How to use castor oil for womb healing, immune support and scar tissue repair

Castor oil beans - How to use castor oil for womb healing, immune support and scar tissue repair

I often recommend self care practices with the use of castor oil in my practice. It is also one of my main tools for softening and mobilizing scar tissue manually during a pelvic healing session.

In this post, I want to highlight how you can use it for self care and healing.

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The Sacred and the Mundane of the Womb Heart Connection

Wet flower close up - The Sacred and the Mundane of the Womb Heart Connection

The connection between the heart and the womb is both mysterious and practical when it comes to whole woman care, fertility cycles, sexuality, birthing and beyond.

Beyond learning through my own felt experience, I solidified my understanding around this connection during my formal Chinese medicine education. For that reason, this post will include a good amount of Chinese medicine terminology and explanations of the body from that lens.

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What is vulva mapping? And why you would want to do it!

what is vulva mapping

As someone who is committed to radically holistic health care for women, when I first heard about STREAM training I knew it was a perfect fit. STREAM stands for Scar Tissue Remediation, Education and Management. It’s a revolutionary approach to working in the pelvis to support healing for people with birth injuries or trauma, scar tissue from gynecological procedures, chronic pelvic pain or pain associated with sexual intercourse, gender reassignment surgery and so much more.

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Pelvic Floor Function and Preparing for Birth

lily pad - Pelvic Floor Function and Preparing for Birth

As I traverse my own journey in preparing for birth, I have a few things that I would like to share. This particular post was inspired by a recent exchange I had in a FB group for home birth minded people. While I won’t go into the details of the FB thread, I will say that it inspired me to provide some education around pelvic floor health in relationship to preparing for vaginal birth while minimizing trauma to the pelvic floor.

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