SelfCare Success
Ignoring and enduring your symptoms is the OPPOSITE of SelfCare. Know that this could be you!! Yes, achieving your goals IS possible. Way to SelfCare! Therapy is a natural, conservative approach to SelfCare using your mind and body to heal itself through awareness of habits. Whether it is pain, leakage, or anything else stopping you […]
Mindfulness Moment: Ride the Breath Wave
What did you do for yourself today? Anything? Or was it just another day going through the motions just to make it to the end of the day? Try taking a moment or two for yourself the next couple of days and see how that changes your mindset. Sit quietly in a calming space, even […]
Mindful Mamas
Hey mamas! It’s December, and let’s face it, the last thing we want to take time for this month is ourselves. But, it can be the best thing we do for ourselves and our family. It can be overwhelmingly stressful to have a new baby, or just kids in general, and then add the hectic […]
Find Your Low Belly Muscle for OAB Relief
To help decrease OAB symptoms, adequate core strength is essential. Specifically, learning how to engage the transverse abdominis (TA) muscle through total body stabilization. This low ab muscle connects to your pubic bone and has a direct relation to your pelvic floor. Building TA strength translates to building pelvic floor strength. Having necessary pelvic floor […]
Let’s Talk About It! Overactive Bladder
Our Let’s Talk About It Series is a series of videos where Denise Nichols of Motivate discusses topics with medical providers that most people don’t want to talk about. Like Overactive Bladder for instance. Dr. Sridhar discusses OAB symptoms, urgency suppression techniques, and mind, body, spirit approaches to bladder issue detection. Watch all this and […]
Integrative Approaches to Overactive Bladder
OAB Urgency can be controlled. To learn more about OAB, we had the wonderful opportunity to talk with Dr. Sridhar from Swedish American Creekside Clinic about collaborative care for an Overactive bladder diagnosis. In this episode we discuss Urgency and some techniques to successfully manage it. View the full Let’s Talk About It Series […]
Core Strength for Male Pelvic Health
Prostate awareness month is not only being aware of the pain and dysfunction your experiencing, but also having insight to possible abnormal movement patterns that may be contributing to that pain, or bladder symptoms that are affecting your quality of life. When men experience groin or pelvic pain, or urinary urgency/hesitancy, the cause may be […]
Male Pelvic Floor Therapy; Prostate Cancer
Men’s health awareness is Motivate’s mission. However you identify, if you have a prostate, it is important to get routine checkups from your doctor to assess your prostate health. Along with aging, changing hormone levels, general de-conditioning, and lifestyle choices, it is important to be aware of common health issues involving the prostate, such as: […]
Awareness Changes Everything After Pregnancy; Baby Carrier
Abnormal postures can carry over into the postpartum period and add to the common activity stressors of breastfeeding/chestfeeding or bottle feeding, carrying your baby and not to mention all of the other duties that don’t disappear after that sweet munchkin arrives such as laundry, returning to work, and engaging in much needed mommy self-care. It […]