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Helping moms have a better birth, stop p*eing their panties, have painfree s*x and heal postpartum Maybe you are having some back, hip or pelvic pains.

This is a page to help educate and empower you regarding women's health issues. As a physical therapist, my role is provide skilled therapy to restore function, realign posture, relieve pain and retrain your mind to body connection for proper core and pelvic floor strength. As women, we don't always take care of our health first, especially after having children. However, through pregnancy, labor and delivery our bodies are transformed and need some guidance to "bounce back." That is what I am here for; to guide you and your body in a healthier direction. Do you find that you are having a difficult time controlling your bladder? Did you have a C-Section and notice the scar is uncomfortable at times? Well, did you know that in France, it is common protocol for every woman to receive physical therapy following the birth of their children to re-educate their pelvic floor, realign their posture and restore function. The US is a little behind, but there is help available.

28/01/2025

🥁 Pregnant mamas, comment ‘MOVE6’ for a smoother birth in just 6 minutes a day!

A mobile pelvis helps with baby positioning

Optimal baby positioning makes birth smoother and reduces risk of perineal tears

A by product of gentle, intentional movements in pregnancy is pain relief!

🫶🏽

29/04/2024

Experiencing discomfort around your tailbone area after giving birth?

You’re not alone. Coccyx pain, also known as coccydynia, can be a common issue postpartum. But fret not, understanding what’s going on down there and how to find relief makes a world of difference.

First off, let’s talk anatomy. Your pelvis is an amazing structure made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, and nerves. At the bottom of your spine is the coccyx, also known as the tailbone. It’s small but mighty, providing support and stability to your pelvic floor muscles.

During pregnancy and childbirth, your pelvis goes through a lot of changes. The pressure from carrying your baby and the strain of labor and delivery can put stress on your coccyx and surrounding tissues. This can lead to irritation, discomfort, and even pain.

Symptoms may show up when...

1. Sitting
2. During or after p**p
3. During or after in*******se
4. Doing random things.

Now, onto the good stuff – relief!

Tips to help ease coccyx pain:

👉🏼 Sit Smart: Use a wedge cushion or donut-shaped pillow to take pressure off your tailbone when sitting. Avoid super hard (or super soft) surfaces for prolonged periods. Be "Goldilocks" and find what's just right.

👉🏼 Gentle Movements: Incorporate gentle stretches and movements into your daily routine to improve flexibility and reduce tension in your hips, spine, and pelvic area. Motion is lotion, joints and nerves thrive with mobility.

👉🏼 Pelvic Floor Therapy: Seeking help from a pelvic floor physical therapist can assess what the situation and provide targeted hands on treatment, exercises and techniques to alleviate coccyx pain.

26/01/2024

Choose from the following options…

1. You aren’t doing them correctly. Majority of people that try to contract their pelvic floor and haven’t ever gotten feedback or direction on how to do it, just miss a few simple details to get the full effect.

2. You aren’t doing them with a functional intention. Kegels while sitting by the fireplace reading a book, kegels at stop lights, kegels on the toilet are all places where kegels don’t matter. I prefer to practice them with function, movements, exercise or breath at times when it’s beneficial to be doing it.

3. Your muscles first need to release before they contract. I can’t make a tighter fist if I’m already clenching my hand closed. First I have to open my hand so I have the range of motion available to close my hand. Same with your pelvic floor.

4. You’re doing it all correctly, with proper intention, but something else is going on that needs to be addressed. Prolapse, nerve or muscle injury, habit, posture, infection are a few other things that influence the bladder or pelvic floor function.

I’m not anti kegels, I teach and use them, but I also don’t subscribe to kegels as the answer for all leaking urine situations.

You’re a body with more parts than just a pelvic floor, zoom out and let’s see what else can be incorporated for leak less/free days.

25/01/2024

Despite practicing various styles of yoga for over 15 years prior to pregnancy, AND continuing it all through my pregnancy, I began with the most basic foundational things postpartum.

I was not doing downdog, plank, or warriors
I was not connecting a pose to another pose (aka vinyasa)
I did not have the endurance, strength or coordination to step into a full yoga class after I was cleared to do anything 6 weeks postpartum.

I began with awareness of breath and connection to my body.

I started from the ground up.

I moved from inside out.

I released the expectation that I was supposed to be anywhere other than where I was in that moment.

My heart yearns for all moms after baby to get deeply that where they are in that moment is the perfect place to start and bouncing forward NOT back is how you build momentum.

Staring in the rear view mirror is a sure way to crash. I see you moving forward with each step you take, it’s not a race, there’s no finish line, its a journey. I’m still on the journey.

Here’s what I believe…

You are resilient and your body is healing even as you read these words.

You are strong, let’s look at all the things your body is doing super well vs where it didn’t hit an unrealistic expectation.

16/01/2024

In theory it sounded useful, but in reality, not so much

Yes, when the body relaxes, muscles relax and things can feel more comfortable.
.. But, relaxation is multilevel.

At one level we can consciously relax and release tension in parts of the body, but there’s a deeper level that happens unconsciously.

Deep relaxation at the unconscious level doesn’t happen with simple words like “just do the thing.”

Why?

Because the conscious and unconscious mind speak different languages therefore, respond differently. The language of logic and reason gets processed by the conscious mind, but the unconscious isn’t logical, it’s primitive. It has interest in primarily survival.

When it understands you are safe, release of tension is effortless. The body tenses when one’s inner mind perceives a threat, and the tension is actually strength for survival.

I had this boyfriend that would say, “just relax” and no matter how hard I tried, my body did the opposite. I didn’t understand why since I was trying very hard to relax. But now I get that the logic of “just relax” didn’t speak to my unconscious mind and so at that deeper level, relaxation couldn’t happen.

Of course I began to talk about pain with s*x, and now I’m speaking about the mind. But you get that both influence each other. Shifting mind can shift body and shifting body can shift mind.

22/12/2023

Physical or emotional trauma?

I don’t define birth trauma as just physical injury (although it may accompany it), it doesn’t have to. I think of it as emotional turmoil associated with thoughts, memories or retelling of the birth experience.

I had an episiotomy and tore during my first birth, most people would say, wow sounds traumatic…

But I’m not experiencing disturbing emotions related to my birth.

I healed physically AND emotionally

I can talk about my birth, the tear, the recovery without uncomfortable sensations in my body and no upsetting thoughts or emotions.

I don’t think things should have been any other way.

I don’t think the doctor should have done anything different.

I don’t regret how my birth experience panned out.

Although I consider those thoughts completely normal because of how our minds work… they don’t feel good when thinking them.

I’ve completely processed my birth experience.

I am at peace with it.

And I learned from it.

My birth was motivation to support moms through pregnancy and postpartum. It lead me to an obsession with pelvic health.

Over the years, working with moms, it became clear the emotional component strongly influences the physical body.

That’s why this year I became obsessed with Rapid Resolution Therapy (RRT), a process to clear emotional turmoil quickly and painlessly…

And my patients LOVE it, LAUGH through it and smile at the end, because clearing birth trauma, mom guilt, anxiety and anger can actually be fun.

I call this bouncing forward postpartum body and mind!

Comment BOUNCE FORWARD and together let’s shift the narrative for postpartum healing

P.S. DM if interested in bouncing forward with me with RRT

19/12/2023

Are generally distorted

I know this because I hear things like…

“I was cleared for everything at 6 weeks, but when I workout I leak p*e or have pain in my hips”

“It’s been 2 months since birth and s*x still hurt”

“My cesarean scar feels tight and painful when I do ab workouts and I’m 3 months postpartum”

“Lifting 5lbs feels hard, I was lifting 15lbs during pregnancy!”

“When I wipe, I feel/see a bulge… what is it and why?”

“I don’t feel connected to my body since birth.”

For many years we’ve been led to believe that 6 weeks after birth you naturally heal and get back to life as usual.

If by 6 weeks the expectation of naturally healed isn’t meant, that’s a perfect recipe for disappointment and emotional turmoil.

Solution: accurate postpartum expectations

Ever go to a movie that’s been hyped up for 3 months, the trailer is soooo good, you can’t wait to watch it, and it’s one of the movies you don’t wanna wait until it comes out on Netflix, so you race to the theater to see it…

and all the good parts where in the trailer, the story line was subpar, the character development wasn’t there, and the ending left you confused.

That’s a bummer.

When we assume a movie may suck, then it turns out to be kinda comical and had you laughing at least 10x more than you ever thought the movie would, that’s a good feeling!

More accurate expectation: Postpartum healing isn’t complete at 6 weeks. Bodies after baby feel different, maybe even disconnected (although you’re physically connected), prolapse is common, leaking urine or poo or gas is possible, returning to exercise doesn’t start where you left off pre pregnancy or even by the end of pregnancy, but in a brand new space!

Recognize this so you can bounce FORWARD and stop attempting to bounce back.

14/12/2023

Because it does more than just look pretty

The pelvic floor (PF for shorty) is a group of muscles at the base of your pelvic bones.

You may already know that female anatomy has 3 holes within the PF, one for the urethra, one for the va**na and one for the a**s.

Therefore the purpose of the PF is related to the organs that those holes lead to…

From front to back to general, the PF:

Allows urine out for bladder to empty and keeps the urine from leaking at other times.

Is a pleasure zone and a portal for reproduction/birth.

Keeps poo in so you can dance, sing and jump on a trampoline without a mess and lets it out when it’s appropriate to empty

Pumps blood and lymph back to the center of the body like the calf muscles.

Supports the organs in the pelvis: bladder, uterus and re**um

Is part of your core or mid section strength.

Yahoo for the pelvic floor doing so many things most days without our effort or awareness of it.

When we become aware of it, it’s typically when things aren’t functioning optimally and the perfect time to see a pelvic floor PT to get it working for you again!

11/12/2023

It’s a responsive tensing of the muscles of the pelvic floor with attempted pe*******on.

I don’t believe to be a conscious type of tightening of the muscles, but an unconscious, automatic response.

If it was a conscious response, one can more easily consciously release the muscle tension.

I can consciously make a fist, or unclench my hand.

I can consciously open my mouth, or close my mouth.

But when my eye starts to twitch, I can’t consciously make it stop (well, I’ve yet to figure that out, DM if you know, please 😊)

The tightening of the pelvic floor muscles in response to pe*******on is different from a twitch in that it’s a response that comes and goes with an action or anticipation of the action (pe*******on).

Most people think of it as a diagnosis, which is fine if they recognize it’s as much as a diagnosis as a stuffy nose. It’s a temporary thing that can be cleared up with the proper treatment. And various things can cause it.

Since the diagnosis is not a characteristic like my height or eye color, I like to think of is as something someone has experienced.

Most people don’t say I am vaginismus, like I am 5 foot 8, but they may say I have vaginismus like I say I have blue eyes.

I think it’s valuable to get the distinction between what we experience and attributes about us!

Here’s the good news… when viewed through the lens of it as a troubling experience vs a hard core diagnosis, it’s already more easily changeable!

13/11/2023

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt 👚

I had an episiotomy and tore with my first birth…

But I didn’t tear at all with my 2nd and recovery was a breeze, 😅

A few things to consider if you’ve been there, done that too

Most moms that tore for their first birth, do not tear for the following births. It’s super possible that this birth will flow more smoothly… I’ll hold that intention for you 🙏

Perineal massage is a useful practice that not only trains the mind and body to release to the sensation of stretch, but also can improve mobility of scar tissue in the area. I have a program that teaches how to do this... You can DM if interested.

The more mobile the hip and pelvic joints, the easier for baby to move through the pelvic space. Move your hips mama!

You don’t have to be strong for birth (that’s a massive misconception). Balance strength training with release/lengthening exercises. Ahem, stretching, yoga, breath practices because these will help the body open and create space for baby.

Understand how to push with a gentle strength and inner wisdom during. And let the uterus and gravity do their part.

Clear the mind of preoccupations such as worry, fear or anger. I don’t expect you do this yourself, this is where my training in Rapid Resolution Therapy has been most valuable! Our physical body responds with tension to these emotions and is counterproductive through birth. But when mind releases them, the physical body too releases.

Stack these strategies together to lower the risk of perineal tears.

What other things are you doing to prep for birth?

09/11/2023

This is face slap worthy.

When someone has been experiencing painful s*x, the solution isn’t to drink alcohol as a means to relax.

I think most people are aware that alcohol affects the mind and can cause the body to relax, but when a human is having pain with s*x, let’s not dismiss and run from the cause of the situation, but instead provide valuable resources and solutions to ease the mind (alcohol free) and release tension in the body.

Just my humble opinion.

07/11/2023

A sensation of heaviness or fullness that could be felt in the lower abdomen, va**na or a**s regions.

The cause of the sensation can be from
👉🏼 Prolapse
👉🏼 Muscular tension
👉🏼 Bladder overactivity
👉🏼 Weight gain
👉🏼 Space occupying things such as cysts, endometriosis, or even stool
👉🏼 Pelvic positioning (especially postpartum)
👉🏼 Or something else

Sensations may be exacerbated by
😳 Posture
🔥 Irritating or inflammatory foods
😩 Emotional distress
🏋️‍♀️Aggressive exercise

Sensations can be relieved with
✅ Muscular stretches and release
✅ Appropriate strengthening
✅ Postural adjustments
✅ Bladder and bowel release training
✅ Pelvic mobilization (especially postpartum)
✅ Position changes
✅ Clearing emotional distress

Most people assume pelvic pressure is always prolapse, but it’s not. Having a pelvic PT assessment will get you more clear on what the pressure is from but more valuable how to relieve it!

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