The Movement Mentality
Missy Bunch is a multi-certified movement coach, entrepreneur, speaker, educator, and podcast host with over 15 years of experience helping health and wellness professionals build expertise, confidence, and thriving businesses.
Her journey began as a professional dancer battling injuries—until one brain-based session erased four years of chronic knee pain. That breakthrough didn’t just transform her movement; it reshaped her career. She went from mastering neurology-based movement strategies to scaling successful businesses and is now on a mission to empower other professionals to do the same.
As the Founder of The Movement Mentality LLC, Co-Founder of Movement IQ, a Z-Health Master Trainer, and host of The Movement Mentality Podcast, Missy blends cutting-edge neuroscience with proven business strategies. She helps movement professionals go beyond technique—teaching them how to attract clients, increase income, and create lasting impact. Whether through mentorship, education, or real-world business coaching, Missy is on a mission to turn passion into profit while making the wellness industry stronger, smarter, and more sustainable.
Beyond her professional achievements, Missy is a dedicated mother, wife, and advocate for health, movement, and family. She is passionate about helping others build businesses that support the lives they truly want to live.
The Movement Mentality
Ep. 16 - The Intersection of Trauma and Pelvic Health with Sydney Zwicker
The Movement Mentality Podcast
with Missy Bunch
Ep. 16 - The Intersection of Trauma and Pelvic Health with Sydney Zwicker
In this deeply moving episode, Missy sits down with Sydney Zwicker, a trauma integration bodyworker and pelvic health specialist based in Denver, Colorado. Sydney shares her journey from art and mythology student to internationally recognized practitioner in somatic pelvic healing. Together, they unpack the physical, emotional, and spiritual dimensions of healing, why trauma lives in the body, and how touch can help rewire our nervous systems for safety, wholeness, and power. With humor, depth, and radical honesty, this conversation is a must-listen for healers, mothers, movement professionals, and anyone curious about the intersection of body, story, and sovereignty.
In this episode
- 02:00 - Meet Sydney: From France to Denver and an eclectic path to pelvic health
- 05:40 - What is ceremonial pelvic care and how does it work?
- 10:12 - Sydney’s healing journey and the session that changed everything
- 18:08 - Why touch matters: reprogramming trauma through nervous system-based bodywork
- 24:33 - The C-section story: trauma, scar tissue, and emotional release
- 33:50 - Can everything heal? Sydney’s honest answer and client discovery process
- 40:20 - Somatic storytelling: how tissue holds truth and how to let it go
- 46:05 - Building an unconventional business with integrity and deep conviction
- 53:45 - Fuck You, Sydnee: the healing power of defiance and permission to feel
- 1:02:30 - From symptom to sovereignty: how this work helps you reclaim your "yes" and "no"
Quotes:
- “Your body wants to be in wholeness and balance—it just might not know it’s safe yet.” [33:58]
- “Healing isn’t relief. Healing is chopping the wood, fetching the water. It’s doing it over and over until it becomes part of you.” [53:45]
- “I can’t guarantee anything except this: if you show up for the work, you will reconnect with your ‘hell no’ and your ‘fuck yes.’’ [01:02:30]
Connect with Missy & Sydney
· Instagram: @missybunch15.
· Instagram: @themovementmentality
· Watch this episode on YouTube: @TheMovementMentality
· Instagram: @zwickerhealingarts
· Website: zwickerhealingarts.com
· Book Mentioned: Wild Feminine by Tami Lynn Kent
About Missy
Missy is a multi-certified movement therapist who has been educating and coaching for over 14 years.As a young professional dancer, she battled many injuries over her career and one day she found someone who studied neurology (the study of the brain and nervous system). After one session with this person, her 4-year knee pain was completely gone. She knew she wanted to teach this approach to the world.
The importance of brain function and using the nervous system to rapidly “debug” movement patterns, decrease pain, and increase performance, has led her to teach and create lightning-fast improvements with people from all walks of life. Her specialties include i
