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What’s your Pelvic Floor Secret?
It’s a question I love to ask women whenever I host a workshop or give a presentation. “What’s your pelvic floor secret?” I then ask: “Is it a physical secret that rewards with better body shape, improved posture, gait and movement ability (sports performance). Or is it one that rewards sensory with great continence at all times in all activities, or with great insatiable sexual feeling. Or is it one that rewards mentally and spiritually with increased confidence and a sense of hope for a better brighter future.”
These are the only secrets worth sharing, the ones that puts a spring in your step and a smile on your face. Where you can throw back your head and laugh without fear or embarrassment. And the only reason why too many women are unable to experience this is because they are unaware of the true roles these most valuable muscles play in their everyday life.
If the educational focus were to shift to the role these muscles play in aesthetics, gait, movement ability and sports performance along with continence and support of all our internal organs, trunk, limbs and our head then the subject would become important and necessary rather than embarrassing and taboo.
I always offer six great rewards for the pelvic floor:
- Flatter abs
- Better shaped butt
- Better shaped thighs
- Improved posture
- Dry knickers always
- Great sex
Which one don’t you want? We are a nation that needs to ‘see’ to believe. If a little aesthetic encouragement motivates women to save themselves from the pain and anguish pelvic floor muscle weakness can cause, then hey I am game. Until there is a clearer understanding of ‘how’ these muscles play a significant role in all that can be seen, then there will continue to be horror stories of operations gone wrong and secrets that embarrass or debilitate.
Our pelvic floor health and happiness is like that one vital ingredient that makes all the difference in taste between a signature dish and a regular one. It is where everything meets and rests, where the weight of the body is held up. It is where movement begins and ends. And then at the right time in adulthood its role in sex, protection in pregnancy and assistance in 2nd stage delivery becomes vital.
‘My pelvic floor something you cannot see, can either reward or debilitate me…’ Let your pelvic floor secrets be ones that reward in all ways, so that at all stages of your life in all activities you remain confident, continent and sexually satisfied.
