The Pelvic Floor Project
Embarrassing symptoms deserve better conversations.
Whether you're dealing with bladder leaks, prolapse, pelvic pain, painful sex, erectile dysfunction, constipation, pregnancy, postpartum recovery, or simply wondering if what you're experiencing is normal—you're not alone.
Hosted by pelvic floor physiotherapist Melissa Dessaulles, this podcast helps you understand how your body works and why symptoms happen. Through conversations with leading researchers, physicians, surgeons, sex therapists, midwives, psychologists, and other experts, we translate the latest evidence into practical information you can actually use.
No myths. No shame. No confusing medical jargon.
Just honest conversations that connect the dots—so you can feel informed, confident, and empowered to make decisions about your health.
The Pelvic Floor Project
58. Your postpartum mental health affects your physical well being with Dr. Pip Houghton
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In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Pip Houghton, a family doctor and maternal mental health advocate to discuss:
- Dr. Pip’s personal experience with postpartum mental health struggles
- Societal and cultural pressures of being a new mom/parent
- Signs that your mental health may be “unwell” postpartum
- Suggestions to help you check in with what your needs and wants are
- Ways to ask for help from the people around you and with your health care provider
- The relationship between physical and mental health
- Trends that I see as a physiotherapist who works with perinatal clients
- Actionable steps for those that care for the perinatal population and for new moms listening
Dr. Houghton is a rural family doctor with a passion for supporting new mamas and a special interest in perinatal mental health care. She is dedicated to providing evidence-based content on perinatal mental health and the common issues that women and families face in pregnancy the first postpartum year. Her hope is that through education and advocacy women will feel more supported and less alone as they navigate their transition to motherhood.
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