I think the beautiful thing about art, about storytelling that is memoir about yourself, is you have this opportunity to make your own story.

Oh, let, welcome. You're listening to Let It Out. I'm Katie Delbow. I've been hosting this podcast since early 2013. And over the years, we've covered a plethora of topics on this show, specifically about women's health. We've had Dr. Christian Northrup on, who's like a seminal person who wrote this book about

female health.

And we had hormonal expert Elisa Vidi on talking about birth control.

We had Jessica Mernan talking about endometriosis.

We had an episode with this woman named Bethany,

who is a coach around healing your mother wound and what your relationship with your mother

has to do with your emotional health and relationships, which was fascinating. We did an

episode early on with Kim Minami about Jade Eggs, and we've just been talking about sex a lot on this show.

And today we're talking about something particularly intimate to me that I had a lot of shame around for a long time.

And in this episode, you're going to hear me let it out.

We talked about painful sex, specifically

vaginismis, which if you don't know what that is, it's a condition involving a muscle spasm in

your pelvic floor, or it can be for a plethora of reasons. But basically, it's when sex is

painful, difficult, maybe impossible.

And I experience this, which you'll hear about a little bit.

Brne Brown says that shame can't exist when it's shared.

And that's why I think personal storytelling.

And particularly, this medium of podcasting is so wonderful.

I say this almost every week, but starting this podcast was like the greatest thing I've ever done through the people.

I get to interview on the podcast, meeting them as a networking tool, the people who listen to the podcast, getting to meet them.

And we talk about why telling personal stories in general through different mediums

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