can help you sort out what remedy might be best for you. Because you deserve the best sex of your life.Do you know what you want? I mean really know? It's kind of hard to increase your sex drive when you don't know.
I know there are some lucky women out there that do know. (Don't they?) What about you? What do you want?” What do you really desire? And if you do get an inkling about a desire, how often do you shut it down before giving it full consideration? “Oh, I couldn’t possibly” or, “No, I don’t deserve that.” Here’s the thing — if you don’t know what you want, how can you possibly get it? That's a double bind! But there IS something we can do to combat this problem.First, you have to give yourself permission to actually want something. Then you have to give yourself permission to build that desire muscle. It’s not selfish. Okay ... it IS selfish. But not selfish in the way that you think. Women who are selfish enough to learn about their own desires, who dare to ask, and who then open themselves up to receive, are women that are real, authentic and contributing in ways they would never have dreamed they could. To help you get started, here are 8 simple and moving towards daring ways to build your own desire muscle:
Acknowledgment in and of itself is powerful. So even if you’d rather have someone else put the kids to bed tonight, and you know that’s not possible, even admitting it to yourself gives you clarity about one thing you want! Maybe you'd rather have someone else grocery shop for you, or you want to go to bed right now, or you want to go out and dance — what are some things you won’t admit you want? 1. Please yourself in small ways.Buy yourself flowers. Draw yourself a beautiful-smelling tub. Take the scenic route to work. 2. Meditate.There is nothing like quieting your mind of the monkey chatter, so that you might actually hear what it is that you truly want. 3. Get a massage.Allow your skin to be nourished by the touch of another, whether it’s a paid professional masseuse or a partner or friend. Touch grounds us and brings us back into our bodies. 4. Wear something that feels good on your skin.Be aware that desire is facilitated by pleasure. And who doesn't like the feel of silk on their skin? Or yummy cashmere? 5. Masturbate often.Take it on as a practice. Men have typically enjoyed this practice much more often than women have. What would happen if we let go of old programming and tried this one on for a while? 6. Give yourself a Yoni Massage.Yoni is the Sanskrit word for vulva or sacred space. Explore and nurture this whole area with curiosity and love. This is a separate practice from masturbation. Maybe it feels safer to start here. Women hold so much in our Yonis, sometimes it’s best to see what exactly we are holding here. 7. Practice Orgasmic Meditation.Orgasmic Meditation requires a partner who is willing to do it with you. It also requires a class to learn it. You can find all you need to know online if it’s calling you. We don’t always know what it is we desire. But there are ways to find out.Oh yeah — and it’s okay if desires change over time or in the moment. Just because we want something one day, doesn’t mean we’ll want it the next. The point is that to have clarity sometimes we just have to try stuff. So go ahead ... get tryin! Are hormonal changes getting you down?
As women, it often feels like we are run by our hormones. Crazy physical symptoms like hot flashes and night sweats come up because of an imbalance in our hormones. Emotions become off-kilter. Sleep eludes us, And we can experience a variety of vaginal changes including dryness and pain. Even symptoms like frozen shoulder, which seem like it has nothing to do with hormonal shifts can rear its head. And then there is the waxing and waning of our libido. It can all feel quite exhausting at times. There is help though. And you can navigate it in any number of ways. My way is Homeopathy, and a homeopathic lubricating gel called Yoni Bliss. A homeopathic remedy chosen for you based on your symptoms allows the body to find its own balance. The remedy is based on the principle of "like cures like". The puzzle pieces of your individual symptom picture is put together and matched with a remedy made from a plant, mineral or animal substance that produces the same symptoms. It's an amazing modality of healing and has helped many women navigate through a myriad of hormonal symptoms. This month I was interviewed by the Love Lab Podcast: Sex/Love/Relationship with Kevin Anthony and Celine Remy. "The Love Lab Podcast is a safe place to get real about sex." And include candid conversations on love, sex, and relationship. This conversation was a fun and lighthearted look at the havoc our hormones can wreak and what to do about it. Here's the Link to listen. There is no doubt that the last year has been traumatizing at some level and to some degree for everyone. Maybe it's been the best year of your life, but I suspect that even if the forced solitude has been good to you, you've maybe recognized that your life as it was before can't go on.
So whether the year has created some trauma or has allowed you to see the trauma in your past a little more clearly, we know that it's there. I realized pretty quickly that my nervous system started to relax when forced to stop. As it became clearer what was happening and what homeopathic remedies would be helpful I took some Aconite (a remedy for fear, fright, shock as well for sudden onset of symptoms) and found myself relaxing even further. This pandemic also gave me some time. So I started studying. (Once a student always a student.) Because this pandemic has made the world a smaller place, as we collaborate with each other from around the world, I have been exposed to new methods of analysis, and new thoughts around trauma in the body and how we hold it. Trauma creates symptoms at the moment and then perhaps more invisibly down the road. Especially if not dealt with properly in the first place. For instance, did you know that head trauma when you are younger exponentially increases your chance of getting Alzheimer's 50 years later? An Australian homeopath I have been studying hypothesizes that it's not the trauma itself, but it's the emotion of guilt for the trauma that keeps it stuck in the body. That resonates with me. Her thought is that using what she calls "mega potencies" of homeopathy works to unlock that trauma as it reaches into several layers of the energy body (the energy body extends beyond the physical body) and releases the guilt for having the trauma in the first place. This idea intrigues me. And I have been playing with it. (Because, of course, work must be play.) I am beginning to both see in my clients and feel in myself more freedom and alleviation of symptoms that we haven't been able to access before. How cool is that? Are you intrigued? If you are, let me tell you a bit more. What is Homeopathy?I'm suspecting that most of you know if you are on my Newsletter list. But maybe you don't. Simply put, homeopathy is an energetic modality of healing that utilizes the philosophies of “like cures like” and the “minimum dose”. (the least amount required for healing to begin) Remedies are made from plants, minerals, and animal substances. What are Mega-Potencies?Now I'm going to nerd out. Bear with me. Homeopathic remedies have always been in the realm of physics. Avagadro’s number is a dilution factor that means that there is nothing left of the physical in that dilution. Remedies reach that number at a 12C potency. 12C means it’s been diluted 1:100 times 12. Low potency remedies are considered 6C, 9C, 12C, 30C. High potency remedies are considered 200C, 1M, 10M (remedy dilution 1:100 times 10,000) Paradoxically the high potency remedies are even more dilute. Mega-potency remedies are CM, MM and 10MM.(are you recognizing the Roman Numeral system to indicate the potencies?) So you might ask, “What is the point?” What is the point of such extreme dilution? Does it make a difference? Apparently, it does. Homeopathy has always been an empirical study. “The proof is in the pudding”, as a teacher of mine always says. And that is, does it work? And in this case, do mega-potency remedies really release us from the guilt of our trauma and thus allow us to heal? Be Part Of My Study.Be part of a trauma unwinding study. I am learning a new way to both repertorize homeopathic cases as well as to utilize homeopathic mega-potencies to unwind trauma in the energy body. This trauma from the past (think car accidents, birth trauma, hospitalization trauma, grief from being left behind through death or other events, sexual trauma) leaves its mark on us and has an impact on our bodies because it hinders the free flow of energy through the body and leaves behind the unlikely emotion of guilt, which keeps the trauma stuck. This trauma may impact the free flow of minerals through the body, blood through the body, or the release of toxins from the body or many other ways. Slowly (or quickly) the body copes in ways that bring on symptoms that are unpleasant and decrease the quality and vitality of our lives. How will this study work? It’s a 3-month study. There will be an initial intake that will take 1 - 2 hours. All remedies are provided and will be mailed to you. It does not matter where you live because we can work via Zoom or other platforms. There will be approximately 5-10 check-ins within the 3 month period. I am anticipating that we will check in every week or so. |
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