Sex Birth Trauma with Kimberly Ann Johnson

In this roundtable episode, Jaguar alumni Meryl Yecies speaks about her experience with Jaguar and interviews 3 women who recently participated in the most recent Jaguar offering Jaguar in the Time of Cholera a course created to provide somatic tools and support during the quarantine.. Tune in to hear from Meryl, Leilani, Alissa, and Chessa as they share their unique experiences with the jaguar work.

Three women share their stories of how Activate Your Inner Jaguar changed their lives, business, sex, and relationships.

What Sarah Shares: Her own history with an auto-immune disease and how she healed herself through dietary changes Pleasure as the antidote to stress Working from her creative center How to expand your meal repertoire What You'll Hear: How our food cravings are often not what our bodies need Being attentive to what you might be needing from the foods you crave Understanding that food allergies are not static Changing your health by reducing stress Building in ways to slow down your day Finding a shopping and cooking system that supports you and your needs Having flexibility in your diet to support your body's current needs Increasing the quality of the foods you eat to reduce inflammatory responses Understanding that losing weight is not always about exercising more and eating less Basing your dietary choices on how you feel, not how you look Why removing sugars is so important for solving health mysteries Checking in with your diet as you age and change Why meat consumption can be important for menstruating and postpartum individuals Cleaning your diet by removing chemicals Learning more about health effects of alternative sugars common in 'health' foods Finding dietary balance with kids Using batch cooking to keep your weekly food options open Understanding how some cravings show you where you may be deficient Using cleansing properly Thinking of food as nourishment rather than numbers and nutrition Making decisions from wanting to feel good not necessarily to feel good Accepting and enjoying your body

What She Shares: How the birth of her three children set her on her path Discovering ways to connect to your pleasurable sensations Practicing one minute of self-pleasure as a meditation What You'll Hear: Healing birth trauma and changing the narrative Listening to the body and hearing its message Reclaiming your connection with your body through birth Being present and available for the ecstasy of birth Letting go of the checklist mentality and having a full system experience Opening yourself to pleasure to consciously use it during birth Expanding your capacity to hold energy through mindful self pleasure Integrating trauma as much as possible before birth Working to expand pleasurable sensation in the body Practicing pleasure in a calm and relaxed state so that it is available in charged situations Sourcing energy from a distant source when you feel stuck Doulas as energy holders in birth spaces Taking care of yourself through connection to your body How presence and connecting to Source is helpful in the first 6 weeks of postpartum Knowing that birth workers are as important to moms as moms are to babies Finding ways to build pleasure and support into your system Learning to rest when you need

What Rachelle Shares: Stepping into our next maturation level as adults How our experiences being gestated and born impact us through life Why the physiological birth requires safety and protection What You'll Hear: Returning to personal authority and innate wisdom The long-ranging impacts of gestation and birth on an infant Creating healthy, high-functioning adults in the future by prioritizing the care and health of mothers Making decisions during pregnancy and birth to support your child's capacity in life Aligning ourselves with Thriving Life Principles instead of Death Principles Understanding how separating a mother and baby at birth may impact the baby's attachment patternings Knowing how the use of Pitocin during birth effects postpartum depression rates Attending to our family's health and wellness by respecting our physiology Working through fear so that we can align with Thriving Life Understanding that intense experiences are not automatically traumatic Heading the radical call to re-center our power and authority as women Connecting to our food and water sources Birthing in safe and protected environments Protecting the hormonal blueprint of labor and birth The difference between a mental idea of safety and a physical understanding of safety Why interacting while wearing masks feels incoherent to our systems How the imprinting of being born impacts us in every single decision we make Bringing implicit patterns into conscious awareness to begin changing them Looking at this choice point of humanity through the 7 Fires Prophecy · Remembering the essentials of being human

What She Shares: Why psoas is a central part of birth Shifting from concept to physical movement in your tissues Psoas as innate expression Being coherent with nature Beginning your journey home to yourself What You'll Hear: Consciously maintaining our agency throughout the birth continuum Separating cultural conditioning from our animal-ness Trusting the animal body's knowledge of birth Unlocking your physical organism How ancestral trauma appears in different bodies Learning to shape shift to prepare for birth Why a supple, hydrated, expressive psoas is important for knowing oneself Trusting your own power Understanding the power dynamics between insurance companies, OBs, and birthing women Why your birthing experience affects your rite of passage into motherhood Examining appeasement and fawning responses Why it can feel so exhausting to try to maintain coherence with our animal bodies The difficulty of actively defending ourselves during birth The difference between controlling ourselves and expressing ourselves Finding your biological intelligence in your core The nervous systems as expression Why investing in your birth experience is a radical and loving act Making birth choices that support the earth and the human species How your birth experience affects your infant's nervous system How a sedentary lifestyle impacts a developing fetus Separating consciousness from the nervous system Psoas as "muscle of the soul" Landing into your bones and embracing the fetal curl

What Shannon Shares: Using astrology to survey time and cycles Why astrologers have been looking towards 2020 for many years What it means to see Jupiter and Saturn come together in Aquarius for the first time in 600 years What You'll Hear: Examining planetary transits that have not culminated for hundreds of years Breaking down old structures so that we can build new ones that are suitable for our current society Why the United States is experiencing an even bigger shift than other nations Why Saturn's time in Capricorn has helped us address outdated systems How Saturn's transition into Aquarius supports individuals and societies in innovation Expecting introspection and realizations during the next 3 months. Why July 1- Dec 16 will be an important time for productive building Understanding how planets move through the signs by examining the sun's movement Transitioning from a state of 'undoing' to 'creating' Looking forward to positive things coming as 2020 moves into 2021 Why we're being called to undo old patterns around parenting and relating Using the energy of Cancer to relax and go within during this time of discomfort The various planetary ways we can see that stability is being disrupted physically and energetically Moving into a new economic system Committing the time and focus to come inward so you may soften the transition Using Venus in retrograde this spring to figure out what it is we want Saturn and Jupiter coming together in an air sign is supporting innovation and communication Viewing Mars retrograde in Aries this fall as a productive fever Astrologically moving from solid infrastructure to electrical infrastructure Developing comfort in verbal communication Being creative and deliberate with how you create social structures in an era of increased online presence The north node in Cancer supports us in coming into our authentic inner selves The necessity of being clear in ourselves before we start adding to the collective conversation

Jane Clapp's approach is to weave her diverse training in holistic and mindful strength and movement coaching with trauma-informed mindfulness and nervous system regulation interventions, transforming emotional and physical overwhelm into embodied strength, mobility, and vitality. What Jane Shares: How personal necessity inspired her on her path Discovering coherence in her system when she became a mother Why she helps people move into sympathetic arousal in order to relax Ways to access your vitality What You'll Hear: Seeing ourselves as more than just has happened to us Finding healthy attachment responses within yourself Experiencing active responses to challenges during birth Looking at differences in maternal care between countries through a realistic lens Defining healthy maternal leave How the structure of parental leave can affect long term parenting dynamics Developing a deeper understanding of our sexuality within motherhood Why moving into full vibrancy requires an understanding of healthy sexuality Why accessing your vital life force energy is necessary for sexual and creative energy Using movement interventions to come out of shut-down Adjusting the rhythm of your life to match your biology Traveling through stress and activation cycles in order to settle and relax Building movement into your life for Coming into healthy sympathetic states to create repair Understanding that whatever you're dealing with is broader and bigger than just you Tapping into your healthy aggression The nuances of health and balance

Find out the possibilities of what can grow and change in you, your life and your relationships as a result of the Activate Your Inner Jaguar class. In a roundtable format, women share about the unexpected transformations they experienced in their lives from the content, the spaceholding, and the group container or people coming together in a process of rewilding and deeper humanness.

Dr. Zhaleh Boyd Philips is an intuitive healer, a Certified Vaginal Steam Practitioner, and a co-host of the Hot Steamy Podcast. She's also a doctor in sociology specializing in human sex trafficking. Zhaleh was the magic behind all of the write-ups and graphics behind the Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam study and has developed a vaginal steaming course specifically for empaths. What Zhaleh Shares: Her personal history with sex trafficking and how it shaped her path Realizing she couldn't be in anti-trafficking work forever Becoming a joy junky Receiving information from her ancestors and how it's guided her What You'll Hear: The complexity and difficulties of working with law enforcement Finding accessible ways to support trafficking victims How sex trafficking is different in different communities The need for balance within your interests and time commitments to avoid burnout Developing tools as an empathy to reclaim your body from other people's emotions Safeguarding your health by knowing your own limits Being in service to yourself as much as you are to other people Re-connecting with joy and going on a trauma-fast Vaginal steaming for healing from trafficking, assault, and trauma How connecting in with the ancestors allowed her to get a fuller picture around clients Communicating with organs and finding trapped emotions Receiving sufficient financial exchange for your energetic output The five dimensions of existing in our physical forms Finding ways to support yourself beyond your physical body How caring for an empath differs Steaming for empaths