Sara Reardon
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284 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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They deserve compassion, transparency, vulnerability. And the other thing is that like People are not alone. I think so many people don't talk about these issues and they feel like they're the only one. But I've been in this practice for 18 years. I've treated tens of thousands of patients.
I tell a lot of stories in my book because I think it's important for people to know that if you're experiencing it, somebody else likely is too. We're just not talking about it. So I always say I want to normalize the pelvic floor conversations. I don't want to normalize the pelvic floor problems.
And that's where I think that we really need to shift the narrative of let's talk about these things. And then we're able to find solutions for them instead of dealing with them kind of so quietly, but then not even knowing that there's help out there.
So the full title is Floored, A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage. So it is for women. And I say it's for everyone with a pelvic floor because if you have a daughter, if you have a mother, if you have a wife, I mean, I get men reaching out to me saying, I found you on Instagram. I think my wife has this problem, you know? And so they're searching.
I mean, not to generalize, my husband, he wants a solution. And if he can't find one, he wants to keep searching for one. And so I see a lot of men doing that to support their partners. But it's a woman's guide. And I think one of the things I want women to understand by reading the book is that, one, these muscles exist. And there are things you can do to prevent issues.
I think we live in a healthcare system where we're always doing damage control. We're like addressing problems afterwards where I'm like, there's a lot you can do to prevent issues, whether it's you're becoming sexually active, you're pregnant, you're recovering from a baby, you're heading into perimenopause, at every stage in life, your pelvic floor requires different things.
And I want to give you the tips and tools to take care of it. And then also, if you are experiencing a problem, there's resources in the book to help you. Like, what are the exercises to start with? How do you massage? How do you know if you're doing a Kegel correctly? How should you be sitting if you have pain? If you have pain with sex, what are different positions to try?
You know, just so many things that over the years I've been practicing, this is the daily things that I tell my patients. And yet not everybody can come see Sarah. Not everybody can see a pelvic floor therapist. So how do we get this information into women's hands in a very easy, accessible, and affordable way?
The second part of this is I really want us to change the experience of the next generation. I have two kids. I have so many friends who have daughters and children, and they're like, I don't know how to teach my daughter how to use a tampon, or I don't know how to talk to her about sex or like, how should I teach my kid about how to poop properly because he's constipated.
And so if we can, we know better than I think we can teach the next generation better as parents and really help them have a different experience. And I think my generation or even my mom's generation had with respect to pelvic floor healthcare.
Yes. And I will say right now, it may be the last, hopefully not, but it's a huge endeavor. I mean, it's a two-year process. And I mean, I had a research assistant. I mean, we dove into the research. I looked up my old cases from over the years to have really rich patient stories. I used kind of all my old techniques and tools. I mean, everything.
I mean, there was so much in this book that I wanted to put out there. And I could have written a book just about pregnancy or just about menopause. I was like, we need to start just from the basics. People don't even understand the basics of this part of their body. So it was a two-year process. But the really cool thing is the way that I got the book deal was it was a follower on social media.
And she worked for HarperCollins Publishing Company. And she said, I think that what you're saying is really important. And would you ever consider writing a book? And I was like, I'm going to have to think about that. I'm really busy. But I owned a physical therapy clinic in New Orleans at the time. And I was building up my online exercise platform. And I was like, I just don't have the capacity.
So I ended up selling my clinic. And the day after I sold my clinic, I signed the book contract. And so I had to make some shifts in my personal and professional life to take on this endeavor. And I still work for the clinic. I sold it to the two women who were my employees at the time. And now I work for them.
But yeah, it's been a pretty interesting journey just to kind of follow this path, just like you, Dylan, of like, where am I headed? You don't always know, but you just kind of go to where you're called.
I'm thankful for them too.
They do. And the imprint I'm under, which is a specialty imprint, is called Park Row Books. And that's where my editor, Erica, is. And I met with this team, and it was all women. And they were really behind this mission-oriented book. And they've just been great. I mean, I have a great team. And yeah, I mean, it's just wild. Literally like a cold email.
And then two years later, you're a published author. And it's just a really cool experience to kind of have gone through this and to be where I am now.
Yeah, thank you. So it's called The V-Hive. And I started this post-COVID because a lot of people weren't able to access pelvic floor therapists in person. And people were working out from home and not back to gyms. And so I created online pelvic floor workout routines. And some of them are strengthening. Some of them are relaxation.
A lot of them are like pregnancy, birth preparation, postpartum recovery. Also, I just launched a perimenopause and menopause program, which adds in weight. But all of it is pelvic floor focused. So it's teaching you how to contract your pelvic floor, how to relax your pelvic floor, how to modify exercises if you're having a pelvic floor problem. I'm not a fitness professional.
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