Birth Healing Summit Podcast

What happens when the body goes through birth, but tries not to connect with the baby? For pelvic health practitioners, this surrogate's story reveals an often-overlooked side of postpartum recovery – and why supporting the whole person matters just as much as addressing the physical symptoms. Today’s episode offers pelvic health practitioners a deeper understanding of the physical and emotio...

How does the work you do on yourself change the way you show up for the people who trust you with their care? In this episode, Lynn Schulte sits down with two Birth Healing Intensive students, Charlie Watts, OT, and Anne Guist, PT, to explore how integrating somatic awareness, energetic work, and personal development has transformed their clinical practice. Through powerful patient stories, they s...

What does listening have to do with your pelvic health practice? Today, Lynn Schulte shares what she presented at the Pelvicon conference about bringing intuition and spirituality into manual therapy practice. Through powerful clinical stories, she explores how listening to the body's signals, trusting intuitive insights, and approaching tissues with curiosity rather than force can transform...

Are we missing a big piece in postpartum rehabilitation by focusing on the pelvic floor muscles? In today’s thought-provoking episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast, Lynn Schulte is joined by physical therapist, strength and conditioning coach, and 2026 Strength and Conditioning Association Personal Trainer of the Year, Rachel Selman, to discuss a concept that's beginning to change how c...

What happens when you keep finding the same pattern in your postpartum clients – but you can’t find an explanation for it in the research? In this special 10-year anniversary episode, Lynn Schulte, PT shares the unexpected journey that led to the creation of the Institute for Birth Healing – from working with postpartum clients and noticing recurring pelvic patterns, to developing courses, launchi...

What happens when a patient walks into your pelvic health clinic carrying not only physical symptoms, but profound grief and trauma from pregnancy or infant loss? In this powerful conversation, Lynn Schulte, PT, talks with Noelle Moore, founder of the Finley Project, about what providers need to understand when caring for families after loss – and how our presence, language, and hands-on care can...

What if the tissue you’re treating isn’t simply “tight” – but is holding onto an emotional or traumatic experience? In this episode, Lynn shares two clinical case studies that highlight the potential connection between emotions, trauma, the nervous system, and the physical tissues of the body. One case begins with something as seemingly straightforward as shoulder tension. But when Lynn follows wh...

As pelvic health therapists, should we be focused on “How big is the gap?” or on “What can this person's abdominal wall do?” In today’s episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast, Dr. Nina Theodorsen, associate professor at the University of Bergen in Norway, practicing physiotherapist, and diastasis recti researcher, shares the latest on what current research tells us about exercise, pregna...

What’s the connection between ribcage and diaphragm tension when it doesn’t originate in the ribcage? In this episode, Lynn Schulte, PT walks through a recent pregnancy case where she saw just how interconnected the growing uterus, uterine ligaments, diaphragm, and ribcage can be – even before the baby is large enough to physically push upward into the ribs. A pregnant client of approximately 17 w...

How does labor actually get started? Labor isn't simply something the uterus does , but a coordinated neurological and hormonal cascade involving the baby, placenta, maternal brain, cervix, pelvic floor, and nervous system.  Today, Lynn Schulte sits down with Dr. Carly Cameron, a pediatric and perinatal chiropractor, to explore the neurophysiology of physiologic birth and why this process is...

Internal pelvic health work can be incredibly valuable – but are we truly teaching clinicians how to do it safely, skillfully, and effectively? In this candid conversation, Lynn Schulte, PT, and Laura Rowan, OT, challenge the way pelvic health clinicians are being trained and explore what the gold standard for intravaginal education should really look like. In this episode, we explore: What succes...

As pelvic health providers, we often see patients who are trying to conceive, recovering from pregnancy loss, or navigating the emotional weight of infertility. But how much do we really know about what happens before a patient ever walks into an IVF clinic? In this fascinating conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with internationally recognized fertility expert Gabriela Rosa, who has spent more t...

What do you do when a pregnant client presents with tailbone pain, SI joint dysfunction, painful intercourse, and persistent uterine cramping – but nothing quite explains the full picture? In this fascinating case study, Lynn walks through the clinical reasoning behind treating a first-time pregnant client whose symptoms continued to evolve over multiple visits. As the pieces slowly came together,...

What if your client has done everything right – pelvic floor PT, stretching, exercise, therapy, nutrition – and they're still struggling more than a year postpartum? In this episode, Lynn sits down with former client Samantha to unpack a complex postpartum recovery that many pelvic health therapists will recognize. After two very different births, Samantha was left with persistent pelvic floo...

Could your postpartum client's neck pain actually begin in the pelvis? In this episode, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores the often-overlooked relationship between pelvic stability, upper cervical mechanics, shoulder function, and the physical demands of caring for a newborn. Learn why headaches, neck pain, thoracic outlet symptoms, and shoulder tension may be driven by postpartum compensation patte...

Pelvic floor health has long been overlooked in sports medicine – but that's changing. In this episode, Lynn sits down with internationally recognized pelvic health physiotherapist and researcher Gráinne Donnelly to discuss her groundbreaking new textbook, Sports Medicine in the Pelvic Floor: Science to Practice . Together, they explore why pelvic health deserves a place in every athlete&apos...

Many obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) are missed immediately after birth, leaving women to unknowingly compensate for years until hormonal changes, aging, or menopause expose underlying dysfunction. In this eye-opening conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with urogynecologist and pelvic floor surgeon Dr. Alexandra Dubinskaya to discuss obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS), why they a...

Birth preparation involves far more than physical readiness. In this episode, Ama K. Karikari, Esq., joins Lynn Schulte, PT, to discuss how pelvic health therapists can help clients build self-trust, find their voice, and become active participants in their birth experience. While outcomes are unknown, clients who feel empowered, informed, and supported often navigate birth with greater confidence...

Why is your client's perineal tear or episiotomy still painful months after birth? Today, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores three commonly overlooked contributors to delayed healing: pelvic bone positioning, surrounding tissue restrictions, and unresolved trauma responses held within the tissues. Clinical Takeaways From This Episode • Assess for an Open Birthing Pattern when healing is delayed. • Ap...

This episode pulls you into two pregnant client case studies that seem straightforward at first – until the bodies start telling a very different story. A 35-week first time pregnant client arrives with pelvic pain, leg symptoms, and nighttime disruption, and what unfolds reveals a layered map of old surgical history, a snowboarding injury, and a spine that never developed typical curves. Each pie...

Ever find yourself stuck in resistance – knowing what you “should” be doing, but unable to actually do it? In this episode, Lynn shares a personal post-Birth Healing Summit moment where overwhelm, exhaustion, and guilt led to total shutdown, procrastination, and scrolling instead of working. What shifted everything wasn’t more discipline – but a simple question from a loved one that revealed the h...

What if the thing you’re waiting for … is simply the courage to begin? In this heartfelt and inspiring episode, Lynn Schulte sits down with Occupational Therapist Stephanie Smith to talk about the unexpected journey that led Stephanie from being a new mom experiencing leaking postpartum … to launching her own thriving pelvic health practice. Stephanie shares the vulnerable story of the moment she...

Pelvic health clinicians are trained to assess muscles, fascia, joints, and organs – but one powerful system influencing pelvic function is often overlooked: the lymphatic system. In this episode, Lynn is joined by pelvic health therapist and certified lymphedema specialist, Mary Ellen Kramp, to discuss why lymphatic function deserves more attention in pelvic health care. The lymphatic system play...

In this episode, Lynn explores how a baby’s position in the maternal body can directly influence pain patterns during pregnancy and impact the progression of labor. Through a compelling case study of a client at 39 weeks with a high, mobile fetal head, this conversation highlights how skilled palpation and targeted bodywork can help facilitate engagement into the pelvis. Lynn shares the common are...

In this episode, Lynn explores an intriguing postpartum case that reveals how birth mechanics can influence hip pain decades later. A clinician shares the story of a colleague whose leg was tractioned off the bed during an epidural birth – creating long-term pelvic alignment changes that eventually led her to consider a total hip replacement. The discussion highlights how unresolved pelvic positio...