Medusa Pelvic

04/18/2026

Strike a pose. It will shine later.

04/16/2026

04/15/2026

Somewhere along the way, pelvic health got reduced to: “just squeeze it.” If you’re leaking. After birth. For better s3x.

I’m heavily rolling my eyes over here, because it’s so…archaic.

There are a lot of us out here proper trying to undo that s**t. But it’s still what I hear clients and friends tell me their docs are advising them to do.

But the whole problem is, it’s a simplified isolated exercise theta often done prescribed irrespective of all other body and life contexts, is like handing someone a horse saddle and saying, Cool, you’re ready to ride.

Ride what, exactly? And how? And with what training? And when? And does it like apples?

What they are suggesting is this: kegels in the carpool line, at stoplights, folding laundry, during peeing or s*x. You’ve got the saddle, maybe you’re even polishing it, and you might even have really excellent saddle control at this point. But no one checked if there’s a horse. And worse, no one asked if the horse is tired, overworked, undertrained, in pain, to tense, or straight up refusing to cooperate. No one noticed the reins are tangled (that’s an analogy for shallow breathing), the terrain is chaotic (that’s one for your daily life), and the rider hasn’t been shown how all of this is supposed to move together (that’s...you.)

So now we’ve got a very dedicated rider…sitting on a saddle…that’s on the ground. This is what happens when we isolate the pelvic floor from the rest of the system. And the rest of your being and your day. Kegels are wildly overprescribed and usually under-contextualized. The pelvic floor responds to pressure, to breath, to how the ribs move, how the core manages load, how a you lift a car seat, how you hold tension when overwhelmed, how you move and live and breathe and think in and outside your body all day long.

Sometimes the answer is strengthening, and sometimes it’s letting go. And lots of times it’s coordination, timing, habits, teaching the system how to actually respond under that real-life wildly crazy demand.

So forget the saddle. Find someone to first help you connect the dots, and then lead you to water.

04/15/2026

But he was so proud to help! 🥹

And really, it’s not like even when the laundry is folded perfectly by me, that it ends up in tidy rows in their dresser because I ask them to put their own clothes away and they just…stuff it whatever it fits.

So somewhere along the way the system breaks down, but it also is rebuilt better, too.

04/14/2026

I’m an occupational therapist working in pelvic and maternal health, supporting mamas through postpartum recovery, pelvic floor changes, and s*xual health, including pleasure, desire, and embodiment.

And one thing I decided quickly: nothing is TMI.

Not the leaking, the swelling, the changes in sensation, desire, or body. Not the parts of s*x, pregnancy, and postpartum that often feel too intimate to name out loud anywhere else. Not the reality of a body, a brain, a life that is constantly changing shape, and function, and identity. Here we welcome what is lived everywhere else, but isn’t said anywhere else.

Nothing here is too much.

Because what we call TMI is often just life in a body, life that is unfiltered, unedited, and unfolding in real time. It only becomes too much when we lose the language to hold space for it.

Here, we share the reminder that life doesn’t just happen in big milestones but in routines, in the rooms we pass through every day, in the small repeated gestures that become a life. This is what I mean by story.

Motherhood is not just an event, it is that narrative and changing rhythm. It is truly a seismic shifting sense of self inside the most familiar spaces. And still, we’re often asked to reduce it, make it neat enough to speak about comfortably. But our meaning is not something separate from our life, but is rather in the way life is lived: through bodies, through time, through ordinary moments that quietly reshape everything.

Through an OT lens, I stay with the lived reality of that unfolding and how the body carries that change, how identity shifts inside routine, how care, responsibility, desire, fatigue, and becoming all exist in the same day.

So everything is TLC here, not because everything is soft, but because everything deserves to be met with attention, honesty, and care that doesn’t turn away even when things that need to be said are “weird” or “gross”!

If you’re here, you don’t have to edit your experience: not your body, your life, not your story.

04/10/2026

It’s not all super serious stuff over here. Especially when 75% of my life is p**p related.

(But if 75% of your life is related to 💩 or you are concerned about how much your life centers around how you p**p, give me a call! Because there’s likely a very accessible fix.)

505-333-9337.

04/10/2026

Tell me you have pelvic floor issues without telling me...when all signs point to good health and it’s not just about the obvious.

I ran two half marathons within 18 months of the birth of my first kid. I had played soccer all my life, taught spin and barre for 6 years and up through 7 months of pregnancy. I was as fit as I had ever been when I went into 36 hours of labor and spent almost 3 hours pushing. At six weeks postpartum, I was cleared to “resume all previous activity.” So I did. And then some!

I have a photo of that first run at six-ish weeks. What I remember most of that moment was the weird way my insides felt “all over the place.”

NO SH*T.

At 6 weeks postpartum, your pelvic floor muscles are at ~40% of normal strength and function. That’s assuming your pelvic floor was operating at optimal levels prior to birth and pregnancy. 40% of optimal strength and function is NOT a “resume all previous activity” status, even having been active and strong prior. That’s a rest, reset, rebuild status. And yet, I felt good! I mean, my entire left side from jaw to hip would light up like a hornet’s nest every long run, I was barely producing milk and constantly pumping, nursing and undernourishing, barely sleeping, on my feet all day for work. But I was logging miles, lifting weights, putting in the work and I otherwise felt “normal.”

Until I didn’t.

Do all women who’ve had pregnancies and babies and return quickly to exercising as before, have issues? No.

But very likely, statistically, most of them have one thing or another going on. And most of them don’t know who to talk to or get answers from. Many of them are really good at dealing with pain and weird stuff (leaking, heaviness, tension), and so they figure this is one more thing to just handle.

This is often especially true for people who are high-performing in their sport. We are still fighting the uphill battle of “this is normal after having babies.” It’s not.

So tell me you have pelvic floor issues without telling me, even as you meet PRs and lifting goals. You are amazing. You also can ask for help.

04/09/2026

Your life runs on zones, and all those zones are different for each person. So no, we do NOT all have the same 24 hours in a day. Some days you’re operating almost entirely in your Personal Zone (basic survival). That distinction matters.

HOW TO SPOT YOUR ZONES

Pause and ask:
“What can I do without thinking or pushing right now?” That’s your Personal Zone.

“What can I do if it’s right in front of me?” That’s your Reach Zone.

“What feels far away, heavy, or requires coordinating multiple things?” That’s your Extended Zone.

It’s ok to name it without judgment. Seriously, Instagram only knows algorithms, not zones.

HOW TO WORK WITH YOUR ENERGY (NOT AGAINST IT)

If you’re stuck in Personal Zone, you need to consider briefly kind of shrinking everything. In other words: take a moment to drink water, shift your body or posture, breathe slower than you want to. In this zone you’re stabilizing, not producing.

If you’re in Reach Zone, you need to bring life to you. This is where prepped snacks, diaper caddies, laptop on the counter, weights next to the couch help to reduce steps, not add more. If that even seems out of reach, go back to your personal zone. F*ck it, some days are hard.

If you want Extended Zone things, you want to bridge, not jump. The first two zones have to feel doable and not overwhelming first. Your wins are found in your transitions, not intensity.

HOW THIS APPLIES TO FITNESS - Don’t start in the Extended Zone.

Start here: Personal Zone can you exhale fully, unclench your jaw, feel your feet?

Reach Zone: Can you keep breathing while holding your kid, carry groceries without pain, pause before transitioning from work to parenting at the end of the day so you don’t snap?

Extended Zone: All the above landing ok? Now your “workout” also has somewhere safe to land. Now it can integrate instead of be one more thing to do. This is how you avoid burnout and injury.

You are a whole-ass human. You have to look at your whole-ass life. If you have higher demands in your day(s) than others, that has to be part of your analysis before anyone can shame you with the 24 hours crap. Everyone lives a different daily life (even in the same household!).

04/07/2026

Unpopular truth: abs on the outside can still mean chaos on the inside.

Or, what I call “hottie does not equal good on the potty.”

We’ve normalized a version of health that prioritizes looking a certain way over actually functioning well.
Lean, defined, “disciplined”, high protein, low fiber, supplements doing the heavy lifting while the functional basics get skipped.

The gut and pelvic floor are not separate conversations. When digestion is off, when there’s straining, urgency, bloating, or inconsistency, that load has to go somewhere.

What happens is muscles compensate, coordination changes, and patterns of “going” (or not!) build. And over time, symptoms start showing up in ways people don’t expect or don’t connect back to their fitness habits - because rarely do we analyze fitness as a cause of poor health.

And then there’s also a psychosocial piece that doesn’t get talked about enough. When the focus is always on control, aesthetics, and hitting targets, it becomes easy to ignore internal cues (your jnteroceptive sense!). Hunger or fullness, the urge to go, even discomfort all get overridden in the name of staying on plan. We learn to mask.

And when your body stops feeling predictable or easy to trust, that creates its own kind of stress. People start bracing, pushing, second-guessing, or avoiding. That tension doesn’t just live in your head, it shows up physically in the way the gut and pelvic floor function.

Hot abs don’t tell you if your system is working well, they just tell you what it looks like from the outside.
A body can look “optimized” and still be under strain.

👉 Optimize function first. A little added plus there is that once you do, you might find that your exercise lands a bit better in your body.

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