Ellen Heed on the Four Domains of Pelvic Health-
Biomechanics, Biochemistry, Trauma/Emotions and Scar
Tissue
What Ellen Shares:
How
to assess the origins of pain in the body, and the four domains of
health
Your
unconscious mind lives in your body!
How
castor oil and self-massage can to help heal your scar
tissue
How
those with elastic connective tissue are drawn toward yoga and
veganism … and how that can contribute to tears and injuries during
birth
How
diet (especially eating animal products) influences
healing
The
differences between collagenous and elastic people
Her
February Touch Skills workshop with Kimberly, where you can learn
to feel the difference between emotional tension, biochemical
tension & scar tissue in the pelvis
What You’ll Hear:
The
four domains of health - biochemical (inflammation), emotional
(tension stuck in the body), biomechanical (posture, ergonomics,
constitution), and scar tissue (1:06)
Painful sex origins (1:38)
Scars
affect our physiology (6:10)
Birth
has a potential of scar tissue, which can cause pelvic/sexual pain
(6:35)
Scar
tissue as a cause of bad posture, and a result of it
(15:29)
Connecting pain, trauma, and biomechanics with
scar tissue (17:28)
Connective tissue characteristics: are you
chewing gum or a superball? (19:54)
Using
collagen products to supplement after birth (22:18)
Case
study: how veganism might influence healing after a pelvic floor
tear (22:35)
Can
your body heal well, without eating meat? (24:28)
Our
relationship to the world based on our connective tissue
(27:00)
People who are more collagenous are more
extroverted, shoot from the hip, and move toward diarrhea under
stress, and do very well on a plant based diet; people who are more
elastin are more introverted, take a long time to make decisions,
move toward constipation under stress, and tend to build a weak
type of scar tissue, unless they have animal protein in their diets
(28:40)
How
do we know when tension is emotional? (34:40)
How
important it is to have tools in all four domains of health
(37:35)
Assessment is everything (38:18)
39:25
- 39:47 Audio problem
You
can feel the difference between emotional tension, biochemical
tension & scar tissue (39:48)
Touch
skills workshop with Ellen and Kimberly - learn how to feel these
differences (41:49)
About the Podcast
Cutting-edge, pioneering conversations on holistic women's health, including sex, birth, motherhood, womanhood, intimacy and trauma with doula, certified Sexological Bodyworker, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and author of Call of the Wild and the Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson.