Birth Healing Summit Podcast
We are here for meaningful conversations that will transform how you work with pregnant and postpartum clients. Whether it is a new perspective, tool, or technique, you’ll be able to implement it into your practice today.
Episodes
183 episodes
When Pelvic Floor PT Isn't Enough: Solving Complex Postpartum Cases
What if your client has done everything right – pelvic floor PT, stretching, exercise, therapy, nutrition – and they're still struggling more than a year postpartum?In this episode, Lynn sits down with fo...
The Pelvis-Neck Connection Every Postpartum Therapist Needs to Know
Could your postpartum client's neck pain actually begin in the pelvis?In this episode, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores the often-overlooked relationship between pelvic stability, upper cervical mechanics, shoulder function, and the ...
Sports Medicine Meets Pelvic Health: Why Every Clinician Needs This Conversation
Pelvic floor health has long been overlooked in sports medicine – but that's changing. In this episode, Lynn sits down with internationally recognized pelvic health physiotherapist and researcher Gráinne Donnelly to discuss her groundbreakin...
Show Notes: The Hidden Impact of Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injuries (OASIS): Must-Knows For Pelvic Health Therapist
Many obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS) are missed immediately after birth, leaving women to unknowingly compensate for years until hormonal changes, aging, or menopause expose underlying dysfunction. In this eye-opening conversation,...
Empowering Your Clients for Birth: The Missing Piece in Birth Preparation
Birth preparation involves far more than physical readiness. In this episode, Ama K. Karikari, Esq., joins Lynn Schulte, PT, to discuss how pelvic health therapists can help clients build self-trust, find their voice, and become active parti...
Why Some Perineal Tears and Episiotomies Don't Heal: 3 Hidden Factors For Healing
Why is your client's perineal tear or episiotomy still painful months after birth? Today, Lynn Schulte, PT, explores three commonly overlooked contributors to delayed healing: pelvic bone positioning, surrounding tissue restrictions, and unr...
Going Beyond Pregnancy in Pregnancy Pain Treatments: Hidden Structural Patterns in Prenatal Clients
This episode pulls you into two pregnant client case studies that seem straightforward at first – until the bodies start telling a very different story. A 35-week first time pregnant client arrives with pelvic pain, leg symptoms, and nightti...
Understanding Resistance: From Force to What Actually Works
Ever find yourself stuck in resistance – knowing what you “should” be doing, but unable to actually do it? In this episode, Lynn shares a personal post-Birth Healing Summit moment where overwhelm, exhaustion, and guilt led to total shutdown,...
What Happens When You Finally Trust Yourself as a Practitioner
What if the thing you’re waiting for … is simply the courage to begin?In this heartfelt and inspiring episode, Lynn Schulte sits down with Occupational Therapist Stephanie Smith to talk about the unexpected journey tha...
Lymphatics in Pelvic Health: What Pelvic Health Practitioners Need to Know
Pelvic health clinicians are trained to assess muscles, fascia, joints, and organs – but one powerful system influencing pelvic function is often overlooked: the lymphatic system.In this episode, Lynn is joined by pelvic health...
An Assessment that Can Lead to an Easier Birth: A Case Study on Baby’s Position
In this episode, Lynn explores how a baby’s position in the maternal body can directly influence pain patterns during pregnancy and impact the progression of labor. Through a compelling case study of a client at 39 weeks with a high, mobile ...
Hidden Birth Injuries: The Pelvis–Hip Link Behind Chronic Pain
In this episode, Lynn explores an intriguing postpartum case that reveals how birth mechanics can influence hip pain decades later. A clinician shares the story of a colleague whose leg was tractioned off the bed during an epidural birth – c...
Beyond Muscles: The Bone Driving Postpartum Pelvic Pain
Are you considering the bone itself (and not just the muscles) when postpartum patients come to you with persistent pelvic pain, adductor tightness, or tailbone symptoms? In today’s podcast episode, Lynn Schulte, PT introduces the concept of...
Beyond the 6-Week Check: The Evolution of Postpartum Care
The importance of postpartum care is no longer just an afterthought – and this conversation shows exactly why that matters for your practice. Today, Lynn Schulte is joined by Rachelle Seliga, a Midwife, Educator and the creator of INNATE Pos...
Clinical Mastery with Lynn Schulte: The 5 Levels That Transform Your Patient Outcomes
This episode is our final in the series on clinical mastery and dives deep into what clinical mastery means – it’s likely not what you’ve been taught. Rather than focusing solely on knowledge and techniques, Lynn refra...
Clinical Mastery with Shelly Prosko: Therapeutic Presence & Compassion in Care
Clinical excellence isn’t just about doing more – but about showing up differently. In this episode, Shelly Prosko challenges traditional rehab thinking, revealing why evidence alone isn’t enough, and how the real driver of outcomes may be s...
Clinical Mastery with Nari Kaur: Boundaries, Alignment & Authentic Care
How does doing your own inner work help you as a practitioner? In this powerful conversation, Nari challenges the traditional, performance-based definition of mastery and reframes it as deep alignment, boundaries, and self...
Clinical Mastery with Suzanne Scurlock: Finding Your True Clinical Calling
What does it mean to find your true clinical calling? Is this the key to clinical mastery?In this deeply insightful and heart-opening conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with Suzanne Scurlock, founder of Healing from the Core®...
Clinical Mastery with Tami Lynn Kent: Going Deep Into Practice
What is clinical mastery to you? Today, we continue the exploration of clinical mastery with another great in pelvic and women’s health, Tami Lynn Kent, PT, Founder of Holistic Pelvic Care™. In today’s conversation, Tami d...
Why Releasing the Pelvic Floor After Birth Isn’t Enough
What if persistent pelvic floor tension, heaviness, or pain postpartum isn’t primarily a muscle problem – but a stability problem the muscles are trying to solve? In this short but powerful clinical reminder, Lynn Schulte challenges pelvic h...
Clinical Mastery for Practitioners: Presence, Listening, and Patient Collaboration
In this conversation, physical therapist, educator and world-class presenter (presenting in the 2026 Birth Healing Summit), Susan Clinton shares lessons from decades of clinical experience and how true clinical mastery develops through prese...
Sacral Slope, Parity & The Overlooked Pelvic Outlet
In this episode, Lynn breaks down why the pelvic outlet – not just the sacroiliac joint – may be a key contributor to postpartum pain, heaviness, and persistent pelvic floor tension. She explores the biomechanics of birth, how the inlet and ...
Embodiment Before Exercise: What Clients Need First
If you work with pelvic pain, chronic pain, trauma, high-performing athletes, or clients who don’t fit the protocol, this episode will help.In this powerful conversation, Lynn Schulte sits down with seasoned Occupational Therap...
The Ischiorectal Fossa: The Missing Piece in Postpartum Pelvic Floor Recovery
If you’ve ever assessed a postpartum client and wondered whether a pelvic floor “defect” was really a tear, or something else entirely, then this episode gives you the answers. Lynn shares a newly discovered and surprisingly powerful way to ...
Beyond the Numbers: Using Wearable Data to Transform Maternal Care
What if the future of maternal care uses technology to tune us into the body?In this episode, Lynn speaks with Katherine Sylvester, Dr. Kat as she is affectionately known, about her program to use wearable technology and remote...
