12: How to Start Your Healing Journey with Pelvic Organ Prolapse, with Psychologist Nicola Brown.

DESCRIPTION

As a clinical psychologist, executive coach, wife, mum and stand up comedian - Nicola Brown was working through her own lived experience with pregnancy loss, while supporting other women as a fertility counsellor. 

Nicola shares her heroic journey about how her and her wife lived through 7 years of trying to become mums and when that special day arrived - it was nothing like they imagined...and more so what was to come next. 

Warning: This episode talks about birth trauma, miscarriage and suicide. 

This episode is for you if you want to know about;

• IVF 
• pelvic organ prolapse 
• birth trauma 
• multiple miscarriage 
• episiotomy and forceps delivery 
• mums and bubs separated at birth 
• C-section birth and vaginal birth 
• complicated births and the impact on midwives 
• childbirth education and information overload 
• Women’s pelvic health physiotherapy 
• family history of breast and ovarian cancer 
• prolapse surgery, risk factors, relapse 
• misdiagnosis of prolapse through multiple medical professionals 
• prolapse and pain 
• physical exercise with prolapse 
• men and non-binary gender diverse people with pelvic floor issues 
• different stages of prolapse and bilateral avulsions 
• suicide and chronic pain caused by POP  
• colostomy bag 
• emotionally isolating 
• pessaries 
• reformer pilates 
• time and healing

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Where to find Nicola Brown: 

Website: https://nicolabrown.co/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/itsnicolabrown/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/itsnicolabrown

Helpful links mentioned in the show:

FemFusion: https://www.femfusionfitness.com/

Head Space: https://www.headspace.com/

Insight Timer: https://insighttimer.com/

https://www.curablehealth.com/

CREDITS

Host - Stephanie Thompson

Executive Producer & Editor - Dave Stokes

Podcast logo artist - Khrystyna lukashchuk

Brand Designer - Brodie-Rose

Original Soundtrack - Steven Robinson