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03/12/2026

Sensory Changes After a Hysterectomy

Most people expect healing time, but few are informed by their surgeon: your senses in the pelvis (and beyond) can change after a hysterectomy. And it’s not just touch or pain, it’s how all your sensory systems communicate with your brain.

What’s really happening:

- Touch & pressure: Organs, muscles, and connective tissue shift, which can make touch feel different, sometimes more sensitive, sometimes muted.

- Proprioception (body awareness): You might notice your pelvis feels “different” inside, harder to sense position, tension, or movement.

- Interoception (internal body signals): Hunger, fullness, bladder, and s*xual sensation may feel altered, which can feel disorienting.

- Balance & movement (vestibular sense): Changes in posture, pelvic alignment, or core coordination after surgery can subtly affect your sense of balance.

- Sight, sound, and smell: Emotional memory and environmental cues can amplify anxiety or comfort during intimacy or rehab.

- Temperature & pain: Scar tissue, swelling, or nerve shifts can make certain sensations sharper or duller.

- Taste & reward processing: Pleasure and arousal are linked to dopamine and how your brain interprets sensory input, surgery can shift the “reward map.”

All of this affects not just physical sensation, but emotional experience and social connection: feeling overstimulated, disconnected from your body, or uncertain in intimacy is common. Your brain may respond by tightening, guarding, or even avoiding certain inputs, protective patterns that were once helpful.

Gentle sensory retraining helps your body learn regulation again:
- Breath awareness and mindful pelvic floor exercises
- Slow, intentional touch exploration (even vibration 😘)
- Movement and mobility to reintroduce proprioceptive feedback
- Safe, playful experimentation with pleasure and comfort

After hysterectomy, your body and mind are learning to respond to the world in a new way. Sensation can feel overwhelming at first, but with curiosity, pacing, and support, you can reconnect with pleasure, comfort, and your own internal map.

03/12/2026

WHAT I’M READING:

One is for a book club I’m in (Eve), one is my choice (What it Takes to Heal) and I’m absolutely stoked about both.

Prentiss Hemphill was also very recently on the latest . They spoke so beautifully on the topic of connection - to others, self, ancestors. The Movd podcast is just what we need to move more intentionally toward connection, and to have important conversations about what that means and how that shows up.

Find me in a comfy corner, not even getting any chores done.

03/11/2026

When Intimacy Feels Different After a Hysterectomy

Intimacy after hysterectomy often shifts in ways most people aren’t prepared for, and it’s not just about healing time. Your body, mind, and sensory experience are all learning a new map.

What can be happening:

- Body mechanics & sensation: Surgery changes how ligaments, pelvic floor muscles, and connective tissue coordinate. That means movements that once felt natural may now feel unfamiliar or require new ways of moving.

- Protective patterns: Years of pelvic pain or difficult intimacy can teach your body to guard, brace, or anticipate discomfort. Even after surgery, your muscles may tighten automatically, making relaxation or pleasure harder to access.

- Safety & trust: The pelvic area is central to feeling safe in your body. After surgery, your body may need time to feel secure with touch, pressure, or arousal, especially if surgery changed how your body senses pressure or internal movement.

- Mind and emotions: Relief, grief, changes in s*xual identity, or shifts in reproductive plans can influence desire, confidence, and openness during intimacy. Thoughts and emotions are as powerful as muscles in shaping s*xual experience.

- Body image & self-perception: Changes to your anatomy can impact how you feel in your own skin. Reconnecting with your body may involve curiosity, acceptance, and play, discovering new ways of moving, touching, and enjoying yourself.

- Pleasure & play: Intimacy isn’t only about or**sm or pe*******on. It’s about exploring sensation, experimenting with movement, and finding pleasure in new places or ways. Surgery may shift how pleasure is felt, but it also opens opportunities to redefine what feels good.

- Redefining connection: Intimacy after hysterectomy is about building a new language of pleasure and comfort, combining touch, movement, awareness, and emotional safety. It’s learning what feels good for your post-surgery body, not what worked before.

Support from pelvic floor therapy can guide this process, helping your muscles, tissues, and perception relearn coordination, release tension, and explore sensation safely and creatively!

03/10/2026

Why Or**sm Can Feel Different After a Hysterectomy

Or**sm isn’t just “muscles clenching.” It’s a whole-person, mind-body experience, and a hysterectomy touches a big part of that system.

For some people, the uterus itself contributes to or**sm, contracting with the pelvic floor and sending sensations upward. But even if your or**sms didn’t involve it, surgery can still change the ride:

- Body mechanics shift: ligaments, connective tissue, and pelvic floor muscles adjust, which can subtly change how sensation travels.

- Muscle memory: years of pelvic pain or protective tension can stick around, making relaxation and arousal feel different.

- Pressure & blood flow: or**sm depends on coordinated pressure and circulation, removing a central organ can shift that balance.

- Mind & emotions: grief, relief, body image changes, shifts in s*xual identity, or surgery-related trauma all shape how we feel pleasure.

Or**sm after hysterectomy can often feel different, or even less or more accessible. It’s your body, mind, and emotions learning a new map together.

Pelvic floor therapy can help you retrain coordination, release tension, redefine pleasure, and explore sensation, often making or**sms feel new, unexpected, or even more enjoyable than before.

Pleasure is adaptable. Surgery may change the path, but it doesn’t close the door!

03/09/2026

Things surgeons don’t always tell you about after a hysterectomy:

Your bladder, bowels, and s*x life might feel… different.

- Peeing might feel harder to start or fully empty.
- Pooping might suddenly take more coordination.
- S*x or or**sm may feel different than before.

That can feel confusing if no one warned you.

Your pelvic floor is part of a whole system that coordinates bladder and bowel function, breathing, core stability, and s*xual response.

After surgery, things can shift:
- connective tissue support
- muscle tension and coordination
- nervous system responses
- how you move through your routine and roles

And many people come to surgery after years of pelvic pain from things like endometriosis, fibroids, or adenomyosis.

When pain lasts a long time, the body adapts with protective patterns like:
- abdominal clenching
- pelvic floor gripping
- straining with bowel movements
- masking or disconnecting from pelvic sensations

Even if surgery helps the pain, those patterns don’t automatically disappear. Your body may need time, and sometimes support, to relearn how to relax, coordinate pressure, and reconnect with sensation.

That’s where pelvic floor therapy can help. If things feel different after a hysterectomy, it doesn’t mean your body is broken. Sometimes your system is just learning a new map.

03/07/2026

There is a lot said about how the mental wellbeing of the mom is significantly impacting to that of her children.

This is evidence-based. It is an enormous load for moms/primary caregivers to carry. And it is also why we must resource mothers better, from day one. All of these things can be true at once.

I had my son (my second child) March 20, 2020. I remember waving to grandparents from the kitchen window. Crying for hours on my bathroom floor. Feeling so completely alone, swallowed whole by fear and uncertainty. And anger.

This same son is the most expressive child I know, loudly vocal, voluminous in his joy and also his anguish. I say he gets it from me, and it’s likely a lot of that early painful conditioning. We are working through his being both able to be so loud, and also owning ways to be heard without hurting. I am working through my guilt and regret and burnout.

In my clinic, I find the way my clients lean in, reach out, unload, expose, cry, and release, to often be the biggest piece of their healing. There is so much scar tissue many of them carry, both in their bodies, and emotionally. And so few spaces to be able to process and let go of it in the context of physical healing, in the context of who they are, in the space of the room, their bodies, their day, their hopes.

My practice is small, not well-known, I am NOT the strongest in business acumen and scaling and marketing, and much of last year I wondered if I could possibly keep Medusa open. It was a very disheartening daily consideration. I didn’t know if slowing myself down this year to better hold space for my children and myself would allow me to continue as a business owner. I am able to pay the bills, not profit.

But when I am told by a client that what has meant the most to them in many of their healthcare experiences, is the chance to be given space and holding, when I am approached in public or told through the grapevine that there’s something safe and welcoming in my energy and messaging, when the exhaustion of parenting also shows me a future adult I have helped shape, I feel more rich than I could have ever imagined.

03/05/2026

Yea, this is how he learns: what he likes and doesn’t. How safety in opinions are formed. How choices are made. And how differences in preferences are ok.

But have you ever SEEN a five year old boy’s hands after day at school???

03/03/2026

Occupational therapists are just built different 💛

We’re kind of environmental specialists. Yes, we understand diagnoses, precautions, and equipment… but we also zoom out and ask: What is this person’s real, everyday life?

We are experts in home modifications because we don’t just look at the house, we look at the person in the context of that space. Emotional shifts. Cognition. Developmental stage. Illness. Injury. Hormones. Nervous system regulation. Vision. Sensory processing. Functional mobility. Energy conservation.

We stay deeply person-centered, grounded in roles, routines, and meaningful occupations.

It’s not just:
“Do you have stairs?”
“How many bathrooms?”
“Can your walker fit?”

It’s:
- How does cooking change after a medical event?
- What does healing look like in the space you want to age in?
- How does clutter impact cognition and nervous system load?
- What happens to mobility when you’re carrying a baby + supplies all day?
- How do pumping, nursing, feeding, and postpartum recovery reshape how you move through your home?

After a traumatic event.After a medical event. In early motherhood.In seasons of healing.

We look at the space where life is actually happening, the place most impacted by changes in function, identity, and capacity.

Occupational therapy lives at the intersection of body, environment, and meaning.

Because it’s never just about the task. It’s about the life happening around it.

02/25/2026

I’m reading Want (essays collected by Gillian Anderson).

On the back it asks:
What do you want when no one is watching?
What do you want when the lights are off?
What do you want when you are anonymous?

And I can’t stop thinking about how powerful those questions are.

In this book, women answered anonymously. Rawly. Honestly. Without needing to be good, appropriate, desirable, selfless, loyal, healed, grateful, thin, quiet, or polite. But in my work as a pelvic floor OT, my clients aren’t anonymous.

They are mothers.
They are women re-meeting their bodies after birth.
They are partners.
They are exhausted.
They are curious.
They are grieving.
They are wanting.
They are not sure what they desire.
They are unsure if they’re “allowed” to want.

What we do together is build a bridge. A bridge between what they might whisper if no one could hear…
and what they can begin to say out loud in a room that feels steady, regulated, and free of judgment. A room where nothing is TMI.

My work lives at the intersection of pelvic health, sensory health, and pleasure. Not just s*xual pleasure (though yes, that too) but pleasure that is embodied. Pleasure that is self-defined. Pleasure that belongs to them.

Because when we talk about s*x, we are always talking about more: Womanhood. Motherhood. Consent and respect. Fairness and power. Love and heat. Pleasure and pain. Healing.

So many women carry their deepest fears and fantasies silently in their tissues, in their breath, in their pelvic floor, in their nervous system.

And one of the most powerful clinical tools we have? Talking. Narrative medicine matters. Story matters. Being witnessed without being fixed matters.

Often, the first step in healing isn’t an exercise.
It isn’t a protocol. It isn’t a strengthening plan.

It’s a sentence spoken out loud for the first time: “What I actually want is…” That’s where we begin.

And from there, we build something juicy. Something regulated. Something consensual. Something alive.

Pleasure that brings joy. Pleasure that feels safe.
Pleasure that is yours.

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