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Fanny Chat
Hosted by Naomi Gale · EN
Fanny chat is hosted is hosted by Naomi Gale: landing into the arms of the feminine through the pelvis.Naomi Gale is a pelvic health educator, somatic guide, and voice for women done with self-help and ready to live what they already know.This podcast is for women and the mothers who have read the books, done the therapy, explored healing… and still feel the quiet hum of dissatisfaction. Not broken. Not in crisis. But not fully alive either.Here we chat about moving beyond quick fixes, Kegals, and surface-level empowerment. Together we share raw conversations, and lived explorations into pelvic health, pleasure, nervous system integration, relationships, and the search for real community in modern life.Blending a wide range of works this space is about integration over information: where knowledge becomes embodied, and healing becomes lived.Currently traveling across the world in a van with her husband, three children, dog and pussy, Naomi explores what it means to mother, create, work, and belong outside the traditional structures, and asks the question many women are quietly holding.This isn’t self-help.This is reality.This is the return to what’s already within you.
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Resentment Is Information
1w ago00:19:48Tap to summarizeWhat if the tiredness you call fine has another name? In this episode, we meet Claire- forty-three, functioning beautifully, quietly furious, and we follow the resentment she's been sitting on for years, held in her pelvis, gripped in her jaw, carried in shoulders. This isn't about blame, invisible loads, or one more thing to fix. It's about what the body keeps trying to tel us when we do not pause to listen or when we are too busy to listen. What becomes possible when we stop managing our resentment and get curious about what it's truly pointing to. Because the pelvic floor doesn't lie. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Why Analogue Feels Like Mothering Myself
4w ago00:32:37Tap to summarizeConnecting to ourselves in the digital world is what this episode explores. Less digital noise and more embodied living. Here we chat all things digital through the nervous system lens and how this links to pelvic floor healing and mothering ourselves. And I keep coming back to this question: What if some of the most regulating, healing, mothering choices we can make are beautifully simple? Technically, analogue transmits through waves, digital through 1s and 0s. But for me, analogue means more than this. For thirty minutes we explore the best analogue tools for digital detox and emotional wellbeing. More holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →You’re Surrounded By People- So Why Do You Still Feel Alone?
Apr 900:28:58Tap to summarizeIt’s 2026. We’re done with fixing. We understand the solutions. The question now is quieter, but sharper: why aren’t we living what we already know? Women keep saying they want community. “I just want community.” But what if that’s not quite true? We like the idea of community.Connection. Depth. Being seen. But real community? It asks something of you. More holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Why aren’t we living what we already know?
Mar 2600:24:22Tap to summarizeIt’s 2026. We’re done with fixing. We understand the solutions. The question now is quieter, but sharper: why aren’t we living what we already know?Where do women go when they’ve done the therapy, read the books, named the wounds… and still feel like something isn’t landing?Meet Jenna.I’m sharing fictitious client profiles so you can see the inner workings of the work I’ve done with women for over a decade. (TW: there are words that some readers may find challenging if they haven’t tended to them).Jenna is 35.She wants a partner and hasn’t found one because life just hasn’t met her there.She’s a creative, but working a job that drains her because it pays. This was a recent switch because her creative work felt draining as it didn’t feel like it paid enough. A cycle creatives know well.She feels guilty for even being in a space like this- the one where we talk about the pelvis. Like tending to herself is indulgent. Frivolous.In her twenties, Jenna was raped. She hasn’t told anyone. There were no visible scars, so she learned to downplay it. But her body didn’t.She lives with vaginismus which is pain with penetration.A body that closes. A body that says no, even when she doesn’t fully understand why. Jenna isn’t in crisis. She’s in holding.Grief from losing her father, who was her safety. A mother who now needs more, but has always struggled to give. Friendships that don’t quite land. A life that looks fine… but doesn’t feel like hers.She comes home from work and goes flat. Scrolling. Not eating well. Not tending to herself.She finds herself easily slipping into her freeze response tools.Jenna doesn’t need fixing.She doesn’t need to “heal her trauma” in the way she’s been taught. She needs to understand what her body is holding. Where her patterns come from. Why her system moves the way it does.Because when a woman can see that: she stops fighting and ignoring her innate needs.Jenna doesn’t need more information. She needs spaces where her body can speak.Where pain isn’t rushed. Where nothing is performed. Where she doesn’t have to explain why she feels the way she feels.Spaces where the deeper questions can exist:What is my body protecting me from?What happens when I finally acknowledge what I’ve lived through without talking it all through again?Can I trust myself to feel this… without needing to fix it?Jenna isn’t looking for answers, either. She’s looking for something she hasn’t had before: a place to land.And maybe that’s the real question for all of us now:Where do women like me go… when we’re ready to stop doing more therapy, and start listening to ourselves? More holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →The Hidden Dissatisfaction of Mothers Who “Did Everything Right”
Mar 2000:31:38Tap to summarizeMother Profile: SofiaIt’s 2026. We’re done with fixing. We understand the solutions. The fire horse year asks one question: how do we live with what we already know? Where is the community for women who have done the books, the therapy, the circles, and still feel… quiet dissatisfaction?Meet Sofia. I’m going to do some fictitious client profiles so you can see the inner workings of this work I have done with clients for ten years on a 1-1.So Sofia, she did everything “right.” Two children, career, a partner who works full-time, a mother who loves her grandchildren more than her. Life should feel softer now the children are at school. Because, now has has more time, right? Instead, she notices things she can’t name: sex that sometimes hurts, joy that doesn’t feel quite whole, knowledge that comes from all the ‘work’ she has done but it’s not integrated. Sofia isn’t in crisis. She’s in integration pressure. She doesn’t need more answers because she has them from books and therapy. She did counselling for years. she needs places and people and spaces to land.. Spaces where desire, resentment, motherhood, power, money, and pleasure can be spoken without pretense. Real community. Evidence that another way of adulthood exists.No therapy. No webinars. Just women who see it, live it, and share it, sometimes maybe even, over a quick chai latte after a school run.The question for Sofia, for all of us: “Where do women like me gather when they are done pretending?” More holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Betty on vaginisumus, postnatal tending and birth
Feb 11, 202500:58:05Tap to summarizeBetty Sharpe is a Kent doula who actively supports at births around East Kent. She runs Folkey Birth Club which is a local CIC holding birth cirles and nourishment circles. Betty chats about her experience of vaginismus and what it looked like to have the birth she wanted but the lack of postnatal care she realised she needed. Within this episode we discuss tears, childborth, tending to ourselves and just the general culture around the system- whether we are having painful sex or having a baby. Betty Sharpe: https://www.kentdoulacollective.com/betty-sharpe Folkey Birth Club: https://www.folkeybirthclub.co.uk/ Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatMore holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Lindsey Isla on vaginismus, being child free and tracking
Jan 14, 202501:04:15Tap to summarizeLindsey Isla creates content online for us all to consume on all things lifestyle, interiors and fashion. This episode of Fanny chat discusses what it means to be diagnosed with vaginismus and how she now looks at this, what choosing to not have children looks like in today's society and how tracking her cycle changed her world. We also close with a beautiful testimony to what it means to be landing into the arms of the feminine.Lindsey Isla: https://www.instagram.com/lindsey_isla/ Lindsey on Substack: https://lindseyisla.substack.com/Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatMore holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcribe →Amber Topaz and normalising singing about the vulva
Dec 6, 202401:02:12Tap to summarizeAmber Topaz is a performer and producer of all things feminine empowerment. She spends her time normalising the feminine body through her music and shows. Amber discusses what it means to grow breasts overnight at school, and how this fuelled her passion for celebrating women. We discuss what encourages her to sing 'Vulva' and discuss female pleasure and sexuality on stage for all to see. How shame spurs us on to share work we deem necessary for our society. This is a gentle and tender podcast episode we all could be listening to while carrying on with our 'daily doings'. Amber Topaz: https://www.ambertopaz.co.uk/ Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatMore holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Betty Sharpe and unknown pain and postpartum care
Nov 26, 2024Tap to summarizeWe walk through three pelvic-based stories. Betty walks us through her journey to this point as a homebirth doula. We discuss her physical pain and how that informs her work. We look at her postpartum care, tears, recovery and the system. What does she feel the system needs to acknowledge more. Why are they stitching women after birth. Is lotus birth the answer. And how can we be more informed around birth. Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat
Transcribe →Alistair and all things donor sperm
Nov 12, 202400:39:43Tap to summarizeWe walk through three pelvic-based stories. Ali discusses his journey with donor sperm and what it means to him to have children who biologically are donored. What does that feel like for him daily and how has that impacted his life. Ali then discusses what it looked like to witness the birth of a book which has since been banned. How that left him feeling and what he feels we need more of in this world. Website www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatWebsite www.thisisnaomigale.co.ukBuy In Your Vagina bookUseful social linksYouTubeSubstack Insight Timerhello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychatMore holding Found Here:The Vagina Book Gold Standard Pelvic JourneyPostpartum Care JourneySubstack Insight TimerMain Websitehello@thisisnaomigale.co.uk@thisisnaomigale #fannychat Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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