Birth Healing Summit Podcast

Do you work with clients who are navigating fertility treatments? Do you have resources you can offer them to help guide this journey? In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with physical therapist, Rebeca Segraves, about what she learned through her and her wife’s journey with intrauterine insemination (IUI). IUI is a fertility treatment that involves placing sperm directly into the uterus during ovulat...

Have you had clients where it does not feel like anything is happening when you check their pelvic floor muscle function? In today’s podcast, Lynn shares her 4-step process for improving pelvic floor muscle function to create a stronger and easier contraction with less work for you as the practitioner. Address these 4 areas to increase the pelvic floor muscles’ ability to contract: Stabilize and a...

Do your evaluations ever take you on a different path than you thought they would based on your client’s symptoms? What steps do you take to help you get to the root cause of client complaints? Today, Lynn shares the steps she used in 3 client evaluations to determine the root cause of her clients’ issues as well as the techniques she used to treat each client. Lynn’s clients presented with the fo...

What do you do at the start of each new year? Do you set goals or intentions?  Listen to today’s episodes as Lynn shares her annual tradition.  As a practice, Lynn chooses a theme  or words that resonate with her as a point of focus for each New Year. For 2025, Lynn is focusing on growth, connection, and choice. In today's podcast, Lynn talks about how she pulls in these pieces personally, pr...

Do you have clients who experience pain when sitting or having a bowel movement or who have trouble activating their pelvic floor? Working with the ischiorectal fossa can help alleviate these issues. In today’s episode Lynn talks with Physical Therapist, PelviCon Co-Founder, and the owner of Pelvic Sanity and Pelvic PT Rising, Nicole Cozean, about ischiorectal fossa (IRF), what signs and symptoms...

Today, we celebrate the 100th episode of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast! To mark this monumental episode, Lynn shares a culmination of the pieces of advice, education, and practice building that have helped her grow the most in all areas - parenting, life, and business. Tune in to hear all the pieces of advice that have supported me in parenting, life and business.  Parenting Success It starts w...

Do you know the 3 issues scar tissue from cesarean birth can cause?  Join me in this episode to learn more about my take on healing scar tissue from cesarean birth.  Approximately 32% of all births in the United States are cesarean births according to the National Center for Health Statistics meaning about a third of your postnatal clients will have had a cesarean birth. In today’ s episode, Lynn...

Do you talk with your pregnant clients about the risks of anal sphincter injuries? Do you know how to treat the anal sphincter to work with these types of injuries? In today’s episode Lynn shares the risk factors for Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury (OASI) that she learned from physiotherapist, Taryn Hallam, as well as gives you tips on how to treat the external anal sphincter (EAS). There are 8 ri...

Have you noticed an increase in grief in your clients? Have you experienced grief bursts?  In today’s episode Lynn talks about her own grief with losing her mother and how she helped a client through the grief they were experiencing during a session.  In today’s culture the majority of people are dealing with grief on many levels. Many individuals have lost loved ones in the last few years. When y...

I am so excited for my incredible guests today from the first Birth Healing Intensive cohort as we gathered for our live celebration. I couldn’t be prouder of the growth, dedication, and hard work that this group has put into not just this program, but into themselves. Today they share their highlights from this 9 month journey to becoming trauma aware practitioners. There is power in your presenc...

Do you ever have doubts when working with a client? What happens when you allow yourself to move out of doubt and instead get curious in your client sessions? In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Occupational Therapist, Landy Peek, about her experience supporting students from the Birth Healing Intensive and the overlying themes she finds in working with practitioners and clients. During the Birth...

As pelvic health therapists, working in this space can be challenging. So much heaviness is carried in the pelvic region that can come up in our sessions, and not knowing what to do about it can lead to burnout. So, how do we avoid burnout so we can continue this work? In today’s episode, Lynn talks about approaching pelvic health therapy through a different lens that does not leave you exhausted...

In today’s episode, Lynn is joined by three of her students from the Birth Healing Intensive program. As students going into the 9-month program, they wanted to learn how to get better results and build confidence and trust in their skills. What they got from the program far exceeded their expectations and took them to a whole new level both personally and professionally. Listen in as they share t...

How do we determine the risk factors of birth injuries? What can we do as practitioners to educate and prepare our clients for a safer birth? In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Dr. Mariana Masteling, a biomechanics engineer focusing on the prevention of childbirth-related injuries and Dr. Jenny LaCross, a women’s health physical therapist about the research they published on factors influencing bi...

Have you ever had clients tell you that they don’t want to be in their body today? How about you? Do you feel embodied? Do you know what being embodied can do for your client sessions? In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with craniosacral therapist and educator, Suzanne Scurlock, about embodiment and the positive effect it can have on your practice.  Embodiment is your attunement and connection within...

For those who have been in pelvic health for years, do you ever look back at where your journey started? Do you think about your impact? For those just starting off, do you ever wonder where your journey will lead? In today’s episode, Lynn shares her history of becoming a pelvic health physical therapist. What started as a love of athletics and a desire to help others has resulted in a lifetime of...

A day in the clinic can bring a variety of pieces to consider, and it is important for you as a practitioner to know your scope of practice and what issues may be better addressed by a practitioner in a different specialty. In addition, it is always good to ask about past injuries when taking a client’s history as you never know when old injuries are at the root cause of new pain.  In today’s podc...

Have you assessed a client and it looks like everything is relatively normal yet the client is still in pain? Have you considered checking for restrictions in the organs?  In today’s podcast Lynn talks with physical therapist, Lori Baydush, about her treatment of a client who was experiencing deep pelvic pain. Lori’s client kept saying that her pelvis was stuck, but when Lori conducted hip and lum...

Have you had clients who are experiencing incontinence post c-section?  In today’s podcast Lynn shares about one of her clients who had 3 c-sections and is now experiencing incontinence.  Lynn treated this client at 6 years post her last c-section. During the client’s planned birth the doctors found so many adhesions that they cleaned out what they could and put in mesh. Listen in to hear what Lyn...

Have you ever gone to a continuing education class and they use all the fancy terminology that makes you have to think harder?    In today’s episode Lynn explains why she uses the language and terms she does when teaching and working with clients. She also goes over the 5 main points of her treatment philosophy.   In teaching practitioners how to work with the body, Lynn has made the conscious cho...

Have you had clients come to you for back and pelvic pain during pregnancy? Did they have prior injuries or experience trauma during a previous birth?  In today’s episode Lynn shares a case study about a client who was suffering from low back pain during her second pregnancy.  The client had a history of a herniated disc from a high school soccer injury. She had given birth 3 years earlier to her...

Are you noticing a gap in your education and what you need to know to effectively treat your pregnant and postpartum clients? Are you curious about the pieces you may be missing?  In today’s episode Lynn talks with Dr. Kathleen Vigo, a Physical Therapist and founder of Painless Pregnancy about the gaps that exist in traditional pelvic health education. Kathleen shares how she and her team have add...

Do you have a favorite muscle? In today’s episode Lynn shares information about her favorite muscles, the Coccygeus, and what these muscles can tell practitioners. Coccygeus muscles attach anteriorly to the ischial spines and medially to the lateral surface of the coccyx. They are innervated by S4 and S5. They are the deepest of the traditional pelvic floor muscles. During labor, the coccygeus has...

Have you ever had a client ask for the evidence behind a technique or do they just care about how they feel after you perform the technique?  In today’s podcast Lynn talks about the 3 pillars of evidence: the research, the client’s need and clinical expertise.  Research in the birthing world documents the way the pelvis must move in order for a baby to be born; however, there is not published rese...

Are you the type of person that once you start something you need to see it through to completion? If so, you are not alone. In today’s episode, Lynn talks with Physical Therapist and Certified Birth Healing Practitioner, Anne Guist, about her journey to becoming certified.  Anne initially met Lynn as a client. She had experienced a traumatic first birth and was seeking support. As a Physical Ther...