Lynn Schulte | When The Tissues Won’t Release: What Are They Holding?
Show Notes:
What if the tissue you’re treating isn’t simply “tight” – but is holding onto an emotional or traumatic experience?
In this episode, Lynn shares two clinical case studies that highlight the potential connection between emotions, trauma, the nervous system, and the physical tissues of the body.
One case begins with something as seemingly straightforward as shoulder tension. But when Lynn follows what she feels in the tissues, the story takes an unexpected turn.
The second case involves a woman preparing for another pregnancy after significant reproductive and surgical trauma. What Lynn discovers while working with her pelvic tissues raises some intriguing questions about how the body may continue to respond to an experience long after the event itself has passed.
What You’ll Discover In This Episode:
- The link between emotion and changes in tissue tension and mobility
- The power of acknowledging an emotion or experience
- A profound case involving pregnancy, surgery, trauma, and the uterus
- The impact of past experiences in how we perceive and treat the pelvic tissues
- The importance of getting curious about the tissues
- What we can do as therapists to help the body feel safe enough to let go
These cases invite us to look beyond the traditional question of “What structure is tight?” and consider another possibility:
What is this tissue holding onto?
If you work with pelvic health clients, especially those with birth, reproductive, surgical, or other significant trauma histories, this episode will give you some other ideas for what is impacting the body and what you can do about it.
🎧 Listen to the full episode to hear the details of these cases and what happened when the tissues finally began to release.
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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!