Baubo: The Podcast
Baubo: The Podcast
Podcast Description
Baubo: The Podcast is hosted by Mathilde. The podcast sheds light on vulvodynia and vaginismus, two conditions that affect many women but remain shrouded in taboo, under-researched and under-funded. Mathilde invites top experts across multiple fields to deliver up to date and relevant information to help people experiencing these conditions, whilst sharing her own experience with vulvodynia.
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The podcast focuses on women's health issues, specifically vulvodynia and vaginismus, with episodes featuring expert insights into the neuroscience of pelvic pain, the anatomy and importance of pelvic floor health, and the common medical misconceptions surrounding these conditions, such as the episode with Dr. Tania Adib discussing the root causes of vulvar pain.
Chronic pelvic pain doesn’t have great PR. Vulvodynia, vaginismus, painful sex, pelvic floor dysfunction – conditions that affect 1 in 4 women and still get treated like a secret. This podcast is trying to change that.
The World’s Tightest Community is a weekly podcast hosted by Mathilde – a patient-turned-advocate who built this space out of her own experience with vulvodynia and vaginismus. Each episode goes deep into the conditions that millions of women live with but few feel safe naming: vulvodynia, vaginismus, vestibulodynia, pudendal neuralgia, and the wider landscape of chronic pelvic pain and painful sex.
Mathilde speaks with gynecologists, pelvic floor physiotherapists, sex therapists, psychologists, and researchers working at the front edge of women’s sexual health – translating clinical knowledge into something actually usable, alongside honest conversations about diagnostic delays, medical gaslighting, and what it really costs to navigate these conditions.
You’ll leave each episode with more language for your experience, clearer questions to bring to your next appointment, and the specific relief of knowing someone has thought carefully about this.
New episodes every week. Follow wherever you listen, and find the community on Instagram.
You are not alone in this. Not even close.
Why does the body sometimes hold onto pain long after there’s a clear physical reason for it? And what would it take to actually shift that?
In this episode, I speak with Brooke Bralove, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW-C), psychotherapist, AASECT Certified Sex Therapist, and Certified Master ART Practitioner with over 20 years in private practice. After accelerated resolution therapy (ART) resolved her own trauma in just two sessions, she trained in the modality and now specialises in brief trauma treatment, including for people with pelvic and sexual pain.
We get into what ART actually is and how it differs from both traditional talk therapy and EMDR – using rapid bilateral eye movements to replicate REM sleep and change the way the brain stores distressing images and the sensations that come with them. Brooke explains why she often sees people who’ve done the Botox, the pelvic floor PT, and the talk therapy and still aren’t functioning the way they want to. We talk about the science of why the eye movements seem to help, the difference between “big T” and “little t” trauma, and how ART can be used for things well beyond pelvic pain – from medical trauma to body image to decision-making.
Whether you’ve exhausted your options and feel stuck, or you’re simply curious about what trauma work can look like beyond years of talk therapy, I think you’ll take a lot away from this one.
This episode is kindly sponsored by Pelva. Use code TWTC10 at checkout to receive 10% off your first order.
In this episode:
- What accelerated resolution therapy (ART) is and how it differs from talk therapy and EMDR
- How bilateral eye movements replicate REM sleep to reconsolidate memories
- “Keep the knowledge, lose the pain” – what ART changes and what it doesn’t
- Why pelvic pain can trace back to something from years or decades ago
- The difference between “big T” and “little t” trauma
- How medical trauma and gaslighting can play into chronic pain
- What ART can be used for beyond trauma – body image, decisions, feeling stuck
- How Brooke holds hope for skeptical clients
- How ART works equally well virtually or in person
Connect with Brooke Bralove:
- Website: brookebralove.com
- Instagram & Facebook: @BrookeBralovePsychotherapy
- ART therapist directory: acceleratedresolutiontherapy.com
Connect with Mathilde:
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