5 Ways To Decrease Pelvic Floor Tightness
Pelvic floor tightness is a condition where the muscles of your pelvis, the ones that control your bowel, bladder, and sexual functions become tight. Since they’re muscles, they can become tight or weak just like any other muscle in your body, take for instance your hip flexor muscles (the muscles you use to bring your knee toward your chest in a sitting or standing position). You’ve likely come across tight hip flexors if you’ve experienced back pain, knee pain, or got into a half kneeling position (the “will you marry me?” pose) and then tried to shift your weight forward. It can feel RATHER uncomfortable to experience this tightness, like your muscle magically transformed into a rubber band that is pulled to its max capacity. It’s like that for your pelvic floor muscles too. ..
Physical Therapy Strategy To Decrease Pain With Sex
I want to start this off by telling you what a good Catholic girl I am, that I’m a professional, that I care about how you see me so much that I feel the need to preface the next vulnerable and personal lines of this blog post with accolades & personal stories of how nice I am in real life…
Sex doesn’t have to be painful or uncomfortable. You don’t have to avoid positions because “you just can’t do them,” and wonder why there must be something broken within your body that isn’t allowing you to relax and enjoy something that is so primitive and intimate as sex. You see, sex requires muscles. Those muscles can get tight or weak or spasm or believe that something that once was traumatic (sexual assault) will always result in the same trauma…
I Avoided Counseling For 17 Years, Why I Decided To Finally Go And Why You Should Consider It Too.
In 2001, something bad happened to me. Something traumatic, life changing, life altering. I was in eighth grade; an innocent, barely interested in boys, totally quintessential “good girl,” in every way possible. New Years Eve of 2000, I went to sleep a trusting soul, when I woke up, I wouldn’t quite ever see the world the same again….
We strive for years and decades to prove to ourselves that we are stronger, more resilient, we are not victims. Yet if we continue to strive forever, we are not actually healing. We are pushing and proving and being all the things to all the people, but never the things we need in the deepest parts of ourselves. We need to be loved, to feel worthy, to accept, to forgive (ourselves the most), to believe, to trust, to honor the girl who experienced the traumatic event, but to let her go because she cannot be the girl we are in our most healed version of ourselves…
*warning: this is a potential traumatic trigger story written in the most gentle way possible
I Went To My First Women's Health Physical Therapy Appointment, Here's What Happened
I felt nauseous all day after writing my first blog post about my upcoming women’s health physical therapy appointment on Monday evening. It was at 5:30pm and so that left approximately ten(ish) hours of feeling seen, vulnerable, and afraid. I’m learning it’s not just the fact that my sexual & private area organs need help that I cannot take care of on my own that causes the discomfort, it’s mixed with some weird form of SHAME. I put that word in all caps, because it’s a violent word in the feminine language. It’s a word that may make you want to click off this blog right now, for the sake of your soul though, please don’t.