Birth Healing Summit Podcast

How do you describe pushing to your pregnant clients? In today’s podcast Lynn talks with birth educator and doula, Chantal Traub, about pushing during labor.  Many mom’s don’t want to poop during the pushing phase of labor and therefore tighten their pelvic floor to avoid this. This holds the baby and makes for longer labor. The pelvic floor needs to be able to lengthen in order for the baby to co...

Have you ever seen a nerve or wondered about the nervous system? What does it all look like? How does it relate to the rest of the body?  In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Gil Hedley, an integral anatomist about an incredible educational opportunity for you that he put together called the Nerve Tour. He will walk us through his 5 month long dissection of the nervous system which allows us to see...

How many different Parts do you have? Not like multiple personalities but we all have parts and in today’s episode Lynn talks with Danielle Carron a therapist/coach about IFS and SE and how these practices can help clinicians meet clients where they are and better support a client’s healing journey. In today’s episode Lynn talks with Danielle Carron, M.S., M.A., SEP, LPC, about Internal Family Sys...

Are you living from just your brain or just your heart? Where do you make decisions from? Welcome to season two of the Birth Healing Summit Podcast. In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the 3 energy centers of the body and how connecting these centers can change how you make decisions and be in your life.  The 3 heart centers are the head (what you think), the heart (what you feel), and the womb (yo...

Have you taken the time to reflect on 2023 and check in with yourself on your goals for 2024 and beyond?  In today’s episode Lynn shares her reflections from 2023 and endeavors for 2024.  Lynn talks about the ups and downs from the year including changes in staff, a successful 9th Birth Healing Summit , gratitude for how the Summit has taught her information before it even hits the research, and t...

Did you know your client’s nervous system taps into your own nervous system? In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the importance of developing a strong therapeutic presence. Therapeutic presence is your ability to be fully connected and grounded without yourself so you can hold space for your clients to support their healing journey without influencing it with a specific agenda.  By grounding in and...

Do you know how to create congruence in yourself and your clients? Listen In today’s podcast, Lynn speaks with Certified Birth Healing Specialist, Occupational Therapist, and owner of The Wild Orange Tree, Janelle Gullan as we discuss congruence. Janelle shares how what she has learned at the Institute of Birth Healing has changed her practice including some cases where her advanced skills have ma...

You may have heard of trauma being held in the nervous system and the need for a biopsychosocial approach to treating your clients, but have you considered that trauma may also be held in the local tissue? In today’s episode Lynn talks about how trauma can be held in the tissue as well as the nervous system, and shares her experience of what you can do to address trauma in the body.  Polyvagal the...

Have you had success in helping a client have a VBAC after a cesarean birth? In today’s episode Chaitanya Morly-Southall, a bodyworker in Australia and student of the Institute for Birth Healing shares how she helped a client have a successful VBAC by using the skills she learned in her coursework with the Institute for Birth Healing. The client was 30 weeks pregnant with her 2nd child at initial...

Do you know the one tool we all have in common that we can develop that will make us better clinicians? In today’s episode Lynn talks about one of the strongest tools possessed by all clinicians that when used leads to lasting results, intuition.  Everyone has intuition. Some choose not to pay attention to it and others deny its existence, but when clinicians are embodied and can quiet their thoug...

Have you ever had a client that you use all your tools with - both manually and exercise wise - but the pain is still there? Ever wondered if the pain is really physical in nature or if something else is causing this pain?  In today’s podcast, I talk with Justine Calderwood, a Physical Therapist, an IBH Certified Birth Healing Specialist and the owner of The Healing Spot in Colorado Springs, CO ab...

Have you tried to mobilize a joint or worked with soft tissue restrictions and the tension just won’t change? Or the client comes back with increased pain?  Listen in to today’s episode as Lynn describes her approach to tension in the body that does not want to release.  It is time to take a different approach to body tension. Instead of forcing releases that don’t last or create pain try the tips...

Do you realize the importance of the Pelvis beyond its structure? Do you know it’s the engine of our body? In today’s episode Lynn talks with Suzanne Scurlock, a Craniosacral Therapist and the founder of Healing from the Core, about the pelvis as the engine of the body.  In Chinese medicine and several eastern philosophies, the pelvis is the root of energy for the body. When clients come in with c...

What happens when scar tissue is super painful, very hard, immobile, or does not want to let go? In today’s episode Lynn addresses what scar tissue is and what you can do to help it release.  There are multiple types of scars - hypertrophic, keloid, atrophic, and contraction to name a few. For those working in the birth and postpartum space, you are mostly encountering hypertrophic and keloid scar...

Do you have a client with pain that will not go away, but no one has been able to determine the cause?  It may have to do with the medical provider during the pregnancy or birth! In today’s podcast, Lynn talks with her co-worker, Maryjean Starr, a Doctor in Physical Therapy, about specific cases where clients were in pain that would not go away. The common thread and source just happened to be roo...

Why does one person experience incontinence and another does not? What is the secret to continence?  In today’s episode Lynn discusses a common problem many moms face postpartum, stress urinary incontinence, as she shares what she learned from Taryn Hallam, an Australian physiotherapist in her 2023 Pelvicon lecture. As pelvic health providers, many of us were taught that the bladder can only toler...

Ever wonder why some people just seem safe and others don’t? Or why one person is traumatized by their birth but another is not?  In today’s podcast Chantal Traub, a prominent New York City birth facilitator, doula, childbirth educator and wellness coach discusses the 3 essentials of safety.   Context is the who, what, when and how of the situation. As birth providers it is our responsibility to h...

Ever hear the word protocol and cringe? Do you feel ​it takes away from individual treatment plans?    In today’s podcast Lynn describes what she means when she talks about protocols.  At the Institute for Birth Healing a protocol is a suggestion for the order to treat certain areas of the body to achieve the best results in the least amount of time. Protocols are not step-by-step treatment techni...

Do you spring test the bones and joints of the body? Find out how spring testing can lead to immediate strength improvements in the body.   Join us for today’s episode where physical therapist, Jerry Hesch discusses his unique approach to treating the body.  The Hesch philosophy was discovered from the founder's personal experience in working with and treating his own body. This approach, tau...

There are 4 common postpartum patterns in the pelvis after birth and one of them is harder to find than the others which  is why I call it the hidden pattern.  Do you know which one it is?  In today’s episode I reveal which one it is and how you can look for it in your clients.  Do you know what the most hidden common postpartum pattern is? In today’s episode Lynn discusses the most hidden common...

Ever wondered how to implement what you have learned in a class with your client? Listen to how one student is using what she learned from the Holistic Treatment of the Postpartum Body course.  In today’s podcast, Physical Therapist, IBH Certified Birth Healing Specialist and the owner of The Healing Spot, Justine Calderwood, MSPT walks us through her treatment of a postpartum client suffering fro...

Is your client’s pelvic pain worse after releasing their pelvic floor?  In today’s episode, Lynn talks about the important impact the pelvic bones can have on the pelvic floor muscles. When treating internally, the pelvic floor muscles inform you of what is going on in the pelvis. For example when the tailbone is lifted backwards or in sacral flexion you will find there is bilateral tension in the...

Do you struggle putting words to what is going on in the body? Do your clients? Ever wonder what it means to hold space for another?    In today’s podcast physical therapist, Heather Hannam, discusses how to develop the ability to present for a client and provides the language to express it.   Beginning this journey takes vulnerability. It is not easy for people to be vulnerable yet daily you ask...

Do you know how to assess and treat the cervix? Did you know the cervix is the linchpin of the pelvic space? If you are a body worker who performs intravaginal work listen in to today’s podcast as Lynn shares why the cervix needs to be an essential part of your assessment and treatment plan.  The cervix is located midline past the urethra and bladder and feels like the end of a nose. It can be fou...

Have you ever wondered how someone became so successful in growing their practice?  In today’s podcast, Kat Vigo, PT and owner of Painless Pregnancy shares her secret to success in turning a company that began as a side hustle into a thriving business with 25 employees, most of whom are full-time. You might be surprised how simple it was. Listen in to find out her secrets to success.  Kat emphasiz...