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.

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