It was there that I first heard about the pelvic floor and the term ‘kegel’; it was there that I first witnessed a mom giving birth so incredibly bravely; and it was there that I first comprehended the degree of inequity, injustice, and repression experienced by half the population – simply because they were woman. Women who were trying to navigate health systems and wider societal systems.

Once I saw the truth and realities faced by women, I couldn’t unsee it.  And although my awakening happened in the context of a resource poor community, I knew that many of the underlying attitudes, biases, and beliefs about women and women’s bodies transcended time and place, borders and cultures.  This was a heavy and sobering realization. 

At that time, although I wasn’t yet aware of it, my calling was conceived.  And perhaps not so surprisingly, it would involve the convergence of pelvic health, maternal health, women’s health, and advocacy.  

Six years later, the calling that had been quietly growing in me since my time at Kiwoko would be birthed.  After graduating and working in various private and public healthcare settings, my discontent with the brokenness and superficiality of health “care” especially for women grew.

So with support from my husband, I took stepped out to start my own practice.  But I didn’t want it to open just any other physiotherapy practice.  I needed to serve in a way that made me light up and was life giving to myself and to others.

As I thought back over my career up to that point, I realized that I had that sense of aliveness when I was working with women and mamas back at Kiwoko.  It was such a moment of clarity when I realized that my calling was to help women find their strength from the inside out.  

So I got my pelvic health training, quit my job, and started my own pelvic physiotherapy practice – one of the very first in my city.  And my direction was confirmed when a month after officially leaving my job, I found out that I was pregnant with my first baby!  That really accelerated my fascination with all things pregnancy, birth, and postnatal! 

In my work with women of all ages it became quickly apparent that many pelvic floor problems emerged after the event of childbirth.  This curiosity led me more deeply into the world of birth.  And I discovered that birth is not inherently a ruiner of women’s bodies; rather it is the wider culture and systems surrounding birth and postpartum that leaves many women wondering what went wrong!  

Dysfunction, trauma, pain and shame doesn’t have to be your reality.  Thus my work is dedicated to helping women enter into and emerge from birth whole and stronger and resilient than ever before.

Since beginning this work in service to women and moms more intentionally, and have never looked back.  I’m definitely positioned where I need to be and doing the God-given work I’m created to do.

Life is full. Life is zany. Life is beautiful.  As a busy mama, clinician, and business owner I certainly appreciate the many challenges we as women face – from all the physical concerns, to the emotional, relational, mental and spiritual as well. I feel like I get you because we are literally in boat together.  Know that there is no judgement here – just grace and love.

It was there that I first heard about the pelvic floor and the term ‘kegel’; it was there that I first witnessed a mom giving birth so incredibly bravely; and it was there that I first comprehended the degree of inequity, injustice, and repression experienced by half the population – simply because they were woman. Women who were trying to navigate health systems and wider societal systems.

Once I saw the truth and realities faced by women, I couldn’t unsee it.  And although my awakening happened in the context of a resource poor community, I knew that many of the underlying attitudes, biases, and beliefs about women and women’s bodies transcended time and place, borders and cultures.  This was a heavy and sobering realization. 

At that time, although I wasn’t yet aware of it, my calling was conceived.  And perhaps not so surprisingly, it would involve the convergence of pelvic health, maternal health, women’s health, and advocacy.  

Six years later, the calling that had been quietly growing in me since my time at Kiwoko would be birthed.  After graduating and working in various private and public healthcare settings, my discontent with the brokenness and superficiality of health “care” especially for women grew.

So with support from my husband, I took stepped out to start my own practice.  But I didn’t want it to open just any other physiotherapy practice.  I needed to serve in a way that made me light up and was life giving to myself and to others.

As I thought back over my career up to that point, I realized that I had that sense of aliveness when I was working with women and mamas back at Kiwoko.  It was such a moment of clarity when I realized that my calling was to help women find their strength from the inside out.  

So I got my pelvic health training, quit my job, and started my own pelvic physiotherapy practice – one of the very first in my city.  And my direction was confirmed when a month after officially leaving my job, I found out that I was pregnant with my first baby!  That really accelerated my fascination with all things pregnancy, birth, and postnatal! 

In my work with women of all ages it became quickly apparent that many pelvic floor problems emerged after the event of childbirth.  This curiosity led me more deeply into the world of birth.  And I discovered that birth is not inherently a ruiner of women’s bodies; rather it is the wider culture and systems surrounding birth and postpartum that leaves many women wondering what went wrong!  

Dysfunction, trauma, pain and shame doesn’t have to be your reality.  Thus my work is dedicated to helping women enter into and emerge from birth whole and stronger and resilient than ever before.

Since beginning this work in service to women and moms more intentionally, and have never looked back.  I’m definitely positioned where I need to be and doing the God-given work I’m created to do.

Life is full. Life is zany. Life is beautiful.  As a busy mama, clinician, and business owner I certainly appreciate the many challenges we as women face – from all the physical concerns, to the emotional, relational, mental and spiritual as well. I feel like I get you because we are literally in boat together.  Know that there is no judgement here – just grace and love.