1. ​​​Find a Somatic Therapist in your area: click here

2. Natural and Safe Lubricants: www.goodcleanlove.com

3. Vulvar Skin Care: www.sweetspotlabs.com

4. Sites to Explore your Desires, Sexuality, Juiciness, and Sensuality - I am a big FAN OF PLEASURE  and you enjoying and owning your pleasure: Oh My God Yes - to experience more pleasure: click here​

5. Pleasure Toys for Women: click here 

6. Pleasure Project: lots of recourses: click here

7. Books to read on Peri & Menopause:

   • "The Menopause Brain" by Dr. Lisa Mosconi, PhD and

   • "The New Menopause" by Dr. Claire Haven, MD,​

   • "The Menopause Moment" by Dr. Kelly Casperson, MD

   • "Unbreakable" by Dr. Vonda Wright

8.  Deeping your own Sexuality and your Relationship with yourself. And topics like Self Pleasure, and Deepening the relationship with your Womb and yourself (go to www. thriftbooks.com and www.biblio.com for 2nd hand books and so support Gaia)​

   • Pussy - a Reclamation - Regina Thomashauer - (GET THIS BOOK Loves! Absolutely transformative! Serious Pussy Power!!

   • Women who Run with the Wolves - Clarissa Pinkola Estes, PhD - a MUST READ for every woman!! 

   • Yoni Shakti - Uma Dinsmore Tuli

   • Womb Awakening - Bertrand

   • When Sex Hurts - Goldstein, Krapf

   • ​Tao Arts for Women - Minke De Vos​

   • Slow Sex - Diane Richardson

   • Tantric Sex and Menopause - Diane Richardson

   • Perimenopause 'what the doctors didn't tell you' - John R. Lee

   • Tantra for Men - Diane and Michael Richardson

   • She Comes First - by Ian Rekner

   • Wild Feminine - by Tami Lynn Kent. My "go to bible" for deep womb/ovary wisdom and inspiration.

   • Womens' Bodies Women's Wisdom - Christine Northrup

   • The Wisdom of Menopause - Christine Northrup

   • In the Flo - Alisa Vitti

   • Woman Code - Alisa Vitti

   • Quidoushka - Amara Charles, this book is from the Native Nagal Traditions, and is about learning what type of vulva and penisses there are and what they like! Very interesting and definately a ancient way of exploring your sexuality.

9. Mental Wellness Montclair: great Center for Mental Health Care, at the same office where I offer Somatic Pelvic Care!

10. A great Menopause/Peri-Menopause symptom checker with suggestions from a solid UK website: click here

11. ISSVD - International Society for the Study of Vulvar Disease - Vulvodynia Education and Research: click here​ 

12. NVA - National Vulvodynia Association: click here

13. ISSWSH - International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health - www.isswsh.org

14. If you need a Pelvic Exam, or get a proper diagnoses, the organization International Society for the Study of Women's Sexual Health (ISSWSH), has a proper Provider Search list. ​

    • For a providers search, click here.

15. The North American Menopause Society (NAMS): For finding providers in your area and other recourses: click here

16. For Menopausal Support: www.menopause.org a lot of very good recourses. And of course me :)

17. There are 3 kinds of hormones (remember, not everyone needs them, but if you do find a good dr/obgyn to support you)

* Fully Synthetic (not plant/yam/soy based) and fully made in the Lab

* FDA approved Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy (BHRT): plant based, and altered in the lab to match your 'bio identical' hormonal structure, and properly tested and screened

* Compounded BHRT (same as above, but NOT FDA approved and not properly tested)

--> NOTE: "Compounded" BHRT in particular is often marketed as “more natural,” but this can be misleading:  Even if it’s yam-based, it must still be chemically altered in a lab to match human hormones—so it’s becomes synthetic, but the basis is plant derived. (And if a product only says "yam progesterone and not USP progesterone, it is not even progesterone!)

--> NOTE: Compounded BHRT is usually made into creams, which are not an accurate delivery method, and can lead to inadequate protection of the endometrium. The dose can vary day to day, meaning you never know exactly how much you’re getting.

So be sure to get and FDA approved BHRT (not compounded)

THE FOLLOWING FDA APPROVED BHRT that I could find are: 

• Estradiol (patch/pill/cream) (Estring, Femring, Vivelle, Alora, Dotti) 

• Estrone (Estrogen-E) 

• Progesterone (pill form):  (Prometrium (be careful if you have a peanut allergy here), Crinone, Endometrin) 

• Testosterone: (AndroGel, Testim, Axiron)