This week’s episode is a good one! Today I am talking to Dr. Brianne Grogan. Dr. Bri is a pelvic floor physiotherapist who helps people to recover from pelvic floor dysfunction, pelvic pain, bladder and bowel dysfunction and pelvic floor injuries through her online programmes and free resources (like YouTube)!

She is the author of Lady Bits: Understand Your Body, Elevate Your Health, and Reclaim Your Spark Naturally, the founder of FemFusion and Vibrant Pelvic Health and is the podcast host of Dr.Bri Talks Lady Bits.

I was so excited to have Dr Bri on the show because I get so many questions about how to work out safely with endo - lots of you want to move your bodies, but you're scared of making the pain worse or doing damage! Many of you have also expressed that you have fitness goals and that you’re fed up of just doing yoga or stretching exercises, so I really wanted to talk to someone who actually creates workout videos and who could speak to these issues.

In this episode we discuss:

• Which types of workouts are safe for endo, vaginismus and bladder pain and which ones we may need to tweak and tailor.

• How to exercise safely with endo and pelvic pain conditions - whilst still growing your booty and building abs if that’s what you want to do!

• The correct form to support pelvic health with endo.

• The benefits of movement for people with chronic pelvic pain conditions.

• How and when to adapt our exercise routine if we’re having a bad day pain wise.

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Show Notes

• "Overcome Pelvic Pain for Women" - a fully guided holistic programme that includes stretches, deep relaxation poses, nutrition guidance, trigger point release, mindset work, and more. Get a 7-day free trial: https://www.vibrantpelvichealth.com/free-female-pelvic-pain-7-day-program

• Dr Bri’s YouTube playlists, all in one place: bit.ly/FemPlaylists

• 20 minute core workout for a tight pelvic floor: https://youtu.be/DleC6Hn0_KU

• Exercises and Stretches for Endometriosis | Gentle Pain Relief: https://youtu.be/Y7ZRyBkSLCs

• Period Relief Yoga Stretches: https://youtu.be/bZgBw6mo60c

• @femfusionfitness on Instagram, Facebook, and YouTube

• Booty workout example discussed in episode

• Ab workout example discussed in episode

• Pelvic floor release