• Get Lindsey's 9 page OTs Map to the World of Pelvic Health.
• Join nearly 5,000 OTs on  the OTs for Pelvic Health Facebook Group!
• Check Out More OT Pelvic Health Content here.
• Find Lindsey on IG! @functionalpelvis

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Join my OTs in Pelvic Health Facebook Group
• Check Out Pelvic Health HQ

References from Hannah:

• Occupational Therapy Practice Framework: Domain and Process-Fourth Edition. (2020). The American journal of occupational therapy : official publication of the American Occupational Therapy Association, 74(Supplement_2), 7412410010p1–7412410010p87. https://doi.org/10.5014/ajot.2020.74S2001

• Fisher, A. G., & Marterella, A. (2019). Powerful practice: A model for authentic occupational therapy. Center for Innovative OT Solutions, Inc.

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Lorimer Moseley's Quiz for Clients About Pain Science 
• OT Elevate: The Biopsychosocial Approach to Colorectal Conditions
• Lindsey's Newsletter

Ted Talks

• Predictive Processing as a Theory to Understand Pain with Mick Thacker
• Why do we hurt? by Professor Lorimer Moseley

Podcasts 

• One Thing pain podcast with Mick Thacker
• Pain Science and Sensibility with Sandy Hilton & Cory Blickenstaff
• The Healing Pain podcast by Dr Joe Tatta

Books

• Explain Pain by David Butler and Lorimer Moseley 
• The Explain Pain Handbook: Protectometer by Lorimer Moseley & David Butler.  
• Permission to Move by Dave Moen and Farrin Foster

Other Resources

• Real Stories of Recovery
• The Neuroscience of Creativity, Perception, and Confirmation Bias with Beau Lotto
• Free course in mindfulness is offered by Monash University
• Ziva Meditation

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Book Recommendation: Burn Out: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski
• Communication list for OT Pioneers: Intro to Pelvic Floor Therapy for Occupational Therapists

Join my OTs in Pelvic Health Facebook Group
Check Out Pelvic Health HQ

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Central Sensitization Inventory
• Book: In an Unspoken Voice by Peter Levine
• Join my OTs in Pelvic Health Facebook Group
• Check Out Pelvic Health HQ

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

Ellie and Julia's podcast "Circling the Drain"
Resources for Inspiration from them:

• Book: Menopauase Manifesto by Jen Gunther
• Vajenda newsletter by Jen Gunther
• Stacy London's State of Menopause
•  Dr. Rachel Rubin 
• Book: Burnout by Emily Nagoski
• Book: Come As You Care by Emily Nagoski
•  Book: Health At Every Size
• Book: Quit Like a Woman
• Book: Doing Harm
• Julia's Health Coaching

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
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• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

Resources from this episode:

• OT Pioneers: Intro to Pelvic Floor Therapy for Occupational Therapists (opens October 24-28, 2022) (April 24-28, 2023)
• Tiffany Lee's company Biofeedback Training + Incontinence Solutions
• Lindsey's Facebook group OTs In Pelvic Health
• Join the communication list for Lindsey's OTs In Pelvic Health Certification

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
  ​
• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

My fave quotes from this interview,:

• "I think I just had a conversation that will change my life." - Abby
• "The eval brought up so many things for me that I healed more from just the eval than from 6 years of mental health therapy" -Rakhi (about Abby's eval) 
• "I didn't realize how  much I needed to get my story out and be heard. Abby did such a good job of letting me talk." 
• "People just need to be heard. It's so impactful." -Rakhi
• There's more than one way to be a pelvic floor therapist." -Rakhi

In this epsisode, I talk with Rakhi about: 

• How she  helped her clients understand the importance of a student stepping into the session
• How she deals with imposter syndrome (as the fieldwork mentor!)
• How she and Abby collaborated on her workshop "Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes of the Pelvic Floor" 
• How she doesn't need to go to PT Facebook groups to learn anymore; OTs are growing in number and can answer all our questions
• How to get OT students out in the world + why we need more fieldwork mentors

I talk with Abby about:

• How she thinks on her feet (in front of the client!)
• How she worked through her greatest challenge - time management
• How Abby got 7 job offers after she left Rakhi
• How she became the best OT advocate in order to get her job

Here are resources we mentioned in this episode:

• Mentor List on the OT's in Pelvic Health Facebook Group
• Herman + Wallace PF1 (use code OTR10 for 10% off)
• OT Pioneers: Intro to Pelvic Floor Therapy for Occupational Therapists

More about Rakhi:
www.queencitypelvichealth.com
@queencitypelvichealth on Facebook and Instagram

Rakhi Srivastava, MOT, OTR/L is a Pelvic Floor Occupational Therapist and owner of Queen City Pelvic Health & Wellness, LLC., which she launched in April 2022 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Rakhi graduated with a Masters in Occupational Therapy from Xavier University in 2010 and began her career at The Christ Hospital working in inpatient rehabilitation and acute care. In 2018, Rakhi helped establish and grow a very effective pelvic floor therapy program for the hospital system. Rakhi served as an adjunct professor in Occupational Therapy at Xavier University for nearly 5 years where she taught lectures and labs.

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
  ​
• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Diary #1
• Diary #2
• Bristol Stool Scale
• Get my 9 page OTs Map to the World of Pelvic Health.
• Meet me on the OTs for Pelvic Health Facebook Group!

Check Out More OT Pelvic Health Content here.
Find me on IG! @functionalpelvis

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So the good ol’ bowel, bladder and food diaries…. It’s a powerful trio!  And they are amazing for examining how our clients' habits may be contributing to their symptoms. This is so important because whoever takes the time to review things like this with them? It is so valuable for the big picture, combined with all the other tools we bring to the table. 

I love giving them the diaries to fill out before the first session and it's ideal for the diaries to span 3-5 days to get an accurate read of their habits, and I love it to span the weekday and weekend. I wanna see it all! 

When I talk with my clients about why I am asking them to fill it out, because it is a big ask, I share the following with them: 

A Diary Gives us A Good Snapshot Of What’s Happening With their Body

For example, if they are leaking. Knowing how often they leak, when, and how much can help us create voiding habits that work with their body, as well as better assess what we need to address the leakage.  Do they Always have a problem at 10 in the morning?  Perhaps they need to examine what foods they are having for breakfast or how much time they are allowing yourself to use the toilet.   Keeping a diary will help illuminate these patterns so we can investigate the whys.

Another example is if they are having FI, keeping a diary Helps us To Identify Triggers That May Be Causing them To Have it. By keeping a record, you can start to uncover trends that may be contributing to the issue. For instance, that cup of coffee first thing in the morning may be irritating their bowels more than they thought before, hinting that it’s time to rethink your java habit.

Lastly, It Provides them With A Roadmap For A Discussion with us. Recording leaks and daily habits gives us a chance to outline everything they have been experiencing can really help detail the discussion. For many, when an

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
  ​
• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!

• Nicole's Period Party Podcast
• Nicole's Book, "Fix Your Period"
• Nicole's Hormone Health Certification Program

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Pelvic OTPs United - Lindsey's off-line interactive community for $39 a month!
Inside Pelvic OTPs United you'll find:​

• Weekly group mentoring calls with Lindsey. She's doing this exclusively inside this community. These aren't your boring old Zoom calls where she is a talking head. We interact, we coach, we learn from each other.
  ​
• Highly curated forums. The worst is when you post a question on FB just to have it drowned out with 10 other questions that follow it. So, she's got dedicated forums on different populations, different diagnosis, different topics (including business). Hop it, post your specific question, and get the expert advice you need.

More info here. Lindsey would love support you in this quiet corner off social media!