As pelvic health practitioners, we can positively impact birth and postpartum outcomes – but we need OBGYNs to know what is possible and why it is necessary. Today, I will share with you what I wish every OBGYN would know to ensure we are doing our best together in providing care for our pregnant and postpartum clients. In today’s episode, discover what I believe every OBGYN needs to know about pregnancy and postpartum care from a pelvic health perspective. This episode is packed with tips to im...
Jun 23, 2025•17 min•Season 3Ep. 25
Pelvic pain remains shrouded in cultural stigma, often misunderstood and feared. Today, Suzanne Scurlock, craniosacral therapist and founder of Healing from the Core® and I explore how the body’s innate wisdom and compassionate touch can unlock transformative healing and empowerment to create profound restoration – mind, body and soul. Today, host Lynn Schulte and Suzanne Scurlock, CST-D, an esteemed craniosacral therapist instructor with over 35 years of teaching experience and founder of Heali...
Jun 16, 2025•45 min•Season 3Ep. 24
Did you know that the key to easing round ligament pain during pregnancy could lie in the often-overlooked inguinal canal? In this episode, we dive deep into a critical yet underappreciated area of the body, and its profound impact on pregnant clients. Discover how the inguinal canal is essential to the health and comfort of the round ligament—and how restrictions here can contribute to pain, misalignment and impact birth. From understanding the anatomy and mechanics of the inguinal canal to act...
Jun 09, 2025•6 min•Season 3Ep. 23
When you think of the pelvis, which bone is the most important? Since they all work together they all are important, but in this episode, Lynn dives deep into the importance of the sacrum—often referred to as the "sacred bone"—in pelvic health. She shares why the sacrum is the cornerstone of pelvic health and how mastering its assessment can transform your practice. Learn actionable insights you can use in your sessions and the setup you need to enhance your palpation skills. Lynn will help you ...
Jun 02, 2025•20 min•Season 3Ep. 22
Are you feeling stuck in your practice or with certain clients -- trying too hard to make tissues release and changes happen? Listen in to today’s episode as Lynn shares two client stories and what can happen if we step back, get curious, and allow the body’s innate wisdom to guide the healing process. Come discover the importance of stepping back and getting curious when working with tissues that resist release. It’s easy to fall into the trap of over-efforting, trying to force a release or cha...
May 26, 2025•21 min•Season 3Ep. 21
Ever wonder what really happens to your pelvis and tissues during and after childbirth? In this episode, Lynn covers the process of resetting the tissues post-birth, helping everything find its way back to an optimal position for recovery and renewed strength. Listen in to today’s conversation about the process of "resetting" the pelvis and surrounding tissues after a vaginal birth. We will dive into what happens to the pelvis, tissues, and organs as the baby makes its way out, and I will explai...
May 19, 2025•10 min•Season 3Ep. 20
How do you figure out the cause of an issue when the client doesn’t recall anything that could be causing it? As a pelvic health physical therapist, we have to play detective, we listen intently, we use our training to palpate the body for clues, and we let our hands guide us to figure out the true cause of the problem we are addressing. In today’s episode, Lynn shares a case study of a 13 year old female who had been struggling with urinary incontinence for years. Listen in to hear the cause of...
May 12, 2025•9 min•Season 3Ep. 19
Have you helped clients heal after the loss of a miscarriage or supported them during their struggles to conceive? There is a gift in the work we do, and today’s guest shares how this gift has helped restore her life and given her hope for a promising future. Today, Lynn is joined by Physical Therapist and parent, Kristin Reardon for a candid conversation about loss, struggles with conception, and the journey forward that opened Kirstin’s world to new possibilities within pelvic health. Kirstin ...
May 05, 2025•27 min•Season 3Ep. 18
Do you have clients preparing for a VBAC? Do you want to know what steps you can take to help them? In today’s episode Lynn discusses what she does to help prepare her clients for a VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean). What we do as practitioners cannot guarantee a specific result, but we can help increase our client’s chances of success with our assessment and treatment of the body. For clients who want a VBAC, it is important to understand what caused the Cesarean Birth in the first place. Was...
Apr 28, 2025•18 min•Season 3Ep. 17
Did you know that the connective tissue in your body—fascia—not only supports movement and stability but also holds the stories of our lives and can influence a baby’s position during pregnancy? What if understanding fascia could transform the way you support your pregnant and postpartum clients? Tune in to discover how this incredible system impacts everything from cellular communication to birth outcomes! Fascia is an amazing structure in the body that connects and surrounds everything. It is ...
Apr 21, 2025•14 min•Season 3Ep. 16
What do you do when a client is stuck with their shoulders rounded and head forward but they are not able to move to a more neutral position? In today's episode, Lynn talks with Dr. Anna Hammond, PT, DPT, a lead therapist at Core Exercise Solutions, about ways to examine the shoulders and ribs to improve posture and make lasting changes. NOTE: Anna visually shows the movements in the video and the audio is not always clear as to what she is doing. Please refer to the YouTube links referenced for...
Apr 14, 2025•35 min•Season 3Ep. 15
How confident are you working with clients who want help turning their breech positioned babies? Do you have clients who want to try and deliver vaginally even though their baby is breech? Over the past few months, in preparation for the Birth Healing Summit, Lynn has been learning a lot about breech birth. In today’s podcast, she shares the highlights of what she has learned and talks about what we can do as bodyworkers, PTs, and OTs to help clients with breech babies. Breech births account for...
Apr 07, 2025•15 min•Season 3Ep. 14
Have you ever noticed how your connection with a client impacts their treatment session? What happens when you don’t connect with a client? In today’s episode Lynn talks with Susannah Haarmann about the importance of creating connections with your clients. Our current medical model is very top down. We, as providers, are supposed to know what to do and our clients just have to receive the guidance we are providing. In truth, our sessions are more effective when we walk beside our clients and hel...
Mar 31, 2025•31 min•Season 3Ep. 13
Have you ever had clients tell you that their doctor recommended they be induced because their baby was too big only to find out that the baby was 5-7 lbs.? In today’s episode Lynn talks with Kate White, the founder and director of the Center for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology, about the impact inductions or threats of inductions can have on both the mother and the child. Clients should be empowered to make a decision that is best for them and what they believe to be best for the baby once pr...
Mar 24, 2025•43 min•Season 3Ep. 12
We all know that pregnancy can produce some aches and pains in the body, but what are they really telling us and how might they impact birth? In today’s podcast Lynn talks with Gabrielle Brennan, a midwife and body worker in Australia, who shares what pains and aches are telling you and your client about your client’s pregnant body. Pain during pregnancy is not normal. It may be common, but when there is pain or discomfort in the pregnant body, it means that something is unstable or imbalanced a...
Mar 17, 2025•36 min•Season 3Ep. 11
Birth Interventions are so commonplace these days that we just assume they are normal and ok. But what do these interventions really do to our bodies? In today’s episode, Lynn talks with midwife, Bernadette Lack, about the impact birth interventions have on the body and what healing needs to happen because of them. As a society, we may be unaware of the impact modern medical interventions have on the body as it has become largely normalized to give blood, to have inductions, and to even have c-s...
Mar 10, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 10
Do you feel you need to avoid certain points on the body during pregnancy for fear it might stimulate birth? In today’s episode, Lynn speaks with Suzanne Yates, a Traditional Chinese Medicine provider and shiatzu practitioner,, about how she works with the body during pregnancy. Suzanne shares the areas she addresses in the pregnant body and her belief that women’s bodies are strong and powerful. Listen in as Suzanne talks about how work in the first trimester is important because it is the foun...
Mar 03, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 9
Do you have clients who are told they will need to have a cesarean birth because their baby is in a breech position, but your client still wants a vaginal birth? In today’s episode Lynn talks with mother of 4 soon to be 5, Anna Crow, about her experience with breech birth and how she made her dream of having a natural breech birth possible. Anna, originally from WI, had moved to CO and was pregnant with her second child. She found out at 40+ weeks that her baby was breech. She desired a natural ...
Feb 24, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 8
Do you wonder what impact birth has on the baby, let alone a traumatic one? The early years of life can influence a person’s entire life. In today’s podcast, Lynn’s guest is midwife and author, Geneva Montano. Geneva shares what you can do to create a shift to help your clients and their babies heal their births. She shares about the imprints we all receive in the first 6 minutes, 6 hours, 6 days, 6 weeks and 6 years of life. What happens in those early moments can set up their beliefs about the...
Feb 17, 2025•34 min•Season 3Ep. 7
In today’s episode, Lynn discusses the future of health based on the parting words from former US Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Hallegere Murthy. Based on his research and observations, Dr. Murthy reported that the link to increased pain and failing health in the USA was not due to a lack of medical advancements, but rather to social isolation and loneliness. Dr. Murthy shared how the erosion of community and connection has created a rise not just in mental health issues, but in physical health iss...
Feb 10, 2025•14 min•Season 3Ep. 6
Are you open to learning from your clients during your treatment sessions? If so, what are you discovering? In today’s episode, Lynn talks about the different insights we can gain from working with our clients in an open way. When the treatment sessions are two-way and not just us telling our client what to do, we can learn an incredible amount and have better success with our treatments. Today, Lynn shares about the different pieces she has learned from her clients’ bodies including how to noti...
Feb 03, 2025•15 min•Season 3Ep. 5
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 ovulation. It can be a less painful treatment because the sperm are cleaned, so there is less of a reactio...
Jan 27, 2025•25 min•Season 3Ep. 4
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 align the bony pelvis Treat the organs Work on the pelvic floor muscles with bimanual work on the bon...
Jan 20, 2025•20 min•Season 3Ep. 3
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 following symptoms: Client 1: low back and hip pain and post void dribble Client 2: increased pain and...
Jan 13, 2025•26 min•Season 3Ep. 2
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, professionally, and spiritually, and how she plans to incorporate her themes in 2025. Thank you for being with...
Jan 06, 2025•18 min•Season 3Ep. 1
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 restrictions in this area can create, and how you can work with the IRF to alleviate pain and reduce...
Dec 16, 2024•59 min•Season 2Ep. 51
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 with talking to the baby in utero and proceeds into labor and the rest of the life. Power struggles wi...
Dec 09, 2024•29 min•Season 2Ep. 50
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 discusses 3 issues women complain about after having a cesarean birth: Bladder frequency Pain with int...
Dec 02, 2024•16 min•Season 2Ep. 48
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 risk factors for OASI, which occurs when there is a tear into the anal sphincter muscle and mucosa. Th...
Nov 26, 2024•20 min•Season 2Ep. 48
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 you lose someone you love it is not uncommon to have grief bursts. This is when there is a sudden overw...
Nov 18, 2024•18 min•Season 2Ep. 47
