Birth Healing Summit Podcast

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.

1. Why pelvic bones – not just muscles – must be addressed first
2. How to listen for the body’s “yes” (not just verbal consent)
3. 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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