By Lynn Schulte, PT
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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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
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.
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
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.
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
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
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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.
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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:
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 Body course. 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/
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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 Body is 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/
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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/
Have a comment or question about today’s episode? I would love to hear from you. Message me on Instagram or Facebook, or Email Me.
If you enjoyed today’s podcast and are interested in more topics to support your clinical practice and treating your clients, find us on your favorite podcast app and subscribe so you don’t miss an episode.
To learn more visit: InstituteforBirthHealing.com
Visit Institute for Birth Healing to learn more about how to care for the pregnant and postpartum body: CLICK HERE
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