WISE WOMEN DIARIES Erotic Breastfeeding and Sacred Sexuality with Emily Maden
Dec 6, 2024
Emily Maden, pelvic integration practitioner and founder of Maiden Medicine, shares her journey from elite athlete to pelvic-care teacher and mother. She talks about erotic breastfeeding and how pleasurable nursing surfaced after her homebirth. Conversations cover conscious touch, healing sexual dynamics with tantra, oxytocin-rich lovemaking, and reclaiming pelvic sovereignty and sacred sexuality.
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From Ranch Kid To Elite Athlete And Collapse
- Emily Maden recounts rising from a ranch kid to elite athlete, using athletic achievement to seek validation and numbness through partying and substances.
- She links that trajectory to hormonal birth control, SSRIs, CrossFit fame, and an identity built around external accomplishment that later collapsed after a drug-test scandal.
Abortion As A Catalyst For Radical Responsibility
- Emily describes becoming pregnant at 27, choosing abortion after a trauma-bonded relationship, and experiencing dissociation during the procedure and recovery.
- She frames the abortion as a catalyst that forced radical responsibility for her pelvic, sexual, and emotional health rather than continued dissociation.
Pelvic Touch Reawakens Womb Authority
- Tender pelvic and vulvar touch awakened Emily's womb-space and sense of self, shifting her from numbness to reverence for her body.
- She now serves pelvic integration to help women reclaim erotic, reproductive, and spiritual authority through reverent touch.