Mom Strength

In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to do a pelvic floor self-examination and check if you’re doing Kegels properly. Contrary to popular belief, you do NOT need someone to insert their fingers inside you in order to confirm whether or not your pelvic floor works. Trust yourself and your body. Just like you don’t need someone to hold your elbow while you do a bicep curl, you don’t need someone to confirm that your pelvic floor is contracting properly. You can check for yourself using your senses! I teach you how to use your eyes to look, your nose to smell, your hands to feel, and your ears to listen while you breathe and perform pelvic floor contractions and relaxations.

For other pelvic physiotherapists and practitioners: I am not against internal examinations. While they can give you a lot of information, and are often considered the gold standard, we have to acknowledge that they are not accessible to most people. We can’t leave people without support just because they don’t live near an in-person pelvic physiotherapist, because they cannot afford care or because they don’t want an internal examination. We need to remember that many people don’t have the interest in getting an internal examination (cultural reasons, religious reasons, personal reasons, history of trauma etc.). And frankly, most people don’t need an internal check from someone else to tell them whether or nothing something works or hurts in their body. Let’s start trusting the humans we work with. Each person knows their own bodies the best. My philosophy is that we need to educate and empower our clients so they can be the experts of their own bodies.

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Links & Resources:

—Through virtual physiotherapy and coaching, I help you resolve pelvic floor symptoms like leaks, manage prolapse and pain, and return to exercise with confidence! Book your virtual consultation: https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca/book-with-surabhi
—Are you a practitioner wanting mentorship? Book your mentoring session here: https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca/book-with-surabhi
—If your pelvic floor feels tight or sore, and you want simple ways to release your own pelvic floor, buy my Release your Pelvic Floor e-guide: https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca/release-pelvic-floor-e-guide

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Connect with Surabhi:
—Find Surabhi on Instagram or Facebook @thepassionatephysio
—Website: https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca

A note from your host, Surabhi Veitch:

I’m so excited to start my brand new podcast, Mom Strength. When I became a new mom, my world was so shook. I had no idea what I was in for. I didn’t know how to navigate my physical symptoms, or how to navigate movement in my new body. And this was on top of all the mental and emotional changes as a new mom! I felt like I’d lost my entire identity, and I know that I’m not alone. And this is why I started this podcast! To empower, educate and uplift moms so you know where to find support, and so you see you’re never alone in your postpartum or motherhood journey. We’ll be having real conversations about movement, mindset and motherhood. You can expect solo episodes from me sharing my expertise and experience, and I’m excited to interview guest experts on pelvic health, fitness, parenting, nutrition, mental health, diversity, and more. So please subscribe to my podcast, and tune in each Monday for a new episode!

Come join this conversation with parenting coach, Mary Van Geffen, and ditch your overwhelm and learn how to be a calm parent to your strong-willed & spicy children! We explore the healthy habit of Embodying Motherhood: the skill of using your body to stay calm and to generate more cooperation from your child will make your parenting journey easier and way more joyful! In this episode you’ll learn:

How & why to find presence in your body through a mini meditation.

How to change the posture of your parenting (be a queen!).

What is “no butt parenting” and the 2 x 2 x 2 method to connect with your child.

How the phase of your cycle affects your parenting.

Mary Van Geffen Bio:

Mary Van Geffen is an international parenting coach for overwhelmed moms of strong-willed & spicy children. Based in Southern California, Mary helps moms gain confidence to choose gentle, respectful parenting especially if they weren’t raised that way. Mary is a certified Simplicity Parenting Counselor and a Co-Active Professional Coach. She works one-on-one with moms over the phone to shift their parenting approach so they can:

Enjoy being with their children

Get more cooperation and less “No’s” from their children

Stay calm and in control of themselves

Be firm and follow through

Trust themselves and their decisions

Mary speaks at schools and mom groups all over So Cal and provides daily parenting tips and tricks on Instagram.

Links & Resources:

Find Mary on Instagram.

Schedule your complimentary 30-minute coaching session with Mary.

Consider joining Mary’s Parenting Siblings School to:

Treat jealousy, constant bickering, mean words & tattling with confidence.

End the "you love her more!" complaint once and for all.

Explore the blueprint for positive conflict resolution.

Help kids set boundaries & hear each other's point of view even when skills, ages and personalities are very different.

Become the calmest one in the room.

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In this very first episode, I answer a very important question, “How can I get motivated to exercise?” I discuss motivation and whether it’s key to get started with exercise. I share 4 key strategies that will help you get started:

Start before you’re ready, schedule it in

It’s okay if it looks different

Ditch perfectionism, fear of failure, and fear of being a beginner

Take responsibility for your actions

I also draw a parallel between exercise and me starting my brand new podcast.

Links & Resources:

Book a free Discovery Call to chat about how Surabhi can best support you if you need help getting motivated and getting started with exercise! https://www.thepassionatephysio.ca/book-with-surabhi

Exhaustion and burnout are so prevalent in motherhood, as we push to do it all without pausing to listen to our bodies. I share an example that happened with me this week and the signs I paid attention to in order to prevent burnout.

Links & Resources:

Subscribe to her free biweekly newsletter for more tips.