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EP 256: A Horse Named Lonesome – Starting at Birth, Male Sexual Trauma, and the Long Road to Real Connection with Luke Storey
Episode 256
Sunday, November 8, 2026 • Duration 01:12:50
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Luke Storey, host of The Life Stylist podcast, about his first book, A Horse Named Lonesome: Tales and Teachings to Reclaim Connection, Transcend Separation, and Discover the Divine Within, which comes out the same day as Kimberly's Erotic Seasons: Tuning into the Rhythms of Women's Sexuality and Spirituality. Luke traces how the book became an act of service, and how a vision of his own birth led him further back than decades of recovery and therapy ever had: an incubator, no breastfeeding, and circumcision, which he now calls male genital mutilation. Kimberly widens the frame to the culture's reflex to cut and intervene from the first days of life. At the heart of the conversation is something Kimberly has waited a long time to hear a man talk about openly: childhood sexual abuse, how grooming builds secrecy, how drugs and sex became anesthesia, and why Luke now sees those adaptations as intelligence rather than failure. In this rich conversation, they talk about his years as an honest but unavailable lover, the two years of celibacy and solitude that rebuilt his foundation, biohacking as a form of control, whether women can lead men into this kind of work, and the moment he finally saw his wife Alyson and recognized himself.
Bio
Luke Storey is a transformational speaker, spiritual teacher, and the creator and host of The Life Stylist, the podcast he launched in 2016 to explore spirituality, biohacking, and personal development. A former celebrity fashion stylist, he has spent nearly three decades in spiritual inquiry and addiction recovery, work he draws on in conversations about conscious relating and holistic living. His first book, A Horse Named Lonesome: Tales and Teachings to Reclaim Connection, Transcend Separation, and Discover the Divine Within (Balance, November 2026), traces his path through birth trauma, childhood abuse, addiction, and spiritual awakening to show how early disconnection shapes loneliness, and offers practices for coming home to oneself. He has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles magazine, and Men's Fitness. Luke lives in the Texas Hill Country with his wife, Alyson Charles Storey.
What Luke Shares
Why his first attempt at a book stalled, and the mushroom ceremony that changed his motive
The ayahuasca vision of his own birth, and what his mother confirmed the next morning
How an incubator, no breastfeeding, and circumcision shaped a lifelong abandonment wound
Why preverbal trauma can carry as much weight as what we remember
The loss of "inner sense": what childhood sexual abuse did to his identity
How grooming builds secrecy, and why a child can't tell
Seeing drugs and sex as intelligent adaptations rather than character defects
Being an honest but unavailable lover, and what that still cost others
Two years of celibacy, solitude, and taking himself out on dates
Biohacking as a control mechanism
Why no one could have talked him into this work, and what finally did
Recognizing himself in his wife, Alyson
What You'll Hear
Two books out on the same day, with similar frames and different approaches
Kimberly on her publisher asking her to keep "foreign countries" out of her first book
Kimberly's 10-pound baby picture
Why most people never think about their own birth
Luke's fertility journey and the miscarriage that didn't make it into the book
Kimberly on birth as a nervous system overhaul, not an inherent trauma
Falling circumcision rates and the rise of tongue and lip tie diagnoses
The Russian dolls: linear time and the inner child
Why male survivors of sexual abuse rarely speak publicly, and the men who opened the door
Flinging the doors open or slamming them shut after a boundary rupture
The scorpion and the frog
"Warm sex," and why it was foreign to him
Pendulating from helplessness to absolute freedom
Whether women can lead men into deeper work
Conscious love as a circuit of reciprocity
Kimberly on men's work and the missing piece of sexual literacy
Luke as a self-described kindergartner in sexuality, and still a student
EP 255: Mom Authority – Initiation, Technoference, and the Fire of Menopause with Jamie Glowacki
Wednesday, November 4, 2026 • Duration 01:19:30
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Jamie Glowacki, author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training, about why her work has moved from potty training toward what she calls mom authority. Speaking from a stone cabin in the Rhode Island woods, Jamie traces a line from the misreading of gentle parenting and child-led philosophies to pandemic isolation, short-form content, and a motherhood built for the camera: a house made of cardboard, made of reels. They talk about the lost village and the shared consensus that once made it possible, the 1950s nuclear family, the comfort crisis, and technoference, the research on what parents' phones do to young children. Kimberly and Jamie compare notes on birth, breastfeeding, and choice as it is sold to new mothers, and how the "wait till they're ready" doctrine grew alongside the diaper industry. In the second half, the conversation turns to menopause, which Jamie found just as profound as motherhood: a descent and a fire, rather than a set of symptoms to manage. Together they ask what it means to medicate ourselves out of initiation, and how to bring back the commitment and juiciness that real transitions require.
Bio
Jamie Glowacki is an internationally recognized potty training and parenting expert and the author of Oh Crap! Potty Training and Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler. Her roots are in social work, where she worked with dual-diagnosis mothers and their children in residential facilities and became a doula to advocate for them in birth. She began teaching potty training classes out of the secondhand children's store she owned in Providence, Rhode Island, and her self-published guide grew into an international bestseller, revised and updated in 2024. With more than 25 years of work with families, Jamie now focuses on what she calls mom authority, helping mothers reclaim confidence, boundaries, and leadership through courses including Unscripted Authority and The Boundary Clinic, a consultant certification program, the Oh Crap! Potty Training Podcast, and her Substack. A bow hunter and mother to her son Pascal, she lives in the woods of northern Rhode Island.
What Jamie Shares
Why she shifted from potty training to what she calls mom authority
How gentle parenting and child-led philosophies were misread as permissive parenting
Motherhood as a house made of cardboard, built out of reels
What You'll Hear Resources
EP 254: Women's Care Back in Women's Hands – Sobadas, the Womb Continuum, and the Power of Reparative Touch with Andrea Terrones
Episode 253
Sunday, October 18, 2026 • Duration 50:16
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Andrea Terrones, founder and lead teacher of Ma School and of Ma, her women's health and bodywork practice in Valle de Bravo, Mexico. Andrea traces her path from doula work, where she saw a gap in postpartum care, through a decade of seeking out traditional Mexican midwives and sobadoras, internal pelvic work, and scar tissue training, to building the long-form school she wishes had existed when she started. They talk about sobadas as lifelong community care, her teachers who saw every girl monthly from her first bleed to her deathbed, and what it means to learn a tradition's practices with respect rather than extraction. Kimberly lays out the professional landscape for anyone who wants to work with the pelvis, birth, and women's health, and why two years of hands-on training builds what a weekend cannot. They discuss the normalization of prolapse and incontinence, postpartum depression as incomplete physiological recovery, the shame that keeps women from looking at their own bodies, and why the field needs collaboration rather than competition. They close on a shared vision: a practitioner in every town, and women's care back in women's hands.
Bio
Andrea Terrones is the founder and lead teacher of Ma School and of Ma, her women's health and bodywork practice based in Valle de Bravo, Mexico, working with women worldwide. She left medical school in search of a medicine that could hold the whole body, and spent more than a decade apprenticing with traditional midwives, sobadoras, and curanderas across Mexico, a path that led her back to the matriarchal lineage of Juchitán, Oaxaca, that she comes from through her grandmothers. She began her career as a doula and specialized for many years in postpartum care, pairing traditional Mexican medicine with formal training in pelvic bodywork, body-mind psychotherapy, and functional medicine and nutrition. Her work brings together hands-on work in the pelvis, womb, and abdomen, functional nutrition, somatic practice, and ceremony. Founded in 2023, Ma School offers a two-year certification for Womb Continuum Practitioners and has trained more than 70 women from over 15 countries. She is a mother of two.
What She Shares
The postpartum gap that set her searching for teachers for nearly a decade
What You'll Hear Resources
EP 253: Season of the Witch – Inner Authority, Menopause as Initiation, and Learning to See in the Dark with Dr. Ellen Vora
Episode 253
Sunday, October 11, 2026 • Duration 47:59
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Dr. Ellen Vora, holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, yoga teacher, and author of The Anatomy of Anxiety, on the eve of her new book, Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist's Case for Magic. They begin with perception: how Ellen's credentials serve as a platform from which to question conventional medicine, and how loss, not training, is what gave her any authority of her own. Ellen explains why the title came to her in prayer, and why she expects criticism from both ends of the witchy spectrum. Speaking in the wake of the Lindsay Clancy trial, they look at how female life thresholds have been psychiatrized, what an unsupported postpartum mother actually needs, and why a prescription is often the only tool left in the room. Kimberly names the pattern of exceptions becoming rules across birth, fertility, and mental health. They turn to rites of passage and the communities that can sit with big emotions. They then turn to menopause, where Ellen offers her theory that menopausal symptoms borrow the body's postpartum software, and Kimberly describes her own transition as a portal of learning to see in the dark. They close on information overload, wearables and the atrophy of listening, Ellen's choice to join a national conversation on psychiatric medication, and what it means to stay purple.
Bio
Ellen Vora, MD, is a holistic psychiatrist, acupuncturist, and yoga teacher. She received her B.A. in English from Yale University and her M.D. from Columbia University, and she is board-certified in psychiatry and integrative holistic medicine. She takes a functional medicine approach to mental health, considering the whole person and addressing imbalance at the root, with a focus on depression, anxiety, insomnia, women's mental health, and medication withdrawal support. She is the author of The Anatomy of Anxiety: Understanding and Overcoming the Body's Fear Response, and of Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist's Case for Magic (Random House, October 2026), which offers five practices for reclaiming the full spectrum of our intelligence: embodiment, presence, valuing the yin, being open to mystery, and serving the collective. She lives in New York City with her husband and daughter.
What She Shares
Why her medical credentials exist so she can say "that's not the whole story"
What You'll Hear Resources
EP 252: Coming Home – Ancestral Healing, Emergency Medicine, and Advocating from a Regulated Place with Dr. Vanessa Calderón
Episode 252
Monday, October 5, 2026 • Duration 47:10
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Dr. Vanessa Calderón, an emergency physician, master executive coach, and healer from a lineage of ancestral healers in Mexico and El Salvador. Introduced by an ER doctor Kimberly met on a flight, Vanessa traces her path from the five-year-old who dreamed of being a missionary doctor, through healthcare access activism and UCLA medical school, to the emergency room, where diagnoses like "abdominal pain, not otherwise specified" showed her the limits of Western medicine. She describes the voice that told her, mid-run on a Northern California beach, that it was time to come home, and the decade of apprenticeship with Latin American healers that followed. They talk about what med school does to the nervous system, the new language of well-being entering medical training, and the pain that told her to step away from the ER for a season. At the heart of the conversation is a practical question for anyone who listens to their body and still needs a doctor: how to advocate for yourself from regulation rather than fear. They close on rewilding, motherhood, Vanessa's vision of medicine built on power with rather than power over, and how the current framing of menopause reflects a broader shift in consciousness.
Bio
Dr. Vanessa Calderón is a Harvard graduate and board-certified emergency physician, a Master Executive Coach, and a Neuroplasticity Trainer with more than 20 years of leadership experience and a decade of business development expertise. A first-generation Latina from a long line of ancestral healers, she apprenticed directly with Indigenous healers of Mexico and Central America. Through Calderón Co., she coaches physicians, executives, and mission-driven leaders, weaving leadership and business strategy with nervous system work, identity work, and ancestral wisdom so they can create meaningful impact without sacrificing their health, relationships, or sense of self. She also leads Resourced Wealth, a six-week, healing-centered program on money, power, and capacity. She is the host of The Authentic Path podcast, which explores the intersection of leadership, performance science, and ancient wisdom. She continues to practice emergency medicine and lives in Atlanta with her family.
What She Shares
How a lineage of Mexican and Salvadoran healers, and a teenage rejection of them, led her into Western medicine
What You'll Hear Resources
EP 251: The Great Void – Menopause as Initiation, the Secret Teacher, and the Decommissioning of the Mind with Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer
Episode 251
Sunday, September 27, 2026 • Duration 54:27
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer about the spiritual power of menopause. Pope and Wurlitzer are co-founders of Red School and authors of Wild Power and Wise Power. Each woman traces the turning point that led them to this work: for Alexandra, sudden and relentless menstrual pain at 31 and the decision to listen to her body; for Sjanie, seven years on hormonal contraception and the return of her cycle, which brought her inner life back online. Kimberly, two and a half years postmenopause, asks what women orbit once the menstrual cycle no longer guides them. They explore menopause as a great void and an initiation, the two "superpowers" of no and sight, the menstruality life arc as a turning of seasons, ego death and the dismantling of the psyche, and brain fog as the "decommissioning" of the mind. The conversation turns to what's missing culturally: elders and "secret teachers" who can dignify the passage, allies and listening partners, and a framing that doesn't pathologize. They close on choice, including the choice of medical support, as its own act of inner authority, and on Red School's October programming for Menopause Awareness Month.
Bio
Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer are the co-founders of Red School and pioneers of the emerging field of menstruality. They are the co-authors of Wild Power: Discover the Magic of the Menstrual Cycle and Awaken the Feminine Path to Power (Hay House, 2017) and Wise Power: Discover the Liberating Power of Menopause to Awaken Authority, Purpose and Belonging (Hay House, 2022), and the creators of the Menstruality Medicine Circle™. Drawing on backgrounds in psychotherapy, hypnotherapy, coaching, embodied movement, teaching, and facilitation, they teach a psycho-spiritual approach to health, creativity, leadership, and spiritual life rooted in menstrual cycle awareness and conscious menopause. Alexandra, a psychotherapist, began this work in her early 30s, first sharing her discoveries in workshops at Sydney's Royal Hospital for Women. Together they have spent decades listening to thousands of women's experiences of the journey from menarche to menopause, and they teach worldwide through Red School's courses, trainings, and online events.
What They Share
How severe menstrual pain at 31 led Alexandra to listen to her body and begin the work that became Red School
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EP 250: Honrar la Voz - Lineage, the Body, and Creating Without Pain with Carolina Mama
Episode 250
Wednesday, September 23, 2026 • Duration 01:33:19
Kimberly speaks with Carolina Mama: Argentine composer, singer-songwriter, filmmaker and photographer, calling in from Barcelona. They met in Santa Fe and worked together on the photographs for the Erotic Seasons era of Kimberly's work, and this conversation sits at the intersection of artistry, spirituality, liberation and social justice. Carolina traces her ear through the folkloric rhythms that lived in her body before she had names for them, to a full scholarship at the New School in New York and the research through Morocco that led to her debut album, Amina. They talk about making peace with being loved and hated at once, why the audience is a co-author rather than a jury, and the night at Lincoln Center when she understood that a version of herself had just died on stage.
The second half provides a peek into the contemporary music industry: where artists are asked to arrive tour ready, audience ready, content ready and team ready with no infrastructure behind them. She speaks about arriving in the U.S. and discovering she was not white here, about gratitude alongside the loss of safety on a working visa, and about the Latina archetype the market keeps handing her, which she refuses. They close on synesthesia and the weave between film and music, on psychology as curiosity rather than analysis, on the trauma frame and what it costs art, on the surname she chose in order to honor her grandfather, and a long exchange about collaboration, elders, and what it means to be in service.
BIO
Carolina Mama is an Argentine singer, composer, musician and filmmaker. Her debut solo album, Amina, was released in September 2025, co-produced and recorded in Los Angeles with Lau Noah and Emily Elbert, rooting the folkloric traditions of Latin America and North Africa in the improvisational spirit of jazz and a cinematic sense of narrative. The record takes its name from Amina El Filali, a sixteen year old girl in Larache, Morocco, whose story Carolina encountered while researching folkloric music composed and performed by women; that story, together with her involvement in the Ni Una Menos movement in Argentina, shaped the album into a testimony for silenced lives and a call for gender based violence prevention. She studied film at the Universidad Nacional del Arte in Buenos Aires and was working in the industry by seventeen, before a full scholarship brought her to the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York, where she chose the Argentine pianist and composer Guillermo Klein as her mentor. A former member of the collective projects Nacarola and Levana, she has sung alongside Juan Carlos Baglietto, Lito Vitale, Julia Zenko and León Gieco, and has performed at Lincoln Center, the Joyce Theater, Pregones Theater and Zinc Bar. She has toured and traveled through Mexico, Europe, South America and Morocco, and splits her time between Brooklyn and Santa Fe. She spoke for this episode from Barcelona.
WHAT SHE SHARES WHAT YOU'LL HEAR RESOURCES
EP 249: Mothering the Mother – Granny Midwifery, the Lying-In, and Diasporic Memory with Shafia Monroe
Episode 249
Sunday, September 13, 2026 • Duration 45:05
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Shafia Monroe, the renowned midwife, doula trainer, cultural historian, and author of Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes, and Healing, with a foreword by Erykah Badu. Shafia begins with the inheritance she was raised on: a second-generation Boston Catholic mother who told her to burn the bra and not to stay anywhere she was unhappy, and a rural foot-washing Alabama father who turned an empty Boston lot into collard greens and turnips before anyone called it a community garden. From there the conversation follows the diasporic threads she has spent four decades tracing, from her father eating with his right hand to the Senegalese village where she watched women shape a newborn's head exactly as her mother had shaped her niece's. They talk about what enslavement broke in African-American postpartum culture and what was rebuilt after it: the lying-in, the warm soup, the darkened room, and a community that knew what to do without needing a book. Shafia lays out the history of the granny midwives, including the origin of the word granny itself. She and Kimberly work through the real difference between a doula and a midwife, why she trains in full circle rather than full spectrum, and why women are flock people whom Western birth deliberately separated. Shafia describes raising seven children inside the work rather than around it, and why the family that hired you has to come first. The conversation closes on money, policy, and fear: what makes birth work financially viable, what this country refuses to fund, and why she tells every woman and man she meets to stop fearing birth, to refuse the label of patient, and to trust a body that has been doing this since the beginning.
Bio
Shafia Monroe, MPH, is a renowned midwife, master doula trainer, cultural historian, author, and motivational speaker whose work has shaped birth and postpartum care for more than four decades. A leading subject matter expert on African American birth and postpartum traditions, she has researched the lives of twentieth century Black midwives and traveled to interview and observe them, learning traditional practices firsthand. In 1991 she founded the International Center for Traditional Childbearing, the first national nonprofit dedicated to increasing the number of midwives and doulas of color and to promoting home birth in Black communities. In 2002 she created the SMC Full Circle Doula Birth Companion Training, a dual certification program built on the legacy of the twentieth century African American midwife, which has since trained thousands of birth workers worldwide. She is president of Shafia Monroe Consulting and Birthing CHANGE, which helps health care providers deliver culturally competent care. Her work has been recognized with numerous honors, including four lifetime achievement awards, and she was named by Scientific American in 2022 among those working to make health care more fair. Her book, Mothering the Mother: African American Postpartum Traditions, Recipes, and Healing, with a foreword by Erykah Badu, was published by Hachette Go. She draws on her Southern roots in rural Alabama, where her grandmother taught her that food is medicine. She is a mother of seven, a grandmother of nine, and a great-grandmother of two, and she lives in Portland, Oregon.
EP 248: Rewrite the Mother Code – Losing Yourself, Self-Mothering, and the Courage to Rock the Boat with Dr. Gertrude Lyons
Episode 248
Monday, September 7, 2026 • Duration 51:47
In this episode, Kimberly speaks with Dr. Gertrude Lyons, a master coach, podcast host, and the author of Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust, about what it takes to notice you have gone missing from your own life. Dr. Gertrude describes the moment on a pilgrimage in Nepal, with her children in high school and college, when she burst into tears in front of a shaman and understood that despite years of coaching, study, and conscious parenting, she had lost herself somewhere inside motherhood. That recognition sent her back to school for a doctorate in education and eventually produced the framework the book is built on. Kimberly and Dr. Gertrude trace how the messages get in: the primal, unconscious conviction that rocking the boat will make everything fall apart, the ordering of children and spouse and career ahead of self, and the false pretense that there is a right way to do any of it. The conversation turns to the hero myth and what it has done to mother culture, the pressure to be exceptional rather than to be on a journey, and whether twenty years of increased awareness has actually shifted anything underneath. She then tells the story of her 2025 TEDx talk, which TED would not post until she removed the birth data: the maternal mortality figures, the history of midwives being pushed out by active marketing campaigns, and the observation that not all hospital birth practice is evidence based. Kimberly picks this up and runs with it, on how the people the system appears to serve are the least likely to see it clearly, on birth as an irreducibly bodily experience that has been siloed off from the rest of a woman's life, and on what it costs to be defanged from your own animal instinct.
Bio
Dr. Gertrude Lyons is a master coach, podcast host, and thought leader helping women rewrite outdated narratives around motherhood, identity, and self-worth. She is the author of Rewrite the Mother Code: From Sacrifice to Stardust, A Cosmic Approach to Motherhood (Rise Books, 2025), which grew out of her doctoral research into the transformational opportunity inside motherhood and has since become the foundation of a broader body of work with women at every stage of that question. She holds an Ed.D. and an M.A. in Transformational Leadership and Coaching from Wright Graduate University, an M.A. in Psychology from Antioch University McGregor, and a BBA in Finance and Accounting from Saint Mary's College in Notre Dame, Indiana. She is a Whole Brain Living certified coach and holds a Level 3 breathwork certification through the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance. She hosts the Rewrite the Mother Code podcast, delivered a 2025 TEDx talk titled Redefining Self-Mothering: The Courage to Mother Ourselves First, and has spoken at the Glastonbury Goddess Conference. Over more than twenty years she has worked with individuals, couples, parents, and families, and she now leads retreats in Mexico and Ireland, with a first retreat in Malta planned. Her home base is Chicago. She has two daughters.
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EP 247: The Opposite of Hypervigilance – Boundaries, Healthy Aggression, and Reclaiming Fight with Jaye Marolla
Episode 247
Sunday, August 30, 2026 • Duration 01:10:20
In this episode, Kimberly is rejoined by Jaye Marolla, somatic educator, martial artist, and bodyworker, founder of The Body Innate, YINDOJO, and YinWarriorship in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Nine months and several co-taught weekends after their first conversation, and ahead of Jaye joining Jaguar Fight Club in September, they dive deep into their work with the word fight. Jaye explains why she has never used the frame of self-defense, reflecting on how it seats a woman inside a preconceived victim's stance and quietly assigns the whole burden of a culture's violence to the people most likely to be harmed by it. From there they make the distinction between readiness and hypervigilance, between the body that knows where the exits are and the body running a fear script it has mistaken for awareness. They look at what happens when a boundary comes from contraction rather than wholeness, at Kimberly's work restoring reflexive gestures in bodies that were anesthetized or held still, and at the longing for real physical contact that both of them keep meeting in rooms, and that many somatic training treats as inappropriate. The second half turns to the trauma frame itself, and what it costs in agency, artistry, and appetite when a culture organizes everything it knows about the body around what went wrong. They talk about animist inquiry and bone knowing, about somatic transmission versus the somatic exercise, about the long arc from trying out a practice to living one, and about the blueprint each person carries and what it takes to fight for it in a culture built to bury it. The conversation closes on the great work that may look like nothing you could post and on the power of a deeply quiet life.
Bio
Jaye Marolla is a somatic educator, martial artist, and bodyworker based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the founder of The Body Innate, YINDOJO, and YinWarriorship. A former Division I basketball player at American University, she has spent decades training across martial and healing traditions, shaped by years of living and studying in Ghana, China, Thailand, Central Asia, and England, where she became fascinated by lineage-based practice and the knowledge that travels tacitly, through transmission and embodied nuance. In China and Thailand she studied martial arts and healing practices alongside one another, and came to understand the two branches as growing from a single root. In Santa Fe she spent three years studying with her former teacher Zhenevere Sophia Dao in the practices of Post-Daoism and Mythopoetic Qigong. She weaves applied Daoism and conscious Eros through vitality-based teaching within a framework of experiential collaborative leadership and somatic activism, offering classes and intensives in Santa Fe, across the United States, and internationally, and working privately with individuals, groups, and organizations. She is a member of Soma Collective in Santa Fe, and has collaborated with practitioners including Stephen Jenkinson on retreats exploring death, embodiment, and communal practice. She joins Kimberly for Jaguar Fight Club in September.
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Why "abdominal pain, not otherwise specified" became the crack in her faith in the system
The voice on a beach run that told her it was time to come home
Building a meditation practice in residency, one minute at a time
What medical training does to the nervous system, and how the language of well-being is changing it
The attending who taught her that a patient knows their body better than the doctor does
The left wrist pain that told her to step away from the ER, and how she listened
Why the patient-physician relationship should be a partnership, and when to walk away from one
How to advocate for yourself from regulation instead of fear
Rewilding as coming home to yourself and to everything around you
Her vision of medicine built on power with rather than power over
How a chance first-class seat brought Kimberly and Vanessa together
The five-year-old who wanted to be a missionary doctor
Christianity, shame, and women's bodies, and what she kept from her upbringing
Whether anything in the core medical curriculum could make room for trauma and energetics
Kimberly on Brazil's cesarean culture and doctors who were never taught vaginal birth
Do doctors have to quit medicine to practice in line with their values?
Kimberly's doula years and how defensive boundaries escalate a birth room
Recognizing your own signs of dysregulation before you walk into an appointment
Small, human requests in the exam room: eye contact, warm hands, a pause
Setting an intention for the outcome you want before you see the doctor
How motherhood changed the way she treats children and parents in the ER
The "menopause mafia," the hormone debate, and a shift in collective consciousness
