Insights

Pathways to Pain Relief: Insights and Resources for Your Journey

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The clitoris. Where it actually is, how it moves, and why your nervous system cares

This part fascinates me.

The clitoris isn’t static.
It responds to breath, pressure changes, arousal, and relaxation.

When the nervous system feels safe:

  • Blood flow increases

  • The tissues gently engorge and lift

  • The bulbs and crura subtly expand and recoil

  • Sensation feels warm, alive, connected

When the system feels threatened or overloaded:

  • The tissues may stay guarded

  • Sensation can feel dulled, buzzy, or overwhelming

  • Movement becomes restricted — not because anything is “wrong,” but because the body is protecting

This is why pelvic floor tension and clitoral sensation are so closely linked.

A gripping pelvic floor doesn’t just affect continence or prolapse , it changes how pleasure is perceived.

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Grief Lives in the Lungs: When Breath Holds What the Heart Can’t

There are some emotions the mind can’t process right away
so the body steps in and protects us.

And the lungs — the place where life arrives breath by breath —
are often where grief takes shelter first.

If you’ve ever felt heartbreak as tightness in your chest, or loss as a collapse in your ribcage, you’ve already felt this truth:

Your breath holds what your heart can’t handle yet.

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Upper Rib Gripping & Hourglass Syndrome: Why Your Pelvic Floor Needs Your Breath — Not More Bracing

Why Your Upper Abs Might Be Working Overtime

Hourglass Syndrome is a breathing and tension pattern where the upper abdominals grip tightly inward while the lower belly pushes out.

This can lead to:

  • Ribcage locked down

  • Diaphragm unable to move fully

  • Breath stuck high in the chest

  • Pelvic floor gripping or burning

  • Pressure forced downward

  • A nervous system always ready for danger

It’s not a posture problem.
It’s a protection strategy.

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Burnout, the Vagus Nerve & Coming Home to Yourself

Burnout can make you feel far from yourself almost like the version of you with softness, energy, and clarity is out of reach.

But she isn’t gone.
She’s waiting.

Waiting for breath.
Waiting for space.
Waiting for safety.
Waiting for you to stop pushing long enough to hear what your body has been saying:

“I just need a moment.
Let me exhale.”

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Pessaries, Surgery and Finding Your Way Back to Yourself

Ask:

  • What do I want my body to feel like next year?

  • What makes me feel safe?

  • Is reversibility important?

  • Do I want a long-term solution or a gentle start?

  • What support do I have?

You are allowed to take your time.
You are allowed to change your mind.
You are allowed to ask for help.

A pessary isn’t a failure.
Surgery isn’t a failure.
Rehab isn’t a failure.

These are simply different paths to coming home to your body.

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The Sacrum & Pelvic Floor Health | Hypopressive Scotland

There’s a quiet intelligence in the base of your spine this is a triangular bone that anchors, absorbs, and transmits every movement you make.
We call it the sacrum which comes from the Latin os sacrum, meaning “sacred bone.”
Ancient healers believed it was the seat of the soul, the final bone to return to dust, holding the essence of life within it.

And perhaps they were right.
Because when the sacrum stops moving, so much of us goes still too.

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