Explore every episode of the podcast VagQuest: A Journey Through Vaginismus
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| Episode 13: When You Don't Have Time | 29 Mar 2025 | 00:17:09 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode we discuss one of the biggest hurdles to obstacles I’ve heard from many of you whom I’ve interacted with: "I don’t have time."
For more information, check out the resources below:
Yoga for Vaginismus on Instagram
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| Episode 12: Transitions From Winter to Spring | 23 Mar 2025 | 00:07:05 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. My name is Missi and this podcast partners with a program created to support those of you struggling with moving through vaginismus through a purely physical approach of exercise and dilating. In today’s episode, I share a few thoughts on rest and working not only with our bodies, but also the seasons. | |||
| Episode 3: Vaginismus, Yoga and the Chakras (Part 2 of 3) | 19 Jan 2025 | 00:06:42 | |
Welcome to VagQuest: The Podcast! VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we'll explore the heart and throat chakras, how they relate to our nervous system, and ultimately, how they relate to vaginismus. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 2: Vaginismus, Yoga and the Chakras (Part 1 of 3) | 12 Jan 2025 | 00:13:27 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction, and partners with a program I created to support those of you struggling with moving through vaginismus through a purely physical approach of exercise and dilating. Those are the things that got me started and moved me across the finish line, but in this episode, I’ll be providing an overview of all the stuff I did in the middle of that journey, all of which falls neatly into the chakra system of yoga. Here we'll review the first three chakras: root, sacral, and solar plexus. For more information, check out the resources below: Yoga for Vaginismus on Instagram | |||
| Episode 1: VagQuest: Introduction to the Podcast | 11 Jan 2025 | 00:09:57 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this introductory episode, we’ll dive into my own experience with vaginismus, my background, my personal thesis on vaginismus, and an overview of the tools I’ve developed to help others navigate their own journeys. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 11: The Values That Guide Us | 16 Mar 2025 | 00:16:22 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we chat about the values and guiding principles I learned to embody throughout my experience, that I wish I figured out a lot earlier in my journey. Overall, these values created a shift in mindset that took me from a place of forcing, resentment, and frustration, which frankly wasn’t getting me very far, into a place of softness, understanding, care, and fun! | |||
| Episode 10: Dilating and Exercise- Curate Your Environment, Stack Your Habits | 01 Mar 2025 | 00:11:37 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we’ll be semi-wrapping up behavior change tips from the Integrated Behavior Model with tips on curating our environment and habit stacking to support our desired behaviors. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 9: Vaginismus, Perfectionism, and Control | 22 Feb 2025 | 00:21:04 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we explore the relationship between vaginismus, perfectionism and control, and how we can break those patterns to gain more freedom in our lives, and our pelvic floors. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 8: Vaginismus and What's Holding You Back | 16 Feb 2025 | 00:18:40 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we'll be introduced to the magic of behavior change models. If you are struggling with keeping up with dilating and exercises, or identifying your cycles of pain, or feel consumed with shame or guilt etc., this episode can help you navigate all of that-- it's one to save and return to! For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 7: Vaginismus, Freeze, Procrastination, and Lethargy | 08 Feb 2025 | 00:15:27 | |
If you struggle with procrastination, a sense of resignation, or think your vaginismus is triggered by a freeze response, these could all be signs of a parasympathetic nervous system threat response! In this episode, we'll talk the relationship between vaginismus and the parasympathetic nervous system, using the parasympathetic nervous system's powers for good, and moving into and out of the parasympathetic state in a way that is supportive for you and your vaginismus. VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 6: Vaginismus, the Nervous System, and Pulling an Evelyn | 02 Feb 2025 | 00:19:48 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. This podcast partners with a program created to support those of you struggling with moving through vaginismus through a purely physical approach of exercise and dilating. Those are the things that got me started and moved me across the finish line, but in today’s episode, I’ll be continuing to chat about the relationship between the nervous system and vaginismus, specifically how we can take a reactive approach to nervous system regulation when we feel triggered. We'll talk through the TIMES method, which I learned from Kimberly Ann Johnson in Call of the Wild, a concept I call "laddering," and how we can be like Evelyn in Everything, Everywhere, all at Once and jump nervous system states. For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 5: Vaginismus and the Nervous System Advice You Don't Want to Hear | 26 Jan 2025 | 00:17:23 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. This podcast partners with a program created to support those of you struggling with moving through vaginismus through a purely physical approach of exercise and dilating by integrating lessons from yoga and other healing modalities. In this episode, we start to explore of lessons gleaned from the root chakra of yoga, starting with the nervous system. The nervous system as a whole isn’t only associated with the root chakra; we will be exploring it throughout this series. This episode lays the foundation for further exploration; we'll focus on a very short and basic overview of the nervous system, why nervous system regulation is important, and a proactive approach to nervous system regulation. In this episode, I mention two resources: Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson Neurofit app for nervous system regulation practices For more information, check out the resources below: | |||
| Episode 4: Vaginismus, Yoga and the Chakras (Part 3 of 3) | 19 Jan 2025 | 00:07:57 | |
Welcome to VagQuest: The Podcast! VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode, we'll explore the third eye and crown chakras and how they relate to vaginismus. For more information, check out the resources below: Yoga for Vaginismus on Instagram
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| Episode 14: The Fear of Taking Up Space | 12 Apr 2025 | 00:12:51 | |
VagQuest was created to bring support, personal insights, and levity to those on a journey with vaginismus and related pelvic floor dysfunction. In this episode we discuss the impacts of safety and confidence when taking up space, and how that relates to vaginismus. For more information and resources, check out: | |||