Lynn Schulte | Beyond the Intake Form: Releasing Assumptions to Enhance Pelvic Health Treatment
Show Notes:
What if your client’s healing is being limited by … what you think you already know?
In today’s episode, we take a deep, honest look at how assumptions – no matter how clinically sound – can quietly steer treatment in the wrong direction. Through a compelling real-life case study, you’ll hear how setting aside diagnoses, patterns, and expectations allowed the body to reveal a very different story, opening the door to profound change.
This is not an episode about ignoring clinical reasoning.
It’s about knowing when to pause it.
You’ll follow the journey of a client with lifelong painful periods, pelvic pain, and inability to tolerate penetration – symptoms that could easily point toward endometriosis or trauma. But instead of chasing a diagnosis, this session shows what happened when the practitioner chose neutrality, presence, and deep listening to the body’s cues.
What emerged wasn’t what the intake suggested – but it was exactly what the body needed.
Episode Highlights ✨
- Why assumptions (even educated ones) can limit healing
- The critical role of the diaphragm-pelvis relationship in pelvic pain
- How early, seemingly “small” experiences can create long-standing pelvic tension
- Why internal work isn’t always the first or best step
- How pelvic bones, the sacrum, and the uterus can hold the keys to release
- What it feels like when the body says “yes”
🎧 Listen now and explore what becomes possible when you let go of assumptions and let the body lead.
Want to learn more? Check out the Internal Pelvic Floor Treatment online course to learn how to work with the pelvic bones and conduct intravaginal work in a way that is safe and supportive of your clients.
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Love Dr. Rachael! She is such a gem in the Metro Detroit area. She was my pelvic floor PT during my first pregnancy and postpartum and inspired me to pursue pelvic health certification (coming from an Ortho PT clinic). I’m now working through Holistic Treatment of the Pregnant and Postpartum Body.
Thank you so much for this presentation…I am an osteopath and also trained in SER (love love Upledger!)…the piece about ‘freeze’ related to transgenerational trauma was very informative and a reminder to look further…I have had a client who lost a baby and when I treated her she felt she needed to give birth to this child…and then went back several lives and saw that she had also lost a baby many lives prior! This relieved her of some stress…so every piece of the puzzle counts…keep the nuggets coming, so appreciative! Best, Judith
Great interview, Lynn and Susanne, for pushing us beyond “hands on, hands in”, confirming our need as therapists, for wide, grounded personal presence for our clients to feel safe and then willing to bring forth those physical/emotional/transgenerational, traumas/beliefs that lead to more complete healing and return to function. Appreciate the shout out, and listened delightfully to two of my favorite teachers and mentors. All of this was gold!