Episode 41

What Yoni Steaming Actually Does to Your Body & Cycles | Kit Maloney

Nobody warned Kit Maloney about what was going to happen the first time she sat down to steam.

She was skeptical.

Way into her healing journey.

Thought she had it figured out.

Then one practice ended her painful periods for good.

Your womb has been trying to tell you something.

This episode is the translation.

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🖼️The art of this episode is cycle breaking.

The Cycle Breaker (#61, Follicular Phase) — the first piece of this 2026 Fire Horse year — was born from cyanotype and Vantablack, sun chemistry pressed against a paint that swallows light whole. Between them: gold leaf. Marking the threshold. Marking what becomes possible when the old cycle finally ends.

Kit talks about steaming as a return to inner authority — a gentle, radical act of listening to what your body already knows. The Cycle Breaker asks the same question from a different direction: what patterns are you still tolerating? What are you ready to stop inheriting?

The womb holds it all. This piece does too.

👉Collect + learn more here.

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Links

Website: kitaralove.com

Instagram: @bykitara

Podcast: Womb Stories Project

Kit on Substack

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âś…CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction

05:48 From Steam Skeptic to Believer

09:04 Pain Free Cycles with Steaming

16:08 Ancestral Healing and Fibroids

23:47 Pregnancy Steaming Rules

26:58 Postpartum Integration Ritual

28:59 Ancient Roots of Steaming

32:23 The Cycle Breaker Art Piece

34:41 Orgasmic Healing Energy

37:20 Steaming as Gentle Sensuality

39:49 Heal Trauma with Steam

44:31 Herb Blends by Cycle Phase

49:27 Trust Your Inner Authority

51:06 Biohacking with Art - Yoni Steaming

56:10 Where to Find Kitara Steam Kits

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About the Podcast

Your pain is not a design flaw.

Your body is not broken. And you were never meant to white-knuckle your way through a life that doesn't fit.

I'm Meredith Ochoa — ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST. After 17 years of endometriosis, surgical failures, and being told my pain was psychological, I stopped outsourcing my healing and went in. I healed myself. I turned the journey into art. And I built this show to introduce you to every expert, practice, and buried truth that helped me get there.

Face Your Shit, Heal Yourself is a movement + podcast.

We cover chronic pain, hormonal health, endometriosis, autoimmune disease, trauma, cycle syncing, functional medicine, Reiki, Ayurveda, sacred sexuality, Taoist healing, psilocybin, and everything else the mainstream medical system doesn't want on your radar.

The only way out is through. This is how.

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Meredith Ochoa

Meredith Ochoa is ANOTHER F#%ING ARTIST—a former ballerina turned mixed media artist, author, photographer, and generational cycle-breaker who turned 17 years of excruciating endometriosis into a revolutionary body of healing artwork.

Her journey started in the shadows—recovering from an eating disorder, building pinhole cameras by hand, and falling in love with the alchemy of the darkroom. When digital photography took over, she challenged the movement by turning a scanner into a large-format camera—flattening depth to make the subject the negative. This integration of old‑world photography principles with new‑world tech became her signature technique, and the way she started revealing the stories our bodies keep.

But it wasn’t until she experienced a series of near-death menstrual experiences that the real unraveling began. After years of being dismissed by doctors, pumped with medications, hormones, and told “it’s all in your head,” Meredith took her healing into her own hands—she studied the infradian rhythm, dismantled medical lies, and healed herself of a disease the system said was incurable.

That liberation sparked Every Phase—a 13‑year art project (2021‑2033) creating a piece for every hormonal phase—Follicular, Ovulatory, Luteal & Menstrual.
The series is a moving blueprint for anyone learning to alchemize biology into fuel and biohack with art, whether their battle is endo or a heartbreak no scan can see.

Her work wages a visual war on medical gaslighting, inviting viewers to face their own contradictions: shadow and light, pain and power. Each piece is a mirror—and a key—for anyone told “it’s all in your head.”

Why does she make art?
Because images can slip past the gatekeepers of logic and land directly in the bloodstream.
Because authenticity is the first medicine.
Because living a lie almost killed her—and creation keeps her honest.
Because pain is power waiting to be translated, if you’re willing to face your shit.