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Chrissy is a wife, mother to 3, licensed therapist and embodiment coach living in San Diego, CA. Through her own healing journey through trauma Chrissy has found freedom from anxiety and panic attacks and is now living a more embodied and authentic life. Chrissy is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and creative career coach, and podcast host of Sure, Babe Podcast in Southern California. I ask Chrissy: How did you decide to go into therapy, specifically Marriage and Family Therapy? What's your favorite population you work with? What is purity culture and why is it problematic? What is female embodiment and how is it so helpful in the treatment of trauma? Why is working through your trauma so important? What is the best part of doing therapy for you? What is the next best step in our post-COVID world? Find her at chrissypowers.com

Come to college with me! This week I'm interviewing 2 of my favorite professors, starting with Dr Meng, my Marriage and Family Therapy Professor. I ask Dr Meng What are you couples struggling with? What are couples struggling with sexually? How do we talk to our partners about sex? What advice do you have for a couple with mismatched libidos? How do we teach our kids about sex? You may not menstruate, but how do periods go at your house?

Lily, owner of MedAmour has been helping folks, couples, and primarily women or vagina owners find comfort, empowerment, and pleasure in their intimate health and sexual wellness. She is most passionate about learning about the different challenges and health conditions our bodies experience through like aging, pregnancies, periods, menopause, post surgeries/cancers, which cause low libido, dyspareunia, vaginismus, incontinence..... how do we self-care, take care of our vulva, clitoris, pelvic muscles to enhance better sex lives? MedAmour is an online resource that shares educational information on sexual health conditions AND offers a boutique shop of high-quality products that are all body safe, if not medical grade, naturally clean or organic for lubricants, and an array of book offerings! Check it out! I ask Lily: How did you get started with MedAmour? We talk about lubricants and sex toys. We talk about how toys can be helpful to those using SSRIs. We break down some of the myths around sex toy use. Let's talk about the different kinds of sex toys - not all of them are vibrators! Toys are not just for vaginas, they're for penis' and anus' too! Can toys be used during intercourse? www.MedAmour.com @MedAmour1 https://www.instagram.com/medamour1 https://www.facebook.com/medamour1 https://twitter.com/MedAmour1 https://www.pinterest.com/MedAmour https://www.linkedin.com/company/medamour https://www.tiktok.com/@medamour1 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgBG7g6Ws5cxY6cJMSzbc-w Want $10 off?? Use my code: VAGINABLOG Free US shipping on $55+ Always discreet shipping!

Early in Alyx’s health coaching career it became obvious to her that her desire to do certain tasks varied based on where she was at in her menstrual cycle. Detailed observation revealed that sales calls that happened when she was ovulating had higher conversion rates. Cycle syncing- or adapting your diet/exercise/ work engagements to best match the different phases of your monthly cycle is a super power that every woman needs access to! That is why we launched The Agenda. Period a planning system and app that helps high achieving women use their cycle to improve their productivity and impact. The Agenda. Period is a health & education empowerment company. We are a confident, exciting, disruptive brand that provides an innovative, ground-breaking service. We bridge a gap in the understanding around the menstrual cycle and strive to help women understand the nature and power of their cycle in order to inform strategic planning and professional endeavors. I ask Alyx: Alyx, how did you get to this point? What got you started in the world of women's health and cyclical living? What is cyclical living? How does the menstrual cycle work? Tell us more about the app and how it teaches people to work with their menstrual cycle and live more cyclically. Let's talk about the period power campaign.

Gabrielle Stanley Blair is the author of the book, Ejaculate Responsibly: A Whole New Way To Think About Abortion — available for pre-order now. She is also the founder of DesignMom.com. Started in 2006, it has been named a Website of the Year by Time Magazine, praised as a top parenting blog by The Wall Street Journal, Parents, and Better Homes & Gardens, and won the Iris Award for Blog of the Year. Her first book, Design Mom: How to Live with Kids, a New York Times Bestseller, was published in 2015 by Artisan. Gabrielle is also a founder of Alt Summit, the blockbuster annual conference for online content creators and creative entrepreneurs, currently in its 13th year. As a thought leader for over 15 years, Gabrielle has written and moderated hundreds of discussions on difficult topics, and interviewed some of the most influential people in the world. Her writing is quoted and shared across the globe daily. Gabrielle and her husband, Ben Blair, have six children — Ralph, Maude, Olive, Oscar, Betty, and Flora June. After six years in Oakland, they moved to a small town in Normandy, France where they are renovating a house from the 1600s. Follow her on Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, and Facebook. Over 6000 blog posts and two books later, Gabrielle is considered a top expert in creating accessible conversations about hard topics, parenting engaged and independent kids, and creating a home where both parents and kids can thrive. Endlessly curious, she shares projects she’s working on, starts discussions about newsworthy topics, amplifies women’s voices, introduces new ideas and cool discoveries, and lends her passion for engaged parenting to everyone who reads her work. Gabrielle is a mother of six with a BFA in graphic design who has raised her family on both coasts and across the ocean. The family spent 8 years in New York, then moved to Denver, Colorado for 1.5 years, then Normandy, France for 2.5 years, then Oakland, California for 6 years, and then back to Normandy in September 2019. You can follow along with the on-going renovations of their house, built in the 1600s. I ask Gabby about: The cultural differences in how we approach nudity and sex. How to talk to your kids about sex. Her very important abortion thread that went viral.

Nicole Jardim is a Certified Women’s Health Coach, writer, speaker, mentor, and the creator of Fix Your Period, a series of programs that empower women to reclaim their hormone health using a method that combines evidence-based information with simplicity and sass. Her work has impacted the lives of tens of thousands of women around the world in effectively addressing a wide variety of period problems, including PMS, irregular periods, PCOS, painful & heavy periods, missing periods and many more. Rather than treating problems or symptoms, Nicole treats women by addressing the root cause of what’s really going on in their bodies and minds. She passionately believes that the fundamentals to healing any hormonal imbalance lie in an approach that addresses the unique physiology of every woman. This is essential to reclaiming and maintaining optimal health and vitality at any age. Nicole is the author of Fix Your Period: 6 Weeks to Banish Bloating, Conquer Cramps, Manage Moodiness, and Ignite Lasting Hormone Balance, and the co-author of The Happy Balance, a recipe book filled with over 80 hormone balancing recipes. Finally, she’s the co-host of The Period Party, a top-rated podcast on iTunes—be sure to tune into that if you want to learn more about how to fix your period—and has been called on as a women’s health expert for sites such as The Guardian, Well+Good, mindbodygreen and Healthline.

As the daughter of a gynecologist, Lauren has been around the topic of vaginal health her entire life. Inspired by her own experience and fueled by her frustration with the feminine care product market, Lauren founded Queen V in 2018. Lauren successfully pitched Queen V to retailers at the age of 24 and launched the brand nationwide in Walmart stores. Within 2 years Queen V gained retail distribution with Target, CVS and Urban Outfitters. Globally she launched the brand with Sephora. She earned national recognition making the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and Ad Age 40 Under 40. Lauren led the brand to a Reckitt acquisition in January of 2021 and at just 28 years old became the Global Brand Marketing Director working on Queen V under Reckitt’s intimate wellness division. Lauren and I discuss good vaginal health including healthy practices, smashing taboos and loving your vulva and vagina. I hope you love our conversation!

Alison Faulkner is a branding and events expert, host of the podcast Awesome with Alison, consultant for Fortune 500 companies, writer, speaker, self-proclaimed nonsense dancer, and CEO of Alison's Brand School. She is obsessed with her kids, husband, family, and friends. She is a personal friend of mine and I am so excited about her newest book You're Already Awesome: How to Silence Your Inner Critic and Step Into Greatness. Today we are talking about her book, but more importantly, the process behind writing her book, what it means to be a public figure, and everything in between. Please enjoy this conversation with Alison Faulkner!

Dr. Uchenna “UC” Ossai is a sex-positive pelvic health physical therapist and sexuality educator and counselor. Dr. UC is assistant professor at the University of Texas Dell Medical School and also serves as pelvic health program manager at UT Health Austin. She is on faculty for the University of Michigan, School of Social Work’s Sexual Health Certification Program. Dr. UC is one of few licensed physical therapists in the world with an AASECT certification in sexuality counseling; as well as the only Black physical therapist with this specific designation. Dr. UC spends her days treating people with both sexual and pelvic floor dysfunction, and her evenings educating the masses on everything that has to do with “sexytime”. When it comes to sexual intelligence and great sex education, UC embraces always being unapologetically real, happily crunk, and deliciously kind. "On average it takes women with pelvic floor dysfunction 5 years to find help. Be tenacious about your health." I ask UC: What is pelvic floor physical therapy? Do I still need pelvic floor physical therapy if I had a c-section? What is common but not normal when it comes to pelvic floor health? Tell us about vaginal laxity. Is it as much of a thing as the media tries to make it? Should I see a specialist? When do I need to go see someone? Do injections actually help the pelvic floor? Let's talk about pleasure. Let's say I just had a baby and things don't feel like they're where they used to be. Who do I see? When? What does a good postpartum team look like? What can we all be doing to take better care of our pelvic floor? How can we make pleasure the focus of intimacy instead of only orgasm? Any common misconceptions or myths you see that you want to address?

After sobbing in her boss’s office, Julie Duffy Dillon, registered dietitian and PCOS expert, never taught another diet. It was then she appreciated the harm of anti-fat bias and couldn't unsee it. She now helps people with PCOS burn their diet books, regain the energy to live their life and reclaim their power. Together we will change PCOS health care. "I want you to know that you did not cause your PCOS, and there's no magic bullet waiting for you, so don't believe the hype. What works well, of course because people experience PCOS differently, is going to be different for each individual. As someone who has worked with people for a number of years on this I've had the privilege of seeing people long term, to see what helps and what doesn't. You know, there's some things that will initially help for like 2-3 months, but long term they seem to just make it worse. So if you're ready for the long haul, you need to make sure you're eating enough food. And I think for most people who are socialized as women, we're taught that we don't need to eat that much and really we need to eat a lot more than we think." I ask Julie: What is PCOS? What works and what doesn't work when it comes to managing PCOS? What is the cis-male counterpart to PCOS? What management have you seen work well for people with PCOS? Let's talk about exercise and PCOS: Let's talk about inflammation and PCOS: Let's talk about cannabis and PCOS: How can you rebuild a relationship of trust with your body when you have PCOS? What is intuitive eating? Where can we find you? The Love Food Podcast JulieDillonRD.com PCOSandFoodPeace.com