Birth Healing Summit Podcast: Recent Episodes
Lynn Schulte, PT
We are here for meaningful conversations that will transform how you work with pregnant and postpartum clients. Whether it is a new perspective, tool, or technique, you’ll be able to implement it into your practice today.
What if your client has done everything right – pelvic floor PT, stretching, exercise, therapy, nutrition – and they're still struggling more than a year postpartum?
In this episode, Lynn sits down with former client Samantha to unpack a complex postpartum recovery that many pelvic health therapists will recognize. After two very different births, Samantha was left with persistent pelvic floor tension, low back pain, bowel dysfunction, urinary symptoms, painful intercourse, and overwhelming emotional distress. Despite months of treatment elsewhere, her symptoms remained unchanged.
This conversation explores the clinical reasoning behind looking beyond isolated muscles to assess the pelvis as a whole – including birth patterns, pelvic bone positioning, compensatory movement strategies, nervous system regulation, and unresolved trauma. For those who have had postpartum clients that plateau despite doing "all the right things," this episode offers valuable clinical insights for how you assess and treat these challenging cases.
Clinical Takeaways
- The importance of learning the birth history – even when symptoms don't appear until months later.
- The long-term effects of prolonged labor versus precipitous birth on the postpartum body.
- How previous orthopedic injuries can influence pelvic alignment years later.
- Recognizing common postpartum pelvic bone patterns that often perpetuate pelvic floor tension.
- Why persistent urinary, bowel, and sexual dysfunction may have structural contributors beyond muscle tightness.
- The role of the central nervous system in clients who remain "stuck" despite appropriate treatment.
- How emotional beliefs and nervous system regulation can influence physical recovery.
- Why individualized assessment is essential when previous pelvic floor therapy hasn't produced results.
From Treatment to Recovery: A Clinician and Client Perspective
This episode isn't simply another postpartum success story. It's a detailed clinical discussion that walks through the therapist's reasoning from evaluation to treatment, while hearing directly from the client's perspective about how unresolved pelvic tension affected every aspect of her life – including motherhood, relationships, and mental health.
If you treat postpartum clients with persistent symptoms, this conversation will encourage you to think differently about assessment, treatment sequencing, and the interconnected nature of physical and emotional healing.
Don't Miss This Episode If You Treat Clients With:
- Persistent postpartum pelvic floor tension
- Urinary dysfunction
- Bowel dysfunction, fissures, or hemorrhoids
- Painful intercourse
- Chronic low back pain after childbirth
- Clients who plateau despite previous pelvic floor physical therapy
- Complex postpartum presentations involving both physical and nervous system factors
Recovery isn't always about doing more exercises. Sometimes it's about uncovering the hidden patterns that have been preventing the body from healing all along.
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About the speaker:
Samantha Dove is a Board-Certified Behavior Analyst and LBA living in Mead, Co. She has over 16 years of experience working with children and adults in a multitude of settings. She has been working in the field of Applied Behavior Analysis for 8 years, but before that, she worked as a Special Education teacher in the public-school setting. She has a passion for advocating and helping individuals with disabilities accomplish their goals. She loves to go camping, paddleboarding, and spending time with her family.
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Could your postpartum client's neck pain actually begin in the pelvis?
In this episode, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores the often-overlooked relationship between pelvic stability, upper cervical mechanics, shoulder function, and the physical demands of caring for a newborn. Learn why headaches, neck pain, thoracic outlet symptoms, and shoulder tension may be driven by postpartum compensation patterns – not just local tissue dysfunction.
You'll discover how birth biomechanics influence the entire body, why first rib mobility and scalene function matter, and practical assessment strategies you can immediately integrate into your postpartum evaluations.
If you're a pelvic health therapist, physical therapist, occupational therapist, bodyworker, or birth professional looking to improve outcomes for postpartum clients, this episode offers valuable clinical insights you won't want to miss.
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About The Speaker
Lynn Schulte, PT is a pelvic health physical therapist with more than 30 years of experience helping practitioners understand the biomechanical, myofascial, and nervous system influences affecting pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery. Through the Institute for Birth Healing, she teaches evidence-informed continuing education courses focused on practical techniques that help clinicians achieve meaningful outcomes for their clients.
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Pelvic floor health has long been overlooked in sports medicine – but that's changing. In this episode, Lynn sits down with internationally recognized pelvic health physiotherapist and researcher Gráinne Donnelly to discuss her groundbreaking new textbook, Sports Medicine in the Pelvic Floor: Science to Practice. Together, they explore why pelvic health deserves a place in every athlete's care, how this ambitious project came to life, and the exciting future of research that will shape the next generation of clinicians. If you're passionate about helping athletes perform at their best, this episode will leave you inspired and thinking differently about the pelvic floor.
In This Episode You'll Discover:
- Why pelvic floor health should be a routine part of sports medicine – not just pregnancy and postpartum care.
- The surprising research changes how we think about urinary incontinence, load capacity, and athletic performance.
- How psychology, biomechanics, and pelvic health all intersect to improve patient outcomes.
- The importance of individualized assessment when guiding athletes back to sport.
- Why research is essential for moving innovative clinical ideas into mainstream practice.
Clinical Takeaways
- Screen every athlete for pelvic floor symptoms. Pelvic floor screening shouldn't be reserved for postpartum clients or those with urinary leakage – it's relevant across all ages, sexes, and athletic populations.
- Think beyond incontinence. Pelvic floor dysfunction encompasses much more than leaking. Pain, pressure, bowel symptoms, sexual function, and performance all deserve consideration during assessment.
- Load capacity matters. Return to sport isn't determined by a timeline alone. Assess each athlete's individual capacity, symptom response, and readiness to progressively increase load.
- Sport-specific demands influence risk. Different sports – and even different positions within the same sport – place unique demands on the pelvic floor, requiring individualized clinical reasoning.
- Stay curious and evidence-informed. Emerging research continues to reshape our understanding of pelvic floor biomechanics, anatomy, and rehabilitation. Remaining open to new evidence helps improve patient outcomes.
Why You Should Listen
Whether you treat elite athletes, postpartum moms, or active individuals, this conversation offers fresh perspectives that challenge traditional thinking. Gráinne shares the vision behind creating one of the most comprehensive pelvic health resources available today while Lynn explores how emerging research could transform postpartum rehabilitation. You'll walk away with new ideas, renewed curiosity, and plenty of inspiration to elevate your own clinical practice.
🎧 Tune in now and discover why the future of sports medicine can't ignore the pelvic floor.
About The Speaker
Gráinne Donnelly is an Advanced Practice Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, doctoral researcher and international educator based in Northern Ireland. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Pelvic, Obstetric and Gynaecological Physiotherapy (JPOGP) and editor of the Elsevier textbook Sports Medicine and the Pelvic Floor – Science to Practice. Her work bridges research and clinical practice, advancing evidence-based pelvic health care for women in sport and postpartum recovery.
Speaker’s websites: https://absolute.physio/ and https://www.sportsmedicineandthepelvicfloor.com/
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Many obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) are missed immediately after birth, leaving women to unknowingly compensate for years until hormonal changes, aging, or menopause expose underlying dysfunction. In this eye-opening conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with urogynecologist and pelvic floor surgeon Dr. Alexandra Dubinskaya to discuss obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), why they are often missed, and the lifelong consequences they can create for women.
From the realities of birth trauma to missed diagnoses to pudendal nerve injuries, this episode dives into the complex factors influencing bowel control, pelvic floor function, hormonal shifts and postpartum recovery. Dr. Dubinskaya also shares treatment options that many practitioners may not be familiar with, including neuromodulation and surgical interventions.
This conversation will provide pelvic health practitioners with practical insights to better recognize, educate, and support clients in postpartum and throughout their lifespan
Clinical Takeaways from this Episode
- What qualifies as an obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS) and how third and fourth-degree tears are classified.
- Why sphincter injuries are frequently underdiagnosed or missed immediately after birth.
- The critical role of the pudendal nerve in bowel control, sensation, and pelvic floor function.
- The differences between neuromodulation and sphincteroplasty as treatment options.
- Common postpartum symptoms that may indicate an undiagnosed sphincter injury.
- Why menopause frequently exposes previously compensated pelvic floor injuries.
- How pelvic health therapists can help restore function and improve quality of life after birth trauma.
- The patient education you can offer your clients to improve birth outcomes and postpartum recovery.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is an obstetric anal sphincter injury (OASIS)?
OASIS refers to third- and fourth-degree perineal tears involving the anal sphincter muscles, with fourth-degree tears extending into the rectal mucosa.
Why are OASIS injuries often missed?
Diagnosis can be difficult because birth occurs in a dynamic environment with tissue swelling, bleeding, variable anesthesia, limited visualization, and urgent clinical priorities.
What symptoms may suggest a missed sphincter injury?
Practitioners should be alert for fecal urgency, bowel leakage, decreased anal sensation, difficulty controlling bowel movements, urinary symptoms, and persistent pelvic floor dysfunction.
Why do symptoms sometimes appear years later?
Women often compensate for mild injuries for years. Hormonal changes during menopause, age-related muscle loss, and reduced tissue resilience may uncover previously compensated dysfunction.
How can pelvic floor physical therapy help?
Pelvic floor rehabilitation can improve muscle coordination, restore neuromuscular awareness, optimize bowel mechanics, reduce muscular guarding, address scar tissue, and improve quality of life while helping determine when additional medical referral is appropriate.
About Today’s Guest
Dr. Alexandra Dubinskaya is a nationally and internationally recognized Urogynecologist and Sexual Medicine specialist based in Beverly Hills. Her innovative, whole-person approach blends cutting-edge science with deeply compassionate care, empowering women to reclaim their bodies, confidence, and pleasure at every age. Born and raised in Russia, Dr. Dubinskaya moved to the United States with a singular goal: to transform women’s health. Today, she is a rising voice in the field, serving as Chair of the Communication Committee for the International Society for Sexual Medicine (ISSM), where she leads global efforts to elevate sexual health literacy and dismantle the silence surrounding conditions women have been told to “just live with.”
Dr. Dubinskaya’s expertise spans urinary and pelvic floor disorders, sexual pain, libido concerns, menopause care, and the modern science of pleasure. Her research is featured in top medical journals and textbooks, and her growing social media platforms are reframing long-ignored conversations with evidence, empathy, and a touch of humor.
She is sought after for her ability to translate medical knowledge into compelling, relatable storytelling—whether on stage, on camera, or behind a microphone. Fiercely dedicated to women’s wellbeing, she is on a mission to rewrite the cultural narrative around pelvic, sexual, and menopausal health, empowering women everywhere to feel seen, validated, and in control of their bodies.
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Why This Episode Matters
Birth recovery doesn't end at six weeks postpartum, and neither should our clinical thinking. Obstetric anal sphincter injuries remind us that the effects of childbirth can extend across decades, influencing continence, function, confidence, and quality of life long after delivery. Through earlier recognition, collaborative care, patient education, and skilled rehabilitation, pelvic health practitioners have the opportunity to change outcomes – not only in the postpartum period, but throughout every stage of a client's life.
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Birth preparation involves far more than physical readiness. In this episode, Ama K. Karikari, Esq., joins Lynn Schulte, PT, to discuss how pelvic health therapists can help clients build self-trust, find their voice, and become active participants in their birth experience. While outcomes are unknown, clients who feel empowered, informed, and supported often navigate birth with greater confidence and less fear.
Clinical Takeaways For Pelvic Health Practitioners
- Birth preparation should include emotional, relational, and physical readiness.
- Validating a client's experience builds confidence and self-trust.
- Self-advocacy begins long before labor starts.
- Understanding options and support systems can improve birth confidence.
- Partners, doulas, and advocates play a critical role during labor.
- Pelvic health therapists are uniquely positioned to help clients trust their body's wisdom.
Ways Practitioners Can Help Clients Prepare for Birth
- Encourage clients to communicate their needs, concerns, and preferences.
- Help clients identify their birth goals and non-negotiables.
- Foster body awareness and trust in internal sensations.
- Discuss informed consent and available birth options.
- Role-play conversations with providers when appropriate.
- Support clients in building a strong advocacy team, including partners and doulas.
- Recognize emotional patterns or previous experiences that may influence labor and refer for additional support when needed.
Resources & Links Mentioned
Books
- A Silence to Soaring by Ama K. Karikari
- No Bad Parts by Richard Schwartz
Concepts Discussed
- Internal Family Systems (IFS)
- Inner Child Healing
- Self-Advocacy in Birth
- Body Wisdom
- Birth Autonomy
Frequently Asked Questions
Why is self-advocacy important during birth?
Self-advocacy helps clients communicate their needs, ask questions, participate in decisions, and feel more empowered throughout labor.
What should comprehensive birth preparation include?
Effective birth preparation includes physical readiness, emotional support, communication skills, understanding birth options, developing self-trust, and creating a strong support system.
About The Speaker
Ama K. Karikari, Esq. is an author, transformational guide, community leader and founder of the Soaring Sisters Circle. She creates empowering spaces that support healing, resilience, and personal transformation.
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Why is your client's perineal tear or episiotomy still painful months after birth? Today, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores three commonly overlooked contributors to delayed healing: pelvic bone positioning, surrounding tissue restrictions, and unresolved trauma responses held within the tissues.
Clinical Takeaways From This Episode
• Assess for an Open Birthing Pattern when healing is delayed.
• Approximate the ischial bones during scar treatment.
• Evaluate tissues surrounding the scar, not just the scar itself.
• Consider unresolved trauma when tenderness persists.
• Prioritize circulation and tissue mobility to support healing.
• Never force tissue release.
Why do some perineal tears or episiotomies fail to heal completely?
Lynn explains how an Open Birthing Pattern can create ongoing tension through the pelvic floor and perineum, placing stress on healing tissues. She shares practical assessment and treatment strategies, including approximating the ischial bones during scar work and addressing restrictions in the tissues surrounding the scar rather than focusing solely on the scar itself.
The episode also explores why some scars remain extremely tender despite treatment. In certain cases, persistent sensitivity may reflect unresolved trauma responses that require a trauma-informed approach and interdisciplinary support.
How can pelvic health therapists help create a full recovery?
Through clinical case studies, Lynn demonstrates how improving tissue mobility, reducing tension, and restoring blood flow can help facilitate healing when traditional approaches fall short.
Whether working with perineal tears, episiotomies, or C-section scars, pelvic health therapists can uncover the root of why some tissues fail to heal and what they can do to work with the tissue in a different way to promote full healing.
What educational resources for pelvic health therapists can help you learn these skills?
Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
Advanced Postpartum Techniques: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/advanced-postpartum-techniques
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This episode pulls you into two pregnant client case studies that seem straightforward at first – until the bodies start telling a very different story. A 35-week first time pregnant client arrives with pelvic pain, leg symptoms, and nighttime disruption, and what unfolds reveals a layered map of old surgical history, a snowboarding injury, and a spine that never developed typical curves. Each piece of her history quietly shapes how her pregnancy is unfolding. Then a second case at 25 weeks looks like “typical” postpartum carryover and hypermobility … until subtle clues in the sacrum, ischium, pelvic floor, and even whiplash history begin pointing to a much deeper structural narrative than expected. As each layer is uncovered, what initially looks like isolated pelvic dysfunction turns into a full-body story spanning cervical spine, cranium, pelvis, and past trauma – none of which would be obvious from standard assessment alone. This episode leaves you questioning how many of your own clients are carrying hidden layers you have not been taught to see yet.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:
- Two prenatal case studies that unravel far beyond typical pregnancy presentations
- Hidden impacts of past trauma (surgery, whiplash, birth injury) on current symptoms
- Unexpected full-body connections between cervical spine, pelvis, and pelvic floor
- How subtle bone and tissue cues completely shift clinical reasoning in real time
- A challenge to rethink what you’re missing when you “follow protocol” too closely
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Ever find yourself stuck in resistance – knowing what you “should” be doing, but unable to actually do it? In this episode, Lynn shares a personal post-Birth Healing Summit moment where overwhelm, exhaustion, and guilt led to total shutdown, procrastination, and scrolling instead of working. What shifted everything wasn’t more discipline – but a simple question from a loved one that revealed the hidden pressure underneath the resistance. Once she gave herself permission to fully step away from work, the guilt dissolved, the energy shifted, and creativity came flooding back. By Monday, she returned to her projects refreshed, focused, and reconnected to her purpose.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Why resistance often shows up after intense periods of productivity and burnout
- The surprising question that broke through procrastination and guilt
- How giving yourself permission not to work can unlock motivation
- The connection between emotional avoidance, resistance, and creative block
- Why rest, play, and spaciousness are essential for high-quality, inspired work
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What if the thing you’re waiting for … is simply the courage to begin?
In this heartfelt and inspiring episode, Lynn Schulte sits down with Occupational Therapist Stephanie Smith to talk about the unexpected journey that led Stephanie from being a new mom experiencing leaking postpartum … to launching her own thriving pelvic health practice.
Stephanie shares the vulnerable story of the moment she realized something in her own body wasn’t right after childbirth – she never expected it would become a major turning point in her life. That single experience eventually introduced her to pelvic health therapy and awakened what she now calls her true calling.
But this episode goes far deeper than business-building.
Together, Lynn and Stephanie dive into:
- Why so many practitioners feel stuck or disconnected from traditional treatment models
- How intuition and presence can completely transform clinical outcomes
- The importance of truly listening to the body instead of forcing protocols
- The profound shifts that happen when practitioners trust themselves enough to begin before they feel “fully ready”
One of the most powerful moments comes when Stephanie shares the story of sitting at an airport gate after attending Lynn’s live Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Course. She kept hearing an internal nudge to “just do it” and posted a simple offer for free sessions in a local moms group. She boarded her flight with no expectations … and landed to 15 women asking for help.
This conversation is packed with encouragement for:
- Pelvic Health Practitioners
- OTs and PTs considering starting a practice
- Clinicians struggling with imposter syndrome
- Anyone longing to practice in a more intuitive, holistic, and deeply effective way
If you’ve ever questioned whether you’re ready…
If you’ve ever felt the pull toward something bigger…
Or if you simply want to hear an incredibly honest and inspiring story about following intuition and creating meaningful impact –
this episode will stay with you.
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About Today’s Speaker
Stephanie Smith, OTR/L
Stephanie Smith is a pelvic floor occupational therapist and the founder of Everbloom Pelvic Health in Sanford, North Carolina. She specializes in pregnancy, postpartum, and pelvic health care through a trauma-informed, whole-body approach. Her work focuses on helping women reconnect with their bodies, improve core and pelvic floor function, and feel confident through every stage of womanhood.
She created Everbloom to be the kind of care she wishes existed-where women feel seen, supported, and educated in their bodies. Through a blend of hands-on therapy, movement, and nervous system support, Stephanie provides deeply personalized care that goes far beyond traditional pelvic floor therapy.
Website: https://www.everbloompelvichealth.com/
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Pelvic health clinicians are trained to assess muscles, fascia, joints, and organs – but one powerful system influencing pelvic function is often overlooked: the lymphatic system.
In this episode, Lynn is joined by pelvic health therapist and certified lymphedema specialist, Mary Ellen Kramp, to discuss why lymphatic function deserves more attention in pelvic health care.
The lymphatic system plays a critical role in fluid balance, immune function, and tissue health, yet it’s rarely emphasized in traditional PT training. When lymphatic flow becomes impaired in the abdomen or pelvis, it may contribute to symptoms clinicians commonly see – such as bloating, pelvic heaviness, tissue congestion, and urinary urgency.
Mary Ellen shares how practitioners can begin recognizing lymphatic involvement through tissue quality, palpation findings, and clinical patterns, particularly during pregnancy, postpartum recovery, and after surgeries like C-sections.
This conversation invites clinicians to expand their lens and consider how lymphatic congestion may be influencing pelvic symptoms they treat every day.
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In this episode, Lynn explores how a baby’s position in the maternal body can directly influence pain patterns during pregnancy and impact the progression of labor. Through a compelling case study of a client at 39 weeks with a high, mobile fetal head, this conversation highlights how skilled palpation and targeted bodywork can help facilitate engagement into the pelvis. Lynn shares the common areas of tension that may prevent the baby from descending and how to address these restrictions to support more efficient labor mechanics.
Learn the importance of palpation skills and understand fetal positioning to improve the success of your own work with pregnant clients.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Palpating the fetal head and how it reveals why some labors stall before they even begin.
- Look beyond the pelvis - learn what else can quietly prevent a baby from engaging in the pelvis.
- Learn why the pelvic floor may act like a “stoplight” for the baby’s descent.
- Discover the hands-on treatment that can shift outcomes.
If you work with pregnant clients, this episode offers practical clinical insights into how assessing and addressing fetal positioning can influence both pain presentations and birth outcomes. Learn more in Pregnancy Pain and Beyond.
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In this episode, Lynn explores an intriguing postpartum case that reveals how birth mechanics can influence hip pain decades later. A clinician shares the story of a colleague whose leg was tractioned off the bed during an epidural birth – creating long-term pelvic alignment changes that eventually led her to consider a total hip replacement. The discussion highlights how unresolved pelvic positioning from birth can alter hip mechanics, including internal rotation and load through the acetabulum. This episode encourages pelvic floor and orthopedic practitioners to look beyond symptoms and evaluate how birth and postpartum pelvic alignment may be driving chronic hip dysfunction.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Birth mechanics can have lifelong effects: Traction on the leg during epidural births may contribute to sacral flexion, ischial splay, and ilial outflare that affect hip function years later.
- Pelvic alignment influences hip mobility: Ischial splay and ilial outflare can change acetabular orientation, limiting internal rotation and contributing to chronic hip pain.
- Assess more than the pelvic floor: TFL tension, pelvic bone position, and sacral mechanics can all play a role in postpartum hip symptoms.
- Address both tissue and experience: Combining pelvic mobilization with trauma-informed approaches to unresolved birth experiences may unlock lasting changes for clients.
This episode offers clinical insights that may change how you assess chronic hip pain in postpartum clients – and why evaluating pelvic alignment after birth can be essential for long-term outcomes.
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Are you considering the bone itself (and not just the muscles) when postpartum patients come to you with persistent pelvic pain, adductor tightness, or tailbone symptoms? In today’s podcast episode, Lynn Schulte, PT introduces the concept of osseous lesions in the pelvis, subtle hardening of pelvic bones that can occur during childbirth and continue to drive soft tissue tension long after delivery. She explains how birth mechanics, baby positioning, and prolonged pushing can create trauma in key pelvic structures – and how skilled palpation can help clinicians identify the difference between healthy bone and hardened bone.
This conversation opens the door to a frequently overlooked contributor to postpartum dysfunction. If you treat postpartum women, this conversation can help enhance your assessment of the pelvis.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Osseous lesions are areas of hardened bone created by trauma or compression during birth, often affecting surrounding muscles, ligaments, and tendons.
- The most common pelvic locations include the lower sacrum (S3–S4), coccyx, pubic rami, and medial ischial tuberosities.
- Persistent muscle tightness - like recurrent adductor tension - may actually be a reaction to a bone lesion rather than a primary soft-tissue problem.
- Skilled palpation can help clinicians differentiate normal bone mobility (“tree”) from hardened bone (“telephone pole”).
- Gentle compression techniques may help restore softness and mobility to affected bone and improve symptoms.
This episode will challenge practitioners to start listening to the bones, not just the muscles, when evaluating postpartum pelvic dysfunction.
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The importance of postpartum care is no longer just an afterthought – and this conversation shows exactly why that matters for your practice. Today, Lynn Schulte is joined by Rachelle Seliga, a Midwife, Educator and the creator of INNATE Postpartum Care. Together, they unpack the dramatic shifts that have occurred in postpartum care over the past decade, the direction this field is going next, and what we can do as practitioners to keep up with the changing tides.
You’ll hear how pelvic health directly impacts mental health, why more moms are seeking care even when they don’t have symptoms, and what it really takes to close the gaps still leaving many women underserved.
From unexpected innovations to powerful collaborations across disciplines, this episode will expand what you believe is possible – and your role in it.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:
- Where the gaps in postpartum care still remain.
- The connection between pelvic health and mental health.
- Your role and steps for supporting the full spectrum of postpartum needs.
- Innovation and diversity that is leading the shift beyond traditional postpartum care.
- The keys to thriving as a practitioner in today’s evolving healthcare landscape.
If you want to stay relevant and deliver deeper, more impactful outcomes then this is an episode you do not want to miss.
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About Today’s Speaker
Rachelle Seliga, CPM and Educator
Rachelle Seliga is a mother, midwife, and educator who is dedicated to midwifing a cultural shift through her teachings, trainings, and hands-on experiences.
She is the creator and director of INNATE Postpartum Care, a globally recognized certification program that has trained thousands of practitioners who now support families around the world.
Her work is rooted in the belief that our physiologic design IS our divine design, which IS our "blueprint," which ARE our "original instructions" as humankind. These different ways to say the SAME thing acknowledge that there is an order, a structure, a map to LIFE that supersedes human will; it is Nature's Design. Through her teachings, Rachelle brings traditional knowledge to modern care practices, offering a deeply integrative approach to postpartum care.
This year marks the 10th anniversary of her INNATE Postpartum Care Training. It is the last year she will be teaching it as she has been, so if you are interested in joining – this is a great year to do so. As a member of the IBH Community, she is extending early-bird pricing to us even past the deadline of May 5th. For 11% off the full-price tuition, use coupon code: BIRTHHEALING
To register and for more information on INNATE Postpartum Care Training: https://www.innatetraditions.com/innate-postpartum-care-certification-training
Rachelle’s website: https://www.innatetraditions.com/
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This episode is our final in the series on clinical mastery and dives deep into what clinical mastery means – it’s likely not what you’ve been taught. Rather than focusing solely on knowledge and techniques, Lynn reframes mastery as how you show up as a whole practitioner, blending presence, intuition, and connection.
Drawing from conversations with Birth Healing Summit speakers, she shares how mastery is layered, personal, and developed through both ongoing inner work and clinical experience. Lynn shares a powerful breakdown of the five dimensions that influence every session – and why neglecting even one can limit your outcomes. This episode also challenges the idea that therapists must “have all the answers,” instead emphasizing humility, client-led healing, and intuitive guidance.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:
- Clinical mastery spans five dimensions: physical, emotional, energetic, spiritual, and mental – and all 5 must be cultivated.
- Your presence and energy can either regulate or amplify your client’s nervous system (be the “biggest pendulum in the room”).
- True mastery involves humility and collaboration, helping clients access their own inner knowing rather than “fixing” them.
- Intuition is built on experience and knowledge, but guided through a deeper connection to self and spirit.
- Doing your own healing work is essential to showing up powerfully and creating better outcomes for your clients.
If you’re ready to elevate not just what you do – but who you are in the room – this conversation is one you don’t want to miss.
Learn with Lynn Schulte during the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass that includes session recordings and transcripts.
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Clinical excellence isn’t just about doing more – but about showing up differently. In this episode, Shelly Prosko challenges traditional rehab thinking, revealing why evidence alone isn’t enough, and how the real driver of outcomes may be something far less tangible. She uncovers the hidden power of therapeutic presence and why the connection you build with patients can outweigh the techniques you use.
But there’s a catch – what most clinicians think is empathy may actually be leading them toward burnout. Listen in to learn a different approach that can unlock better results and resilience.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:
- Clinical excellence = integration of research evidence, clinician experience, and evolving patient values
- Therapeutic alliance and presence are critical drivers of patient outcomes
- Compassion (not emotional empathy) supports better care and prevents burnout
- Self-compassion is a trainable skill that enhances clinician resilience and effectiveness
If you’re ready to rethink how you practice while protecting your own well-being, this is the conversation for you.
Learn with Shelly Prosko in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass.
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About Today’s Speaker
Shelly Prosko, PT, CYT, Author and Educator
Shelly Prosko is a Canadian physiotherapist, certified yoga therapist, educator, author, and pioneer of PhysioYoga. Since 1998, she has integrated yoga into physiotherapy, focusing on chronic pain, pelvic health, healthy aging, compassion in healthcare, and professional burnout.
She teaches and presents internationally at medical and yoga conferences, contributes to research and academic writing, and mentors healthcare and yoga professionals. Her professional courses are widely respected and sought after across multiple disciplines. Shelly is a Pain Care Aware Lead Trainer and co-editor/co-author of the textbook Yoga and Science in Pain Care: Treating the Person in Pain. She is also recognized for her TEDx talk on pushing boundaries in physiotherapy.
She maintains a clinical practice in Sylvan Lake, Alberta, and believes compassion is central to effective healthcare and well-being. Outside of her professional work, she is a former professional figure skater who values connection, creativity, nature, and joy as essential elements of healing. https://physioyoga.ca/about-us
https://www.amazon.com/Yoga-Science-Pain-Care-Treating/dp/1848193971
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How does doing your own inner work help you as a practitioner?
In this powerful conversation, Nari challenges the traditional, performance-based definition of mastery and reframes it as deep alignment, boundaries, and self-trust. She shares how honoring your unique style, rather than copying others, allows for more authentic and effective patient care. The discussion dives into blending intuition with clinical reasoning, meeting patients where they are, and releasing the pressure to “fix” everything. This episode is a refreshing and thought-provoking invitation to evolve your practice from the inside out.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners:
- Be you, fully: Clinical mastery comes from embodying your unique voice and approach.
- You’re not for everyone: Clear boundaries and aligned clients lead to better outcomes and less burnout.
- Meet patients where they are: Tailor your approach to their readiness – one meaningful step is enough.
- Do your own inner work: Your ability to hold space, stay non-reactive, and create transformation is directly tied to your personal healing.
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About Today’s Speaker
Nari Kaur (Clemons), PT and Educator
Nari Kaur has been a pelvic therapist for 18 years. She has been teaching for Herman Wallace Pelvic Rehab for 10 years and loves merging science and anatomy with softer skills. For Herman Wallace, Nari teaches the pelvic floor series, courses she has authored on manually treating the nerves of the lumbar and sacral plexus, and a course on boundaries and self care for health care providers.
Nari’s passion is helping empathic healers to be well as they work. Her interest in this field came from being an unknowing empath, picking up too much from patients, over-functioning and living the archetype of the wounded healer, before finding another way.
She owns Portland Pelvic Therapy, a boutique practice where she combines highly specific visceral, neural and fascial work with the intersection of spirit and held stories in the body. Most of her patients are unknowing empaths who finally heal when they release held stories, often that were never theirs to carry, in their tissues. She also works at a conventional hospital and enjoys the full realm of health care.
Speaker’s Website: https://www.portlandpelvictherapy.com/
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What does it mean to find your true clinical calling? Is this the key to clinical mastery?
In this deeply insightful and heart-opening conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with Suzanne Scurlock, founder of Healing from the Core®, CST-D, author and educator, to explore these questions and what it truly means to evolve as a pelvic health therapist – not just in skill, but in presence, clarity, and purpose.
With over four decades of experience, Suzanne shares a perspective that many clinicians feel, but have yet to name. Mastery isn’t about doing more. It’s about refining who you are in the treatment room.
This conversation gently challenges the belief that more certifications or techniques will lead to fulfillment. Instead, Suzanne reveals the subtle but powerful shifts that create sustainable, meaningful careers.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- The surprising trait that separates skilled clinicians from truly masterful ones
- Why “feeling off” in a session is actually your greatest clinical cue
- How knowing who not to treat elevates your results and prevents burnout
- The grounding practice that transforms how you show up in every session
- What to do when your own triggers disrupt connection
Perhaps most powerful is Suzanne’s invitation to trust that when you align with your gifts, the right clients will find you – and the ones who aren’t meant for you won’t.
What you’ll hear may challenge how you’ve been taught to practice and open the door to results that finally feel aligned and sustainable.
This episode isn’t just about becoming a better therapist. It’s about stepping fully into your calling to become the practitioner you are meant to be.
Don’t miss Suzanne Scurlock’s session in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit taking place live online May 2 - 3, 2026 and as a recorded offering with the VIP Access Pass.
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About Today’s Speaker
Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, Author, Educator, Founder of Healing from the Core®
Suzanne Scurlock is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process. She is one of the original instructors personally mentored by the late Dr. John E. Upledger. She also collaborated with the late Emilie Conrad for almost two decades. Together they integrated Emilie’s Continuum Movement with Suzanne’s Full Body Presence® to teach other practitioners how to accelerate and deepen the healing process.
Check out her website at https://healingfromthecore.com/ for more information about her courses, including a class to help teach people embodiment.
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What is clinical mastery to you?
Today, we continue the exploration of clinical mastery with another great in pelvic and women’s health, Tami Lynn Kent, PT, Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™. In today’s conversation, Tami discusses with Lynn what she sees as the essentials for true clinical mastery.
In this important conversation, Tami Lynn Kent encourages therapists to move beyond quick knowledge and step into the deeper work needed to help clients heal fully. She shares how curiosity, mentorship, and thousands of hours of hands-on experience shape the kind of presence that transforms patient outcomes.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Mastery transforms outcomes – why developing the intelligence of your hands, trusting your embodied awareness, and nurturing your creative energy can dramatically elevate your clinical effectiveness.
- Discern depth in a fast-information world – how social media and AI provide knowledge, but true wisdom comes from lived experience and mentorship.
- Curiosity drives clinical growth – why following what fascinates you in practice leads to deeper insight and innovation.
- Sustaining your creative energy prevents burnout – by nourishing your body, mind, and curiosity you can fuel long-term clinical excellence.
If you want your treatments to go deeper, your confidence to grow, and your clinical results to improve, this conversation will expand how you think about mastery in practice. This is an episode you don’t want to miss.
Learn with Tami Lynn Kent in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit – attend live online May 2 - 3, 2026 or catch the sessions after with the VIP Lifetime Access pass that includes session recordings and transcripts.
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About Today’s Speaker
Tami Lynn Kent, PT, Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™
Tami Lynn Kent, MSPT is a women’s health physical therapist, educator, and founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™, the first integrative model combining physical and energetic approaches to the female pelvic bowl. She is the author of the Wild Book Series: Wild Feminine, Wild Creative, and Wild Mothering, and has taught her original methods to thousands of practitioners worldwide.
With a master’s in physical therapy from Pacific University and advanced training in bodywork, birth trauma resolution, and energy-based approaches, Tami bridges modern medicine with women’s innate wisdom to support healing, creativity, and vitality.
For over 25 years, she has worked with more than 20,000 women, helping practitioners deepen their understanding of pelvic health through both physical and subtle energetic patterns.
Based in Portland, Oregon, Tami continues to teach, write, and guide women’s health practitioners in cultivating the full potential of the female body.
Tami’s Website: https://www.wildfeminine.com/
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What if persistent pelvic floor tension, heaviness, or pain postpartum isn’t primarily a muscle problem – but a stability problem the muscles are trying to solve? In this short but powerful clinical reminder, Lynn Schulte challenges pelvic health therapists to rethink how they assess and treat the postpartum pelvis. She explains why working with pelvic bones and pelvic floor muscles together can dramatically improve outcomes and why releasing muscles alone can sometimes make symptoms worse. This episode highlights a critical but often overlooked relationship that can transform how you treat the postpartum pelvis.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Pelvic floor muscles often compensate for unstable or malpositioned pelvic bones, especially after birth.
- Releasing pelvic floor tension without addressing the pelvic bones first may worsen pain or heaviness.
- Muscle tone patterns can reveal what the pelvic bones are doing biomechanically
- Combining external bone work with internal pelvic floor treatment can rapidly restore strength, function, and symptom relief.
This episode will challenge practitioners to start listening to the bones, not just the muscles, when evaluating postpartum pelvic dysfunction. Learn more at https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/treating-postpartum-pelvis/.
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In this conversation, physical therapist, educator and world-class presenter (presenting in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit), Susan Clinton shares lessons from decades of clinical experience and how true clinical mastery develops through presence, curiosity, and collaboration with clients. She discusses how clinicians often over-educate and over treat, when in reality meaningful change happens through listening deeply and simplifying care.
This conversation highlights how small shifts – both for clinicians and patients – can create powerful outcomes over time. Susan emphasizes that empathy and self-awareness allow practitioners to build stronger therapeutic relationships and better results.
✨ Key Takeaways for Practitioners
- Presence improves outcomes: Brief “micro-bliss” moments of mindfulness can improve clinician presence and nervous system regulation during patient care.
- Listen with curiosity: Asking questions like “What are you most worried about?” often reveals the real driver behind a patient’s symptoms or fears.
- Simplify education: Patients typically retain only about 10% of what they hear, so prioritize the most meaningful take-home message.
- Collaborate instead of prescribing: When patients help choose one realistic focus, adherence and progress improve.
- Small changes matter: Consistent 1% shifts in habits or behaviors can create significant long-term change for both clinicians and patients.
If you’ve ever felt pressure to have all the answers, this episode will challenge that mindset and offer a refreshing, practical approach to creating meaningful change in your clinical practice.
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About Today’s Speaker:
Dr. Susan Clinton, PT, DScPT, OCS, WCS, FAAOMPT, is the founder of LTI Physio and a leader in helping healthcare providers and women beyond their reproductive years move beyond health concerns, self-doubt, and career challenges to create meaningful, inspired change.
With over four decades of clinical experience, she brings deep wisdom and practical insight to guiding people through complex transitions. Through Pinnacle Coaching, Dr. Clinton empowers women to embrace their health as the foundation for living with vitality and confidence during transformative life stages such as menopause. Through Pivotal Coaching, she mentors healthcare professionals to overcome burnout, navigate career stress, and cultivate sustainable, fulfilling practices.
Speaker’s Website: https://ltiphysio.com/
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In this episode, Lynn breaks down why the pelvic outlet – not just the sacroiliac joint – may be a key contributor to postpartum pain, heaviness, and persistent pelvic floor tension. She explores the biomechanics of birth, how the inlet and outlet function as a reciprocal system, and why most traditional treatment approaches only address the top half of the pelvis. She shares clinical examples of pregnant and postpartum clients whose pain, tailbone tension, and pelvic heaviness resolved quickly once the ischial tuberosities and sacrum were mobilized and brought back toward midline. She also shares emerging research on sacral slope changes with parity and why sacral flexion often remains long after delivery – even decades later.
Episode Highlights ✨
- The inlet and outlet function as a seesaw
- Sacral flexion & widened ischial tuberosities drive symptoms
- Mobility matters more than position
- Rebalancing bones + resetting muscles changes outcomes fast
If we want faster recoveries and truly resolved postpartum symptoms – we have to start treating the pelvic outlet.
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If you work with pelvic pain, chronic pain, trauma, high-performing athletes, or clients who don’t fit the protocol, this episode will help.
In this powerful conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with seasoned Occupational Therapist, Elizabeth McBride, of North Texas Therapy Innovations to unpack what it really means to work with neurodiverse populations in pelvic and orthopedic practice. They explore masking, sensory processing, executive function, trauma, and why many clients are profoundly disconnected from their bodies – even when they are elite performers.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Why a directive, protocol-driven approach often fails this population
- How sensory integration and pelvic health overlap more than we think
- The importance of building safety first with neurodiverse clientele
- Why embodiment and nervous system regulation must precede strengthening
- How your own grounding directly impacts clinical outcomes
This episode challenges us to blend orthopedic skill with psychological awareness – to provide therapeutic support that matches our clients’ needs.
If you’re ready to expand how you think about regulation, trauma, and embodiment in your practice, press play.
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About the Speaker:
Elizabeth McBride is an occupational therapist with nearly 40 years of clinical experience and the owner of North Texas Therapy Innovations. She specializes in sensory integration, manual therapy, and pelvic health, blending decades of hands-on experience with a deep understanding of neurodivergence and nervous system regulation. Known for her creative, whole-person approach, Elizabeth integrates craniosacral therapy, myofascial techniques, and executive function training to help clients move out of fight-or-flight and into embodiment. Her work bridges sensory processing, trauma-informed care, and pelvic health for both children and adults.
https://www.sensorytherapydallas.com/about-us.html
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If you’ve ever assessed a postpartum client and wondered whether a pelvic floor “defect” was really a tear, or something else entirely, then this episode gives you the answers. Lynn shares a newly discovered and surprisingly powerful way to release the ischiorectal fossa, a structure that can quietly inhibit pelvic floor function and stall progress. What looks like weakness or a missing contraction may simply be tissue that can’t move. In this episode, Lynn reveals a simple but game-changing connection between the ischiorectal fossa and the adductors that can unlock rapid change. If you’re ready to stop second-guessing your findings and start seeing immediate shifts, don’t miss today’s episode.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Why pelvic floor “divots” may not be true muscle defects
- The hidden role of the ischiorectal fossa in postpartum dysfunction
- How sphincter mobility impacts deeper pelvic tissues
- A powerful new IRF release using adductor compression
- Why IRF assessment belongs in every postpartum evaluation
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What if the future of maternal care uses technology to tune us into the body?
In this episode, Lynn speaks with Katherine Sylvester, Dr. Kat as she is affectionately known, about her program to use wearable technology and remote monitoring to reshape maternal health by pairing objective physiologic data with relationship-centered clinical care. Instead of relying on population averages, they dive into the power of tracking each mother’s personal baseline – and monitor subtle shifts in trends to reveal early warning signs long before symptoms escalate.
From heart rate variability and sleep quality to blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and stress patterns, Dr. Kat shares how real-time data can inform smarter exercise dosing, recovery pacing, and earlier referrals for concerns like hemorrhage, preeclampsia, cardiac changes, thyroid dysfunction, anemia, and emerging mental health challenges.
This is not a conversation about replacing clinical intuition – it’s about strengthening it. Wearables are framed as tools to deepen trust, validate patient experiences, and support self-advocacy, especially when a mother feels that something is “off” before it shows up in a textbook or in test results.
For PTs and OTs working in maternal health, this episode offers practical insight into blending data-driven monitoring with holistic, interdisciplinary care – helping improve outcomes not just in the postpartum window, but across a mother’s long-term health journey.
✨ Episode Highlights
- Why individualized trend tracking matters more than single data points for early physical and mental health red flags
- Using wearables to guide exercise prescription, recovery pacing, and proactive referral decisions
- How technology can strengthen therapeutic rapport, validate symptoms, and enhance patient engagement
- A whole-person approach to maternal care that includes mental health, lifestyle factors, and social determinants of health
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About Today’s Guest
Dr. Katherine Sylvester, affectionately known as Dr. Kat, the mommy monitor, is a wife, homebirth mother of two, physical therapist, preeclampsia survivor, clinical assistant professor for women’s health, Georgia Women’s Policy Institute Fellow, and VBAC-certified doula. She is the founder of Operation M.I.S.T. where she and her team teach women to use smart watches and blood pressure cuffs for safer pregnancies and better health.
She and her team also host More than a Period and Lady Parts Power Parties where they teach ladies about their bodies so they can trust, prepare and protect them throughout all phases of womanhood.
Dr. Kat does not believe in assumptions, protocol-driven care or generalized interventions. She believes that women’s health journeys are as unique as their fingerprints and should be treated as such.
Learn more at: MommyMonitor
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If you keep correcting anterior or posterior rotations of the ilium – yet they keep coming back – this episode can change how you assess the pelvis forever. Lynn invites pelvic health therapists to look beyond bones, SI mechanics, and muscle energy techniques to uncover what may actually be driving these stubborn patterns. You know that quiet inner nudge that says, “There’s more going on here”? This episode confirms it. Listen in as Lynn reveals two often-overlooked structures that can torque the pelvis and prevent corrections from holding. If you’re ready to stop chasing symptoms and start finding answers, you won’t want to miss this conversation.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Why anterior ilium corrections often don’t last
- The hidden role of uterine mobility in pelvic alignment
- How round ligament restrictions can torque the pelvis
- When repeated corrections are a cue to go deeper
- Expanding pelvic assessment beyond traditional PT training
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What if your client’s healing is being limited by … what you think you already know?
In today’s episode, we take a deep, honest look at how assumptions – no matter how clinically sound – can quietly steer treatment in the wrong direction. Through a compelling real-life case study, you’ll hear how setting aside diagnoses, patterns, and expectations allowed the body to reveal a very different story, opening the door to profound change.
This is not an episode about ignoring clinical reasoning.
It’s about knowing when to pause it.
You’ll follow the journey of a client with lifelong painful periods, pelvic pain, and inability to tolerate penetration – symptoms that could easily point toward endometriosis or trauma. But instead of chasing a diagnosis, this session shows what happened when the practitioner chose neutrality, presence, and deep listening to the body’s cues.
What emerged wasn’t what the intake suggested – but it was exactly what the body needed.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Why assumptions (even educated ones) can limit healing
- The critical role of the diaphragm-pelvis relationship in pelvic pain
- How early, seemingly “small” experiences can create long-standing pelvic tension
- Why internal work isn’t always the first or best step
- How pelvic bones, the sacrum, and the uterus can hold the keys to release
- What it feels like when the body says “yes”
🎧 Listen now and explore what becomes possible when you let go of assumptions and let the body lead.
Want to learn more? Check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment online course to learn how to work with the pelvic bones and conduct intravaginal work in a way that is safe and supportive of your clients.
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In this powerful episode, Lynn unpacks a deeply moving clinical session with Beth Anne Fisher, PT, that reveals how early-life surgery, organ consciousness, and unresolved fear can show up decades later as SI joint pain and pelvic floor tension. Rather than “fixing” the body, Lynn listens – allowing the heart, kidneys, and pelvis to communicate what they’ve been holding onto all along. Through imagination, gentle dialogue, and energetic awareness, profound shifts occur without force or manipulation.
The conversation challenges conventional approaches to pain by showing how organs, paired structures, and the nervous system shape stability and healing. You’ll hear why kidneys are often overlooked in SI joint dysfunction, how muscles protect rather than cause pain, and why precision isn’t always the path to resolution.
This episode is a reminder that the body is intelligent, responsive, and deeply relational. If you’re curious about visceral work, trauma-informed care, or a more respectful way of listening to the body – this episode will expand how you think about healing.
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About the Speaker
Beth Anne Fisher, PT, DPT, CSCS, WHC empowers women in their 30’s to 50’s who experience abdominal & pelvic issues to reconnect with vitality, strength, and confidence in their bodies, so they can move, love, and live with freedom again. With 17 years of experience specializing in holistic pelvic health, she helps women with postpartum concerns, leaking, prolapse, painful sex, endometriosis, and other pelvic issues reconnect with strength, confidence, and vitality.
Her work integrates conventional research-based pelvic floor physical therapy with approaches supporting uterine alignment, digestion, circulation, and nervous system regulation. Beth Anne emphasizes education and self-efficacy, guiding women to trust their bodies and participate actively in their own healing.
Guest Speaker’s Website: https://www.bethannefisher.com/
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Intravaginal work is not just a skill – it’s a responsibility.
In this episode, Lynn challenges some of the most common (and limiting) approaches to internal pelvic floor treatment and outlines what actually needs to be in place for intravaginal work to be effective, ethical, and transformative for your clients.
If you’ve ever felt like:
- Your internal work isn’t creating lasting change
- Clients plateau despite “doing everything right”
- You were taught what to assess but not how to truly create change
…this conversation will expand the way you think about internal pelvic floor treatment.
✨ What You’ll Learn in This Episode
This episode outlines three essential prerequisites that should be present before performing intravaginal work – yet are rarely clearly taught in traditional pelvic health education.
- Why pelvic bones – not just muscles – must be addressed first
- How to listen for the body’s “yes” (not just verbal consent)
- Why standing internal assessments should be a clinical standard
Pelvic health practitioners are uniquely trained to understand biomechanics, joints, and soft tissue – but much of pelvic floor education still underutilizes this skill set.
This episode bridges:
- Biomechanics + intravaginal technique
- Trauma-informed care + clinical effectiveness
- Bone-based treatment + muscular release
…and offers a clearer, more respectful path forward for internal pelvic floor work.
🎓 Featured Education: Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment Course
This episode kicks off January’s course spotlight, highlighting the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment course, a 5-hour, self-paced online program designed to help practitioners:
- Improve outcomes with a respectful approach
- Work with pelvic bones and muscles together for easier and more effective treatments
- Confidently assess and treat the sphincter complex
- Create change without pain, pressure, or force
Whether you’re newer to pelvic health or have years of internal work experience, this course offers a fresh, highly effective approach that will enhance the success of your internal pelvic floor treatments.
👉 Learn more about this course and get $50 off in January 2026
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What if some of the patterns you see every day in your clients – and even in yourself – didn’t originate in injury, posture, or muscle tone… but before birth itself?
In this episode, we explore womb and birth imprints – implicit, body-based patterns formed during the prenatal, perinatal, and early postnatal periods that shape regulation, attachment, stress responses, and core beliefs throughout life.
This is not theory for theory’s sake. This is clinical relevance.
If you work with pelvic pain, postpartum recovery, trauma, nervous system dysregulation, burnout, or clients who feel “stuck despite doing all the right things,” this conversation opens a critical missing layer in assessment and treatment.
✨ What You’ll Learn In This Episode:
- What womb and birth imprints actually are – and how they are stored in the limbic system as implicit memory
- Why pre-verbal experiences show up as patterns, sensations, and beliefs, not stories
- Two of the most common imprints seen in healers and pelvic health practitioners:
- How specific birth experiences (labored C-sections, forceps, vacuum, induction, breech birth) can shape lifelong coping and behavioral patterns
- Why the body “knows no time” and how repatterning is possible – safely, respectfully, and effectively
- Clinical cues that tell you when to explore womb or birth imprints with a client
- A moving case study showing how shifting an imprint changed a client’s capacity to support her child
This episode bridges neuroscience, pelvic health, perinatal psychology, and somatic healing – offering practitioners a way to work at the root rather than chasing symptoms.
🎓 Last chance to apply for the 2026 Birth Healing Intensive
This work is taught in depth inside the Birth Healing Intensive and 2026 registration closes this week.
If this episode sparks curiosity, a desire for more, or a strong “yes” – apply today and explore whether this training is the right next step for you. Completing the application simply opens a conversation with Lynn – no commitment required.
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In today’s episode, learn what the Birth Healing Intensive is really about as Lynn talks with the students from the 2025 Birth Healing Intensive at their live gathering. Listen in to hear how the work from this program changed not just their practice, but their entire way of showing up in the world. They share what happens when you stop trying to “figure it all out” and start trusting your hands, your heart, and the body’s wisdom. From emotional breakthroughs to spiritual grounding, they uncover the hidden layers of healing most clinicians are never taught. The conversation explores how true transformation happens when you’re willing to do your own inner work.
When you’re ready to answer that deeper calling that comes with this work, this episode will make it impossible to ignore.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Learning to treat the whole system instead of isolated symptoms
- Letting go of control and trusting intuition in sessions
- Personal healing that directly transforms clinical results
- The unexpected power of community and shared healing
- Why the body holds answers the brain can’t access
For therapists who want to expand beyond technique and learn how to work with the body’s physical, emotional, and energetic layers, the Birth Healing Intensive offers structured, clinically relevant training.
In the program, you will learn:
- How to identify energetic disruptions that impact musculoskeletal function
- How to support safe emotional processing during pelvic work
- How to regulate your own system so you can be a stable presence for clients
- How to integrate these tools seamlessly into clinical practice
The next cohort begins January 31, 2026.
Completing the application simply opens a conversation—no commitment required.
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In this reflective end-of-year episode, Lynn looks back on the teaching, travel, and collaboration that shaped 2025. From courses across the U.S., U.K., and Australia to reconnecting with mentors and colleagues, she highlights the shared curiosity and dedication of the pelvic health community and what continues to inspire and ignite her own inner fire.
Lynn shares two key insights from the year: embracing her role as a heart-centered educator and recognizing the profound impact of integrating head, heart, and hands in clinical practice. She shares her excitement about speaking on spirituality in pelvic health at Pelvicon 2026 and offers a preview of what’s coming next year – a deeply meaningful focus on getting this work into more hands which includes and on to more bodies which will also include the start of some long-awaited book projects!
The episode closes with gratitude, reflection, and a hopeful vision for deeper, more efficient, and more compassionate care in 2026.
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In this episode, Lynn brings clarity to a topic that many clinicians sense intuitively, but may not always name in their clinical reasoning: the role of energetic connection through our hands.
While our field relies on research, biomechanics, and tissue science, Lynn reminds us that therapists also work with living human systems – systems influenced by intention, presence, safety, and subtle forms of communication that extend beyond technique.
Using a simple “energy stick” demonstration, Lynn illustrates how two points of contact complete a circuit. This mirrors what she observes clinically: hands work more effectively when they work together. Two points of contact support greater regulation, clearer signaling, and deeper change in the tissue.
For pelvic health practitioners, this becomes especially relevant. The pelvic space is a dynamic physical, emotional, and energetic container. Clients often arrive with histories, injuries, or experiences that influence how their tissues respond. Working with both hands can create a sense of connection that helps clients feel grounded and can support the tissue in releasing more efficiently.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Why two hands on the body provide more effective results in manual therapy
- Why the pelvic region often holds unprocessed tension or emotion
- How to recognize energetic “blocks” and how they may influence tissue responsiveness
- The importance of therapists' intention and regulation when guiding clients through deeper healing work
Today’s conversation bridges science, intuition, and clinical experience demonstrating how treating the whole person leads to more comprehensive treatment. While our hands mobilize tissue, they also communicate intention and connection. When we engage with clients on all levels – physical, energetic, and emotional – the work often becomes more efficient, more effective, and more meaningful for both the therapist and the client.
About the Birth Healing Intensive
For therapists who want to expand beyond technique and learn how to work with the body’s physical, emotional, and energetic layers, the Birth Healing Intensive offers structured, clinically relevant training.
In the program, you will learn:
- How to identify energetic disruptions that impact musculoskeletal function
- How to support safe emotional processing during pelvic work
- How to regulate your own system so you can be a stable presence for clients
- How to integrate these tools seamlessly into clinical practice
The next cohort begins January 31, 2026.
Completing the application simply opens a conversation—no commitment required.
→ Click Here For More Information and to Apply
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In today’s episode, Lynn shares an extremely complex clinical case with a client who was 19-years postpartum. The work done on this client unraveled layers of unresolved hip pain, bladder dysfunction, and abdominal rigidity that standard care had never been able to resolve.
With a history of forceps delivery, multiple C-sections, abdominoplasty, hysterectomy, roller-skate falls, and chronic sacral imbalance, this client presented with a highly complex pelvic history. But through skilled, methodical pelvic-health evaluation, both external and internal, Lynn identified the true driver of her long-standing symptoms: a significant right ischial splay combined with fascial tension patterns from surgical scar tissue that were pulling the bladder posteriorly and overstretching the anterior vaginal wall.
This episode highlights the level of clinical precision, palpatory skill, and whole-body listening required to treat postpartum clients with chronic symptoms. And most importantly – it shows how quickly clients can shift when the right structures are addressed and when the body is listened to.
After one comprehensive session, this client experienced:
• Pain-free criss-cross sitting for the first time in years
• Restored hip mobility
• Improved pelvic floor-TA coordination
• Reduced bladder urgency and leakage
• A softening and normalization of pelvic tissues that had been restricted for nearly two decades
Lynn also shares why it’s essential to treat what shows up in the body in that moment as that is what the body is ready to address. In this case, the physical system was fully ready to release, creating dramatic change without any need to dig for something more.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Long-term postpartum hip pain: what clinicians often overlook
- The crucial role of ischial splay in hip mobility and femoral rotation
- How abdominal wall surgeries influence bladder mechanics
- Assessing the anterior vaginal wall for tension patterns affecting continence
- Sacral shear + coccygeus tone in the common postpartum pattern
- When to stay physical—and when to explore deeper layers
- The clinical power of a single, well-targeted session
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If you treat postpartum clients with coccyx pain, this episode will change the way you assess – and dramatically improve your outcomes.
Today, Lynn breaks down the often-missed biomechanical and myofascial relationships between the sacrum, coccygeus, and sphincter complex that create a functional tug-of-war on the tailbone. You’ll learn why traditional approaches fall short, the three regions you must evaluate, and how targeted release work restores true pelvic balance.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- The sacrum–sphincter–coccyx “tug-of-war” and why it drives persistent tailbone pain
- How sacral flexion, ischial splay, and sphincter hyperlengthening commonly show up postpartum – and what they mean for mechanics
- Why the coccygeus muscles are key players in coccyx tension
- The impact of sphincter-complex knots on closure, bowel function, and compensatory tailbone strain
- The three assessment zones every clinician should check to dramatically improve coccyx treatment
If you want clearer diagnostics, faster results, and more confident coccyx treatment plans, listen to this informative episode.
Transform Your Tailbone Outcomes: The Sacrum–Sphincter Connection Therapists Need to Know
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In this heartfelt episode, Lynn speaks with Australian physiotherapist Lisa Dempsey about her powerful journey through adversity while participating in the Birth Healing Intensive Program. When Lisa’s clinic was struck by a series of challenges, including a devastating fire, she was forced to face her limits, surrender control, and rediscover the power of vulnerability.
Through the metaphor of “the feather, the brick, and the truck”, Lisa shares how life’s messages escalate until we finally listen, and how choosing to lean into support rather than resist it can change everything. Together, Lynn and Lisa explore the deep interplay between the masculine and feminine, the importance of asking for help, and the healing that comes from feeling and acknowledging shame. Their conversation is a reminder that even in the darkest moments, the light – and our capacity for self-trust – are always present.
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What if you were preordained for love, joy, and happiness – long before you were even born? In today’s episode, we’re diving into the spiritual truths that can shift your energy, open your heart, and help you receive the love and support you’ve been unknowingly blocking. You’ll discover how focusing on gratitude and the “small things” in life can transform not only your day-to-day joy but your capacity to heal and connect. And if you’re curious how these insights can deepen your work as a healer, you won’t want to miss this conversation.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Every soul is preordained for love, joy, and happiness
- Gratitude as the key to raising vibration
- The highest truth is written in your heart
- Life is about the small moments of giving and receiving love
- Healing begins with opening to receive support
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Healing can come in many forms, and today, Lynn’s guest shares a simple tool that can change pelvic healing – bringing relief, comfort, and empowerment to countless women.
In today’s episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast, Lynn talks with Pam Cole, PT, CWS, a wound care specialist and founder of ShePak, to uncover what pelvic health practitioners can learn from the science of wound healing.
Drawing on nearly three decades of experience, Pam shares how principles of inflammation management, lymphatic support, and gentle cooling can enhance recovery for clients experiencing postpartum discomfort, vulvar pain, or post-surgical inflammation.
Episode Highlights ✨
- The direct parallels between wound healing principles and pelvic floor recovery
- How cold therapy and compression can reduce pain and accelerate tissue healing
- The vital role of lymphatic flow in resolving inflammation and restoring balance
- Practical ways to integrate cooling and inflammation-reduction strategies, like ShePak, into client care
- Real-world case examples showing how small interventions can make a big impact
Learn how simple, evidence-based interventions can support comfort, confidence, and faster healing for your clients.
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About The Speaker:
Pam Cole, PT, CWS, is an international educator and founder of ShePak and Femicor. Her work bridges the science of wound care with pelvic health innovation to improve healing outcomes for women worldwide.
Pam graduated from Boston University with a degree in Physical Therapy in 1996. She is a founding member of and has worked at the Methodist Hospital Wound Clinic in St. Louis Park, MN for 29 years. She developed and instructed full semester wound care courses at UMN and St. Scholastica for 18 years and 5 years respectively. Pam is a national wound care speaker and educator.
She has also gone on 6 medical mission trips to Niger, Africa and Haiti. Out of her own need, she invented ShePak, a pelvic floor cooling device, and is the President of Femicorp.
Learn more at: www.femicorp.com/shepak, www.facebook.com/femicorp
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What if the pain or tightness in a C-section scar isn’t just physical, but emotional, even energetic? In today’s episode, we uncover three jaw-dropping case studies that reveal how fear, anger, and other people’s energy can live inside scar tissue – and what happens when those hidden layers are finally released. You’ll hear how intuitive awareness and emotional attunement can transform stubborn scars that no technique could touch. If you’ve ever wondered why tissues won’t let go, this conversation will completely change how you approach healing.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Three revealing C-section scar case studies that defy logic
- How trauma and emotion imprint themselves into tissues
- The surprising influence of others’ energy on healing
- Why intuition—not more force—is the key to release
- Transforming pain and restriction through emotional clearing
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The Birth Healing Intensive is a 9-month transformational program that equips practitioners to deeply heal themselves through their own inside out work to expand their clinical and intuitive skills, and confidently support clients through trauma, pain, and stuck patterns for lasting, profound results. Learn more and apply to the Birth Healing Intensive.
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What if your client’s pain getting worse is actually a breakthrough waiting to happen? In this episode, Lynn shares a striking case where escalating pain revealed the real issue wasn’t physical at all—but an emotional story held deep in the tissues. You’ll hear how this postpartum client’s healing unfolded only after she released the belief that she had to “do it all alone”. Lynn shares how to identify these limiting beliefs to transform setbacks into powerful openings for profound healing.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- The hidden meaning behind worsening pain
- How emotions and beliefs get stored in the body
- Turning flare-ups into healing breakthroughs
- Techniques to uncover what the body is really saying
- Why curiosity—not control—is key to lasting change
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2026 BIRTH HEALING INTENSIVE
The Birth Healing Intensive is a 9-month transformational program that equips practitioners to deeply heal themselves through their own inside out work to expand their clinical and intuitive skills, and confidently support clients through trauma, pain, and stuck patterns for lasting, profound results. Learn more and apply to the Birth Healing Intensive TODAY!
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What if the piece that will set you apart in your client results isn’t another technique—but is you? In this episode, Lynn sits down with three students from the Birth Healing Intensive who reveal how doing their own healing work completely transformed their hands, their hearts, and their outcomes. You’ll hear how they began sensing more, connecting deeper, and unlocking results they once thought were out of reach. If you’ve ever wondered if there is more to this work, this episode will show you exactly what that “more” is.
Episode Highlights:
- How personal healing opens the door to deeper client results
- The hidden element that shifts ordinary treatments into breakthroughs
- Why community and mentorship amplify your intuitive and clinical skills
- Real transformations from the 2026 Birth Healing Intensive cohort
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2026 BIRTH HEALING INTENSIVE
The Birth Healing Intensive is a 9-month transformational program that equips practitioners to deeply heal themselves through their own inside out work to expand their clinical and intuitive skills, and confidently support clients through trauma, pain, and stuck patterns for lasting, profound results. Learn more and apply to the Birth Healing Intensive TODAY!
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“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift—that’s why we call it the present.” In this episode, Lynn explores the deeper meaning behind one of her favorite quotes and how it relates to trauma-informed care in the body. From frozen tissues to lingering birth experiences, Lynn breaks down how unresolved trauma shows up in the musculoskeletal system, influences pain patterns, and impacts client outcomes.
✨ Episode Highlights for Practitioners:
- How the body stores trauma and why tissues “freeze” in response
- Recognizing trauma breadcrumbs that influence recurring pain and movement patterns
- The interplay between unresolved trauma and mechanical limitations in the body
- Strategies for bringing all cells into present-day awareness to enhance healing
- Practical applications for improving client outcomes in pelvic health and beyond
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2026 BIRTH HEALING INTENSIVE
🎁 Today is a gift—equip your practice to help clients fully inhabit the present moment.
If you’re a healthcare practitioner looking to deepen your trauma-informed approach, the Birth Healing Intensive is opening registration for next year. This nine-month program equips clinicians to identify root causes of pain, support client healing on a cellular level, and integrate trauma-informed strategies into everyday practice.
Learn more and apply today!
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Ever leave a session feeling drained or unexpectedly triggered? In this episode, we dive into why these reactions happen, how to navigate them in real-time, and—most importantly—how to prevent them from controlling your day. Learn how to recognize your own activation, honor your responses, and turn these moments into opportunities for growth and healing. Plus, get a snap shot of the Birth Healing Intensive Program, a transformative nine-month journey designed to help practitioners do their own inner work so they can better support their clients.
✨ Episode Highlights for Practitioners:
- Understanding what triggers your activation during sessions and in life
- Practical strategies to ground yourself and stay present with clients
- Tools to separate your emotions from your clients’ to prevent burnout
- Turning triggers into opportunities for personal healing and growth
FREE MASTERCLASS WITH LYNN SCHULTE - Available the week of October 13th only!
Register for How to Bring More Fun Into Your Practice and Avoid Burnout and take advantage of this free opportunity to learn:
- The #1 key to healing that no one talks about
- The 4 C’s of effective release work
- How to make sessions more fulfilling for both your client and you
- What you can do to protect yourself from burnout
- Effective options for when tissues won’t release
- 2 skills that are imperative for working in pelvic health
Register for free TODAY! This class will be offered at 3 different times, so choose the date that works with your schedule.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2026 BIRTH HEALING INTENSIVE
The Birth Healing Intensive is a 9-month transformational program that equips practitioners to deeply heal themselves through their own inside out work to expand their clinical and intuitive skills, and confidently support clients through trauma, pain, and stuck patterns for lasting, profound results. Learn more and apply to the Birth Healing Intensive TODAY!
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What if the tension you’re feeling in your client’s body isn’t just “tight tissue” but unprocessed trauma? In this episode, Lynn reveals the subtle cues most therapists miss—and the simple Trauma Release Statement that can unlock release when nothing else seems to work. If you’ve ever felt stuck in treatment, then this episode has the tips you’ve been waiting for.
✨ Episode Highlights for Practitioners:
- How trauma shows up in nervous system “buzz” and tissue freeze
- Subtle client cues that reveal hidden trauma
- The Trauma Release Statement: when and how to use it
- Why intuition is essential for deeper results
- First steps for expanding your trauma-healing skillset
FREE MASTERCLASS WITH LYNN SCHULTE
Register for How to Bring More Fun Into Your Practice and Avoid Burnout and take advantage of this free opportunity to learn:
- The #1 key to healing that no one talks about
- The 4 C’s of effective release work
- How to make sessions more fulfilling for both your client and you
- What you can do to protect yourself from burnout
- Effective options for when tissues won’t release
- 2 skills that are imperative for working in pelvic health
Register for free TODAY! This class will be offered at 3 different times, so choose the date that works with your schedule.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE 2026 BIRTH HEALING INTENSIVE
The Birth Healing Intensive is a 9-month transformational program that equips practitioners to deeply heal themselves through their own inside out work to expand their clinical and intuitive skills, and confidently support clients through trauma, pain, and stuck patterns for lasting, profound results. Learn more and apply to the Birth Healing Intensive TODAY!
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What if you had a single resource that could change the way you treat women’s health—covering everything from pelvic care to pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond? In this episode, Lynn talks with authors Darla Cathcart and Rebecca Stephenson about their groundbreaking new textbook, The Physical Therapist’s Guide to Women’s Pelvic, Perinatal, and Reproductive Health, that blends evidence, compassion, and real-world tools to support clinicians at every level. They reveal the behind-the-scenes challenges, the surprising insights, and why this book is the guide you’ve been searching for. Don’t miss it—this conversation will leave you inspired to expand your practice in powerful ways.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- The story behind this groundbreaking book
- Practical tools: charts, scripts, and visuals for daily use
- Updated evidence on pelvic, perinatal, breast, and reproductive health
- Addressing disparities and empowering underserved populations
- Why this book matters for PTs, OTs, physicians, and midwives
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About Today’s Speakers
Rebecca G. Stephenson is a clinical specialist in women’s and pelvic health physical therapy at Massachusetts General Hospital MGB at the Newton-Wellesley Ambulatory Care Center, medical writer and is a board-certified Women’s Health Clinical Specialist (WCS) through the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. From the Academy of Pelvic Health of the American Physical Therapy Association she has a Certification of Achievement in Pelvic Health (CAPP-Pelvic), Certification in Childbirth Education. She is a past president and secretary of the International Organization of Physical Therapists in Pelvic and Women’s Health. Dr. Stephenson has received many awards: the Lucy Blair Award from the American Physical Therapy Association (APTA), the Elizabeth Nobel Award from the Academy of Pelvic Health, and the Barbara Adams Fellow in the MGH Institute of Physical Therapy for leadership. Dr. Stephenson is on the faculty for the Academy of Pelvic Health of the American Physical Therapy Association. Rebecca founded, along with Tracy Spitznagle and Susan Clinton, the Global Women’s Health Initiative, a non-profit, GWHI.org.
Darla B. Cathcart is Assistant Clinical Professor and Assistant Director of Clinical Education at Graceland University (Independence, MO) and is a board-certified Women’s Health Certified Specialist (WCS) through the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties. She has also earned from APTA Academy of Pelvic Health the Certificate of Achievement in Pelvic Physical Therapy (CAPP-Pelvic) and the Certificate of Achievement in Pregnancy and Postpartum Physical Therapy (CAPP-OB). Darla has served as the President (2024–2026), President-elect (2023–2024), Vice President (2015–2016), and Director of Education (2011–2014) for the Academy of Pelvic Health, American Physical Therapy Association. Dr. Cathcart received several awards from the Academy of Pelvic Health: Instructor of the Year (2017); Course Site Hostess of the Year (2018); and Volunteer of the Year (2015).
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What does diving the Great Barrier Reef have to do with bodywork? In this episode, Lynn reveals powerful parallels between coral, fish, and the hidden patterns we uncover in the body—connections that can completely shift your results with clients. She shares how to move beyond surface-level anatomy and start sensing the deeper signals of trauma, injury, and release. Get ready to see your practice in a whole new light.
Episode Highlights:
- The surprising link between coral varieties and body tissues
- How to detect trauma and holding patterns beneath your hands
- Why local restrictions often connect to distant injuries
- The secret to balancing micro and macro perspectives in treatment
- A simple way to soften and release hardened bone
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If you work with parents who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated, this is their reset: one simple framework you can share to help them quickly shift the dynamics at home.
Today’s episode is your go-to guide for helping parents understand the ‘whole family nervous system’—the hidden, powerful connection that influences how parents and kids react to stress.
Lynn is joined by Emma Johnston and Eleanor Mann, founders of The Reconnected, who have supported over 100,000 families in moving from tension and reactivity to connection and ease. Their approach blends breathwork, nervous system regulation, and play therapy, offering practical tools you can pass on to your clients for immediate and lasting change.
✨Episode Highlights:
- A child’s ability to self-regulate is directly tied to their caregivers’ nervous system state.
- Breathwork can help release stored stress and expand capacity for calm, connected responses.
- Children’s primary healing tool is play — the caregiver’s role is to be present and attuned while they express themselves.
- Old reaction patterns come from past experiences; but self-regulation can break these patterns.
- A supportive community is a powerful catalyst for sustained family change.
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About Today’s Speakers:
Emma Johnston and Eleanor Mann are the founders of The Reconnected, a global community of over one hundred thousand families. They are dedicated to supporting parents to consciously transform their lives. Since launching their signature course, Reconnected Parenting, in 2019, they have positively impacted thousands of families, guiding them towards more fulfilling and intentional parenting experiences.
As experts in Breathwork and Play Therapy, they advocate for a modern, authentic, and values-driven approach to parenting.
Emma is a Breathwork Practitioner, Yoga Teacher, and mother of five young children.
Eleanor is a Counsellor, Breathwork Practitioner, Play Therapist, and mother of five in their teens and young adult years.
Website: https://thereconnected.com/
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Reconnected-Parenting-Healing-Nervous-Regulation/dp/1401996973
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What if your client’s symptoms weren’t what they seemed? In this episode, Lynn unpacks a session working with a postpartum client whose orthopedic complaints—leg weakness, knee irritation, constipation, and squat pain—led to surprising discoveries deep in the pelvis. Each release revealed new layers: from sacral flexion and a tucked cervix to a bound utero-sacral ligament that instantly shifted motor control and pelvic floor function. Just when the picture seemed complete, the body exposed one last twist—an old ankle sprain still holding tension from high school. This episode is a powerful reminder that the body always tells the story— when we’re willing to listen to it.
✨ Episode Highlights:
- Identifying sacral flexion and ischial splaying patterns postpartum
- Releasing a tight utero-sacral ligament for better pelvic mobility
- Restoring pelvic floor balance and effortless activation
- Resolving orthopedic symptoms (knee tracking, squat pain) through pelvic alignment
- Discovering how old injuries and stored energy show up in postpartum recovery
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If you have clients whose pessary keeps slipping out, today’s podcast is the essential guide to why it happens and how to fix it. In today’s episode, Lynn is joined by Gaynor Morgan who shares the shortcuts you’ve been waiting for — covering biomechanics, breathing, and the smart use of one or even two pessaries for maximum support.
You’ll learn exactly when a second pessary can make all the difference, how to choose the right type of pessary for each prolapse, and the movement and breathing tweaks that help it stay put.
The result? More comfort, more stability, and better outcomes for your clients — without endless trial and error. If you’ve ever thought, “Why won’t it just stay in?”, consider this episode to be your answer.
✨Episode Highlights:
- Identify the cause if a pessary is falling out
- Strengthen first if needed
- Choose the right type or combo of pessaries
- Address movement & breathing
- Stay informed on the latest research and clinical evidence
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About Today’s Speaker:
Gaynor is a distinguished women's health specialist with a unique dual expertise in pessary innovation and biomechanical breathwork. With over 25 years in the pessary industry, she has dedicated her career to developing non-surgical solutions for pelvic floor dysfunction.Her pioneering work in pessary design and application has educated thousands of medical professionals and patients globally, earning her international recognition, including the Platinum Award at the International Awards for Women in Innovation and Invention. Understanding that a pessary is most effective when integrated with proper physiological function, Gaynor became a certified Oxygen Advantage Advanced Breathing Instructor,
trained directly by Professor Patrick McKeown. She uniquely combines this scientifically- grounded breathwork with biomechanical movement to help women optimize their pessary experience. This integrated approach supports better management of prolapse, incontinence, and hypertonicity by improving pelvic floor coordination and overall core stability.
Gaynor’s method ensures that the pessary works in harmony with the body, empowering women with greater comfort, confidence, and long-term success.
Website: https://www.pelvicangel.net/
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Your clients are coming to you because their body is communicating that there is an issue.
Are you listening to what it has to say?
If you struggle getting the results you want with your clients or helping clients improve beyond a certain point – then don’t miss today’s episode as Lynn shares her tricks of the trade that will not only get you desirable results, but that will pull in the pieces that have been ‘missing’. You know the ones - the little thoughts or pings in your body that tell you – “you can do more” and “there is more to this work”.
Well, Lynn is here to tell you, “You can! And, there is!”
When working with clients, there is so much more to working with the body than just following the protocols you have been taught. Listen in as Lynn shares a recent case that involved working on a client’s cervix and the additional data you need to be watching for in all of your treatment sessions to attain more meaningful results.
Keep listening if you Are you ready to add in the missing pieces and improve client outcomes?
✨Episode Highlights:
- Tuning into what the tissue “wants”
- The evolving skill of sensing tissue response
- Importance of foundational techniques and flexibility
- Adjusting to individual presentations
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When it comes to pregnancy and postpartum, it is hard to sift through what we should and should not be telling our clients; however, when it comes to Vitamin D, the research is clear – Vitamin D plays a crucial role in the health of our pregnant clients and their infants.
Today, Lynn Schulte, PT is joined by Jen Aliano, the Executive Director of GrassrootsHealth, as Jen dives into the incredible data on the critical, yet often overlooked, role of vitamin D in pregnancy, chronic disease prevention, immune function, and overall health.
Learn how vitamin D deficiency is contributing to poor health outcomes—which are often completely preventable. Join the conversation and connect with GrassrootsHealth to learn more about what can be done to raise awareness about the research behind the essential needs for Vitamin D.
✨Episode Highlights:
- Vitamin D & Pregnancy
- Why Deficiency Is So Common
- Breastfeeding & Infant Health
- Racial Disparities in Deficiency
- Immunity & Chronic Disease Prevention
- Testing & Individual Needs
- Policy Action – Capitol Hill, Sept 10
🧾 To Get Involved and Interview Links:
- Donate and learn more: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/a-major-opportunity-is-knock
- Link to Testing: https://daction.grassrootshealth.net/tests/
- Watch the Dr. Carol Wagner YouTube Video: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/vitamin-d-deficiency-the-canary-in-the-coal-mine-the-indicator-of-suboptimal-health-in-pregnant-women/
- Watch the Dr. Hollis YouTube Video: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/behind-research-exclusive-interview-dr-bruce-hollis/
- Watch the Dr. Weiss YouTube Video: https://www.grassrootshealth.net/blog/lessons-learned-rct-prenatal-vitamin-d-asthma/
About Today’s Speaker
JEN ALIANO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF GRASSROOTSHEALTH
Jen Aliano, MS, LAc, CCN, has been working in the field of nutrition since 2004, with over 10 years of experience in vitamin D research and education specifically. She is currently the Executive Director of GrassrootsHealth, a non-profit public health promotion and research organization supported by over 40 international senior vitamin D scientists and experts. GrassrootsHealth has been running the world’s largest public health intervention study – the D*action field trial – to solve the vitamin D deficiency epidemic, while focusing on promoting optimal health worldwide through nutrient research, education, and advocacy, with a primary focus on the role of vitamin D.
Website: https://grassrootshealth.net
Email: jen@grassrootshealth.net
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If you want to save time and effort plus get incredible results in your postpartum body treatment sessions, then today’s episode with Lynn Schulte is a must listen.
In her 30+ years of practice, Lynn has been fine-tuning how to best work with the postpartum body. Today, she shares with you the essential steps and areas to treat to get the best and quickest results for your postpartum clients. Stop the heavy lifting and the forced releases by connecting what you find both from your external and internal assessments and treatments to help clients recover quicker and more fully after birth.
✨Episode Highlights:
- External Before Internal
- Uterus-on-Bladder Technique
- Case Study Insight
- Link Between Internal Muscle Tension & Bone Position.
- IRF (Ischiorectal Fossa) Importance
- Collagen Type and Birth Response
- Reflexive Core Activation
Lynn encourages pelvic health therapists to deepen their skills and knowledge by going beyond standard training with courses that empower practitioners to use their expertise and intuition to create more impactful and effective results with lifelong benefits.
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Want to learn more? Check out Lynn’s pregnant and postpartum body courses to elevate your practice.
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As a pelvic health therapist, you are in a position to help clear blocks that may be impacting your client’s fertility! Do you want to learn how? Listen in to today’s conversation as Dr. Yeni Abraham joins Lynn to share incredible wisdom and insight around what we can do to help clients navigate infertility and miscarriage. This conversation will expand your care on multiple levels.
Today’s episode will dive into:
- How cultural and emotional grief with infertility and miscarriage can create shame, community ostracism, isolation, and feelings of betrayal by one’s body.
- How grief can get held as trauma in the body and ultimately impact fertility.
- How to spot red flags, integrate trauma-informed care, and confidently treat the emotional layers stored in tissue.
- What we can do to help build emotional safety for our clients, so they can relax and engage more deeply in their healing.
- What you need to know in terms of clinical discernment, collaboration, and trauma-informed, whole-person care to better guide your clients.
Don’t miss this important episode and the opportunity to provide more expansive and necessary care to your clients.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Dr. Oluwayeni Abraham, PT, DPT, is a pelvic physical therapist and pelvic educator. She practices and teaches from a place of purpose to address the fertility concerns, pelvic pain and pregnancy related conditions women struggle with.
As patients fondly call her, “Dr.Yeni” is also a mentor, teacher and practices using gynovisceral manipulation techniques to treat and manage female mechanical infertility. Her use of these skills in practice has addressed hormonal issues, ovulatory concerns and numerous reproductive diagnoses impacting fertility.
Dr.Yeni is a fertility warrior who is now a mother after a battle with infertility. She is happily married with a wonderful son, passionate about mentoring young women and aiming to provide expert level care for all women.
“I’ve always believed that the marriage between holistic and western medicine can do wonders in the field of pelvic and reproductive health. As a licensed pelvic floor physical therapist who specializes in fertility and pelvic pain, I use my understanding of the female lumbopelvic region and my passion for curating manual treatment techniques to address the pervasive obstacles that contribute to both mechanical and hormonal problems in women trying to conceive. Working in this population provides the opportunity to empower women who are in a vulnerable season in their lives. Though the healing work is physical, the results are life-changing.”
- Dr. Yeni Abraham
Dr. Yeni’s Website: https://www.triggeredacademy.com/home
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I am so excited to share this fascinating case study today that brought up a surprising connection between my client’s abdominal tension during pregnancy and a past injury in her lower extremities. It caught me by surprise as my normal release techniques were not making effective changes, but I got curious – and the results were beautiful!
The body is incredible in its ability to tell us when something is not right. It is our job to listen and find the connection – in this case the connection was between a past left ankle fracture and persistent abdominal tension. The tension was keeping the body in restriction and may have led to a challenge in labor and delivery.
Listen to this case to learn:
- What you can do when pain or tension returns even after a release
- How to stay curious when tissues don’t respond as expected
- What to reassess after a release
- How past injuries can silently influence uterine mobility, ligament tension, and even fetal positioning
Treating the whole body—not just the area of dysfunction—is essential to your pelvic health practice. Whether you're a therapist, bodyworker, or clinician working with pregnant clients, this episode offers eye-opening insights into fascial relationships and introduces techniques taught in Lynn’s Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body course. A must-listen for anyone ready to elevate their hands-on skills and deepen their understanding of the body's subtle but powerful connections.
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If you want to know what a Live Training with Lynn is like for the Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body course – listen to today’s podcast as Lynn shares an incredible experience from a course in Springfield, Missouri. In the live trainings, not only will you get lots of hands-on practice and individualized attention, but you get to experience the techniques first hand and see live demonstrations, including live demos on pregnant clients for many locations.
Spoiler Alert: You don’t have to wait until Lynn is coming to a location near you to get started with this training as you can dive into the coursework required for the live training by starting the online course today! This will help your knowledge of the techniques sink in even deeper for greater mastery of the skills!
If you are interested in building your confidence and effectiveness in clinical practice, listen in to learn more about how to really get this work into your hands.
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Today, I share one of my top teaching wisdoms – you need to address the pelvic bones with ALL of your pelvic health clients. In today’s episode, you will learn the importance of working with the pelvic bones not just to release the open birthing pattern, but when assessing and treating all of your pelvic health patients.
Listen in to hear multiple case studies that focus on how to work with the pelvic bones and what you can do to address issues from falls, injuries or other traumas that patients may not even remember. There is even a case where the connection between the sacrum and the cranial dural system alleviated a client’s headaches!
Key takeaways from this episode include:
- Assessing beyond just the soft tissue
- Techniques for release of the pelvic bones
- Comprehensive applications that expand beyond postpartum care
- Energetic connection for tissue release
Listen in to learn more about working with the foundation of your client’s pelvic health!
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From fingertips to the ulnar edge, our hands can become finely tuned instruments for sensing tissue responses – particularly in specialized work like intravaginal therapy.
Our hands are an extension of our heart and play a profound role in the therapeutic process. In today’s episode, Lynn shares new insights around the healing power of our hands. She demonstrates how to balance neutral hand placement with imparting and receiving energy and offers tips on how to explore these dynamics in your sessions. Lynn also talks about the importance of touch and what you can do to help promote healing with your touch.
Whether you’re a seasoned therapist or new to bodywork, you’ll learn new insights about the power of touch, the importance of energetic awareness, and the magic that happens when we get out of our heads and into our hands.
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Today, join Lynn as she recounts a compelling case study of a client’s recovery from intense pelvic and back pain after childbirth. The client who was suffering from a history of low back pain and a traumatic labor experience, felt as though her pelvis might split in two. Despite these challenges, profound healing unfolded during her second session.
Through her work, Lynn uncovered blocked energy flow in the dural tube and limiting beliefs rooted in the client’s labor experience that were inhibiting her ability to heal. After addressing these areas, the results were nothing short of remarkable – immense pain relief, emotional release, and a renewed sense of well-being.
Discover the transformative power of restoring birth energy flow and the impact it can have on both the physical and emotional health of your postpartum clients. In this incredible journey, Lynn shares key insights for working with both physical and emotional pain and how these techniques heal all the way to the heart.
Resources:
Tami Lynn Kent’s Book: Wild Mothering https://www.wildfeminine.com/
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As pelvic health practitioners, we can positively impact birth and postpartum outcomes – but we need OBGYNs to know what is possible and why it is necessary. Today, I will share with you what I wish every OBGYN would know to ensure we are doing our best together in providing care for our pregnant and postpartum clients.
In today’s episode, discover what I believe every OBGYN needs to know about pregnancy and postpartum care from a pelvic health perspective. This episode is packed with tips to improve outcomes, reduce trauma, and empower moms for smoother births and recoveries!
Lynn shares the critical importance of addressing back pain during pregnancy and how referrals to pelvic health specialists can make a world of difference. She talks about why baby’s positioning is more than just being “head down”, and how the flexibility of the uterine ligaments is crucial for a smoother birth experience.
Lynn dives into postpartum recovery and what can be done to address scar tissue mobility and cervical mobility for healing, comfort and sexual wellness. She also highlights the value of standing assessments for prolapse and the growing need for effective pessary fitting to provide holistic care for postpartum mothers.
Key Takeaways for OBGYNs and Birth Professionals:
- Learn simple ways to differentiate back pain causes and refer effectively to pelvic health specialists.
- Understand how the nuances of baby positioning can make labor smoother for both mother and baby.
- Explore how to better support postpartum recovery by addressing tissue and scar mobility.
- Discover actionable tips for empowering your presence in the birthing room to reduce trauma.
- Gain insight into standing assessments for prolapse and fitting pessaries to provide holistic care.
Let’s spread this valuable knowledge and empower practitioners to collaborate and enhance outcomes for clients everywhere. Share this episode with your colleagues and connect with the Institute for Birth Healing for more insights into optimizing maternal care.
Tune in, share widely, and join us in creating smoother births and faster recoveries.
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Pelvic pain remains shrouded in cultural stigma, often misunderstood and feared. Today, Suzanne Scurlock, craniosacral therapist and founder of Healing from the Core® and I explore how the body’s innate wisdom and compassionate touch can unlock transformative healing and empowerment to create profound restoration – mind, body and soul.
Today, host Lynn Schulte and Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, an esteemed craniosacral therapist instructor with over 35 years of teaching experience and founder of Healing from the Core®, unravel the complexities of pelvic pain and its connection to emotional trauma and ancestral healing. Suzanne shares about “energy cysts” and together, Lynn and Suzanne highlight the importance of early education and connection to our power centers.
This episode is a must-listen for anyone ready to explore the deep connections between body, mind, and spirit in trauma recovery. Whether you’re a pelvic health therapist, bodyworker, or someone on a personal healing journey, you’ll leave with impactful and actionable insights and a renewed understanding of the body’s capacity for transformation.
Resources
- FREE Webinar for Women with Suzanne Scurlock: Pelvic Pain & Dysfunction: Causes & Solutions
- https://hpc.healingfromthecore.com/pelvic-pain-replay?am_id=lynnschulte2
- Healing from the Core® Workshops: Explore Suzanne’s 5-day immersive retreats in Asheville, NC, and Claymont, WV. Learn more about movement practices, ancestral healing, and hands-on sacred ceremonies.
- Visit Suzanne's website:: https://healingfromthecore.com/home
- Contact: Reach out for workshop details or to connect with a dedicated team member for support: https://healingfromthecore.com/contact/
Tune in to uncover the profound wisdom your body holds and take the first step toward lasting healing.
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Did you know that the key to easing round ligament pain during pregnancy could lie in the often-overlooked inguinal canal?
In this episode, we dive deep into a critical yet underappreciated area of the body, and its profound impact on pregnant clients. Discover how the inguinal canal is essential to the health and comfort of the round ligament—and how restrictions here can contribute to pain, misalignment and impact birth.
From understanding the anatomy and mechanics of the inguinal canal to actionable strategies for relieving tension and enhancing mobility, this episode is packed with insights that will have you rethinking your approach to pelvic care.
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When you think of the pelvis, which bone is the most important? Since they all work together they all are important, but in this episode, Lynn dives deep into the importance of the sacrum—often referred to as the "sacred bone"—in pelvic health. She shares why the sacrum is the cornerstone of pelvic health and how mastering its assessment can transform your practice.
Learn actionable insights you can use in your sessions and the setup you need to enhance your palpation skills. Lynn will help you refine your skills, improve client outcomes, and gain a deeper appreciation for the sacrum's role in pelvic health in today’s practice changing episode!
Resources Mentioned:
- Free Sacral Flexion Course: Learn essential techniques to address sacral flexion issues. https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/sacral-flexion-pattern-2/
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Are you feeling stuck in your practice or with certain clients -- trying too hard to make tissues release and changes happen? Listen in to today’s episode as Lynn shares two client stories and what can happen if we step back, get curious, and allow the body’s innate wisdom to guide the healing process.
Come discover the importance of stepping back and getting curious when working with tissues that resist release. It’s easy to fall into the trap of over-efforting, trying to force a release or change, but resistance often signals something deeper. By learning to approach the body with curiosity and respect, we open the door to profound healing.
Key Topics Covered:
- The importance of backing off when tissues resist and asking, “What is the tissue trying to do?”
- How to dialogue with the body and allow tissues to relax naturally, rather than pushing for a release.
- Techniques like pelvic sweeping and awareness practices to support clients without delving into complex emotional details.
Client Stories:
- Client 1: A woman with tension linked to unresolved trauma from an abusive relationship.
- Client 2: A grieving mother carrying trauma from the past and feelings of over-responsibility.
The approach discussed in today’s episode is at the core of what’s taught in the Birth Healing Intensive, a transformative 9-month journey that equips practitioners with tools to respectfully and effectively support pregnant and postpartum clients from a deeper level. If you’re ready to get more meaningful results for both you and your clients, consider enrolling in the next session starting in January. To learn more check out https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/birth-healing-intensive/
Resources Mentioned:
- Holistic Pelvic Care by Tami Lynn Kent
- Birth Healing Intensive with Lynn
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Ever wonder what really happens to your pelvis and tissues during and after childbirth? In this episode, Lynn covers the process of resetting the tissues post-birth, helping everything find its way back to an optimal position for recovery and renewed strength.
Listen in to today’s conversation about the process of "resetting" the pelvis and surrounding tissues after a vaginal birth. We will dive into what happens to the pelvis, tissues, and organs as the baby makes its way out, and I will explain what you can do to help guide your client’s body back to its original or near-original position for optimal function and recovery.
We break it down layer by layer:
- Bones
- Bladder
- Cervix
- Pelvic Floor Muscles
- Perineal Body and EAS
You don’t want to miss this crucial information on resetting these structures to support your clients in a better recovery and restoration postpartum. Tune in to learn more about this fascinating and vital process!
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How do you figure out the cause of an issue when the client doesn’t recall anything that could be causing it?
As a pelvic health physical therapist, we have to play detective, we listen intently, we use our training to palpate the body for clues, and we let our hands guide us to figure out the true cause of the problem we are addressing.
In today’s episode, Lynn shares a case study of a 13 year old female who had been struggling with urinary incontinence for years. Listen in to hear the cause of her incontinence.
This young lady was leaking urine when she laughed, but she could not recall any falls or impacts to her pelvis or bladder that could be causing the issue.
Upon assessment, Lynn discovered that her sacrum was hard and her tailbone was pulled to the right. Upon palpation there was a strong connection between the tailbone and the bladder. Another connection was found with the mid-back as well.
As Lynn and her client continued to talk, the potential cause came to mind - this young client had launched out of a slide when she was little and landed on her buttocks. As a quick note, if you have a young client be sure to check the tailbone because kids fall and many times don’t remember it. It’s important to use all of your skills in your assessments, so you can get to the true cause of an issue to help it resolve.
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Have you helped clients heal after the loss of a miscarriage or supported them during their struggles to conceive? There is a gift in the work we do, and today’s guest shares how this gift has helped restore her life and given her hope for a promising future.
Today, Lynn is joined by Physical Therapist and parent, Kristin Reardon for a candid conversation about loss, struggles with conception, and the journey forward that opened Kirstin’s world to new possibilities within pelvic health.
Kirstin Reardon was a Neurological PT for most of her career. Her personal journey addressing issues with DRA and prolapse after the birth of 2 children and experiencing the loss from a miscarriage pushed her to seek out more support. She learned about the Institute for Birth Healing and signed up for the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body to try to figure out how to get back to a better place in her own body.
Today, she joins Lynn to share her story of recovery and healing and where this work is taking her next in her desire to help herself and others heal fully.
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Do you have clients preparing for a VBAC? Do you want to know what steps you can take to help them?
In today’s episode Lynn discusses what she does to help prepare her clients for a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). What we do as practitioners cannot guarantee a specific result, but we can help increase our client’s chances of success with our assessment and treatment of the body.
For clients who want a VBAC, it is important to understand what caused the Cesarean Birth in the first place. Was the surgery planned or did the client labor? Get as many details as possible to help you learn what happened prior to doing your assessment.
The assessment will include the following steps:
- Assess the pelvic shape, the arch of the pubic ramus, SIJ and over all boney anatomy for clues as to if anything would obstruct the baby from entering in or through the pelvis.
- Next assess the lower abdominal fascia, uterine ligaments and the pelvic floor muscles.
- Then assess for the baby’s position in the pelvis.
There is always a reason for the baby’ position. The baby gets to determine how he or she would like to be born. We as practitioners can create space and opportunity in the body to optimize the birth, but we cannot force a position. Many midwives have attested that the body is capable of so much during birth. It can shift positions and it is more than capable of delivering a child vaginally in most cases, so select the words you use with your client, so you are empowering them and their connection to their body.
If you would like to learn more about preparing the body for birth check out the Institute for Birth Healing’s new course Pregnancy, Pain and Beyond.
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Did you know that the connective tissue in your body—fascia—not only supports movement and stability but also holds the stories of our lives and can influence a baby’s position during pregnancy? What if understanding fascia could transform the way you support your pregnant and postpartum clients? Tune in to discover how this incredible system impacts everything from cellular communication to birth outcomes!
Fascia is an amazing structure in the body that connects and surrounds everything. It is made of collagen that creates support and flexibility within the tissues it surrounds and has many functions including:
- Support
- Protection
- Slide and glide to help movement
- Force transmission
- Stability to joints
- Maintenance of shape and position
- Cellular communication
- Sensory system functionality
- Fluid dynamics
- It is a part of our unconscious
In short the fascial system is an information superhighway for the body.
Although there is little research on how our fascial trains are affected during pregnancy we do know they are important. The deep posterior fascial line that goes from the calcaneus to the occiput crossing over at the sacrum can impact the sacrotuberous ligament of the uterus. The spiral line crosses from the rib cage to the hip and down the IT band. This affects the body’s ability to create space for the baby to grow. The superficial front line impacts the rectus abdominis and linea alba which is important when treating DRA.
It is important to take a full body approach to all clients but especially pregnant clients because pregnancy creates changes that affect the entire fascial system. If you are interested in learning more about the fascia in the body in relation to pregnancy the Institute for Birth Healing has created a new class called Pregnancy, Pain and Beyond that addresses how to work the fascia of the pregnant body. Registration opens on May 5, 2025.
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What do you do when a client is stuck with their shoulders rounded and head forward but they are not able to move to a more neutral position?
In today's episode, Lynn talks with Dr. Anna Hammond, PT, DPT, a lead therapist at Core Exercise Solutions, about ways to examine the shoulders and ribs to improve posture and make lasting changes.
NOTE: Anna visually shows the movements in the video and the audio is not always clear as to what she is doing. Please refer to the YouTube links referenced for the visuals. https://youtu.be/Zq-Z_FV1-mE
As pregnancy progresses the growth of the baby causes the body to change. These changes need to occur but can expose imbalances in the pregnant person’s body that can affect their ability to move with balance and ease. They can also impact the load on the pelvic floor and create potential issues with prolapse. Addressing posture during pregnancy can set a pregnant person up for a more successful experience postpartum.
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How confident are you working with clients who want help turning their breech positioned babies?
Do you have clients who want to try and deliver vaginally even though their baby is breech?
Over the past few months, in preparation for the Birth Healing Summit, Lynn has been learning a lot about breech birth. In today’s podcast, she shares the highlights of what she has learned and talks about what we can do as bodyworkers, PTs, and OTs to help clients with breech babies.
Breech births account for 4% of all term babies. Although breech presentation is considered a normal variation of birth in most of the world, in the USA most physicians and hospitals require the birthing person to have a c-section when the baby is breech. Listen in to learn what is required (or rather what isn’t) to support the client and the baby during a vaginal delivery of a baby that is breech. Lynn also shares some information you can use prenatally to help give a baby more space, opportunity and balance.
Keep an eye out for Lynn’s new pregnancy course, Pregnancy Pain and Beyond, which will be opening up for registration on May 5th. This course will give you a strong foundation for working with pregnant clients and expanding beyond just addressing pain. You will learn how to prepare the body for birth, including utilizing techniques to help with breech positioning.
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Have you ever noticed how your connection with a client impacts their treatment session? What happens when you don’t connect with a client?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Susannah Haarmann about the importance of creating connections with your clients.
Our current medical model is very top down. We, as providers, are supposed to know what to do and our clients just have to receive the guidance we are providing. In truth, our sessions are more effective when we walk beside our clients and help them be an active participant in their care. By working together, we help the nervous system stay in an optimal response which helps with healing.
Susannah’s tips to connect with clients and improve treatments: realize treatments are not a checklist, but require a connection to a person who has a nervous system, describe what you are going to do before you do it and continually ask for consent, give the client autonomy and control (they are doing this for themselves no for you).
Susannah’s advice for practitioners: know your boundaries, create rituals between clients, take care of yourself not just your clients
Susannah Haarmann will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be talking about the nervous system. The Birth Healing Summit will take place April 7 - 18, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Susannah Haarmann, PT, WCS, CLT specializes in pelvic health treatment. She is a certified lymphedema therapist and an international leader in advancing rehab care for patients with cancer. In 2013 Susannah entered the ranks of ABPTS Women’s Clinical Specialists in 2013; an honor of which only 333 licensed physical therapists hold in the United States as of 2016.
Susannah is a faculty member for the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute teaching continuing education courses nationally to medical practitioners on the topics of pelvic dysfunction and rehabilitation during and after breast cancer treatment. She is the creator of the 2-day course “Rehabilitation for the Breast Cancer Patient" which she teaches internationally.
Susannah is the writer and artistic renderer for the Your Core PT book series which provides easy access to patient handouts and clinical reference tools for patients and practitioners.
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Have you ever had clients tell you that their doctor recommended they be induced because their baby was too big only to find out that the baby was 5-7 lbs.?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Kate White, the founder and director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, about the impact inductions or threats of inductions can have on both the mother and the child.
Clients should be empowered to make a decision that is best for them and what they believe to be best for the baby once presented with all the facts.
It has been shown that if parents are included in decision making there is no trauma. Trauma can occur when the relational aspect between parent and provider falls apart. Kate teaches clients to make decisions using the acronym BRAIN.
B - Benefits
R - Risks (understand)
A - Alternatives
I - Intuition
N - Now or Nothing
Potential impacts on the baby from induction include: time is a trigger, authentic impulses have been overridden, not being able to determine his/her authenticity, difficulty with finding his/her way, challenges with decision making, feeling overpowered, feeling rushed, tempo feels pushed toward the completion of a project, and prone to collapse.
Reference to Rachel Reed’s book: Why induction matters
Listen to today’s podcast to learn Kate’s advice on what you can do to help support your clients who are navigating induction and what can be done to reduce any trauma for your clients and their baby.
Kate White will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit. She will be talking about her 3 steps to approach birth. Join the Institute for Birth Healing mailing list for more details about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit taking place April 7 - 18, 2025. Registration will open on March 24, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Kate White is the Founder and Director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Programs and the Prenatal and Perinatal Somatics Institute. Kate has developed educational training programs in understanding the baby's experience, especially how to prevent and treat birth trauma. She is the co-creator of Integrated Prenatal and Perinatal Dynamics, Founding Director of the Education Department at APPPAH, and the creator of the Prenatal and Perinatal Educator Certificate Program for professionals (an 18-day basic training program and a 12 day advanced program).
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We all know that pregnancy can produce some aches and pains in the body, but what are they really telling us and how might they impact birth?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Gabrielle Brennan, a midwife and body worker in Australia, who shares what pains and aches are telling you and your client about your client’s pregnant body.
Pain during pregnancy is not normal. It may be common, but when there is pain or discomfort in the pregnant body, it means that something is unstable or imbalanced and needs to be addressed. Often, aches and pains are due to the baby’s lack of space in the body. The baby will maneuver into a creative position to avoid tight or tense areas in the body which can often be uncomfortable for mom.
By working with the body to create space and get the baby into a good position, you are helping set your client up for a smoother birth. It will be easier for your client’s body to perform its job during labor and birth when there are fewer restrictions and when there is better alignment, and you will also help the baby have an easier time getting into the birth canal.
Listen in for the details on what to address and look for when your pregnant clients come in complaining of different aches and pains. Gabrielle will give you some great tools for addressing the round ligament which is extremely important for helping the baby get into a better position.
Gabrielle Brennan will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be talking about the importance of troubleshooting early labor. Join the Institute for Birth Healing mailing list for more details about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit taking place April 7 - 18, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Gabrielle Brennan is a nurse/midwife and personal trainer who provides bodywork and techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning for labor. She is dedicated to getting pregnant people out of pain and attuned with their body to create an optimal birth. For more information, check out her website at: https://glorrilabourbodywork.com.au/about
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Birth Interventions are so commonplace these days that we just assume they are normal and ok. But what do these interventions really do to our bodies?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks with midwife, Bernadette Lack, about the impact birth interventions have on the body and what healing needs to happen because of them.
As a society, we may be unaware of the impact modern medical interventions have on the body as it has become largely normalized to give blood, to have inductions, and to even have c-sections. What we may not realize is that the body is programmed by thousands of years of physiology and many of these interventions are not part of the program.
When a medical intervention occurs, the body continues to relive the experience and can feel stuck in that time from the past. It continues to relive the trauma instead of acknowledging that it is over.
So, as practitioners we can make a difference by getting curious: How does an epidural impact the relationship between baby and body? What healing has to occur because of any medical interventions that my client experienced?
Connection to the body is a connection to one’s ability to heal. As practitioners we are in the unique position to go into the stuckness of interventions and hold space for our clients to heal what needs to be healed. Often this can occur through acknowledgement and honoring.
Becoming a mother for the 1st or 9th time is a unique opportunity for a mother to be supported by others. The safety felt through this support and recognition can impact the body and baby for a lifetime.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Bernadette is a midwife, personal trainer, wife, mother, published academic and speaker. She has worked as a midwife in Australia and overseas since 2007, across homebirth, large city hospitals and in remote First Nations communities.
Visit her website: https://coreandfloor.com.au/blogs/meet-the-team/bernadetta-b
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Do you feel you need to avoid certain points on the body during pregnancy for fear it might stimulate birth?
In today’s episode, Lynn speaks with Suzanne Yates, a Traditional Chinese Medicine provider and shiatzu practitioner,, about how she works with the body during pregnancy. Suzanne shares the areas she addresses in the pregnant body and her belief that women’s bodies are strong and powerful.
Listen in as Suzanne talks about how work in the first trimester is important because it is the foundation for the entire pregnancy. She talks about how there are no forbidden parts with acupressure and acupuncture in the first trimester and shares the cues the body gives, so you can become better attuned with the body to improve your treatment sessions. Suzanne also talks about what points on the body can help strengthen the cervix in some women which can also strengthen the connection to the womb.
Suzanne shares how when we do not let fear in, when we touch a point on a body we are helping the body do what it needs to do. We as providers do not create a miscarriage we support the body to finish the miscarriage. These are transformative points and we need to respect the power of the points to help transform the body. If the baby and mom are strong there is little we can do to end the pregnancy.
You don’t want to miss all the insights Suzanne shares in how Chinese medicine techniques can support women especially in the first trimester.
Suzanne Yates will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be sharing 3 specific techniques to support the birthing person. Join the Institute for Birth Healing mailing list for more details about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit taking place April 7 - 18, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Suzanne Yates is an acclaimed international therapist, teacher, researcher and innovator. A published author and expert in the field of pre and postnatal shiatsu and bodywork, she has taught doctors, midwives, nurses, shiatsu therapists and massage practitioners to work with mothers and babies over the past 30 + years.
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Do you have clients who are told they will need to have a cesarean birth because their baby is in a breech position, but your client still wants a vaginal birth?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with mother of 4 soon to be 5, Anna Crow, about her experience with breech birth and how she made her dream of having a natural breech birth possible.
Anna, originally from WI, had moved to CO and was pregnant with her second child. She found out at 40+ weeks that her baby was breech. She desired a natural home birth, but in the state of Colorado, midwives are not allowed to deliver a breech baby. Anna wound up traveling back to Wisconsin to have the birth she desired with a midwife who had over 500 breech births to her name.
Due to higher liability with a breech birth many physicians are denied learning how to deliver this normal presentation for birth. It is up to moms who desire the opportunity to have a vaginal delivery to reach out to the local hospitals and practices as well as legislators to make the change they desire to hear. If you are interested in learning more, Breech Without Borders is an organization that supports breech births and has resources on their website: https://www.breechwithoutborders.org/.
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Do you wonder what impact birth has on the baby, let alone a traumatic one? The early years of life can influence a person’s entire life.
In today’s podcast, Lynn’s guest is midwife and author, Geneva Montano. Geneva shares whatyou can do to create a shift to help your clients and their babies heal their births.
She shares about the imprints we all receive in the first 6 minutes, 6 hours, 6 days, 6 weeks and 6 years of life. What happens in those early moments can set up their beliefs about the world and about their safety. These early imprints; however, can be shifted through the process of replaying them.
Geneva shares about what each stage creates. The first 6 minutes are related to grief around leaving the womb and finding safety in a new environment. The first 6 hours focus on co-regulation between the mother or primary caretaker and the baby. The first 6 days are centered on adjusting to being in the world. The first 6 weeks is about learning to receive from others. The first 6 years impact the subconscious thought and belief systems.
In each of the times there are opportunities for injuries but also repair. How we help prepare clients for this is important as there are ways they can help replay these moments and create a different imprint.
Listen in to hear all the golden nuggets Geneva has to offer about these impactful moments in time.
Geneva Montano will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be talking about the magic of a baby-led birth. Join the Institute for Birth Healing mailing list for more details about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit taking place April 7 - 18, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Geneva Montano is a Colorado native and mother of four. She has been a birth worker since 2003 and is a Registered and Professional Midwife in Denver, Certified Doula, Registered Yoga Teacher, CPR instructor, body and energy worker, teacher, mentor, author, artist, and activist. Geneva has had a lifelong passion for spirituality, art, and self-exploration. She believes that each birth teaches her and the families she serves the life lessons they have been seeking.
Visit her website: https://www.genevamontano.com/
Check out her book: Wisdom From the Womb: The Magic of a Baby-Led Birth
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In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the future of health based on the parting words from former US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy.
Based on his research and observations, Dr. Murthy reported that the link to increased pain and failing health in the USA was not due to a lack of medical advancements, but rather to social isolation and loneliness. Dr. Murthy shared how the erosion of community and connection has created a rise not just in mental health issues, but in physical health issues as well. Health is more than just tests and medications or the lack of medications. He reports that to bring true health back we need to rebuild community around relationships, service and purpose. He shares the importance of choosing love over fear and community over money, fame and power. Each person needs to feel seen and this sense of being seen helps buffer against the high levels of stress that cause disease.
We would love to engage in this conversation in a meaningful way and encourage you to share any ideas or thoughts of what you are seeing or doing in your community that is fostering connection and the building of healthy relationships. Together, we can make a positive change.
At the Institute for Birth Healing, one of our goals is to unite birth healing practitioners through this work by creating opportunities for connection and community. We know that when you have support, you are able to thrive and help provide the essential work that can shift and empower mothers and new families. As you continue your education, know that Lynn loves interacting with students at live courses, via email, social media and at conferences. She is here to support you as you support moms, so do feel free to connect in a way that feels meaningful for you.
For more information on how to become part of the Birth Healing Community check out www.instituteforbirthhealing.com
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Are you open to learning from your clients during your treatment sessions? If so, what are you discovering?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks about the different insights we can gain from working with our clients in an open way. When the treatment sessions are two-way and not just us telling our client what to do, we can learn an incredible amount and have better success with our treatments.
Today, Lynn shares about the different pieces she has learned from her clients’ bodies including how to notice and what to do when different systems (i.e. the nervous system versus the organs) need different treatments, what it can mean when a tissue releases only to go back into restriction, again, and how to recognize when a client is not connected to their overall body.
When we tune into our clients and what their bodies are trying to tell us, we can learn so much. What are you learning? Please share with us what you have been learning from your clients. Message Lynn on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Lynn.
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Do you work with clients who are navigating fertility treatments? Do you have resources you can offer them to help guide this journey?
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with physical therapist, Rebeca Segraves, about what she learned through her and her wife’s journey with intrauterine insemination (IUI).
IUI is a fertility treatment that involves placing sperm directly into the uterus during ovulation. It can be a less painful treatment because the sperm are cleaned, so there is less of a reaction from the uterus from IUI than with the ejaculation method of insemination.
With IUI and fertility treatments, Rebeca shares the importance for women to learn about their cycle including checking the temperature and cervical discharge. Rebeca shares tips on optimal times for insemination and peak fertility as well as what women can do to improve their chances for conception.
Fertility treatments are expensive. As providers can help guide our clients on what they can do to research their options for providers and on their own bodies to achieve the best results possible. The more informed we are as providers, the better we can help our clients avoid pitfalls in the medical system and have a more successful journey.
Rebeca Segraves will be joining us for the 2025 Birth Healing Summit! She will be talking about cesarean recovery and planning. Join the Institute for Birth Healing mailing list for more details about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit taking place April 7 - 18, 2025.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Early in her career, Rebeca Segraves recognized that the traditional standard of recovery for female-specific surgeries and childbirth did not offer access to rehab services to enhance function sooner.
Rebeca started Enhanced Recovery and Wellness to address this issue and prioritize mental and physical function early in the hospital and home after major procedures that impacted women’s health.
Enhanced Recovery and Wellness passionately trains occupational and physical therapists to go beyond the standard of care in their hospitals and practices so that women’s health is a priority, and not an afterthought.
Rebeca is dedicated to helping enhance recovery and function sooner after surgery and birth.
Visit her website: https://enhancedrecoverywellness.com/founder/
Book Recommendation: Taking Charge of Your Fertility
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Have you had clients where it does not feel like anything is happening when you check their pelvic floor muscle function?
In today’s podcast, Lynn shares her 4-step process for improving pelvic floor muscle function to create a stronger and easier contraction with less work for you as the practitioner.
Address these 4 areas to increase the pelvic floor muscles’ ability to contract:
- Stabilize and align the bony pelvis
- Treat the organs
- Work on the pelvic floor muscles with bimanual work on the bones
- Clear trauma from the system
Changes are possible in one session. If you work with the pelvic floor, you do not want to miss this episode!
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Do your evaluations ever take you on a different path than you thought they would based on your client’s symptoms? What steps do you take to help you get to the root cause of client complaints?
Today, Lynn shares the steps she used in 3 client evaluations to determine the root cause of her clients’ issues as well as the techniques she used to treat each client.
Lynn’s clients presented with the following symptoms:
- Client 1: low back and hip pain and post void dribble
- Client 2: increased pain and high blood pressure when eating
- Client 3: stress urinary incontinence that was causing the client to wake up 4 times a night to relieve her bladder
Listen in as Lynn walks you through the steps she used and the techniques she put into practice to treat each client, including visceral techniques and techniques to support pelvic floor and core activation.
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**What do you do at the start of each new year? Do you set goals or intentions?
Listen to today’s episodes as Lynn shares her annual tradition.**
As a practice, Lynn chooses a theme or words that resonate with her as a point of focus for each New Year. For 2025, Lynn is focusing on growth, connection, and choice. In today's podcast, Lynn talks about how she pulls in these pieces personally, professionally, and spiritually, and how she plans to incorporate her themes in 2025.
Thank you for being with us for the start of season 3 of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast! What do you want your theme to be for 2025? Let's help one another stay accountable for what we want to bring in or create in the year ahead. Happy New Year!
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Do you have clients who experience pain when sitting or having a bowel movement or who have trouble activating their pelvic floor? Working with the ischiorectal fossa can help alleviate these issues.
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Physical Therapist, PelviCon Co-Founder, and the owner of Pelvic Sanity and Pelvic PT Rising, Nicole Cozean, about ischiorectal fossa (IRF), what signs and symptoms restrictions in this area can create, and how you can work with the IRF to alleviate pain and reduce symptoms of lower rectocele with your clients.
The ischiorectal fossa or ischioanal fossa, is a space located just medial to the ischial tuberosities lateral to the anal canal and below the pelvic diaphragm. This area is mostly filled with fat, but it also contains nerves, arteries and veins as well as fibrous bands that allow for expansion of the area during a bowel movement.
Treating this area can have vascular and pain modulation benefits. In addition it may help relieve some symptoms of a lower rectocele.
This episode is packed with information on how to work with the IRF and tips on practicing in a respectful manner to help your clients feel more comfortable with the work you are doing in this vulnerable area.
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About Today’s Speaker
Dr. Nicole Cozean founded PelvicSanity to provide the type of care she believes all people with pelvic health deserve. She is of the foremost educators in pelvic health. She has trained more than 1,500 clinicians in the PelvicSanity treatment approach, runs a teaching group for 10,000+ practitioners and runs an annual conference in Atlanta ("PelviCon") for pelvic rehab professionals.
To learn more, visit her websites:
https://www.pelvicsanity.com/
https://www.pelvicptrising.com/
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Today, we celebrate the 100th episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast! To mark this monumental episode, Lynn shares a culmination of the pieces of advice, education, and practice building that have helped her grow the most in all areas - parenting, life, and business.
Tune in to hear all the pieces of advice that have supported me in parenting, life and business.
Parenting Success
It starts with talking to the baby in utero and proceeds into labor and the rest of the life. Power struggles with your children are inevitable. When they become apparent try giving the child more age appropriate responsibility. Remember you cannot stop bad things from happening but you can support the child through them and teach them about consequences to decisions.
Life Success
One of those ah-ha moments that can transform everything is the knowledge that there are 2 energies: love and fear. Are you growing your love? Are you taking responsibility for your words and actions?
Business Success
Building a business can be overwhelming; however, when you begin by creating in love and know that your business can change as you grow it can open up into a very powerful and propelling mission. When treating, learn to listen and follow cues from the body. Allow the client to lead the session.
The Institute for Birth Healing is so grateful for the opportunity to provide holistic and evidence informed education that is helping practitioners achieve great clinical outcomes around the world. Thank you for listening and being part of the Birth Healing community!
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Do you know the 3 issues scar tissue from cesarean birth can cause? Join me in this episode to learn more about my take on healing scar tissue from cesarean birth.
Approximately 32% of all births in the United States are cesarean births according to the National Center for Health Statistics meaning about a third of your postnatal clients will have had a cesarean birth. In today’ s episode, Lynn discusses 3 issues women complain about after having a cesarean birth:
- Bladder frequency
- Pain with intercourse
- Low back pain
Listen in to learn what may be contributing to these complaints and what you can do to help address these issues in the clinic. You may be surprised to learn that pelvic injuries could be playing a part, despite a cesarean birth.
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Do you talk with your pregnant clients about the risks of anal sphincter injuries? Do you know how to treat the anal sphincter to work with these types of injuries?
In today’s episode Lynn shares the risk factors for Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI) that she learned from physiotherapist, Taryn Hallam, as well as gives you tips on how to treat the external anal sphincter (EAS).
There are 8 risk factors for OASI, which occurs when there is a tear into the anal sphincter muscle and mucosa. These 8 risk factors are:
1. Perineum Length (going into labor)
2. Racial Background
3. Fetal Size
4. Family History
5. Epidural Analgesia
6. Forceps Delivery
7. Stage 2 Duration
8. Episiotomy Type
To learn how to treat EAS and help clients experiencing OASI listen in to today’s podcast. Taryn Hallam gives a full talk about OASI in the Birth Healing Summit 2024.
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Have you noticed an increase in grief in your clients? Have you experienced grief bursts?
In today’s episode Lynn talks about her own grief with losing her mother and how she helped a client through the grief they were experiencing during a session.
In today’s culture the majority of people are dealing with grief on many levels. Many individuals have lost loved ones in the last few years. When you lose someone you love it is not uncommon to have grief bursts. This is when there is a sudden overwhelming emotion that causes tears. Our society does not know what to do with these bursts of emotion. In general, there is no silent comfort, just awkward stares or avoidance of the person experiencing the emotion.
In a recent case, Lynn was treating a client that suffered the loss of her father years ago. Due to this she always tried to leave every interaction on a positive note just in case it was the last time she interacted with the person. She was closed off to coincidences that could make her feel closer to her father and dreams of him. Instead she was living in denial of his death. Tune in to find out how the grief in this client’s body was addressed so she could find freedom.
If you are interested in learning how to work with grief. The registration for the Birth Healing Intensive is now open. This 9-month program is designed to support your thriving both professionally and personally. You will learn how to allow energy to flow through you and create the therapeutic presence mentioned in today’s podcast. There are even 4 treatment sessions included in the enrollment to help you with your own healing.
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I am so excited for my incredible guests today from the first Birth Healing Intensive cohort as we gathered for our live celebration. I couldn’t be prouder of the growth, dedication, and hard work that this group has put into not just this program, but into themselves. Today they share their highlights from this 9 month journey to becoming trauma aware practitioners.
There is power in your presence. Let the client lead. Listen at multiple levels. These are just a few of the golden nuggets shared by the students in the 2024 Birth Healing Intensive during the live celebration.
In today’s podcast, Lynn is joined in a round table (or living room) conversation as students share about their experience in the program and the impact that this work has had both personally and professionally. Listen in to hear about their journeys of expansion, connection, and presence as well as the pieces that have been most influential to their work and training as trauma aware practitioners.
The Birth Healing Intensive is a way to get to know your blind spots as a clinician and learn how to better serve your clients on every level. Registration for this program is now open! Click here to learn more.
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About The Speakers
The group speaking today is from the 2024 cohort for the Birth Healing Intensive. They come from a variety of backgrounds and are all practitioners working to support the health and well-being of their clients and themselves. This podcast was recorded at the live gathering in Colorado in November 2024.
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Do you ever have doubts when working with a client? What happens when you allow yourself to move out of doubt and instead get curious in your client sessions?
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Occupational Therapist, Landy Peek, about her experience supporting students from the Birth Healing Intensive and the overlying themes she finds in working with practitioners and clients.
During the Birth Healing Intensive, students receive four 1:1 sessions - 2 with Landy and 2 with Lynn. The 1:1 sessions are designed to help students integrate the material they are learning in a private setting, so they have the ability to take a client further in their healing process. Students get an opportunity to talk about where they need more support, to walk through case studies to discuss what did not land for them or their client, and to talk about ideas on how they can incorporate what they are learning into their own clinical practice.
A theme that universally students and clients struggle with is I am not good enough - professionally or personally. Deeper than that is I am not enough. This belief can shape how the clinician looks at clients and the world. Shifting this belief can lead to expansion for the clinician and the clients they work with.
The ability to connect with one’s intuition is another theme. In the medical field intuition is not always valued. Yet many experienced clinicians rely on it without realizing it. Following intuition can increase the ease of the session and take the pressure off because the session really becomes client-led, so Landy’s and Lynn’s advice is to get curious and see where your intuition takes you.
The Birth Healing Intensive is a way to get to know your blind spots as a clinician and learn how to better serve your clients on every level. Registration for this program is now open! This 9-month program is designed to support your thriving on multiple levels. Click here to learn more and apply to this practice and life changing program.
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About The Speaker
Landy Peek helps therapists take control of their time and energy so they can create a life they love, prioritizing fun, family, and themselves while still creating a thriving business. Landy is a Growth Mindset Coach for therapists, OT, pelvic therapist, and somatic experiencing trauma therapist who specializes in birth trauma in her private practice. She is a mom of two and loves hiking beautiful Colorado with her family and watching her backyard chickens. To learn more or connect with Landy, visit her website.
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As pelvic health therapists, working in this space can be challenging. So much heaviness is carried in the pelvic region that can come up in our sessions, and not knowing what to do about it can lead to burnout. So, how do we avoid burnout so we can continue this work?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks about approaching pelvic health therapy through a different lens that does not leave you exhausted at the end of your day.
In a recent podcast from Pelvic PT Rising, Nicole and Taryn talked about the heaviness of pelvic floor therapy. That heaviness weighs on practitioners and can lead to burnout. Lynn offers 3 ways to avoid the burnout that so many clinicians experience. Listen in to learn more.
Registration for the Birth Healing Intensive is opening soon (October 18, 2024). This 9-month program is designed to support your thriving both professionally and personally. You will learn how to allow energy to flow through you and create the therapeutic presence mentioned in today’s podcast. There are even 4 treatment sessions included in the enrollment to help you with your own healing.
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In today’s episode, Lynn is joined by three of her students from the Birth Healing Intensive program. As students going into the 9-month program, they wanted to learn how to get better results and build confidence and trust in their skills. What they got from the program far exceeded their expectations and took them to a whole new level both personally and professionally. Listen in as they share their experiences in doing their own inner work through this program and the impact this work has had with their clients.
Registration for the Birth Healing Intensive is now open! This 9-month program is designed to support your thriving on multiple levels. You will learn how to create a healing presence, how to address trauma in the system, how to listen to the body and so much more! Click here to learn more and apply to this practice and life changing program.
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How do we determine the risk factors of birth injuries? What can we do as practitioners to educate and prepare our clients for a safer birth?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Dr. Mariana Masteling, a biomechanics engineer focusing on the prevention of childbirth-related injuries and Dr. Jenny LaCross, a women’s health physical therapist about the research they published on factors influencing birth injuries.
In this conversation, Lynn, Jenny and Mariana talk about the complexities of childbirth and the challenges of measuring and predicting birth injuries as there are so many factors that can influence a birth. The pelvic bone shape, ligamentous laxity, urogenital hiatus length, viscoelastic properties of the pelvic floor muscles and tissues, and the baby’s size in comparison to the mother’s pelvic size can all play a factor in potential birth injuries - just to name a few.
Listen in to learn what you can do as a practitioner to help your clients navigate the risks, so they can stay empowered in the process of their baby’s birth.
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About Today’s Speakers
Dr. Mariana Masteling is a Research Fellow at the University of Michigan Biomechanics Research Lab and Pelvic Floor Research Group. She is passionate about biomechanics, data science and the intersect between engineering and women's health.
Dr. Jenny LaCross is a board-certified clinical specialist in women’s health physical therapy. She has over a decade of clinical experience working in women’s pelvic health. She is a current post-doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor’s Pelvic Floor Research. She is also an adjunct faculty member in the DPT program at South College-Knoxville.
Link to their research: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00192-024-05912-2
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Have you ever had clients tell you that they don’t want to be in their body today? How about you? Do you feel embodied? Do you know what being embodied can do for your client sessions?
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with craniosacral therapist and educator, Suzanne Scurlock, about embodiment and the positive effect it can have on your practice.
Embodiment is your attunement and connection within your body and to your senses. This connection helps down regulate the nervous system and decrease anxiety. It can also tap us into our deeper intuition and knowing.
As clinicians, when we are embodied we are able to better support our clients through both co-regulation and by listening to, not only the cues we are getting verbally and through our brains, but also through the cues we get from intuitive hits and through what we feel.
Listen in to hear more about embodiment and how it can help the healing process.
Both Suzanne and Lynn have courses available to help with this concept of embodiment. Check our Suzanne’s website below for more information and check out Lynn’s Masterclass available on October 15th, 16th or 17th (2025). The link to sign up for Suzanne’s class is https://shiftnetwork.isrefer.com/go/satpLS/a26926/.
About The Speaker
Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process. She is one of the original instructors personally mentored by the late Dr. John E. Upledger. She also collaborated with the late Emilie Conrad for almost two decades. Together they integrated Emilie’s Continuum Movement with Suzanne’s Full Body Presence® to teach other practitioners how to accelerate and deepen the healing process.
Check out her website at https://healingfromthecore.com/ for more information about her courses, including a class to help teach people embodiment.
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For those who have been in pelvic health for years, do you ever look back at where your journey started? Do you think about your impact? For those just starting off, do you ever wonder where your journey will lead?
In today’s episode, Lynn shares her history of becoming a pelvic health physical therapist. What started as a love of athletics and a desire to help others has resulted in a lifetime of passion and purpose. In her 30+ years as a PT, Lynn has worked with tens of thousands of women to support their health and recovery in clinical sessions and has helped educate thousands of pelvic health practitioners through the foundation of the Institute for Birth Healing.
Lynn grew up in St. Louis, Missouri with parents who supported her athletic abilities. She played soccer, basketball and tennis growing up. Her mom was in the medical field which cultivated Lynn’s desire to help others. When she learned a bit about physical therapy, she thought this could be a great way to combine athletics and medicine and decided to pursue a degree in PT with the thoughts of going into sports medicine.
Her journey has taken her into multiple settings, but starting her own practice focusing on pelvic health, specifically with pregnant and postpartum women, has been an amazing pathway for her to share this work.
Lynn is a mom of 2 boys who have both graduated from college. She practices the Eckencar faith which has helped her tune into the body and find the different patterns she teaches in her courses. She loves teaching and will be traveling in 2025 to teach courses across the USA and Australia.
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A day in the clinic can bring a variety of pieces to consider, and it is important for you as a practitioner to know your scope of practice and what issues may be better addressed by a practitioner in a different specialty. In addition, it is always good to ask about past injuries when taking a client’s history as you never know when old injuries are at the root cause of new pain.
In today’s podcast episode, Lynn talks about 6 clients she saw in the clinic recently. She shares about what came up in each client session, including the complaints her clients had, the techniques she used in her assessments, and her recommendations for treatment.
In her day in the clinic, Lynn worked with 6 clients to address a variety of issues:
- A client who had a stoma due to a large intestine removal
- A bodyworker who was having consistent SIJ pain
- A client who reported pain with side lying and sleeping
- A client who had just had the hardware removed from bunion surgery and was experiencing bladder issues
- A pregnant client who was at 14 weeks and who wanted Lynn to hold space for her baby and and support for her feminine energy
- A client who was experiencing insertional pain with intercourse
Lynn used local listening techniques, worked with scar tissue, addressed postpartum patterns, supported trauma release, connected clients with other practitioners, and supported ligament and tissue releases all in a day’s work. Listen in to hear the details of each client’s story and what Lynn did to get to the source of the pain and dysfunction.
If you want to learn more about the assessment and treatment techniques mentioned in today’s episode, check out the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Bodycourse. The Institute for Birth Healing is starting up the first online cohort for this course on September 30, 2024. This course will help fill the gaps you may have in your own training to get you better results. You will learn many aspects of working with the postpartum body including joint mobilizations, visceral techniques, myofascial release, thoracic and rib mobilizations, pelvic floor muscle assessment and treatment of the organs in just one course. This holistic approach eliminates the soreness often felt after imparting on the body instead of working with the body and respecting the tissues.
For more information and to register for this practice changing course go to: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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Have you assessed a client and it looks like everything is relatively normal yet the client is still in pain? Have you considered checking for restrictions in the organs?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with physical therapist, Lori Baydush, about her treatment of a client who was experiencing deep pelvic pain.
Lori’s client kept saying that her pelvis was stuck, but when Lori conducted hip and lumbar assessments, the client had almost full range of motion. Lori shares about how she pulled from the education she learned during the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course, to continue her assessment. It was not until she palpated the cervix that she discovered the driver of the pain. Releasing the left uterosacral ligaments aligned the cervix and the pain disappeared.
When it comes to treating pelvic floor conditions it is important to remember we are working with a system. There are bones, muscles, nerves and organs that can affect the client’s perception of pain. Finding the driver of the pain is the key to successful treatment.
The Institute for Birth Healing’s Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Bodyis kicking off its first ever group cohort for this course on September 30, 2024. This course will help fill the gaps you may have in your own training to get you better results. You will learn many aspects of working with the postpartum body including joint mobilizations, visceral techniques, myofascial release, thoracic and rib mobilizations, pelvic floor muscle assessment and treatment of the organs in just one course. This holistic approach eliminates the soreness often felt after imparting on the body instead of working with the body and respecting the tissues.
For more information and to register for this practice changing course go to: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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Have you had clients who are experiencing incontinence post c-section?
In today’s podcast Lynn shares about one of her clients who had 3 c-sections and is now experiencing incontinence.
Lynn treated this client at 6 years post her last c-section. During the client’s planned birth the doctors found so many adhesions that they cleaned out what they could and put in mesh. Listen in to hear what Lynn found in her assessment and how she treated this client to help improve the client’s symptoms. This case highlights the importance of scar mobility post surgery and the need for assessment in functional positions to determine what is contributing to dysfunction.
If you would like to learn more about the techniques Lynn discussed in today’s podcast and the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course visit: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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Have you ever gone to a continuing education class and they use all the fancy terminology that makes you have to think harder?
In today’s episode Lynn explains why she uses the language and terms she does when teaching and working with clients. She also goes over the 5 main points of her treatment philosophy.
In teaching practitioners how to work with the body, Lynn has made the conscious choice to use common terminology and language. She does this intentionally, so each student knows exactly what direction the mobilization or technique is going. It takes the guesswork out and makes it easier for students to be able to understand what is said, so they can focus on feeling the techniques in their hands and on the body. She knows that she could say pubocervical fascia for techniques related to the bladder for more precise terminology; however, she has found that it is easier for clients and students to understand the word, bladder, instead, and she wants her students and clients to understand what she is talking about.
You don’t want to miss this episode. As it may help you understand the past and future podcasts in a new way.
Upcoming Group Cohort Kicking Off Soon: The Institute for Birth Healing’s Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Bodywill have its first ever group cohort for this course starting September 30, 2024. This course is like 5 courses in 1 for the postpartum body. You will learn joint mobilizations, visceral techniques, myofascial release, thoracic and rib mobilizations, pelvic floor muscle assessment and treatment of the organs. This holistic approach eliminates the soreness often felt after imparting on the body instead of working with the body and respecting the tissues. For more information and to join the waitlist for this practice changing course go to: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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Have you had clients come to you for back and pelvic pain during pregnancy? Did they have prior injuries or experience trauma during a previous birth?
In today’s episode Lynn shares a case study about a client who was suffering from low back pain during her second pregnancy.
The client had a history of a herniated disc from a high school soccer injury. She had given birth 3 years earlier to her first child. In this first birth, she was induced and required an epidural. She pushed for 2-3 hours. In addition to her back pain, she was experiencing swelling in her vaginal and feeling like something was falling out. Upon assessment and utilizing listening techniques, the client’s diaphragm felt rotated. She lacked pelvic floor strength on the left and had a tight coccygeus on the right. She was presenting with an ischial splay.
Listen in to hear how Lynn was able to help this client decrease her pain and prepare for her next labor. The techniques mentioned in today’s case study are taught in the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course. A group cohort is kicking off for this course on September 30, 2024. For more information and to join the waitlist for this practice changing course go to: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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Are you noticing a gap in your education and what you need to know to effectively treat your pregnant and postpartum clients? Are you curious about the pieces you may be missing?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Dr. Kathleen Vigo, a Physical Therapist and founder of Painless Pregnancy about the gaps that exist in traditional pelvic health education. Kathleen shares how she and her team have addressed these gaps through classes at the Institute for Birth Healing and discusses her experience with this training.
In traditional pelvic health education, many clinicians are getting only a portion of what they really need to know for effective and efficient treatments. In physical therapy training, many clinicians are taught the standing stork test for the SI joint assessment. This test requires balance and the ability to determine minute changes in position. Through the Institute for Birth Healing, you learn an even easier way to assess SI joint mobility, and the best part - it takes the guessing out of the assessment.
The Institute for Birth Healing’s Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Bodyis kicking off its first ever group cohort for this course on September 30, 2024. This course will help fill the gaps you may have in your own training to get you better results. You will learn many aspects of working with the postpartum body including joint mobilizations, visceral techniques, myofascial release, thoracic and rib mobilizations, pelvic floor muscle assessment and treatment of the organs in just one course. This holistic approach eliminates the soreness often felt after imparting on the body instead of working with the body and respecting the tissues.
For more information and to join the waitlist for this practice changing course go to: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/postpartum-body/
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Dr. Kathleen (Kat) Vigo, PT, DPT, is the founder of Painless Pregnancy, a physical therapy practice specializing in in-home concierge care for pregnant and postpartum clients.
Kat developed a love for the obstetric population after having her first baby in 2012. Her birth experience incited a passion to help other women during this critical time in life, and she began her journey taking every course she could find that focused on pregnancy and postpartum physical therapy.
She has trained with the American Physical Therapy Association, Herman and Wallace, Pelvic Guru, Pelvic Pain Institute, and the Institute for Birth Healing.
Guest Speaker’s Website: https://painlesspregnancy.com/
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Do you have a favorite muscle?
In today’s episode Lynn shares information about her favorite muscles, the Coccygeus, and what these muscles can tell practitioners.
Coccygeus muscles attach anteriorly to the ischial spines and medially to the lateral surface of the coccyx. They are innervated by S4 and S5. They are the deepest of the traditional pelvic floor muscles. During labor, the coccygeus has to lengthen for the sacrum to flex and the baby to exit the outlet. If the muscles are too tight there is a stall in the labor. It is important that we treat this tightness during pregnancy to bring balance to the system and allow the labor to progress.
In postpartum, these muscles indicate the position of the sacrum from flexed to sidebent and give practitioners a roadmap for treatment. Listen in to hear more about why this is Lynn’s favorite muscle.
To learn how to find the position of the coccygeus which helps you identify the postpartum pattern you are finding in the body, check out the Treating the Postpartum Pelvis course. A cohort for this course launches August 19, 2024.
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Have you ever had a client ask for the evidence behind a technique or do they just care about how they feel after you perform the technique?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks about the 3 pillars of evidence: the research, the client’s need and clinical expertise.
Research in the birthing world documents the way the pelvis must move in order for a baby to be born; however, there is not published research on the outlet of the pelvis post vaginal birth. Research that has been performed ante and postpartum suggests the pelvis is stable after birth, but clients often complain about instability and pain during both pregnancy and postpartum.
In clinical practice, practitioners use the research, their knowledge of anatomy and the client’s story to find the root of the issue and treat it. There may not be specific evidence with grade A double blind studies on many of our treatment practices, but what we do in the clinic often guides the research. Practitioners learn what works in the clinic and through trial and error which is often the guide toward best practices.
To learn how to mobilize the pelvis and gain the clinical expertise you need for better results, check out the Treating the Postpartum Pelvis course. A cohort for this course launches August 19, 2024.
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Are you the type of person that once you start something you need to see it through to completion?
If so, you are not alone. In today’s episode, Lynn talks with Physical Therapist and Certified Birth Healing Practitioner, Anne Guist, about her journey to becoming certified.
Anne initially met Lynn as a client. She had experienced a traumatic first birth and was seeking support. As a Physical Therapist, she saw the need to support women in the way she had been by Lynn and switched career paths into the pelvic health speciality. Being new to pelvic health and not seeing results with the techniques she learned in her initial training, she decided to start the journey towards certification with the Institute for Birth Healing. She is a self reported box checker and it just made sense. The certification process helped her really integrate the work and analyze what was working and what wasn’t when treating her clients. It helped her develop her pelvic floor clinical reasoning.
To learn more about the certification process visit the website: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/certified-birth-healing-practitioner/
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Are you wondering how to integrate all you have learned with your pregnant and postpartum clients and improve your treatment sessions?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Dr. Rachel Elizabeth, a Physical Therapist and Certified Birth Healing Practitioner about her motivation for getting certified and the impact it has had in her client sessions.
Rachel shares how she felt she was missing information in her physical therapy training on the pregnancy and postpartum phases. She attended the Institute For Birth Healing’s Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body course and found a huge difference in the techniques just with her partner in the class. This shift continued with her clients and inspired her to keep learning.
If you would like to learn more about the certification process check out the website: https://instituteforbirthhealing.com/certified-birth-healing-practitioner/
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Did you know that addressing injuries or impacts to the pelvis are an important key to a smooth birth for your clients? Working with the pelvis postpartum can also lead to a quicker and fuller recovery.
In today’s podcast Lynn discusses the impact the pelvic bones have on labor and the postpartum period and the importance of asking these important questions:
- What impacts, injuries or traumas have occurred to your pelvis?
- What position did you give birth in?
The sacrum can tell us a lot about prior impacts and injuries. When the sacrum lacks micromotions this can often be due to a past injury. This lack of motion can prevent the bone from being able to flex and extend and can have an impact on birth.
In addition, assessing the pelvis to learn what position it is in can help the birthing team guide your pregnant client into a more optimal position for birth.
After baby is born, it is important to, once again, assess and treat the bony structures. The pelvis needs support to return to optimal stability and pelvic floor muscle function after birth as often times the bones do not completely return to their original state.
In addition to this podcast, here is a video showing one way to work with the pelvic bones to return them to a neutral position after birth.
By addressing these pieces in our pregnant and postpartum clients, we, as pelvic health practitioners, can make a huge difference in prenatal and postpartum support. To learn more about the ilium ischium rebalancing technique mentioned in the video check out either of these courses at the Institute for Birth Healing: Treating the Postpartum Pelvis or Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body.
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Do you have clients who come in to see you who are very resistant to a treatment plan? What is underneath their resistance?
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Dr. Mary Louder, an Osteopath and Integrative Medicine Specialist from Michigan who has been helping clients crack the AnxietyCode™to improve their own health and well-being.
Mary has always been very curious about the world around her, and by letting her curiosity guide her, she found that she loved combining her knowledge as a physician with the body’s own intuition to guide treatments. Mary focuses on the effects of anxiety on a client’s body as a whole and helps her clients find ways to heal through self discovery and the identification of what is normal and what is not.
Mary has found that if she just listens to her patients they will tell her what is wrong. She just has to create the space and ask the questions. In practicing this way, Mary started seeing the link between illness, pain and anxiety as confirmed by the ACES (adverse childhood events score) testing and research. Mary determined that when her clients’ nervous systems are balanced in the brain, heart, gut and uterus, positive changes are made in their overall health and wellbeing.
You don’t want to miss out on Mary’s story of how the body can heal itself in today’s podcast.
The link to her free anxiety class is https://www.drmarylouder.com/my-anxiety-code.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Mary Louder, DO is a double-boarded Osteopathic Physician (Integrative Medicine and Family Medicine) who practices medicine by supporting people who join their own quest and journey of health and wellness.
Mary was trained at Michigan State University and has been a practicing physician since 1993. Her focus now is on teaching, educating and writing about healing and how the journey inward is the way forward. She believes that being first connected with ourselves and then with others brings the best joy and fulfillment in life. “When we are connected to ourselves, we can go anywhere”
https://www.drmarylouder.com/
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Did you know that up to 25% of women will have some form of SPD with pregnancy? How do you work with clients who complain about the pubic bone feeling bruised or who have severe pubic bone pain?
In today’s episode, Lynn shares what she does to treat pubic symphysis dysfunction (SPD) in both pregnant and postpartum clients.
As mentioned, up to 25% of women will have some form of SPD during pregnancy with 1 in 300 being formally diagnosed. As a pelvic health practitioner, it is important that you are able to recognize the signs of SPD and have treatment options available for your clients.
During pregnancy, find what position feels good for clients complaining of SPD symptoms. Most of the time it is not knees together like many of us were taught. There is greater stability and less pressure on the innominate ring with legs in a wiper position. Bringing the innominate ring into balance is a key part of treatment, and you always want to work on pain free positions.
In the postpartum period, it is important that the ischial tuberosities be in midline. This directly affects the pubic symphysis joint through the pubic ramus. Working on decreasing the hardness in the bone has had positive results in Lynn’s clinical practice and that of her students’.
If you are curious about the techniques for treating SPD and other treatments that will get you better results, check out the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course.
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Are any of your postnatal clients reporting symptoms of new anxiety, vaginal dryness, joint pain, or an inability to stay asleep even when they have the opportunity to do so? If so, these clients may be experiencing more than postpartum shifts.
In today’s episode Lynn talks to physical therapist, professor, APTA board member, and national speaker, Dr. Carrie Pagliano, about the similarities of the postnatal time frame and perimenopause.
During pregnancy, women experience the highest levels of estrogen they will ever have in their lifetime. In the past, a misinterpretation of research concluded that high estrogen levels correlated to breast cancer; however, this correlation has been disproven and high estrogen levels may be a positive thing.
For women in postpartum and perimenopause, estrogen levels plummet potentially leading to symptoms of new anxiety, vaginal dryness, joint pain and waking when they have the opportunity to sleep. The research now is showing that estrogen treatments may be helpful in leveling off these symptoms and helping with postpartum depression.
You don’t want to miss out on today’s episode that talks about research, interpretations and the questions we can ask to best support our clients experiencing changes in estrogen levels or other factors that we need to start asking about.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Dr. Carrie Pagliano has been practicing Physical Therapy for over 25 years. She is an active member of the Academy of Pelvic Health Physical Therapy, and currently serves on the Board of Directors as Past President. She is an adjunct professor and works as an Advisory Board member to the Pelvic Floor Disorders Network. She served as Instructor of Clinical Rehabilitation Medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine for over 5 years. She also speaks nationally in the areas of pelvic floor education, pelvic health in sport, and integrative models of practice in pelvic physical therapy. To learn more, visit her website at: https://carriepagliano.com/
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Lynn received a lot of messages after her last podcast “Day in the Clinic” asking for more, so today, Lynn shares about her day with 5 different clients, including the symptoms, findings and treatments provided.
In today’s episode, Lynn talks about another day in her clinic. She shares the case studies for 5 different clients suffering from a variety of issues including chronic pelvic pain, knee pain, pain with intercourse, prolapse, trauma in the body, and instability during pregnancy.
During her treatment sessions, Lynn used the techniques from the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Bodycourse to assess, identify and treat each issue. By listening to the tissues and working with the body as a whole, Lynn was able to help every client in these sessions.
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Since our line of work mainly involves working with moms, I’ve always longed to see dads supported more in the beginning phase of a family. How can dads be better supported?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks with Chris Da Silva, a primary care doctor from the UK, about pregnancy and postpartum from a dad’s perspective and about his program 40 Weeks for Dads.
The uncertainties around pregnancy, birth, and life with a newborn create shifts in both men and women. Fear can be a response to these uncertainties and women often see this fear response come out as weird behavior in their male partners. As men step into their role of dad and navigate what it means to be a provider and protector for their families, it can cause a disconnect between partners as dad does not want to burden mom with his fears.
Communication and grace are the keys to navigating these fears and unknowns. If partners can talk about ways to support one another through the ups and downs of parenthood, then they can overcome those fears together and set up communication channels that will support the family dynamics in the years ahead.
Men also tend to do well with feedback and feel better when they get direction on what they can do to help. Finding what is needed for every family takes a bit of trial and error, as no one family is the same; therefore, having grace will also go a long way.
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Have your clients asked what they need to do to prepare for giving birth in the hospital? Do they know they can advocate for themselves? How do you suggest they prepare for birth?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks with Kelly Hof, a Labor and Delivery Nurse and Birth Coach on how to best prepare and support our clients who are having a hospital birth. She recommends asking your clients to think about these topics and questions to create an environment that is supportive and that will be more optimal for a smooth birth:
- Talk to your clients about the type of experience they desire. Do they want a nurse who is more present to allow for questions to be answered or more hands off? Being interrupted every 20 to 30 minutes can be disruptive to the birth flow if it is not what your client wants or expects.
- There is a way to speak up and request a change from the nurse assigned to your birth if it does not feel like the correct support. This may help decrease trauma during the birth and allow for birth progression.
- Let your clients know that sacral flexion is a clue to the end stage of labor and help them understand what this means and how to ask what their body is doing if they cannot feel it directly.
- Give your clients the resources they need to support past traumas so they can enter the birth space as peacefully and emotionally prepared as possible.
If you would like to learn more about identifying and treating the Sacral Flexion Pattern that Kelly and Lynn talked about in today’s episode please check out the Institute for Birth Healing’s free course.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Kelly Hof is a birth coach and labor and delivery nurse who is passionate about getting clients the birth they want. Through her own birth experiences, she learned how much impact an empowered mindset played in the birth experience. She helps her clients with intentional preparation and guides them on when to advocate versus when to surrender to the process, so they can have the empowered birth experience they deserve and desire. To learn more, check out her website at: https://kellyhof.com/
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Do you want to know three keys to clinical success and what you can do to improve in each of these areas?
If so, start by asking yourself these questions:
- How would you rate your anatomy knowledge?
- How comfortable are you naming the structures under your hands while in the clinic?
- Can you easily palpate a structure if one is named?
In today’s episode, Lynn discusses three keys to becoming a better clinician. Listen in to learn practical suggestions on how to improve in these areas and develop the skills that will positively impact your success with your clients.
The first key is the intention you have when working on your client. Do you approach the session with a clean slate? Are you grounded? Is being a loving presence important? A loving connection to the body can create great healing. Focusing on being present for the client has a positive impact.
The second key is anatomy, anatomy, anatomy! You need to know what you are touching and how it relates to the rest of the body. No body part works in isolation. Understanding the position of the bones and their movements in relationship to the organs, nerves, blood vessels and muscles is essential to creating effective change. It is not uncommon that the organs and bony structures are affecting the muscles of the pelvic floor. Knowing how to mobilize them is essential.
The third key is your palpation skills. When you put your hands on the body can you name the structures under your hands? This is an important skill to know. Do you know what directions those structures should be able to move in? If something is not moving or feels stuck, how can you make a change to the structure that will affect the area? These are all questions we can ask ourselves when treating a client that will give us better insight into what is going on in the body.
Do you want to practice your skills and get feedback on your knowledge and technique? If so, consider attending a Live Course with Lynn Schulte. Live courses give you lots of opportunity to practice in a small group setting, so you can get additional feedback on your techniques and feel the work on multiple bodies, including your own. Spots are filling up fast for this summer. If you are learning how to palpate the body or want more feedback on your palpation skills, consider taking the Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body Live Course first as we spend more time on palpation in this course.
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Have you had clients who come in and you are not sure where to start? Have you heard of the osteopathic concept of listening to the body?
In today’s episode, Lynn shares a case study about a client who came to see her after a fall. Listen in to hear what I found and how I helped her. The client felt like her entire left side was frozen and complained of left-sided neck and shoulder pain.
The client had already undergone a series of tests to find the root of her pain, but all the tests showed that nothing was physically wrong. Lynn went through her assessment and used general listening, an osteopathic technique, to determine where to best support the client that day. She treated the areas that came up from this technique, and the client left the session feeling great.
Two days later, the client had another fall, and called for another appointment. When she came back for her second visit, Lynn listened to the body, again, and discovered that the root of the issue was not just a physical issue. There was a limiting belief at play that they addressed in session to help better support this client in her overall well-being.
Lynn primarily works with the pregnant and postpartum populations; however, the work she teaches in her classes is applicable to all populations. To learn more, check out her full course list at the Institute for Birth Healing or check out her blog for additional free resources.
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Do you have a list of books you refer to your clients? If so, Lynn has a series she recommends you add to your must-read list for all mothers!
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Physical Therapist, author and founder of Holistic Pelvic Care, Tami Lynn Kent as she releases an updated version of her Wild Mothering book.
Tami has been working in women’s health for over 25 years and has a 3 book “Wild” series that she wrote to help connect mothers with the wisdom and the energy in their womb and pelvic space: Wild Feminine, Wild Mother (formerly Mothering from Your Center) and Wild Creative. These books explore the connection between the feminine centers where information is received and processed and how when women are taught to read this information, they can open themselves up to the complete energetics of the body.
Tami’s second book, Wild Mothering, has been released as a second addition with a new chapter that is written from an older mother’s perspective as well as the original chapters that were written from the perspective of a new mother.
Mothering can be a soul crushing journey at times, but Tami Lynn Kent provides some great resources in her Wild Series that can support moms and connect them with their own inner wisdom. This podcast is a reminder for all pelvic health therapists that the pelvic bowl contains amazing medicine. We need to learn to listen to and follow this wisdom.
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About Today’s Guest:
To learn more about Tami Lynn Kent’s practice, teachings, and books, check out her website at: https://www.wildfeminine.com/
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Have you ever wondered what a day in the clinic is like for other practitioners? What do they do with their clients that may be something you want to try in your own practice?
In today’s episode, Lynn shares her day in the clinic and her treatment of six different clients. Each person required different treatment ranging from sacral flexion to release of scar tissue and nervous system regulation.
On any given day, practitioners are presented with a variety of conditions and have to choose the best treatment options possible. Sometimes we don’t get it perfect on the first try, and other times, the techniques we use seem to work like magic.
Listen in to learn about Lynn’s 6 sessions, what unique issues each client presented with, and what treatment path Lynn chose to help decrease the presenting complaints.
If you are interested in learning more about the techniques used in this podcast please start with the FREE Sacral Flexion Pattern course through the Institute for Birth Healing.
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Do you see clients during pregnancy even if they are not having pain? Do you assess their pelvic floor muscle tightness and their ability to lengthen/push?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks about a postpartum client she is working with who was never assessed during her pregnancy and ended up having a traumatic birth.
In the USA, medical providers focus on keeping the baby and mom alive in the birth process. Yet we as a medical/health community can be doing so much more to prepare mom’s body for birth. We can learn how to assess the sacral position, pelvic floor muscles and the uterine ligaments to get the body in the best position possible for a smooth birth. Another thing we can do is teach moms how to push prior to being in labor, so they will know what this feels like and how to engage their pelvic muscles when it is time to push during childbirth. A lack of preparation can lead to longer and more traumatic births. Listen in to learn more about Lynn’s case study and tips on how to better support your pregnant clients and prepare them for a smoother birth.
If you would like to learn more about treating the pregnant body please check out and join the waitlist for the 2024 online cohort of the Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body that is starting in May 2024.
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Is your client’s pregnant belly squashed? Is the belly greater from side to side as opposed to vertical?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks about working with the round ligament to allow more space for the baby within the abdominal cavity.
When your pregnant client comes to you with a greater transverse position of the belly it is important to treat the round ligament. The round ligament is a key component to decreasing the squished look of the uterus. In combination with an inversion, it can create space for a more vertical presentation for the baby which can lead to a smoother birth. For more information, you can also check out Lynn’s recent case presentations on treating the ligaments of the uterus.
Case Study: Preparing the Pregnant Body for Birth
Case Study: What We Can Do To Support Pregnant Clients
To learn how to work with the ligaments of the uterus in the pregnant body, join the next online cohort for the Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body starting May 6th. Registration opens April 20, 2024.
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Did you know that 40% of pregnant females and 52% of postpartum females suffer from constipation? What comes up for you when you ask questions about constipation?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks with OT Laura Rowan about constipation - what is it and how practitioners should be asking clients about their bowel health.
Constipation is a term defined by frequency, observation and effort. Based on the statistics, 1 in 5 of your clients are likely suffering and need strategies to help manage these symptoms. As a clinician you should be asking questions about bowel health and treating it along with other client complaints.
Learn what to ask and how to ask about this important topic in today’s podcast.
Laura will be joining us for our 10th edition of the Birth Healing Summit which will be focusing on all things pregnancy! For more tips on how to better support your pregnant clients, join us for the 2024 Birth Healing Summit kicking off this April - more details coming soon to the Institute for Birth Healing website and to your inbox if you are a subscriber to our newsletter.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Laura Rowan is a proud Pelvic Health Occupational Therapist dedicated to elevating the Occupational Therapy profession, and the emerging Pelvic Health area of practice, to better meet the growing demands of this underserved population. As founder and owner of Essential Pelvic Health, LLC, she is passionate about taking an innovative and collaborative approach to pelvic health serving all gender diversities.
In addition to clinical work, Laura is dedicated to elevating the well being of our clients and communities through education, mentorship and advocacy. EPH offers continuing education courses, such as Pelvic Rehab- Manual Assessment and Treatment Techniques (PR-MATT), and Colorectal- Manual Assessment and Treatment Techniques (CR-MATT), as well as other workshops and free resources on the website. She hosts a mentorship group called EPH Mentor Creative which help to serve students and clinicians and support the growing demands of this emerging profession. Laura has founded and co-facilitates the Occupation-based Pelvic Health Community of Practice for The American Association of Occupational Therapy (AOTA) and continues her efforts to support the vital role of Occupational Therapy Practitioners in Pelvic Health at the state level with the New York Association of Occupational Therapy (NYSOTA).
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Do your clients seek your support prior to birth? During Pregnancy? After Birth? Do they feel comfortable going to see someone else for help and then returning?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Holly Tanner, PT, LMT, and the Director of Education at Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehab Institute about the support we can offer clients in their healing and life journey.
Holly has learned the importance of educating clients and asking questions to help them engage in and lead their own treatment. Listen in to learn more about Holly’s tips on how you can empower your clients in their healing journey. Holly strongly believes that when we operate from a position of abundance we are able to support one another more fully. Tune in to find out how you can create more abundance within your treatment practices.
Holly will be joining us for our 10th edition of the Birth Healing Summit which will be focusing on all things pregnancy! For more tips on how to better support your pregnant clients, join us for the 2024 Birth Healing Summit kicking off this April - more details coming soon to the Institute for Birth Healing website and to your inbox if you are a subscriber to our newsletter.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Holly Tanner is a licensed physical therapist and massage therapist with a specialty practice in the field of pelvic health. From the College of St. Scholastica (CSS) in Duluth, Minnesota she earned her undergraduate degree in Health Sciences, Master of Arts in Physical Therapy, and a transitional Doctor of Physical Therapy. She has served as adjunct faculty at St. Scholastica as well as at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington.
As the Director of Education for the Herman & Wallace Pelvic Rehab Institute, Holly has managed and developed curriculum and faculty training and was the coordinator for the Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner Certification writing. She has authored many courses including in the peripartum series and the Men’s Pelvic Health course. She has presented at several state chapters and for the APTA combined sections meeting as well as the first Pelvicon conference. Holly has taught in several countries including Nepal, Israel, and Ireland.
She owns a clinical practice in Seattle, Washington as well as a consulting company, Tanner Therapies. In practice for 30 years, Holly has worked with thousands of patients with peripartum health challenges, and she has been teaching in the field of pelvic health for 25 years and has mentored dozens of clinicians and students. Holly has held ABPTS board certifications in Orthopedics and Women’s Health, as well as certification as an APTA Clinical Instructor.
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The Birth Healing Summit has been running for 10 seasons now! Today, Lynn shares some of the highlights from the 2024 Summit which focuses ib Pregnancy and Labor and begins on April 8th.
As with every season, Lynn loved all of her interviews as it is always such a thrill to talk about what other practitioners are up to and what they are learning. There is so much insight and wisdom shared in this collaboration. Lynn highlights her top 10 in no particular order in today’s podcast.
Gabrielle Brennan talks about the fascial tensions and how they present in the body to help practitioners know where to treat. Taryn Hallam talks about anal sphincter injuries and how we can prepare clients for subsequent labors. Amanda Ogden talks about the importance of colostrum and how it can help develop the baby’s intestinal tract. She talks about how it can be harvested during pregnancy. Sandi Gallagher gives us an overview of the use of TENS during labor and its effectiveness for clients trying to avoid an epidural. Laura Rowan teaches us about release of the rectum and constipation. Gina Mundy gives you a lawyer’s perspective of what is going on when labor goes wrong and some of the ways to prepare your clients for successful deliveries. Ken McGee is speaking on how we can best support transgender clients in their birth journey. John Wilks informs us on the effects of pregnancy from a craniosacral perspective. Yeni Abraham educates practitioners on infertility and pain. Uchenna Ossai, who goes by UC, discusses her approach to sex education.
All of the speakers will leave you with tools that you can begin applying in your clinical practice the next day. For more information and to register, go to the 2024 Birth Healing Summit.
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What do you tell your clients when they ask about their risk of prolapse or if a prolapse will be worse after a subsequent birth?
In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Taryn Hallam the founder of Women’s Health Training Associates in Australia about pelvic organ prolapse: the potential causes and risk factors as well as what role pelvic health therapists can play.
POP stands for pelvic organ prolapse, and it is a condition in women where there is dysfunction in the bladder, uterus or rectum ligamentous support. There are multiple causes of prolapse both genetic and environmental. It is important to note that an anterior prolapse is very different from a posterior prolapse, and that they require different treatments. You don’t want to miss this summary of the research on prolapse and how pelvic health therapists are able to support women with prolapse.
Taryn will be speaking on obstetric anal sphincter injuries in the 2024 Birth Healing Summit coming this April. Details are coming soon to an inbox near you! If you do not get IBH communications via email, sign up for the Institute for Birth Healing Newsletter to make sure you receive the Birth Healing Summit details.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Taryn Hallam is a physiotherapist, educator, and the founder of Women’s Health Training Associates in Sydney, Australia.
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Have you had someone question you on your perspective? Were you able to stay neutral or did you get defensive?
In today’s podcast, Lynn’s guest The Physio Detective, Antony Lo, talks about how remaining open in a conversation can help you see what the underlying objective or reasoning is behind someone’s words. When we throw out the entirety of a person’s experience because we disagree with their terminology or explanation, then we are shutting down the conversation and missing an opportunity to educate and create growth.
Antony explains that when we approach a conversation with an open mind and in a respectful manner that values someone’s perspective, even when it is different from our own, we can create challenging and meaningful conversation that allows all participants to grow and learn without triggering a defensive response. Staying open minded and neutral can be difficult, but knowing everyone is on a journey with different experiences to share, can help overcome disagreements in reasoning and allow all perspectives to be voiced.
You don’t want to miss today’s podcast on how to fight for your perspective in a respectful manner.
Don’t miss this year’s Birth Healing Summit where Antony Lo will be interviewing Lynn Schulte. Registration opens March 25, 2024. Details are coming soon to an inbox near you! If you didn’t receive this podcast via an email from IBH, join the Institute for Birth Healing Newsletter to stay in the loop about the upcoming Birth Healing Summit.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Antony Lo has been studying and working in Physiotherapy since 1993. He has earned a degree in Physiotherapy, a Masters in Physiotherapy and took part in the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Specialisation training program – the highest form of training a physiotherapist can take in Australia. To learn more, visit his website: https://physiodetective.com/
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Did you know every cancer affects pelvic and sexual health?
Do you have clients who are dealing with incontinence post cancer treatment? Are your clients no longer experiencing pain-free or pleasurable intercourse?
In today’s podcast Lynn, talks with Michelle Lyons, a physiotherapist in Ireland, about pelvic floor therapy post cancer. This conversation helps practitioners know what to ask about, what words to use in conversations, and where to begin treatment when working with clients who have survived cancer.
Every cancer affects the pelvic and sexual health of the person with cancer. Surgery, chemo and radiation have a global effect on the body and the biopsychosocial health of the cancer patient. As a pelvic health therapist, there are pieces you can do to support your clients post cancer to help them restore their sexual and pelvic health.
Listen in to this important conversation as Michelle shares tips and techniques you can use in your practice as well as education about the language we choose when working with clients post cancer.
Michelle Lyons will be back for the 2024 Birth Healing Summit talking more in depth with Lynn and Sara Newman about cancer and pregnancy. You will not want to miss this interview or the many other impactful conversations on pregnancy and labor in this year’s Summit. Registration opens March 25, 2024. If you didn’t receive this podcast via an email from IBH, join the Institute for Birth Healing Newsletter to stay in the loop about the Birth Healing Summit.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Michelle Lyons graduated from University College Dublin’s Physiotherapy programme in 1994; since then she has completed postgraduate training in Health Coaching & Nutrition (University of Galway) and Innovation & Enterprise (Trinity College Dublin) as well as a certificate in Integrative Herbal Medicine from the University of Arizona and teacher trainings in Pilates, Yoga and Mindfulness as a therapeutic intervention. She has lived and worked in both Ireland and the US and as well as membership in the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists, she is also licensed as a Physical Therapist by the state of Connecticut. She has been faculty for many continuing education institutions, including the Pelvic Obstetric & Gynaecological Physiotherapy Association, Medbridge Education and Herman & Wallace, The Pelvic Rehab Institute.
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Did you know there are multiple types of contractions in labor and only one is dedicated to opening the cervix?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Gabriella Brennar, a midwife and body worker, about the 4 types of contractions she has found that prepare baby and mom for birth.
The 4 different contractions include:
- Feeling Contractions
- Positional Contractions
- Rotational Contractions
- Dilation Contractions
Knowing the different types of contractions and what they indicate in relation to the birth process can be very helpful to a laboring mother. For example, a mother knowing that her contractions are working to position the baby and allow for the best possible birth can eliminate fear that something is wrong, reduce unnecessary intervention, and encourage baby and body to carry out their own process.
Listen to the full podcast to learn more about the 4 types of contractions and what you can do with this information to help your pregnant clients. Also, if you are interested in learning more tips that will better help you support your pregnant clients, stay tuned for our 10th edition of the Birth Healing Summit kicking off in April 2024!
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Gabrielle Brennan is a nurse/midwife and personal trainer who provides bodywork and techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning for labor. She is dedicated to getting pregnant people out of pain and attuned with their body to create an optimal birth. For more information, check out her website at: https://glorrilabourbodywork.com.au/
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If you are a pelvic health practitioner not doing intravaginal work then this episode is for you.
If your practice does include intravaginal work do you know how to respectfully enter your client’s body? Is your work pain free for your clients?
In today’s episode, Lynn talks about the need for more pelvic floor practitioners to perform intravaginal assessments in a way that is respectful and pain free for clients.
Today, you will be challenged with multiple questions as to why you are not performing intravaginal work with your client if you are licensed to do so, and if you are, is it respectful? Due to the shortage of pelvic floor therapists in most areas of the country, internal work is an essential part of our practice.
If you are interested in learning how to work internally and want to build your confidence with this work while ensuring that clients feel safe and respected during their treatments, check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment course. There is a group cohort kicking off on March 4, 2024 that includes extra support from Lynn, including a Live Virtual Group Call where she will be answering your questions and doing a review of the techniques. To learn more, check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment online course. Registration closes March 3, 2024.
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What do you do with the hand that is not treating internally?
In today’s podcast Lynn introduces you to the Schulte Hold. This is the position of your non-internal hand while treating intravaginally.
Lynn places her outside hand on the pelvic bones to decrease the amount of force through the pelvic floor muscles internally which allows for a respectful and less painful internal experience for the client. The outside hand uses the bones to address the pelvic floor muscles. Listen to today's podcast to learn more about the Schulte Hold for intravaginal work.
If you are interested in learning the Schulte Hold and Lynn’s intravaginal approach to treating the pelvic floor muscles and doing internal work, please check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment course. A cohort for this online course will be starting March 4, 2024. Registration opens February 19, 2024. More details will be coming soon!
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How do you do intravaginal work? Is it respectful to your client? Do they startle when you insert your finger vaginally?
In today’s episode, Lynn discusses her approach to performing intravaginal work with clients. She shares 4 tips to help keep your clients safe, supported, and at ease as you work internally. When clients are at ease, you can make better progress and get results faster.
Listen to today’s episode to learn Lynn’s 4 tips. If you are interested in learning more about the intravaginal protocol as well as get more in-depth education for working in this area, check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment course. A group cohort for this course will be kicking off in March 2024.
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Why is it that seasons and times of the month impact females’ energy levels?
In today’s episode Lynn speaks with Certified Birth Healing Specialist and owner of The Wild Orange Tree in Australia, occupational therapist Janelle Gullan. Janelle explains the unique value of each phase of a female's monthly cycle.
The women’s monthly cycle is coordinated to the seasons of the year. Winter is synonymous with the bleeding phase. This is a time of rest and restoration where females are able to release what is no longer serving them. Spring is the follicular phase. It is a time of increased energy where the fruit from the winter season is able to develop. Summer coordinates with ovulation. It has increased energy and is our most productive time. Fall is the luteal phase. Here there is an energy for reflection: how did the last cycle or year go and what could be different?
You will not want to miss this important information as it will help you inform your clients how to tune into their cycles and relate the seasons and cycles to pregnancy and menopause.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Janelle is an Occupational Therapist who supports women to connect to their body so they can navigate mothering transitions with confidence and vitality. With an integrated focus on pelvic health, mental health and menstrual cycles, she explores rites of passage and the ways feminine transitions impact performance, roles, relationships, participation and joy.
Based on her own personal experiences, Janelle is passionate about supporting birth injury and exploring the stories that live in our body and pelvic spaces. Through her private practice, The Wild Orange Tree, she provides support in Melbourne, Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast (Australia) as well as through the online space.
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How do you describe pushing to your pregnant clients?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with birth educator and doula, Chantal Traub, about pushing during labor.
Many mom’s don’t want to poop during the pushing phase of labor and therefore tighten their pelvic floor to avoid this. This holds the baby and makes for longer labor. The pelvic floor needs to be able to lengthen in order for the baby to come out. Practicing this through the use of tactile cues is important so the body can instinctually lengthen during labor even if the birthing person has had an epidural.
You will want to listen into today’s podcast to learn the tricks that Chantal uses with her clients and teaches in her classes to relax the pelvic floor and allow for lengthening. Be sure to check out Chantal’s Birth Healing Summit interview coming April 2024 on supporting clients in the second stage of labor.
Chantal will be joining us for our 10th edition of the Birth Healing Summit which will be focusing on all things pregnancy! For more tips on how to better support your pregnant clients, join us for the 2024 Birth Healing Summit kicking off this April - more details coming soon to the Institute for Birth Healing website and to your inbox if you are a subscriber to our newsletter.
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About Today’s Guest:
Chantal Traub is a prominent New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and wellness coach. In her 20-plus years in practice, she has become internationally acclaimed for her expertise on the pelvic floor and her Pushing Power technique. Early on, Traub identified a severe lack of preparation among birthing people for the pushing stage of labor. She observed that in birth classes, this essential topic was glossed over. Thus began a mission to properly educate and teach birthing moms—and professionals in the field—to better understand the pelvic floor; through her classes, her one-on-one work and her doula practice. Traub speaks often on the subject of pelvic floor health and safe, effective pushing. She is a regular educator for Global Pelvic Health Alliance, American Physical Therapy, New Jersey and My Pelvic Floor Muscles, and has been featured on many podcasts, including Next Question, with Katie Couric and The Women’s Health Podcast. She presented at the Polyvagal Institute Conference in 2022. In recent years, Traub has expanded her training and practice to be able to serve the health needs of women of all ages and at all life stages.
Published Co-Author: The Pelvic Floor: Everything you needed to know sooner
Website: https://chantaltraub.com
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Have you ever seen a nerve or wondered about the nervous system? What does it all look like? How does it relate to the rest of the body?
In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Gil Hedley, an integral anatomist about an incredible educational opportunity for you that he put together called the Nerve Tour.
He will walk us through his 5 month long dissection of the nervous system which allows us to see the different aspects of the nervous system. Through this presentation, we are reminded that even though traditional education has created boxes for the nervous system, the nervous system does not stay in the lines.
To learn more about the wonders of the nervous system, listen to the full podcast. You can find out more information and sign up for the Nerve Tour at: gilhedley.com.
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How many different Parts do you have? Not like multiple personalities but we all have parts and in today’s episode Lynn talks with Danielle Carron a therapist/coach about IFS and SE and how these practices can help clinicians meet clients where they are and better support a client’s healing journey.
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Danielle Carron, M.S., M.A., SEP, LPC, about Internal Family Systems and Somatic Experiencing Therapy and how these practices can help clinicians meet clients where they are and better support a client’s healing journey.
Dr. Richard Schwartz, PhD, in his book No Bad Parts, describes Internal Family Systems (IFS) as a way to approach trauma by connecting to an individual’s core or true self. Danielle explains how IFS contains 3 main categories or parts that once identified can help heal trauma:
- Self or Core - the part that is unshakeable and resilient
- Exiles - the parts that carry pain, often emotional pain
- Protectors - the parts that try to protect the self from exiles (pain)
Somatic Experiencing (SE) Therapy was created by Peter Levine, PhD, and is based on the idea that trauma gets trapped in the body and by bringing connection and mindfulness to the sensations of the body one can bring prior traumas or events to completion within the system.
Danielle explains how she uses IFS in relationship with SE to address the 3 main categories of self, exiles, and protectors. She helps her clients gain perspective and bring curiosity to identify the exiles and protectors. By moving through the events that created the exiles and protectors with mindfulness and connection, the self or core can let go of what is trapped and an individual can heal.
Listen to today’s podcast to learn more about IFS, SE, and what you can do as a practitioner to pull in some of these pieces to help your clients in their healing journeys.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Danielle Carron is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) who holds a Master’s Degree in Contemplative Psychotherapy as well as a Masters of Science in Holistic Nutrition. To learn more, check out her website at https://daniellecarron.com/ and listen in to her podcast Embody Your Power.
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Are you living from just your brain or just your heart? Where do you make decisions from?
Welcome to season two of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast. In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the 3 energy centers of the body and how connecting these centers can change how you make decisions and be in your life.
The 3 heart centers are the head (what you think), the heart (what you feel), and the womb (your spiritual connection). In Chinese medicine, the head is the source of the most subtle energy, the womb has the most substantial energy, and the heart is moderate. It is not uncommon to find a heart energetically pulled forward in the chest. This can represent a false sense of “I am okay world.” When using a 3-energy center balancing technique, the results are life-changing.
If you are interested in learning how to balance the 3 energy centers of the body check out the Birth Healing Intensive (a 9-month program that is both career and life-changing).
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Have you taken the time to reflect on 2023 and check in with yourself on your goals for 2024 and beyond?
In today’s episode Lynn shares her reflections from 2023 and endeavors for 2024.
Lynn talks about the ups and downs from the year including changes in staff, a successful 9th Birth Healing Summit, gratitude for how the Summit has taught her information before it even hits the research, and the launch of two great courses through the Institute for Birth Healing: Advanced Postpartum Techniques (perfect for those who have completed the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Pelvis course) and Treating the Postpartum Pelvis (a must for any practitioner who treats clients with low back pain or SIJ dysfunction).
Lynn also shares about what is to come in 2024, including the much anticipated Birth Healing Intensive (a 9-month program that is both career and life-changing), a new and improved Birth Healing Certification program, and the 10th Birth Healing Summit that will focus on pregnancy and labor. A quick note, the Summit will no longer be free in 2024 as a nominal charge will apply for this career changing information.
Lynn will also be attending APTA’s Combined Sections Meeting in February and has set a goal to present her own research and data in 2025 about how the treatment techniques she uses change the pelvic bones. She is currently working hard to collect the data for presentation at the 2025 conference.
A message from Lynn: I hope you all are able to take the time you need to reflect and create goals for 2024! Cheers to a fantastic year ahead!
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Did you know your client’s nervous system taps into your own nervous system?
In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the importance of developing a strong therapeutic presence. Therapeutic presence is your ability to be fully connected and grounded without yourself so you can hold space for your clients to support their healing journey without influencing it with a specific agenda.
By grounding in and attuning to your own body and thoughts, you can recognize what is yours and what is your clients. You can learn how to create an open and safe space. You can then start dialoguing with your client, so they feel heard and empowered during the session. Empowering clients also leads to greater healing.
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Do you know how to create congruence in yourself and your clients?
Listen In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Certified Birth Healing Specialist, Occupational Therapist, and owner of The Wild Orange Tree, Janelle Gullan as we discuss congruence. Janelle shares how what she has learned at the Institute of Birth Healing has changed her practice including some cases where her advanced skills have made a huge difference with her clients.
As you listen, you will find there is a recurring theme of congruence, the state of when things are in agreement or harmony. Congruence in one’s state of being occurs when the body and the mind are in harmony and work together. Lynn and Janelle explore how one’s state of being influences their doing. Creating cohesion between being and doing in a way that works for the body can significantly improve your client treatments. Congruence can look like listening to stop points, going slower than you would normally, and sitting in silence and bringing compassion to an experience.
When you learn to be in congruence you will find that there is more ease in life and in what you do. Listen in to today’s episode to learn more about the impact congruence can have both personally and professionally.
For more information about how to create congruence personally or with your clients, check out the Birth Healing Intensive coming in February 2024.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Janelle is an Occupational Therapist who supports women to connect to their body so they can navigate mothering transitions with confidence and vitality. With an integrated focus on pelvic health, mental health and menstrual cycles, she explores rites of passage and the ways feminine transitions impact performance, roles, relationships, participation and joy.
Based on her own personal experiences, Janelle is passionate about supporting birth injury and exploring the stories that live in our body and pelvic spaces. Through her private practice, The Wild Orange Tree, she provides support in Melbourne, Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast (Australia) as well as through the online space.
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You may have heard of trauma being held in the nervous system and the need for a biopsychosocial approach to treating your clients, but have you considered that trauma may also be held in the local tissue?
In today’s episode Lynn talks about how trauma can be held in the tissue as well as the nervous system, and shares her experience of what you can do to address trauma in the body.
Polyvagal theory explains individual responses to events. Individuals can feel safe, threatened or have a freeze response. If our nervous system has this response then it is logical to think that the body tissue will also have a similar response. In her practice, Lynn has found that tissues that do not move or are colder than other tissues in the surrounding area tend to be stuck in a trauma response.
Lynn has found that when a therapist is able to be open and recognize the signs of frozen or stuck trauma, then they have easier and more successful client sessions. The challenge Lynn puts forth to all manual therapists and bodyworkers listening to this podcast is to bring awareness to what you feel in the tissues. Get curious about what is happening under your hands with an open mind that is agenda free. See what you discover and let Lynn know!
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Have you had success in helping a client have a VBAC after a cesarean birth?
In today’s episode Chaitanya Morly-Southall, a bodyworker in Australia and student of the Institute for Birth Healing shares how she helped a client have a successful VBAC by using the skills she learned in her coursework with the Institute for Birth Healing.
The client was 30 weeks pregnant with her 2nd child at initial evaluation. She had horrible pain in her back and pubic bone area. Her 1st birth was traumatic and ended in a C-section. She presented with anger and grief over not having been able to birth the baby vaginally. During the 1st birth she felt very unsupported.
Chaitanya went through the external protocol taught in the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course as well as the advanced techniques she learned at the Institute for Birth Healing to support this client and address both her physical and emotional needs. In today’s podcast, Chaitanya discusses what she found in her assessments, how she treated this client, and what the client outcomes were after working together.
A Quick Note From Lynn:
This client felt better even without an internal pelvic floor muscle assessment. It is important that even if you never plan on performing an internal muscle assessment that you learn the techniques to treat externally. It is important to bring the client’s awareness down to where the bodywork is taking place to build interoception. The body needs to finish what it started in many ways. The tissues guide you through the dance of what is stuck in there. Lastly, the pelvis is the foundation of the body and motion.
A Birth Healing Intensive program will be coming in 2024 to help you learn more about how to work with non-physical symptoms. In the meantime, check out the following course on the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body.
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Do you know the one tool we all have in common that we can develop that will make us better clinicians?
In today’s episode Lynn talks about one of the strongest tools possessed by all clinicians that when used leads to lasting results, intuition.
Everyone has intuition. Some choose not to pay attention to it and others deny its existence, but when clinicians are embodied and can quiet their thoughts, intuition can lead and guide a session. It can guide through visual, verbal or instinctual cues. As clinicians you can strengthen this important tool by using it. The more you take action based on what you are feeling, hearing and sensing the stronger it becomes. You can learn more on how to flex your intuitive muscles and grow your intuition, in the Birth Healing Intensive coming in February 2024.
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Have you ever had a client that you use all your tools with - both manually and exercise wise - but the pain is still there? Ever wondered if the pain is really physical in nature or if something else is causing this pain?
In today’s podcast, I talk with Justine Calderwood, a Physical Therapist, an IBH Certified Birth Healing Specialist and the owner of The Healing Spot in Colorado Springs, CO about her practice. I specifically wanted to know how she is incorporating the advanced techniques she learned through IBH to help her clients and what she has discovered in doing this work. Below is an overview of the client we discussed and the treatment Justine used to help her client.
History of the Client:
The client is 32 weeks pregnant at the time with her first child. She initially started care with right sided pain. Upon assessment she had fascial and joint restrictions along the right side of her trunk and into her hips. These issues were resolving with standard treatment of joint, uterine mobility as well as myofascial release. Then the client arrived with a flare in symptoms.
Assessment and Treatment:
Upon assessment the symptoms were not just physical in nature. The client was dealing with a lack of support at her job which required a 2 week out of town trip during the final stages of her pregnancy. The client used the work stuck when referring to her pain and her situation. As she was guided through this “stuckness” with open ended questions and compassion the client’s tissues began to release. This open dialoguing guided the client to see that her pain was related to what was happening in her life in a broad sense and gave her a non judgemental space to begin to process her own desires and plans.
Client Outcome:
The client was 75% better post session by addressing the whole being and not just the spot of the pain.
Our Advanced Holistic course will be coming soon to help you learn more about how to work with non-physical symptoms.
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Have you tried to mobilize a joint or worked with soft tissue restrictions and the tension just won’t change? Or the client comes back with increased pain?
Listen in to today’s episode as Lynn describes her approach to tension in the body that does not want to release.
It is time to take a different approach to body tension. Instead of forcing releases that don’t last or create pain try the tips mentioned in today’s episode. These tips center around curiosity as to what the tension is telling the client and the use of personal intuition. Teaching clients awareness of their body’s messages and dialoguing about what they sense just might be what the tissue needs. Learning to follow the guidance of the body is the key to lasting release for your client.
For more information about how to help your clients discover the reason for their tension, check out the Birth Healing Intensive coming in February 2024.
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Do you realize the importance of the Pelvis beyond its structure? Do you know it’s the engine of our body?
In today’s episode Lynn talks with Suzanne Scurlock, a Craniosacral Therapist and the founder of Healing from the Core, about the pelvis as the engine of the body.
In Chinese medicine and several eastern philosophies, the pelvis is the root of energy for the body. When clients come in with complaints of unrelenting fatigue it is not uncommon for them to have an energetic block and physical ailment in the pelvis. This is the area that transfers energy up to the other energy centers in the body. There are multiple reasons for blockages in this area including birth, falls and injuries. If these are not addressed the body cannot function on all cylinders and individuals can push through, but they are not thriving.
As a practitioner, you may have clients who come in with a story about the issue they are experiencing with their pelvis, but it may not be the root cause of what is going on. Lynn and Suzanne will discuss ways to dig into the story and how finding the root cause can restore the body to full function.
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ABOUT TODAY’S SPEAKER
Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, is one of the world’s leading authorities on conscious awareness and its transformational impact on the healing process.
For more than 30 years she has empowered people with practical tools that enable them to experience joy in each moment without burning out. These skills help improve every aspect of their lives, from their health and well-being to their relationships, their careers, their creativity, even the growth of their businesses.
After decades of perfecting her methods of awakening the body’s innate wisdom, Suzanne created the comprehensive Healing From the Core® training curriculum in 1994. Today it includes a robust selection of international workshops, webinars, speaking engagements and audio programs.
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What happens when scar tissue is super painful, very hard, immobile, or does not want to let go?
In today’s episode Lynn addresses what scar tissue is and what you can do to help it release.
There are multiple types of scars - hypertrophic, keloid, atrophic, and contraction to name a few. For those working in the birth and postpartum space, you are mostly encountering hypertrophic and keloid scars post tears, episiotomies and c-sections. Factors such as genetics, wound location, tension through the wound, infections, emotions and trauma play a role as to what type of scar develops.
Lynn talks about how you can help your clients navigate the emotions linked to the incident that created the scar and other tools on how to work with and release scar tissue. Scars love gentle compression! Tune in to today’s podcast to learn more.
If you want to learn more about the energetics and emotion linked to scar tissue, stay tuned for more information on the Birth Healing Intensive coming in February 2023.
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Do you have a client with pain that will not go away, but no one has been able to determine the cause? It may have to do with the medical provider during the pregnancy or birth!
In today’s podcast, Lynn talks with her co-worker, Maryjean Starr, a Doctor in Physical Therapy, about specific cases where clients were in pain that would not go away. The common thread and source just happened to be rooted in statements from their providers that impacted their bodies, and the clients were unaware.
In this podcast, we discuss two different cases. The first case is about a woman who was induced early when her baby was measuring too small, though the mom felt the baby was fine. The second case is of a client with a heart condition carrying twins. In both cases, the doctor’s opinions stifled the mother’s intuition, which led to pain in the body with “unknown” origins. Tune in to hear more and discover the pieces that may resonate for you and your practice.
For more information about how to help your clients discover their truth and heal holistically, check out the Birth Healing Intensive coming in February 2024.
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Why does one person experience incontinence and another does not? What is the secret to continence?
In today’s episode Lynn discusses a common problem many moms face postpartum, stress urinary incontinence, as she shares what she learned from Taryn Hallam, an Australian physiotherapist in her 2023 Pelvicon lecture.
As pelvic health providers, many of us were taught that the bladder can only tolerate so much pressure. We learned that when we cough or have any increase in intra abdominal pressure this increases the pressure on the bladder and increases its internal pressure over the urethra. When the bladder pressure is higher than urethral pressure it creates leakage.
Now research is showing something different. Lynn explains what these differences mean in how we assess and treat urinary incontinence and why the protocol for treating the postpartum pelvis has such great results. Listen to today’s podcast to learn more.
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Ever wonder why some people just seem safe and others don’t? Or why one person is traumatized by their birth but another is not?
In today’s podcast Chantal Traub, a prominent New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and wellness coach discusses the 3 essentials of safety.
Context is the who, what, when and how of the situation. As birth providers it is our responsibility to help mothers in labor in this area. Prior to the birth, the location of where the birth will take place, who will be present (ideally), what provider will be present (ideally), and how the process works is usually addressed. The baby is expecting to be born into the world with resiliency that comes from a regulated adult. Offering the context helps lead to that regulation.
Choice is the ability to decide between multiple options. When the power to choose is taken away from a person, he/she/they feel trapped. Choosing simple things like music, lighting or who is present can have a large impact on the perception of safety.
Connection is how the birthing person and provider are associated. Even a provider who has never provided care for a person in the past can make a connection. The number one predictor of birth trauma is the birthing person’s relationship with the provider. So this connection piece and sense of safety are essential in avoiding birth trauma.
This skill of establishing safety through context, choice and connection will help everyone in the birthing space create the sense of safety required for a safe labor.
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About Today’s Guest:
Chantal Traub is a prominent New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and wellness coach. In her 20-plus years in practice, she has become internationally acclaimed for her expertise on the pelvic floor and her Pushing Power technique. Early on, Traub identified a severe lack of preparation among birthing people for the pushing stage of labor. Thus began a mission to properly educate and teach birthing moms—and professionals in the field—to better understand the pelvic floor; through her classes, her one-on-one work and her doula practice, Traub has helped thousands of women birth babies without tearing and without episiotomies. She is a regular educator for Global Pelvic Health Alliance, American Physical Therapy, New Jersey and My Pelvic Floor Muscles, and has been featured on many podcasts, including Next Question, with Katie Couric and The Women’s Health Podcast.
Published Co-Author: The Pelvic Floor: Everything you needed to know sooner
Website: https://chantaltraub.com
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Ever hear the word protocol and cringe? Do you feel it takes away from individual treatment plans?
In today’s podcast Lynn describes what she means when she talks about protocols.
At the Institute for Birth Healing a protocol is a suggestion for the order to treat certain areas of the body to achieve the best results in the least amount of time. Protocols are not step-by-step treatment techniques to getting your clients better but a suggestion for how to move through the body. Ultimately, your treatment will be guided by what you find in the body when listening to what your client and their body is telling you.
In general, Lynn’s protocol is to treat bones with techniques you find necessary for that client, then move on to assessing the pelvic floor, then assess and treat the pelvic organs, then go back to treat the pelvic floor. This pattern decreases time required to achieve positive results with a client.
If you are interested in finding out more about the treatment method mentioned today join the waitlist for Lynn’s new course launching October 2, 2023: Treating the Postpartum Pelvis
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Do you spring test the bones and joints of the body? Find out how spring testing can lead to immediate strength improvements in the body. Join us for today’s episode where physical therapist, Jerry Hesch discusses his unique approach to treating the body.
The Hesch philosophy was discovered from the founder's personal experience in working with and treating his own body. This approach, taught through the Hesch Institute, is applied based on the uniqueness of the person being treated. Jerry’s approach is to find the angle of the bone where when pressure is applied to it, the bone will begin to release the tension. Using this position with direction and a fulcrum, such as a ball, and sustained pressure will create a release in the client’s body. Clients can maintain the results with a 2 minute a week exercise sustained hold. The release holds week after week because the micromotion at the joint is restored.
This motion is important when applied to the sacroiliac joint and the pelvis. The weakness noted specifically at the pelvic floor in postpartum clients is likely caused by neurologic inhibition because of the lack of micromotion. When this micromotion is restored the neurologic inhibition is removed and immediately strength is restored. This micromotion is in all bones. So increasing the micromotion at the ischial tuberosity will improve motion in the sacrum and ilium. Therapists and patients are reminded that restoring this motion is not magic, it is science.
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There are 4 common postpartum patterns in the pelvis after birth and one of them is harder to find than the others which is why I call it the hidden pattern. Do you know which one it is?
In today’s episode I reveal which one it is and how you can look for it in your clients.
Do you know what the most hidden common postpartum pattern is?
In today’s episode Lynn discusses the most hidden common postpartum pattern in the body, the Sacral Flexion Pattern, along with the signs and objective findings for this pattern.
Lynn reviews what happens to the sacrum when the baby enters the outlet of the pelvis and comes out. In order for this to happen the sacral base needs to flex forward and the tailbone moves posterior. This creates increased space for the baby’s head to navigate through the pelvic floor muscles and out of the vaginal canal. Due to varying shapes and sizes of the sacrum and coccyx it is important to assess this space in our clients. The more rounded and less space there is between the pubic and tailbone requires greater motion of the sacrum. Mom’s are encouraged to labor on their side or in a position other than supine when this is the case. As the birth progresses the sacrum moves posteriorly and you are able to easily observe the sacral flexion during the birthing process. After the labor is over you will know if your client’s body is holding onto this pattern because:
1. They complain that they are uncomfortable when they lay flat on the floor.
2 Upon assessment, you find bilateral coccygeus tightness.
Steps to correct this pattern as well as how to assess and treat the other common postpartum patterns are taught in the Treating the Postpartum Pelvis, a new online course that will be launching October 2, 2023. Be part of the first cohort by joining the waitlist for this course today!
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Ever wondered how to implement what you have learned in a class with your client? Listen to how one student is using what she learned from the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course.
In today’s podcast, Physical Therapist, IBH Certified Birth Healing Specialist and the owner of The Healing Spot, Justine Calderwood, MSPT walks us through her treatment of a postpartum client suffering from incontinence and back pain.
History of the Client:
The client is a 29 year old female who presents 3-4 months postpartum with complaints of back pain and urinary stress incontinence. She has bad allergies and any time she coughs or sneezes she is leaking urine.
Assessment and Treatment:
The client was assessed and found to be in the Open Birthing Pattern. During the standing prolapse assessment, Justine also found the bladder had prolapsed and the client lacked a pelvic floor contraction.
Myofascial release and closing of the open birthing pattern techniques were performed. In addition, the client was taught how to perform a kegel properly. In the past she had been bearing down. The client was given a home program that worked into her daily life.
Client Outcome:
At the most recent follow up session the client was reporting she was so much better. Her bladder had maintained its lifted position and she was able to activate her pelvic floor in supine and standing. The back pain was no longer an issue.
Advice for Other Students:
Justine points out that the skills learned at the Institute for Birth Healing classes were integral to improving her client’s position. When the number one rule at the Institute is followed (Respect the Tissue) the body tells the practitioner its story and how to treat it. It is important to not have a plan when the patient walks in and listen to what the body needs and go from there.
If you are interested in finding out more about treating the postpartum pelvis join the waitlist for Lynn’s new course launching October 2, 2023: Treating the Postpartum Pelvis
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Is your client’s pelvic pain worse after releasing their pelvic floor? In today’s episode, Lynn talks about the important impact the pelvic bones can have on the pelvic floor muscles. When treating internally, the pelvic floor muscles inform you of what is going on in the pelvis. For example when the tailbone is lifted backwards or in sacral flexion you will find there is bilateral tension in the coccygeus muscles. Treat the sacrum first then check the muscles again. You will, likely, find there is less tension and you will have less work to do to get the muscles to relax.
The pelvic floor muscles are normally trying to keep the bones together. If the pain gets worse when you release the pelvic floor muscles then start with the pelvic bones. Another example is if you have tension in the superficial transverse perineal check to see if the ischial tuberosity is splayed. By correcting the splay you can decrease the tension in the muscle. Any time you use the bones to help the muscles release, you may find you have greater success.
If you are interested in finding out more about treating the bones of the pelvis check out Lynn’s new course launching in September 2023: Treating the Postpartum Pelvis
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Do you struggle putting words to what is going on in the body? Do your clients? Ever wonder what it means to hold space for another? In today’s podcast physical therapist, Heather Hannam, discusses how to develop the ability to present for a client and provides the language to express it.
Beginning this journey takes vulnerability. It is not easy for people to be vulnerable yet daily you ask your clients to be vulnerable with you. A definition of vulnerability is there is nothing to defend. Just as a soft heart is a sign of strength. By doing your own work to learn how to be vulnerable or develop a soft heart, you as a therapist are able to honor and recognize the pain that each client brings with them. This helps you open up to the ability to hold space for your clients.
Questions are a great way to teach a client an emotional language. Examples are: Where in the body are you feeling that? Is it mad, sad, glad or afraid? What number is it 0-10? Is there a color associated with it? The more comfortable you are sitting with your own pains or discomforts, the greater your ability to associate and facilitate a session with a client will be. You, as the therapist, become the pendulum in the room and synchronize the client to your present state. This affords a boundary of safety to the client. By increasing their feelings of safety they are more likely to share the root of the issue. By meeting your client where they are you can help facilitate change in the client. You can, then, help them recognize the differences they feel in their own body, so they embody that change.
Remember, we are all just matter when it comes to working on ourselves or others. Matter is just made of space and energy. According to Heather, 99% of what we are is energy. Tiny particles moving around an atom. We can pick up someone’s energy from a distance. It is a coherent set of waves of every organism that we are sinking into and assessing. When we feel changes in a room when people are arguing, that is feeling energy. To hold space for a client, it is the concept of the both and (many and), instead of the either or. It is like holding 3 things in your hands. You sense you are holding 3 objects, but you can focus on just one of those objects. You can learn to hold presence for yourself and for the patient at the same time. This holding of presence allows you to be open to the information the tissues want to give you and your client.
To learn more about healing at a distance and holding space check out the advanced postpartum technique on-line course offered by the Institute for Birth Healing.
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Do you know how to assess and treat the cervix? Did you know the cervix is the linchpin of the pelvic space?
If you are a body worker who performs intravaginal work listen in to today’s podcast as Lynn shares why the cervix needs to be an essential part of your assessment and treatment plan.
The cervix is located midline past the urethra and bladder and feels like the end of a nose. It can be found anywhere in the pelvic cavity, especially postpartum. When the cervix is out of alignment, it can push into the bladder and contribute to a client’s feeling of bladder frequency and urgency. In our treatments, we need to encourage the cervix to be posterior and superior in position. There should be good space between the bladder and cervix. The cervix has relatively free mobility like a piñata. When it is restricted and found to be on one side or another there is a great chance of pelvic floor tightness which can result in pain or bladder complaints from your client. Treating the cervix then the bladder often means there will be less work to do on the pelvic floor muscles.
The cervix is the black box recorder of the pelvic space. When a finger is placed on the cervix and it is asked to release anything that is no longer serving it, as a provider you can feel it soften. It is especially important with biopsies and trauma. It is the linchpin for treating the pelvic space.
To learn more about assessing and treating the cervix as well as other techniques to help your postpartum clients check out the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body available as a self-paced online course or as a live course.
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Have you ever wondered how someone became so successful in growing their practice?
In today’s podcast, Kat Vigo, PT and owner of Painless Pregnancy shares her secret to success in turning a company that began as a side hustle into a thriving business with 25 employees, most of whom are full-time. You might be surprised how simple it was. Listen in to find out her secrets to success.
Kat emphasizes the importance of the sales process and how following up with your clients is a key to getting them to continue their treatment and create a relationship with the practitioner they are working with. Follow up includes calls, texts and emails as touch points. Persist for clients' own care when they are not capable of doing this for themselves.
Marketing also plays a big role in her success. She sets up treatment packages and makes sure clients know the options available. She suggests that you begin talking about next steps such as a new package 2-3 visits prior to the first finishing.
Another key to success is creating a wellness mindset. Provide value for your clients by creating ways to support their wellness from head to toe. By focusing on mind, body and soul clients will reach out to you for continued support, and will, likely, come back to see you monthly for care. Wellness focused care stacks up the value because iIt allows you, as the practitioner, to find practical solutions to everyday problems for the client that might not be mentioned during a typical therapy session. Shifting your mindset to a perspective that every client can become a wellness client and providing to that need can make growth possible and easy.
A final piece of advice Kat shares is that you, as a practitioner, need to take care of yourself. Take vacations, invest in continuing education and take time to fill your own cup. Out of your wellness, you will be able to listen, create and grow. Meeting the needs of the clients from your own position of wellness (physically, mentally and spiritually) will enable your business to grow.
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Are your clients struggling with secondary infertility? If so, have you asked them about their first birth?
In today’s episode Lynn discusses her experience with a client that was struggling with secondary infertility which is defined as “the inability to conceive or carry a baby to term after previously giving birth” (Penn Medicine). During the physical assessment of her client, the uterus was hard and had decreased mobility. After talking more with her client about her client’s previous birth experience, Lynn used the trauma release statement of: “We ask the body to release any shock or trauma that is being held in these tissues knowing the baby is out, the labor is over, and everyone is okay.” The uterus softened and became more mobile.
By acknowledging and releasing the trauma of a previous birth, we can help our clients feel safe in their bodies which can relax the tissues allowing the body to function more optimally. Here are some questions to consider in your assessments of clients experiencing secondary infertility:
- What is the state of the uterus after the first birth?
- What does it feel like?
- How do your words land in the tissue of the client, meaning do you feel a shift or change in the tissues afterwards?
Looking for these signs in the body and acknowledging trauma from a prior pregnancy can support a client in their fertility journey.
To learn this work check out the Advanced Postpartum Techniques Course online.
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Do you get in the way of helping your clients?Listen to today’s podcast with Dr. Lee Parimuha DC as we discuss what works best when you are working with your clients, the answer may surprise you.
In this episode, Dr. Parimuha talks about the importance of listening to your client’s body as the body holds the key to the release you are looking for. If you step away from your ideas, thoughts and perceptions on how to solve the issue you can be more open to best treat your client.
Your need to help as a therapist can skew your perception from listening and seeing the way the body can heal. If you create openness and allow flow when working with each individual you may be able to better tune into the body. What works best may surprise you when you give it a try.
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Lee Parimuha DC
Palmer School of Chiropractic
Co-owner Nonforce Chiropractic/Functional Medicine 1989- now
Patented “Totillow” an ergonomic bed pillow
Health Care Writer/Philosopher
An Open Heart guided my life and sometimes I listened.
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Stop What you might be asking? In today’s podcast I share some of the most valuable lessons I’ve learned over the years and it includes Stop doing this!
In today’s podcast, Lynn shares one of her most valued lessons: Always respect the tissues and never force a release as it can cause more harm than good. A client came into the clinic and was in pain after receiving work from another bodyworker. Lynn shares what the body’s wisdom can tell you, so you can avoid making this same mistake.
As bodyworkers and PTs, many of us are taught to force techniques. When a joint does not move, we mobilize it to regain motion. Yet, when the tissues do not give in then we can end up fighting the body to force a release which can create or worsen pain. Lynn invites us to think about being curious with the pain and why it is there? Why will the tissue not release?
Pain is a signal and has a job. What is its job? Be curious. Find out and understand what the pain is trying to tell you in your client’s body. It might be trying to protect or create a sense of security for your client.
Clients need to feel safe and secure in the world to be able to relax and tissues need a relaxed body to release. As a reminder, check for the open birthing pattern with complaints of vaginismus to decrease muscle tension. Listen to the body, be curious and Respect the Tissues! to be the best bodyworker you can be.
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Want to know how to get the most out of your interactions with your clients?
In today’s episode physical therapist Heather Hannam shares her pearls of wisdom she has gained from her 40 years of practice. First Heather reminds us that every client we encounter needs to feel seen, heard, respected and supported. Second, she suggests reading back the patient’s subjective from the eval to them so they are able to gain perspective as to how far they have progressed since the start of care. In some cases they will not remember stating an issue and it has been completely resolved. Allowing them to correct and retell their story throughout your time working together tends to reveal issues that were never mentioned and potentially their causes. When stories come out of the client during sessions usually they have a purpose related to what is being treated. Finally, she encourages us, as medical providers, to teach a patient to advocate for themselves in the medical system.
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HEATHER A HANNAM RPT BIO
Heather is a life long Oregonian, who received a B.S. degree in Physical Education from Portland State University in 1976. At PSU, she was honored as the Outstanding Woman Graduate from the department of Physical Education. Heather graduated with her degree in physical therapy from Pacific University in 1978.
Heather was employed in busy outpatient orthopedic physical therapy practices for her first 19 years, including working with the trainers of the Portland Timbers professional soccer team. While developing her manual therapy skills, she nurtured her budding interest in women’s health issues to include teaching childbirth education since 1981.
Her last 25 years continued her specialization and added TMJ focus by pursuing advanced course work in manual therapies (including visceral/Craniosacral/myofascial release, muscle energy, tensegrity, Primal Reflex Release Technique – “PRRT,” massage/spinal mobilization), exercise, mindfulness, biofeedback, women’s health care including Holistic Pelvic Care and Holistic Care of the Pre and Post-Partum Body, pelvic floor rehabilitation for women and men, and Distance Healing from the Core.
She has been a teaching assistant and lecturer for Suzanne Scurlock’s “Healing the Pelvic Core: Reclaiming your Power, Sexuality and Pleasure Potential” class each summer at Esalen, Big Sur since 2008. She guest lectured on relaxation and stress management for her local high school for 15 years, and provides physical therapy consultation and stress management for her parish community. As a holistic manual physical therapist, Heather brings a unique variety of skills and personal life experiences that enhance her commitment to the best care possible for her clients.
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Do your clients have lengthened muscles? If they are postpartum they most likely do. Is strengthening not creating the change you and your client are trying to achieve?
In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the importance of addressing lengthened muscles and what to do about them. She shares her experience of trying to strengthen a lengthened muscle.
When our client’s muscles are lengthened, especially after pregnancy, isometric shortening with end range pulses can help relieve the achiness our client feels. We can also shorten the pelvic floor musculature by ensuring the bones are in a closed position first.
You can learn more in the FREE Sacral Flexion Pattern course at the Institute for Birth Healing.
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Are you a leader or are you a follower? In today’s episode, Julia Di Paolo, a Canadian Physiotherapist talks with us about the difference between Evidence Based and Evidence Informed practice. Evidence Based is defined as having randomized control trials showing that a certain concept exists. Evidence Informed is defined as taking the evidence we have and making clinical deductions based on the body infront of us, knowledge of the anatomy, and research to guide our treatments.
In clinical practice, rarely is there a textbook case. With most patients, we as practitioners take the concepts, education, and experience we have and tweak them to adapt to what our client are presenting with.
Research takes years to complete and even longer before the findings can go into practice. For this reason, practitioners, especially those in pelvic health, are frequently treating from an evidence informed position until the research catches up to verify what is being found in clinic. Julia says, “Staying ahead of the research makes you a leader in therapy and sticking to the research makes you a follower”. As an example, it took Diane Lee and Paul Hodges over 6 years to have research published on diastasis, but that did not stop therapists from leading the way and treating the condition because they saw it consistently in their clinics.
The Institute for Birth Healing utilizes evidence that proves that the bones move and the ligaments stretch out during pregnancy. There is no evidence; however, that shows the bones go back to the exact original position postpartum. There are patterns in the body, such as the Open Birthing Pattern, that have been discovered over and over, again, in thousands of postpartum bodies, that inform the idea that the bones and ligaments often do not return to their prenatal position after birth. With this information, we know what to look for and how to treat this common birth pattern. In this case, the research alone does not guide the treatment of our clients, it informs us to make biologically feasible decisions that will make the greatest impact on our client’s health and quality of life.
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Julia Di Paolo Reg. PT is a Pelvic Health Physiotherapist, co-author of Pregnancy Fitness (2018), author of The Labour and Birth Handbook (2016), international speaker and guest lecturer. For the last 13 years, her focus has been on the pelvic floor and its relationship to the rest of the body, specifically in pregnancy and postpartum, right through menopause at any age and all diversities.
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Want to create magical results for your clients? Consider regularly assessing the Uterosacral Ligament.
If your clients are complaining of irritation of the bladder, urethra or pelvic floor muscles, treating the uterosacral ligament can help, and can also provide relief to clients with prolapse. Join in for today's podcast, as Lynn highlights the importance of this incredible ligament.
The Uterosacral Ligament goes from the sacrum (S1-4) or sacrospinous complex to the Posterio-Lateral Part of the cervix, the Connection point of the cervix to the vaginal wall and Upper 1/3 of the posterior vaginal wall (not the uterus). This means the cardinal ligament is the primary support of the uterus.
The dynamic nature of the attachments makes it essential to address the bones to decrease the pull on the muscles and ligaments. Because the inferior hypogastric plexus swims through the medial portion of the ligament, treating this ligament is critical to decreasing irritation of tissue of the bladder, urethra, and the whole vaginal vault. Due to its nature of helping with drainage, it is essential to assess if there is a vaginal lip during birth or congestion in the uterus.
The results of working with this ligament can be magical for your clients. If you want to learn how to release the uterosacral ligament, check out The Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant Body to learn external release and the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body to learn the internal release.
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What is your inner identity? Is it time to do some weeding in your personality garden so it truly reflects who you are and want to be?
In today’s podcast, occupational therapist and growth and mindset coach Landy Peek shares her knowledge on addressing the disconnection between our inner identity and building our dream practice. Landy is currently working with business owners in shifting their inner identity to birth a new creation.
Our inner identity is who we are on a subconscious level. The subconscious level is similar to a garden and as we develop family, friends, teachers and many others are planting seeds in our garden that can define who we perceive ourselves to be. The question is do these labels accurately describe who we are. Landy gives us permission to pull out identities that are not us and to take on the identity of who we see ourselves to be in our desired role. Living through this identity, aligns you with the creative energy to bring to fruition your desire. You don’t want to miss this challenging and insightful conversation.
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Landy Peek helps therapists take control of their time and energy so they can create a life they love, prioritizing fun, family, and themselves while still creating a thriving business. Landy is a Growth Mindset Coach for therapists, OT, pelvic therapist, and somatic experiencing trauma therapist who specializes in birth trauma in her private practice. She is a mom of two and loves hiking beautiful Colorado with her family and watching her backyard chickens.
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Are your clients complaining of difficulty with fertility, endometriosis, pain with intercourse, sensitivity to arousal or just having pain?
In today’s episode, Lynn reminds practitioners that it is essential to assess the round ligament when working with female patients with pelvic issues.. If your clients are struggling with a complex set of symptoms, including endometriosis, pelvic pain, pregnancy-related pain, and infertility, then this interview can give you insight as to how to bring about fast and lasting results. The round ligament can be the linchpin leading to relief for multiple issues clients are experiencing. As Lynn reports, this ligament/muscle is complex in nature because of its path in the body: attaches anteroinferiorly to the uterotubal junction, goes through the deep inguinal ring, and Inserts into labia majora. Many areas can lead to pain and dysfunction in clients. Treating this ligament, which you can learn in Lynn’s Holistic Treatment of the pregnant body course, will improve your client’s lives and symptoms.
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Did you know treating your client's pelvic floor could save their life?
Do you acknowledge that your clients' bodies have been through a lot?
Join us today as we continue the conversation with Michelle Lyons and dive into a variety of topics, including how we can save women's lives, how we need to acknowledge all the person we are working with has been through during birth, and how movement can shift your client from a state of disconnect to one of safety.
As practitioners, providing postpartum care that is multidisciplinary is important in determining if a mom is able to return to feeling safe in her postpartum body. Michelle mentions that one in two to three women have stopped exercising due to pelvic floor issues which decreases their ability to avoid heart disease. Returning our clients to movement and then exercise as mentor and coach is essential to the health of women everywhere. She takes you through exercises that return motion to the body that will help move clients stuck in a freeze response back to grounding and motion. You don’t want to miss this important conversation and these simple exercises that will help improve your clients' lives.
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Is a pelvic floor first approach the best solution for chronic pelvic pain?
Join in for part one of this incredible two part series with Michelle Lyons as we discuss the importance of Polyvagal Theory in treating clients with chronic pelvic pain and trauma. In this thought provoking conversation, you will learn how working only with the pelvic floor may not yield the fastest or most beneficial treatment results. Michelle teaches us about how to recognize clients with chronic pain and trauma and how to approach our treatments to create a safe environment. In addition, you will be challenged to show up fully present with your clients without the “I have to fix” persona, so you can be the coach and mentor that you truly are as a practitioner.
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Are you tired of working so hard for too little gain personally and/or professionally?
Join us for today’s podcast where Lynn Schulte shares her personal story on founding the Birth Healing Summit and how she found the magic of physical therapy. This episode is filled with little pieces of advice for the clinician as well as the practice owner. First, life is about growing personally, professionally and spiritually. Second, listen to spirit at the whisper instead of needing to go through a major event to get you to take action. Even if it is scary if you are being led in a direction there is a reason. Timing is everything. Third, if something is really hard and you feel like you are running into brick wall after brick wall take a step back, find the flow of creativity and energy then begin along the path that the new flow takes you. You will find it tends to go smoother. This is where the magic happens in your flow. In all, the growth journey is hard at times and yet very rewarding. Finding your niche and passion will lead you to places you might never have dreamed.
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Do you ever struggle with what to say to your clients, especially the ones with a history of trauma?
Focusing on your client’s strengths, respecting who they are and where they are coming from is a proven approach that will lead to calmer births. In today’s podcast, I have an enlightening conversation with Dr. Tracey Vogel who offers strategies to help you listen to your clients and then respond using more relatable, positive language. She explains how trauma shows up in these conversations, but it’s the way we as practitioners address it that can help our patients lower their defenses and embrace their perinatal bodies.
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What makes a great practitioner? Is it the perfection of techniques? A strong knowledge of anatomy? Or is there something more that is needed as well?
In today’s podcast, my dear friend Heather Hannam, a physical therapist of 45 years, shares the holistic approach she uses in her practice to successfully treat her clients as she taps into the mind, body connection.
Living in the present and working on personal growth is the key to helping you show up for your clients as they invite you into their most intimate personal space. Heather starts her day clearing negative thoughts, so she can create a safe space for her clients to share their stories. This allows Heather to not only treat her patients’ symptoms, but to uncover the root of their tension which may be an underlying emotion or trauma.
Join in as Heather takes us on a journey to discover how a mind, body connection can help you become a more grounded and impactful practitioner.
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From pregnancy to postpartum care, as a woman’s body changes, so should the ways they practice yoga. In today’s podcast, board-certified woman’s health specialist, Anne Duch explains how different yoga classes benefit different stages of perinatal care. For example, Duch says classes with poses focusing on opening the pelvis help for a less painful delivery. While postpartum yoga instruction should focus on poses of contracting the pelvic floor. Dive deeper and learn ways you can help your clients with pelvic health concerns gain stability, strength, and control by identifying the right yoga classes for their stage in motherhood.
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The hip, pelvis, and belly, pain during childbirth, therapeutic alliance, and embodiment are some featured topics in this year's Birth Healing Summit.
In this podcast episode, I share my 2023 Birth Healing Summit highlights.
Carrie Hall and Sarah Duvall share great information on the hip. Then Jerry Hesch chimed in during his interview on pelvic patterns, sharing how he assesses the hip by doing a PA to the greater trochanter in prone.
I appreciate Jerry's simplistic and valuable whole-body that he shares in his podcast interview. Dee Hartmann's interview discusses how to avoid creating pain during intravaginal work. Check out Dee's YouTube video for those five exercises before doing internal work to decrease pain. Dr. Tracey Vogel's work is inspirational and unique. She recommends patients write a personal letter about their history to put in their chart for the labor team to read. Rachel Shapiro's talk was all about the round ligament. I now treat the round ligament at the inguinal canal site and the attachment points. The round ligament is critical to treat for infertility and endometriosis too. Suzanne Scurlock shares the six wisdom areas of the body, the importance of the body's bones, and why we get inspiration when we move the body. She also explains why a full body sense is valuable for decision-making. Heather Hannam shared her treatment protocol for the SIJ. Funny enough, Heather treated me in her summit gift of a video showing the protocol. Tummy Tuck Rehab did some myth-busting, and the big takeaway is not to judge our clients and how we need to watch our words. One point I didn't get to share in my summit interview is the body has its own consciousness, as sometimes the uterus doesn't realize the birth is over and why the issues and pains in the body might not always be physical.
What were your takeaways from this year's summit? Please share.
Are you exhausted at the end of your work day, no matter how many clients you have seen? Then this is the podcast for you. Suzanne Scurlock shares how to stay in the flow of your day, making each client session effortless.
In today's episode, Suzanne shares the full body presence experience by asking one question: Are you embodying all aspects of your body?
This means being grounded, aware of where you are in time and space, tapping into your inner reservoir, and holding healthy boundaries with others.
Not embodying all aspects of your body during a client session could mean you're invading your client's boundaries. And if so, how is this impacting your success?
Listen in to hear how you can learn to embrace the full body presence to find greater ease and grace when supporting others in their process.
Enjoy Suzanne's guided visualization to reenergize and fill yourself up.
Go to Healingfromthecore.com to discover more about Suzanne's courses. Check out Suzanne's gift of the Downloadable audio versions of Suzanne’s books “Full Body Presence” and “Reclaiming Your Body” at the Institute for Birth Healing Podcast.
Is pain inevitable during childbirth? If pain is an output of the brain, are there ways to educate our pregnant clients to help minimize their pain perception during delivery?
Listen to today’s episode to hear Carolyn Vandyken, a Canadian physiotherapist, explains how using pain science is a better way to support our pregnant clients.
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that protects us from potential harm. It feels as if the body is being damaged. Specific experiences create a more significant pain response in the body. Creating more safety and less danger can help minimize pain. There are three categories of people who will have increased pain experience. If we know our clients fall into these categories, then education on pain science can be beneficial during childbirth. We need to help our clients understand that hurting doesn’t equal harm, and prepping them before labor may help them get out of the pain, fear, and tension cycle.
Check out the free handout Birth and Pain Conversation Starters for Clinicians & Clients you can use with your clients and also Carolyn's gift of 15% off a course on Pain Science and Childbirth. Visit Institute for Birth Healing Podcast for details.
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Is pain inevitable during childbirth? If pain is an output of the brain, are there ways to educate our pregnant clients to help minimize their pain perception during delivery?
Listen to today’s episode to hear Carolyn Vandyken, a Canadian physiotherapist, explains how using pain science is a better way to support our pregnant clients.
Pain is defined as an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience that protects us from potential harm. It feels as if the body is being damaged. Specific experiences create a more significant pain response in the body. Creating more safety and less danger can help minimize pain. There are three categories of people who will have increased pain experience. If we know our clients fall into these categories, then education on pain science can be beneficial during childbirth. We need to help our clients understand that hurting doesn’t equal harm, and prepping them before labor may help them get out of the pain, fear, and tension cycle.
Check out the Fear of Childbirth Questionaire you can use with your clients and also a course on Pain Science and Childbirth.
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Do you ever think about what you are thinking? Do you notice how you feel when thinking about your thoughts? And, are your thoughts more favorable than negative?
In today's podcast, physical therapist Susan Clinton shares ways to help us stop procrastinating doing our paperwork and help us get from negative to positive thoughts.
If you have a strong inner critic or are dealing with Imposter syndrome, listen to today's episode to understand how your judge is trying to keep you safe by using your accomplice saboteurs. There are ten different types of saboteurs. First, see which ones are running your thoughts. Then, learn how to build new habits by identifying when your judge is in action and how we can shift from negative self-talk to more positive ones.
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PT school teaches a very segregated approach to treating the body. For example, you learn how to assess and treat each joint but not how to work with the whole body.
The pain is hardly ever where the problem is.
Listen to today’s episode to learn from Jerry Hesch, a physical therapist and founder of the Hesch Institute, as he shares his whole body assessment approach and why the ankle may be the jaw pain problem!
Jerry developed a client-centered treatment approach using three guiding principles: a fulcrum, the correct angle, and a long duration. Then, understanding that the pelvis is a shock absorber, he applied spring testing principles to the bones and discovered many different patterns in the pelvis. Finally, given the spring testing principles and his curiosity, Jerry developed a practical whole-body treatment approach. He shares multiple inspiring case studies demonstrating that treating the most restricted body area makes the most significant changes overall.
His depth of knowledge regarding the mechanics of each joint in the body is remarkable. In this episode, he explicitly addresses the neck. Clients with Hypermobility or Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome can be challenging. However, Jerry believes they have a loss of micro-movements and recommends assessing their end-range motion to determine how to treat them.
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Does the uterus need to be balanced? What if its natural state is one of imbalance?
Listen in to hear Rachel Shapiro, a fantastic midwife in Isreal, as she shares why the uterus doesn't need to be in a state of balance. But what does this mean for our assessments?
We start this episode reflecting on Rachel's interview last year at the Birth Healing Summit, where she educated us on the uterosacral ligament. Next, she shares an amazing story of a 4th-degree uterine prolapse and how she treated the uterosacral ligament to heal her client. We then dive into this episode's topic, the uterus's imbalance state.
While the uterus' balanced state is one of imbalance, as it is asymmetrical, it does need to be functional. Does the uterus cause pain, dysfunction, pleasure issues, or a hormonal balance? It could. We never want to try to change the uterus as these imbalances change daily, even from moment to moment, but we want to ensure it can function well with our assessments and treatments.
Check out Rachel’s courses:
Course In Seattle in June: https://www.kellydungan.com/rachel-shapiro-internal
Rachel’s online course: https://www.equilibriobalance.com/internal-pelvic-balance
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How do you guide your client's decision to get a tummy tuck? Join Lisa Ryan and Munira Hundani as we discuss the ins and outs of this significant decision for our clients.
Surgery for diastasis recti is a multifaceted issue we must prepare to discuss with our clients. We may know larger separations require surgery from a functional standpoint but are more minor separations surgical candidates too? Often it comes down to our client's comfort level with how they feel about their belly. We must be careful with the decision-making process to avoid false promises and help them understand the reality of the decision. Knowing the different recovery times based on the surgery performed and why a team approach is best for supporting your clients.
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IRD has been the golden standard of measurement and outcomes when treating DRA. But should it be? Listen in as Diane Lee shares why we might want to use something else instead.
Diastasis Recti has been defined by one measurement tool alone, and in this episode, we discuss why IRD is not the best tool for measuring outcomes. Research shows that with some contraction strategies, the IRD is widening. Is this a bad thing? What if we started using distortion and depth instead? Diane's point in this episode is the IRD should not be guiding our clinical practice. Listen to her point that distortion may be a better tool for us to use instead.
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Check out Diane's new Ebook: The Abdominal Wall and Diastasis Recti Abdominus
Accompanying Course: https://learnwithdianelee.com/course/the-abdominal-wall-diastasis-rectus-abdominis/
Are you interested in adding pessary fitting to your practice? Then tune in to hear our speakers in today's episode as we talk about all things pessaries.
Terri Robertson Elder, PT, and Jenny Telfer-Crum, PT, have successfully provided pessary services in their practices. In this interview, they share thoughts on how to use pessaries with postpartum clients. Listen in to learn the new definition of prolapse put out by the International Gynecological Consultation. It's not just about the position of the organs. You have to have symptoms too. Pessaries can help the pelvic floor muscles function, but there are special considerations when dealing with traumatic births, hormonal status, and tissue health post-birth. Jenny states a good pessary is one that is comfortable to the client and resolves their issues. But remember, pessary use could be temporary, and as tissues change, the pessary size and shape may also need to be adjusted. Offering continuity of care over time for our clients using pessaries is essential.
Check out:
10% Discount on Pessary Fitting course through Pelvic Health Solutions
Pessary Resource Guide, Free FB Group Global Pessary Physio, POP Handout
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How do you define the hip? As pelvic floor therapists, addressing all aspects of the hip is imperative to achieve good outcomes with your clients.
Listen in to today's speaker, Carrie Hall, PT, who studied and worked with the renowned Shirley Sahrmann, PT, as we discuss the impact of the hip on the pelvic floor and why we should be considering the entire structure of the hip, which includes the acetabulum and position of the pelvis.
Carrie shares three key points:
- The acetabulum sits across all three planes in the body
- Pelvic obliquity or pelvic tilts aren't just on the sagittal plane but tri-planar
- Address both the acetabulum via the pelvis and femur bone
Check out the video from Washington University on a lower quadrant assessment:
https://pt.wustl.edu/education/movement-system-impairment-syndromes-courses/movement-system-impairment-resources/
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If you struggle with no-shows or cancellations, listen in for the three things you can do to optimize clinical buy-in so your patients show up for their session.
In this episode, Dr. Nicole Cozean, physical therapist and business entrepreneur, helps you determine if you have a marketing problem or a client buy-in problem. Then, she shares with you the three steps you should take to help your clients be committed to their rehab journey.
Here are the three things:
- Make sure to use patient-centered language.
- Outline what it looks like to work with you.
- Let them know you can help them.
Doing these things will help them understand why it's essential to come back for another session.
Dr. Cozean has a downloadable self-assessment to determine how your clinic performs for clinical buy-in and how to perform at your highest for your patients.
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Is stretching the piriformis your go-to treatment plan for deep buttock pain? If so, then listen to today’s podcast as Dr. Sarah Duvall gives us a greater understanding of what we might want to do instead.
In this episode, you’ll gain a greater understanding of piriformis pain and if it is a symptom or a cause of deep buttock pain. Stretching and strengthening might not always be needed for your clients, and we discuss when they might be required and what to do instead. Listen in to hear how pelvic alignment plays a role in how to help release tightness in the deep hip rotators and how abdominal recruitment can be altered.
Check out Sarah’s new course Learning Through Application.
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Are your clients reaching a plateau with rehab and unsure what to do next?
In this episode, Kelly Dean, PT of the Tummy Team, shares her insight into what might be stalling your clients' rehab progress. If you feel your client's problem is a weakness, it may be from disconnection to their body. Kelly discusses the emotional and physical connection of trauma in the body and how it impacts rehab. She also shares how healing something you can't feel is complex.
Listen in to learn how we can play a role in the physical component of our client's trauma and pain. Learn how to carefully select the words you use with your clients because if you don't feel you can help someone, it doesn't mean they can’t be helped.
Kelly's gift for listening is a 20% discount on any Online Course at The Tummy Team https://online.thetummyteam.com/Use promo code: BirthSummit2023.
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Kelly's Website: https://online.thetummyteam.com/
Did you know pleasure may be the answer to your client's pelvic pain?
Today's guest, Dee Hartmann, PT, shares the secret she discovered in her 40+ years of treating clients with chronic pelvic and abdominal pain.
**Listen in to learn how sensuality helps with sexuality and how pleasure is the gift we give to ourselves. For example, if you work with chronic pelvic or abdominal pain, helping your clients find pleasure can help with their pain. Dee also explains the clitoral anatomy and the research that orgasms can help fertility.
Here is the chapter on Sensuality To purchase the book:**
Pleasure Prescription Book Dee has five exercises you can do with your clients to reduce vulvar pain for more comfortable insertion. Watch the YouTube video.
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