Healing Sexual Trauma in the Body: Rewiring Childhood Imprints, Shame & Pleasure Through Somatic Practice with Kimberly & Nina

Our earliest experiences of pleasure shape us more than we realize.

For many of us, childhood moments of attention, shame, or confusion around sexuality quietly wire the nervous system — creating intimacy patterns that follow us for decades.

Sometimes those patterns look like over-sexualization.
Sometimes numbness.
Sometimes people-pleasing, dissociation, or difficulty receiving pleasure at all.

In this deeply compassionate episode, two courageous guests share how early sexual imprints influenced their adult relationships — and how somatic, body-based healing helped them reclaim safety, sensation, and authentic pleasure.

Together we explore how sexual trauma, shame, and early conditioning are stored not just in memory — but in the tissues, breath, and nervous system — and how the body can gently rewire new, empowering associations.

Kimberly shares how childhood attention became unconsciously linked with sexual engagement, shaping years of intimacy patterns rooted in seeking love through sex — and the journey of uncoupling those imprints through breathwork, somatic recall, and embodied healing.

Nina shares a different story: how shame, silence, and cultural repression created numbness and disconnection from her pleasure — and how learning to feel safe, receive touch, and soften control allowed sensation and desire to return.

In this episode, we explore:

• How early pleasure experiences wire lifelong intimacy patterns
 • Why abuse can feel confusing to a child’s nervous system
 • Sexuality, shame, and the body’s “cellular memory”
 • Over-sexualization vs numbness as trauma responses
 • The neuroscience of pleasure, reward, and imprinting
 • How trauma lives in pelvic tissues and the nervous system
 • Releasing stored emotions through breath and somatic work
 • Re-parenting the body with safety and consent
 • Learning to receive pleasure without guilt or shame
 • Rewiring arousal pathways through mindful erotic practice
 • Neuroplasticity and the body’s capacity to heal
 • Creating new, loving associations with sexuality

This conversation is not about pathology.

It’s about possibility.

Because the body is remarkably resilient.

And with safety, presence, and compassionate support, pleasure can be reclaimed — not as performance, but as birthright.

Resources

More somatic sexual healing teachings:
https://rahichun.com

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