{"id":342,"date":"2004-04-06T12:44:14","date_gmt":"2004-04-06T20:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/06\/overcoming-vaginismus\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T16:18:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T00:18:37","slug":"overcoming-vaginismus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/2004\/04\/06\/overcoming-vaginismus\/","title":{"rendered":"Overcoming Vaginismus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kat has <a href=\"http:\/\/katspaws.blogs.com\/kats_paws\/2004\/04\/vagina_homework.html\">written another post<\/a> about the healing process she&#8217;s experiencing for her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nlm.nih.gov\/medlineplus\/ency\/article\/001487.htm\">vaginismus<\/a>.  The fact that this is a rare dysfunction (less than 2% of the female population) is what makes Kat&#8217;s blog posts so important.  More information is needed, and blogging is a remarkable way to disseminate it.  I also found the quote at the beginning of this entry compelling:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nSt. Francis called the body &#8220;Brother Donkey&#8221; for the way it patiently carries the overload of our psychic baggage, our unprocessed pain, and our unfelt emotions. Incorruptibly truthful and innocent, the body is a great spiritual teacher and a powerful catalyst for transformation. As an agent of the soul it may insist that we heal our wounded psyche, even when the conscious mind resists with all its might.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;From Aphrodite&#8217;s Daughters\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kat has written another post about the healing process she&#8217;s experiencing for her vaginismus. The fact that this is a rare dysfunction (less than 2% of the female population) is what makes Kat&#8217;s blog posts so important. More information is needed, and blogging is a remarkable way to disseminate it. I also found the quote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science","category-social-science"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13006,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/13006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kathrynpetroharper.com\/mindfullife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}