Skating can be brilliant exercise for your pelvic floor for so many reasons, which you can read about in Part 1 of this blog post. BUT! (There is always a but!) Inline skating (or “rollerblading”) can be a good choice for assisting your pelvic floor rehab, BUT ideally under these three conditions… You have [...]
Ah, skating, whether inline, roller or ice….such a hypnotic exercise…even if you’re only watching! There are not many forms of exercise that give you that feeling of flow. It’s so mesmerizing you just don’t want to stop the flow… Did someone say “stop the flow”? Speaking of “stop the flow”, let’s talk about the [...]
Birth trauma: this is what it’s called when a woman suffers distress with a difficult birth associated with pain, sorrow or loss, leaving her vulnerable to long-term psychological effects. How to love your body after birth trauma is probably the last thing on your mind at this point. Seeking psychological care and support is [...]
Recovery after birth trauma isn’t easy. It probably won’t happen spontaneously. Waiting to see what happens rarely gets you where you want to be as fast as you want to get there. The psychological effects of birth trauma are significant and extremely important to address, but what I want to focus on here are [...]
A traumatic birth can be cataclysmic. To describe a traumatic birth as a cataclysm may sound overly dramatic to some, but in reality it is deadly accurate. A cataclysm is an event that causes significant destruction or a sudden, violent change, and a traumatic birth matches both of these definitions. There are many forms [...]
Have you taken a moment recently to stop and really be proud of your pelvic floor? Have you truly appreciated what it manages for you? The pelvic floor is being pummeled by increases in intra-abdominal pressure all day, and not just if you’re a hayfever sufferer and constantly coughing, sneezing and blowing your nose. [...]
The anatomy of the pelvis and vulva can be confusing. How are you supposed to know when no one even really talks about it? I have created this 5-minute video to help. I give you a bit of a tour through the vulva, using a 3-D model of the pelvis to make it all make [...]
Why The First Step to Recovery Can Be Losing Something You’ve got an annoying pelvic condition. It might be incontinence, prolapse, vaginismus, thrush, constipation. It might seem a strange hypothetical question to ask: what can you lose first in order to recover your pelvic health? But if you think about it, it makes perfect [...]
The word prolapse, for many women, conjures up terrifying images of their internal organs falling out. And the thought of having sex with a prolapse can seem inconceivable. Can sex and prolapse go together? While severe prolapse can involve the involved organ coming quite a distance out of the vagina, most cases of prolapse [...]
Getting From the Plastic Thing to the Real Thing – Part 1 Pain with sex can be a bit of a project to resolve. I’ve written a lot about painful sex due to muscular causes. (The old term is vaginismus. I still use this term because usually that’s what the doctor has called it to [...]
