The Intimacy Ebook

Embodied Healing: How to Reconnect to Your Body & Pleasure After Sexual Trauma

You've done the therapy. You've read the books. You understand your trauma and can talk about it without falling apart. And still, your body braces. You check out during intimacy. Pleasure feels like something to get through rather than something you get to feel.

That isn't a failure. It's the embodiment gap: the space between what you understand and what your body actually feels. It doesn't close with more understanding. It closes through the body.

Embodied Healing is a practical guide for that part of your healing. Written by Ali Betts, a survivor, coach, and yoga and breathwork practitioner with over a decade of experience working with survivors of sexual trauma, it gives you gentle, body-based practices to use at your own pace, with no timelines and nothing to perform.

Inside, you'll find:

• A grounding practice to come back to whenever something feels like too much

• A mind-body yoga practice and simple breathwork techniques to calm your nervous system and help you stay in your body

• Guided meditations to help you reconnect with sensations that have felt overwhelming or numb

• Journal prompts to examine your beliefs about sex and pleasure

• The Presence Practice, a step-by-step way to come back when you check out during intimacy

• Scripts for talking to your partner, including how to ask for a pause

• A trigger worksheet that turns triggers into a map of what still needs healing

Bonus Guided Meditations: Letting Go meditation series, the Body-Love & Gratitude Meditation, and the Self-Love Meditation.

This guide is for the woman who has done significant healing work and is ready for the part that finally lets it land.

You are not broken. You are not behind. Your body just hasn't been part of the healing yet.