Celebrate Muliebrity with Michelle Lyons

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Celebrate Muliebrity with Michelle Lyons

Muliebrity is the art and state of being a woman and I think that should be celebrated! Join me as I discuss all things women's health, share new research and talk with some of the cleverest people in women's health...and don't forget to celebrate muliebrity!

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Trauma Informed Care in Pelvic Health: Episode 57 with Michelle Lyons

    Hello & Welcome To This Week's Episode! In this week's podcast I'm sharing the audio from a presentation I did recently for my new course 'Female Sexual Health, Contraception & Fertility' If you're working with people with pelvic health issues, whether that's pelvic pain, sexual pain or dysfunction, a history of trauma or violence, or going through fertility difficulties...then we need to provide a trauma informed approach for everyone that we are encountering, one that's consistent and evidence based I wanted to share this information outside of the course as I think this is an important conversation for everyone working in pelvic health to have. The references for the studies & research that are mentioned are in the new course, Female Sexual Health, Contraception & Fertility, which is on pre-sale now (for the lowest price it will ever be!) It will go to full price on November 20th, when Module 1 on sexual health goes live; Module 2 goes live on November 27th, on Sexual Health in Pregnancy, Postpartum, Menopause, Hysterectomy & for Cancer Survivors, along with an overview of contraceptive methods, and Module 3 goes live Dec 5, and that will cover Menstrual Cycle tracking, Barriers to Fertility, including STI's, End, REDs, Fibroids & PCOS, Pelvic Rehab & Lifestyle Strategies for Fertility and a Resource Section that includes setting up BioPsychoSocial Sex Ed classes. ⁠You can find all the details and sign up at pre-sale special pricing HERE⁠ and don't forget...make sure you're following me for details of my Black Friday sale - I'll be doing things a little differently this year! Stay tuned for all the details on⁠ my Instagram @michellelyons_muliebrity⁠ Until next time, Onwards & Upwards, Mx #celebratemuliebrity

    38 min

  2. NOV 10

    Central Sensitisation & Pelvic Pain: Episode 56 with Michelle Lyons

    Research Nerd Alert! This is an overview of our current understanding of what central sensitisation (aka nociplastic pain) is and how it impacts pelvic pain syndromes and of course...what we are goibg to do about it! Some great research around this topic has emerged over the past couple of years, with a growing understanding of why just focusing on the issues in the tissues is not enough and how we can incorporate lifestyle strategies such as sleep, nutrition and physical activity into our anti-inflammatory treatment toolbox So although this review is very evidence based for the first part, I do explore why this means when we are working with real life people - why and how to screen for CS and what steps we can take to get better outcomes - ultimately to help women with persistent pelvic pain live well! If you are in my online course, Female Pelvic Pain Rehab, the video with all the references will be uploaded tomorrow; I will also be posting this as bonus content in my upcoming course Female Sexual Health, Fertility & Contraception, which goes live on November 25th - but its on pre-sale now! All the details of all the online courses are HERE! As always, thanks for listening & needing out with me - I'd love it if you could rate, review and subscribe so we can keep spreading the word about evidence based women's health! See you next time - Onwards & Upwards! Mx #celebratemuliebrity

    45 min

  3. NOV 3

    IBD & Pelvic Rehab - What's Our Role? Episode 55 with Michelle Lyons

    Welcome to this week's episode, where we're starting to look at preparing for the upcoming festive season - full of stress, different eating, sleeping and travel planning - the perfect recipe for stress, unregulated nervous systems, digestive systems and pelvic floor dysfunction! All this month, we're going to look at the evidence for multimodal pelvic rehab & lifestyle strategies for pain & digestive distress. Let's start the conversation with Inflammatory Bowel Disease - including Crohn's Disease and Ulcerative Colitis - how does it impact female pelvic health, from sexual health, contraception choices, fertility, pregnancy & postpartum recovery? There's a significant (and growing!) body of evidence to support the role of a biopsychosocial pelvic rehab approach to helping women with IBD live well Did you know: that 61.4% of women with IBD have some degree of sexual dysfunction? that there's an increased risk of gestational diabetes? that one of the best way to improve the fatigue associated with IBD is exercise? that the research looking at pelvic floor dysfunction, whether we're talking about pelvic pain, bowel frequency/urgency, sexual pain - all points to the efficacy of a multimodal pelvic rehab approach The problem might be that gastroenterologists don't know you can help! All the research, especially around sexual health and pelvic floor dysfunction emphasises the need for a multimodal pelvic rehab approach as part of an inter-disciplinary approach to improving quality of life for women with IBD Want to take an even deeper dive into Bowel Health during the perinatal year? I've added a bonus module to my online course, Bowel Health & Women's Health, looking at bowel function in the perinatal year, from the influence of IBS and IBD, but also fissures, haemorrhoids, OASI, anal continence and more... Stay tuned as we look at other strategies for pain and stress management and digestive health throughout the leadup to the festive season (seriously, how can it be November already?!) Thanks for being here and if you can, I'd love it if you can rate, review and subscribe to the podcast - and be sure you're following me on Instagram @michellelyons_muliebrity for all the latest in women's health See you next time! Mx (and don't forget to celebrate muliebrity!)

    30 min

  4. OCT 27

    Hypermobility & Pelvic Health: Episode 54 with Dr Amanda Homen

    Hello & Welcome to the latest episode of the CelebrateMuliebrity podcast! In today's episode, I have the pleasure of chatting with Dr Amanda Homen, a Toronto based physiotherapist and we chatted about the role of Hypermobility in Pelvic Health. Some of the topics we discussed include: what is hyper mobility and why we need to know about it in pelvic rehab why a systemic approach is needed - looking beyond the joints to the effects on the gastrointestinal and connective tissue effects The intersection of vulvodynia, dyspareunia and hyper mobility (did you know that women with hyper mobility are 6x more likely to have vulvodynia?) female athletes - when both EDS and REDs are present assessment and clinical reasoning - why we need to look beyond the Beighton Scale and more.... Amanda will be presenting on this topic at the upcoming Pelvic Health Solutions Symposium - there's a great line-up of speakers and topics, from pessaries to prostatectomy rehab - full details and registration info at the pelvichealthsolutions.ca website Want to learn more about women's health - from the comfort of home? Check out my online courses at celebratemuliebrity.com and make sure you're following me on Instagram @michellelyons_muliebrity for the latest clinically applicable research in all aspects of women's health & wellness Until next time, Onwards & Upwards & CelebrateMuliebrity! Mx

    54 min

  5. OCT 20

    Bone Health & Breast Cancer: Episode 53 with Michelle Lyons

    Hello & welcome to this week's episode of the podcast! Today is World Osteoporosis Day and it falls right in the middle of both Menopause Awareness and Breast Cancer Awareness month (probably not a coincidence as bone health is a major issue for both of these often overlapping groups) In last week's episode, I talked about musculoskeletal health at menopause, and everything I said then is applicable for women going through breast cancer treatment, especially if they are on endocrine treatment, but there are a few extra provisos to consider when we talk about bone health during and after breast cancer treatment We know adjuvant endocrine treatments for hormone receptor positive breast cancers (tamoxifen and aromatase inhibitor) affect bone, muscle and joint health, albeit in different ways But we also know that the evidence supports a comprehensive bone health strategy, including education, exercise, nutrition and other lifestyle strategy modifications can really have a positive impact on bone health Studies that extrapolate from menopausal research and studies looking exclusively at women during and after breast cancer both emphasise the importance of exercise, especially resistance, impact and balance training. Using the mantra, Strong, Steady & Straight, and allowing for decreased energy availability during and after cancer treatment, balance compromises due to chemo, especially taxane drugs and of course, being mindful of the pelvic health challenges she may be facing, from GSM to prolapse to pain, we are in the perfect position of having the evidence from the literature and the whole person approach to give the breast cancer survivor the empowering tools she needs to take charge of her bone health and her overall recovery. This podcast episode was inspired by the new module I've created for the online Breast Cancer Rehab which will be available by the end of the month - it will feature sections on musculoskeletal health, bone health, a breast cancer related lymphoedema research update and of course, pelvic health after breast cancer, with some delicious movement videos from my friend & colleague, movement expert Laura Feeney. I'll announce on instagram/facebook when the updates are available - if you're already enrolled, no need to do anything it will be automatically accessible...and if you'd like to join us, click here for the Breast Cancer Rehab course Thanks for being here - I'd love it if you can subscribe, rate & review the podcast and of course, you can follow my continuing adventures in women's health on Instagram @michellelyons_muliebrity and all of my online course information is here at CelebrateMuliebrity.com Until next time, Onwards & Upwards, Mx

    24 min

  6. OCT 13

    Musculoskeletal Health at Menopause: Episode 52 with Michelle Lyons

    October is awareness month for both Menopause & Breast Cancer, and one area of overlap between these two issues is that of musculoskeletal health Sometimes, when we think about musculoskeletal health at menopause, we might immediately think of osteoporosis. Although that's a really important issues, and one I'll be addressing in upcoming episodes, for today I want to talk about muscle & joint pain at menopause Musculoskeletal dysfunction affects between 70 and 80% of women going through peri to post menopause, with 25% of women having severe symptoms, including rotator cuff dysfunction or gluteal tendinopathy (which affects 1 in 4 women in their 50's and is often misdiagnosed as hip arthritis) In today's episode, I'll discuss the latest research around why this happens (spoilers: oestrogen, inflammation & sleep disruption) and of course the evidence based strategies that we can use to help women live well before, during & after menopause, and (of course!) where pelvic health at menopause fits into the discussion! If you'd like to learn more, there's a whole module on Menopausal health, including lifestyle, nutrition, sleep and physical activity, in my online course 'Female Hormonal Health Masterclass' which you can find here, alongside my other online courses. You can find & follow my continuing adventure in needing out on women's health research & education on Instagram @michellelyons_muliebrity As always, I'd be super grateful if you can subscribe, rate & review the podcast on either Spotify or Apple Until next time, Onwards & Upwards, Mx #celebratemuliebrity

    29 min

  7. OCT 6

    Pleasure & Pelvic Health: Does It Matter? Episode 51 with Surabhi Vetch

    Welcome to the latest episode of the Celebrate Muliebrity podcast! In today's episode I have the pleasure of chatting with Surabhi Veitch, an amazing physiotherapist from Toronto (Before I tell you what we talked about - please note I had an equipment malfunction about 18 minutes in - it gets scratchy just on my end for approx 60 seconds then settles down - if it was just a solo episode I would have redone it but Surabhi gave so many clinical pearls I had to share this! we talked about: how we need to bring a different perspective and depth when we are communicating with people who have pelvic pain, especially sexual pain the importance of meeting people where they are on THEIR pelvic/ sexual health journey and not just super impose OUR way of doing things defining 'successful' sex and exploring beliefs, fears and knowledge, interrupting feelings of shame and moving to self trust and confidence having the pleasure conversation, as well as building confidence and pleasure in movement, food and sexual health and so much more! Surabhi shared so much of her own journey which is why she is an amazing communicator and clinician - if you're not already, please follow her on instagram as @thepassionatephysio Want to learn more about sexual health? There's a whole section on sexual health at menopause in my online Female Hormonal Health Masterclass but also...in November, I'll be releasing my new online course, Female Sexual Health, Contraception & Fertility (it is on pre-sale now and goes to regular pricing when it goes live in November - here's the link where you can find info on all my online courses! Until next time, take care and don't forget to #celebratemuliebrity Mx

    43 min

  8. SEPT 22

    Pain Science & Pelvic Pain: Episode 50 with Dr Millie Mardon

    NEW PODCAST ALERT! Pain Science & Pelvic Pain: Episode 50 with Dr Millie Mardon Hello everyone and welcome to today's episode where I'm sharing a recent conversation I had with newly minted PhD, Dr Amelia (Millie) Mardon In this podcast episode we discuss: Millie's latest research paper 'I wish I knew then what I know now - pain science education concepts important for female persistent pelvic pain' How she brought her own experience with endometriosis and pelvic pain into her research Exploring pain science through a female centric lens What women living with pelvic pain actually find useful from pain neuroscience education The four key areas to consider - and making sure people don't leave the conversation thinking that you think the pain is 'all in their heads' September is actually awareness month, not only for pain, but also for Menopause, PCOS, Gynae Cancer and sexual health - of course (!) I have online courses covering all of these topics BUT! if you want to expand your evidence based, clinically useful, biopsychosocial toolbox for working with women with diagnoses including Endometriosis, Menstrual pain, IC/ Bladder Pain Syndrome, Vulvodynia, Pudendal Neuralgia and more ....AND get access to the Female Functional Pelvic Anatomy course FOR FREE, then head over to the online Female Pelvic Pain Rehab course here Here's the link to my Instagram account michellelyons_muliebrity to stay up to date If you're listening to this episode on the day it goes live, you only have a few more days to purchase the recordings/manual to Pelvicon 2024 at the early bird price CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE! Thanks so much for being here, see you next time on the CelebrateMuliebrity podcast! Mx

    47 min
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Muliebrity is the art and state of being a woman and I think that should be celebrated! Join me as I discuss all things women's health, share new research and talk with some of the cleverest people in women's health...and don't forget to celebrate muliebrity!

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