What No One Tells You About Postpartum, Pooping, and Pelvic Floor Recovery with Dr. Sara Reardon (E41)

Mom's Guide to Finding Herself
Written By Mom Identity Project

We prep for the birth. We read the books. We download the apps. But what happens after the baby arrives often catches us off guard—and not just physically.

This week, we’re talking about the side of postpartum no one prepares you for—the kind that doesn't make it into baby shower conversations. And we’re doing it with someone who should have been prepared: Dr. Sara Reardon, board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist and founder of The Vagina Whisperer.

Even as a leading expert in pelvic health, Sara's own postpartum journey was filled with moments of isolation, overwhelm, and unexpected identity shifts. And like so many of us, she found herself asking: Why didn’t anyone tell me it could be like this?

Even the Expert Didn’t See It Coming

Sara had the unmedicated birth she planned for. She’d done the prep work. She had the knowledge. And still—she struggled.

What caught her off guard wasn’t the physical recovery itself (though, we’ll get to the poop story in a minute), it was the emotional unraveling that followed. The loneliness. The unexpected grief. The pressure to present a perfectly curated version of early motherhood.

“When my baby was one week old, I was baking a cake just to take a picture with a big ‘1’ on it for Instagram. I was exhausted. My sister called and told me to shut the oven off and sit down. That moment snapped me out of it.”

It was a wake-up call—one that so many of us experience in our own ways. That moment when we realize we’re performing motherhood instead of living it.

The First Poop Deserves Its Own Section

Yes, we’re going there. Because the truth is, it goes there whether we talk about it or not.

Sara’s first postpartum poop is something she now talks about often—and with good reason. As a pelvic floor therapist, she had the tools to navigate it. But she still describes it as one of the most intense moments of her recovery.

“I remember thinking there was a baseball coming out of my butt. I had to support my perineum and coach myself through it.”

Why share something so personal? Because so many women suffer in silence, thinking they’re the only ones experiencing this kind of pain. And they’re not.

Mom Friends, Nipple Shields, and the Power of Showing Up

One of the most powerful parts of Sara’s story is the role that other moms played in her healing—not experts, not books, not Instagram accounts. Real-life moms.

There was the neighbor who showed up with a used nipple shield and zero judgment. The friend who sent a text exactly when she didn’t know she needed it. The unspoken solidarity that formed in those chaotic early days of feeding, crying, and simply surviving.

“We’d only met a few times, but suddenly I was using something that had her nipple in it. That’s motherhood. That’s sisterhood.”

Sara’s story reminds us how essential it is to find people who get it—who see the struggle and lean in rather than look away.

From Losing Yourself to Finding a New Version

It’s not just about pelvic floor healing. It’s about identity.

Sara talks candidly about the toll that early motherhood took on her relationship, her self-confidence, and her mental health. Like many moms, she found herself thinking: Maybe I’m just not cut out for this. Her husband was gone for work just two weeks after birth. She didn’t live near family. She felt alone and unsure.

“There were moments when I truly thought, ‘This would be easier without you.’ And that’s not something you expect to think about your partner.”

But over time—through therapy, work, and connection—Sara began to rebuild. Not back to who she was before kids, but into someone new. Someone with different priorities, deeper compassion, and a renewed sense of purpose.

You Are Not Broken

If there’s one message Sara wants you to take away from her story, it’s this: you are not broken. You're not failing because you're tired, or leaking, or crying in the bathroom. You're not the only one googling "how to breastfeed without sobbing" at 2 a.m.

And you’re not alone.

Sara’s story is your reminder that healing isn’t linear, and motherhood doesn’t have to be picture-perfect to be powerful.

About Dr. Sara Reardon

Dr. Sara Reardon is a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist and the founder of The V-Hive, an online pelvic floor workout platform for pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, painful sex, and core recovery. Known online as The Vagina Whisperer, she’s helped hundreds of thousands of women better understand and care for their bodies.

She lives in New Orleans with her husband and two sons. Her first book, Floored: A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage, releases June 10, 2025.

Explore More from Sara:

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www.thevagwhisperer.com/v-hive

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Instagram – @the.vagina.whisperer
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[00:00:00] Since becoming a mom, there are so many, why didn't anyone warn me about this part?

Moments. But what happens when someone who spent her entire career preparing other women for birth becomes a mom herself and still feels totally unprepared? In this raw and refreshing, honest conversation, I sit down with Dr. Sara Reardon, AKA, the Vagina Whisperer, to talk about what really happens behind closed doors in those early weeks of motherhood, from pelvic floors to postpartum poop stories.

Yep. We go there. Sara shares the messy, beautiful, and totally unexpected moments that shaped her journey. If you've ever found yourself alone with a newborn, wondering how are you supposed to do this with your body still bleeding and zero support, you are not [00:01:00] broken. You're just in the thick of it, and even the people who should be prepared aren't always ready for what motherhood throws at them. Today I am joined by Dr. Sara Reardon, a board certified pelvic floor physical therapist, mom of two boys, ages eight and 10, and the founder of the V hive, an online platform supporting women through pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond.

You might know her as the Vagina Whisper on Instagram, and she has a new book coming out on June 10th called Floored, A Woman's Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at every age and Stage. But today we're talking about her own journey into motherhood and all those no one told me about this part moments starting with her very first bathroom trip in the hospital.

If you've ever felt like you're doing it wrong, you're about to feel a whole lot less alone

Krissy: Sara, thank you so much for being here with me today.

Dr. Sara Reardon: so excited to be here. Thanks, Krissy.

Krissy: I've been following you since I had my first baby. He's four now. So I think you had just started your V hive then, like

Dr. Sara Reardon: did, [00:02:00] wow. That was post Covid time. I.

Krissy: members in there.

It's just such a huge resource for moms. So thank you for all of the work that you do to help moms on their pelvic floor

Dr. Sara Reardon: Awesome. Thanks so much. And that means a ton. You were a founding member, I remember. That was 2021 and yeah, I mean, the V hive has grown so much. I think social media has really, know, helped share more about pelvic health so much. So I'm just really excited to be here and chat about all things, you know, motherhood and vaginas.

Krissy: Excellent. Excellent. Well, today we are going to focus on you and maybe your vagina or maybe not. Up to you, however much you wanna share, but you are, you have an eight and a 10-year-old. So let's fast forward like 11 years or maybe even more, and talk about who you were before you became a mom.

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know, I think that before I became a mom, I was a pelvic floor therapist. I had been, I've been practicing in this field for 18 years. I met my husband on match.com back when match.com was like still an internet site, and the [00:03:00] apps didn't exist. I. And I was really kind of finding myself still kind of figuring out how to be kind of independent in my career, but also, you know, navigate, you know, having a, what felt like a later in life marriage, which I was, you know, 30 and he was 37, but many of our friends had been married for years and already had kids and then but just really also really passionate about pelvic floor health and working in a hospital in Dallas.

So, you know, so much has transpired since then. But, yeah, kind of just your standard 30-year-old career woman at that time.

Krissy: Love that. Now, did you, well, how did you decide you wanted to become appellate floor therapist? I mean, I was gonna ask, did you always know you wanted to do this, but probably not.

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know what's interesting? I actually always knew I wanted to be a physical therapist, so I applied to colleges at the age of 17 and I applied to ones that had really good physical therapy schools then. 'cause I said, I know I wanna be in medicine, but I don't wanna be a physician and go to school for a long time.

I don't wanna be a nurse, [00:04:00] but I wanna do something really kind of active and. At the time I was I ran track and did swimming and kind of was just an exerciser. So I thought this feels really good. And I went to Wash U in St. Louis and then also stayed there for graduate school. So I was there for seven years, got my doctorate in physical therapy.

And when I was there, a professor of mine who's still my mentor to this day, over 20 years later, she gave us like a two week lecture on pelvic floor health. And I thought, oh, this is really interesting. I've never. Heard of these muscles, but I mean, as a woman, it was really incredible to understand my own body.

And then when I did a clinical rotation ended at the hospital at the University of Ann Arbor in Michigan. I was like, this is amazing to help other women understand their bodies. And so I jumped right into it. When I graduated from PT school at, I think I was 25.

Krissy: Wow, that's incredible. And now I am, you know, fairly new to the pelvic health world because I feel like you only totally know about it when it becomes an

Dr. Sara Reardon: Mm-hmm. [00:05:00] Correct.

Krissy: But it seems even still that it's a fairly new. Realm of physical therapy? Is that the case or was it totally where it

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know, it's, it's really not the case. So, I mean, I've practiced 18 years and before this it was really called Women's Health Physical Therapy or Obstetric Physical Therapy. So it's much more focused on pregnancy and birth and, but then we realized that a lot of these issues. Can be experienced in women who've never given birth.

And then also some of the issues can last later into life, into perimenopause and menopause and with aging. And so really at every stage of a woman's life, it can be it can affect them, but I would say it's really social media that started spreading more awareness about pelvic floor therapy and the role it can play in pregnancy and postpartum and with, you know, pelvic floor issues like urinary leakage or painful sex.

And so. I really credit social media to just opening up these conversations and making this type of therapy much more [00:06:00] accessible and helping people be aware that it exists to help their problems.

Krissy: Wow. So it's one of those things that it was always there. We just didn't was there. We didn't know it

Dr. Sara Reardon: right.

Krissy: So you were doing your thing, being a physical therapist, getting married, and then all of a sudden you had a couple of you always know you wanted to be a

Dr. Sara Reardon: a hundred percent. And I, I always knew that I wanted to be a mom. And I even told my husband, like, on my match.com profile, you know, you check your boxes. And I said, that was a deal breaker for me. Like, I knew that I wanted to be a mom and I said, even if I didn't find a partner, I would've eventually kind of find a way to be a mom.

So that was important to me. And fortunately, you know, I was 30. At the time I got married and my husband said, I wanna wait a year to just be married. And then, so we did that and then right after we got that year passed, we started trying. We were really fortunate to be able to not have to, you know, have a long fertility journey or anything like that.

And we had both of our kids pretty close together [00:07:00] 22 months apart when I was 32 and 34. And then I wanted a third and he was like, I don't know if that's in the cards for me. I'm kind of maxed out. And so as my kids have gotten older. That has really settled and I feel really happy with the two kids that we have.

I feel so fortunate and that kind of grief of not having a bigger family has gotten smaller and smaller over time.

Krissy: Wow. Yeah, I, I understand what you're saying. I mean, I was the opposite end of the spectrum. My dating profile and my husband's dating profile both said, we do not want kids. but

Dr. Sara Reardon: Stop.

Krissy: right person and it just, we, we said, you know what? We could do this together and I think this is something we'll regret not doing.

And I. We have two very wanted children and we're very happy with that.

Dr. Sara Reardon: That's incredible though, that you all both thought no and then it became, yeah, we do want kids, so that's awesome.

Krissy: It's just funny how life works like that. You're just not really sure where it's gonna go. And then sometimes it does go the way you want, but either way, after you have those babies, your life changes

Dr. Sara Reardon: No [00:08:00] doubt.

Krissy: expected and, and the ways you couldn't prepare for. So how was your transition?

Dr. Sara Reardon: Hard. I mean, I think that I didn't know what I didn't know, and I, I think two things happened during that time was one, I as a pelvic floor therapist prepared so much for my birth. I mean, I had a doula and I did the classes and I did the hypnobirthing, and I ended. Up having an unmedicated birth. It was a really smooth experience and a really easy kind of postpartum recovery all things considered.

But I struggled with breastfeeding and during that time I think there wasn't this fire hose of parenting advice coming at you. There wasn't social media, so I mean, I would just be kind of grappling in the middle of the night like, what do I do? And kind of going down rabbit holes on the internet of like how to breastfeed.

I just didn't know what I didn't know. So that was much more of a struggle for me. But it was also a time that people were posting photos on social media that were picture perfect, like authenticity did not exist. So. [00:09:00] When my baby was one week old, I remember my twin sister called, who had a kiddo that was 10 months older than than mine.

And she's like, what are you doing? And I'm like, still, you know, exhausted and breast trying to pump and my vagina's bleeding. And, and I was like, oh, I'm baking a cake. And she's like, why? And I said, oh, 'cause I wanna take a picture of like the baby with a cake and a one in it. So, 'cause he's one week old and she was like, stop right now.

That's ridiculous. Like she's like, you need to be resting. Sit down, turn off the oven and just relax. And I was so consumed with like making it look good for everyone instead of just like going through it that I was like, you know what? What am I doing? And so that just kind of took some of the pressure off to sh to make everything look so easy and perfect.

And you know, shortly after that I started my social media account from when I was pregnant with my second son. And it was like, I didn't try to make it look perfect. I was like, this sucks, you know? And that felt much more manageable [00:10:00] for me to share the realities of it versus kind of trying to create what we used to call like the Pinterest mom look back then.

Krissy: Yes, it is wild how much things have changed. I totally agree with you, but that pressure I think, is always gonna be there. I I can totally relate to that first week where you have this like, sense of urgency. Like, I, this only lasts so long. I have to do it all. We need these newborn photos, we need things that are, are gonna go away within a matter of hours and, and it's just so all consuming and you don't give yourself that time to rest And. As you well know, our bodies need it desperately. So tell me about your healing process. I know that you have a very interesting story about your first

poop.

Dr. Sara Reardon: Right. Well,

Krissy: to

Dr. Sara Reardon: it's always a doozy, you know? And I think that that's one of the things that people don't tell you is like, take the stool softeners after giving birth. And so a lot of what I try to share in there is education I've learned from my own experiences [00:11:00] or from other moms that I've worked with as patients.

But I'm like. You know, my birth went fine, but I remember sitting on the toilet in the hospital. My feet were on a trash can because I like wanted to try to elevate my feet 'cause I'm pretty petite and I couldn't touch the ground. And I remember just feeling like, oh my God, there's a baseball that's about to come outta my butt right now, you know?

And I was so constipated because of I was taking ibuprofen and I was dehydrated. 'cause they tell you not to drink. And I had been in the hospital for a long time and I was like. What is going on? And so knowing my pelvic floor therapy skills, I did what I call support the perinum And you hold up your vagina while you kind of bear down to poop.

And I remember being like, there's literally a baseball size poop coming outta my butt right now. And it did. It came out. But it's was like, this could be as bad as birth if I didn't know how to do this, you know? And so. Every time I share a reel or a blog post, or I wrote about this in my book, I was like, I, I always get moms that are like, thank [00:12:00] you so much.

I went back to that when I was in the hospital and I used your tips and it, I was so scared and it made it so much easier. But these are the things that we really struggle with behind closed doors and in bathrooms people don't know about, but yet there is such kind of easy solutions to help make it easier for women.

Krissy: It is so powerful that you share these stories because nobody does. talks about those things. And all you need is that one story in your brain because it's gonna live there. Like you hear that one story about somebody's poop and you're gonna remember it, and then when you need it, it's gonna come outta the fold.

So it's good to have that in there and just, just living and waiting because you don't know what you don't know until you're doing I'm

Dr. Sara Reardon: Right.

Krissy: was the case for you too. Now. Do you look back and think like, Ooh, I should have been kinder to my patients, or, I do. I really didn't understand exactly what they meant when they were saying they were in so much pain.

Did you have any moments

Dr. Sara Reardon: A [00:13:00] hundred percent. I remember thinking when I was, even just during pregnancy, not even postpartum and kind of post birth, but during pregnancy, I was like, oh my gosh, for 10 years I've been telling all of these pregnant moms of do do these 30 minutes of exercise every day, and I'm like, I can barely. Get outta my car right now.

You know? Like I can barely walk up a flight of stairs. I'm so tired. That's a joke. And so I apologized to all the moms who I gave like over-prescribed exercises because you're just, you know, I'm like, you know what you need to do during pregnancy? Just walk. Walk, like just, you know, if there's anything you do, just walk because, you know, it's, it is a huge, hugely physically taxing job and I'm like, you're creating a baby and you have, you know, much more blood flow and kind of changes in fluctuations in hormones, and you have tons of progesterone that makes you exhausted.

So I just think I didn't appreciate how challenging pregnancy was until I was pregnant.

Krissy: Right. I totally understand what you're saying. Yeah. And it changes the kind of [00:14:00] advice that you're going to give

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah,

Krissy: like your expertise only goes. So and what you said with walking, I, you remember your first poop? I remember my first walk after having a baby. I was walking down the street as slowly as possible.

I don't even, like, I, I probably should have gone slower and I. I remember seeing my neighbors and just like being like, I can't even move because if I move right now, I'm gonna pee

Dr. Sara Reardon: yeah. Yeah.

Krissy: control left right at that moment. It was just so early on. But the power of having a baby and seeing your neighbors and seeing everybody come together, it like it, it almost makes you like a closer bond, almost like family.

And I think you have a really interesting story about one of your neighbors

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah, so it's really interesting because I think one of, when you mentioned earlier, like what surprised you about outside of kind of it being totally exhausting and I had to keep telling myself like, okay, every other mother who's given birth has been through this. Like, you can do it. Sara was [00:15:00] how meaningful having mom friends was.

And I had, I lived in a street where there were two women who had babies kind of a couple months before. Me and they were just angels. I mean, it was just, they texted me when I didn't even know I needed somebody to text me. And I remember one of them she's still a dear friend to this day, even though we don't live in the same city, but I was really struggling with breastfeeding.

And she's like, have you tried a nipple shield? And I was like, no, I haven't yet. She's like, well, I'm gonna come drop mine kn. She's like, it's had my nipple in it, but like you can use it. And I was like. Okay. You know, but I was like, okay, we've met five times, but now I'm using your nipple shield. You know?

But it was, it's one of those things where I think in motherhood, you create these crews or these bonds with people, at least I've been so fortunate enough to, to have that. And they really, like, they get it in a way that my partner doesn't get it, or my parents don't get it, or my employers don't get it.

Where I'm like, okay, you get it. And sometimes you know what I need before I even know that I need it. And that was one instance of that. And, i, those early friends that I had when I had my first baby, we still [00:16:00] have such a strong bond 10 years later, and you know, I've moved and I have a amazing group of mom friends in New Orleans here, but it is a really kind of special comradery that you have.

Krissy: Especially if you're lucky enough to find people that are having kids just ahead of you, not even a year, because you do forget how quickly like it, it's unbelievable the things that you do quickly forget, and I get it now, like now that I'm two years out from my last one, I get how people have forgotten the pain and the the, the trauma that you go

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah. And the exhaustion, you know, and I think you just kind of move on to different struggles. I mean, I think the toddler years were different and the school years are different. And now, like one of my kids is about to hit puberty and that's different. But the challenges are definitely different, but they're still there.

And, I think that we do forget, which is why we go back and have more kids, you know, because it's like, oh yeah, it's not so bad.

Krissy: Right.

It's the only way to get through some of that for sure. Now I wanna hear about your relationship, how [00:17:00] that changed after you had your

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know? It was hard. And so my husband and I had been together for just over two years when we had our first son, and he actually at the time, traveled for work. And so he was gone. He had two weeks off. Which was like generous paternity leave for that time, which is totally bananas. And after two weeks he was back to traveling and he traveled Monday through Thursday and was gone.

So I was home with a two week old baby. I didn't live in a city with my family. And you know, just, I felt totally lost and almost scared. Like, I remember him leaving and I was thinking like, oh my gosh, like how am I gonna do this? And not even like the logistics, I'm like. Like, I'm scared for the safety of me and my kid because I was like, I don't, I'm responsible for this thing now and I have, you know, I'm, it's just me.

And so, it was a really tough time for us. I think we were both physically exhausted. There was a little bit of this, you know, looking back, I think I would've probably. Spent [00:18:00] more money to hire help, unfortunately, because we didn't have support and I, I, we were like, oh, we're gonna earn our stripes and do it ourselves.

And I just, we didn't have. Family close by, or my family close by, his parents were close by. I just think I needed more help and I didn't know how to ask for it. I didn't maybe have the resources at the time to, to pay for it. And it was really tough. And I would say the first year after having both of my kids, we really struggled and I'm like super open about that.

I'm like, we struggled. There were many times I was like. I don't need you. This is easier without you, you know, like, I remember reading this quote on like some kind of parenting book or account and it was like, don't consider divorce until you've both been sleeping for three months uninterrupted every night.

And I was like, okay, got it. And so like we're, you know, very happily married 10 years later. We still go through trials and tribulations, but I think that those early years were really hard for us, for both kids. And it, learning how to be [00:19:00] parents and partners is something I think we have to continuously work on.

It doesn't ever reach a point where we're like, we've made it. We just had our 12 year anniversary and I asked my husband, I'm like, so what do you think? Like our secret is to a happy marriage. And he's like, therapy. I was like, okay, me too.

Krissy: Yep. That's so interesting. The, the what? Can you say that again? It was the three hours

Dr. Sara Reardon: No, don't consider getting a divorce until every, both people have been sleeping for three months uninterrupted, like every night for three months uninterrupted,

Krissy: Oh my gosh. That is so powerful because we are so sleep deprived and we don't even it

Dr. Sara Reardon: right?

Krissy: these early phases. It's, and that just wears on you. You become a totally different person through it. And to be alone, alone two weeks with a two week old baby, I'm, you are so right to. Say how afraid you are for the safety. I mean, we know how much we're going through. I mean, I remember the baby blues, the [00:20:00] maybe postpartum depression, maybe not like all of the things that you go through hormonally through these like first six weeks of time, and you're just alone after two. So I, I think you're seriously downplaying how, how horrible and hard this must have been on your relationship

Dr. Sara Reardon: it was hard. Yeah, it was hard. And it wasn't like his fault. I mean, there was no leave. Like, and I think it's, what's unfortunate is I remember being alone in the house and I'm thinking this system sucks. Like my, you know, you hear of all these other countries and places that have paternity and maternity leave, and I'm just like, this is, do people know how unsafe this is?

Do they know how scary it is? Do they know how? Unfair it is to like leave, you know. Babies and moms unattended when you're literally still bleeding. If there was a medical emergency, I'm like, I don't even know how to handle it. You know? So it's a, it's a real downfall of our system. And I think when [00:21:00] I think about pelvic healthcare, and I think about my journey as a mom, a lot of it unfortunately is I think we feel like as moms as we're failing or we didn't take enough care of our bodies, or we did something wrong, and I'm like, no, the system and the infrastructure is not there to.

Help us be successful. It is not supporting us 100%. And I think as we continue to be louder and kind of fight for more change and be more vocal and authentic about the challenges of motherhood, I'm really hoping that it changes at some point. But yeah, it is, it is really kind of the system of our country that has the systems or lack of systems in our country that really lead to, I think, making this experience hard for moms.

Krissy: Yeah. It, it really is. So, you mentioned therapy being so powerful for you, and I'd love to hear through everything that you were battling with alone and battling with together with your husband. How, what were some of the things that were powerful helped you reconnect with yourself? Was it time, was it therapy or was there something else that you feel [00:22:00] like really made

Dr. Sara Reardon: I mean, all of it. I would say time is huge. Therapy is also huge. I've always had. Kind of a therapist wherever I live. So I'm, you know, we moved to New Orleans after my second kiddo, and one of the first things was like, I need to find a new therapist. You know, because I know that I, I need someone to reach out to.

I don't wanna have to be in crisis mode to then find somebody. So it's always been helpful for me to kind of establish rapport in a relationship with someone. And I'm a talker, so I know that that's kind of something that I need to work through. I would say that actually like returning to work helped me.

There was a mom I was talking to recently and she was like, oh my gosh, was it the worst thing? I was like, no. It wasn't like I, a lot of my passion and identity and connection with people is through my work and being with patients and having coworkers, and so that to me helps me kind of. Feel normal when I'm going through a tough time, or especially postpartum.

And it also makes me focus on one thing, like when I'm at home, I'm like changing laundry, checking my [00:23:00] phone, you know, cooking a meal, catering to kids, whatever. Or my brain has a thousand tabs open. When I'm with a patient, I'm solely focused on one thing and it's that patient in front of me. So it's a. Joy to be able to kind of have a practice where I do that and I'm helping somebody else and taking the focus off of myself too.

So, and I've met so many amazing women and moms kind of in that process who feel like comrades in the pro, in the motherhood journey. So I think that has been a really kind of normalizing force for me.

Krissy: That's really powerful to hear have, whether it's work or whether it's a creative outlet or a hobby or something else, like they're having just that passion that you have, whatever it might be, and maybe it wasn't the same passions you had before. Maybe it's something new can really bring you back to life. Tell us about your book.

Dr. Sara Reardon: So floored. A woman's guide to pelvic floor health, um, comes out on June 10th depending on when you're listening to this available for pre-order. And everyone who pre-orders, um, gets 30 days of free pelvic floor workouts in my [00:24:00] platform. And I, 'cause I really wanna make this accessible to people. I really want people just to kind of.

Understand their bodies, but also like help their sisters, their moms, their daughters, you know, be able to have these conversations with their kids and help understand their bodies better. Um, there's, it goes through every age and stage from your first period to your last. So whether you're. Got a, got a kiddo who's starting their period or becoming sexually active, whether you're perimenopausal or postpartum.

And then there are individual chapters on like bladder health and sexual health and bowel health. So you know, I always say read the first chapter and the last, and then go to the chapters that are relevant for you. But I think you'll really learn so much. Hopefully find it a little funny and then also feel less alone because so many women experience these issues and they just don't know anyone else, or they're not talking about it, but it's, it's very common.

Um, but I also want you to know that it's very treatable.

Krissy: I am confident that your book is going to be not just a little funny, but highly relatable and very [00:25:00] welcoming and just really like, like you're hearing it from a friend, which is such a breath of fresh air. Tell us where we can find you. I.

Dr. Sara Reardon: Um, so I'm on Instagram as the vagina Whisper. It's the dot vagina dot whisper, and I'm on TikTok as the vag whisper 'cause TikTok doesn't like the word vagina. And my website is the vagina whisper.com. I have a pre-order floor page on there that you can go to and check it out. And I'm coming to cities across the us.

And then, um, so there may be some events in your city and then you can find out more about the pre-order goodies as well. And I just, I really hope that this, um, helps a lot of women and I'm just really excited to share it with the world.

Krissy: Well, it has been such a joy. To get to know you as a person, and I am just, I can hear the passion for your work coming through, so I will have to have you back on the next episode to hear all about the work that you've done and so you can teach us how to take care of ourselves

Dr. Sara Reardon: Thank you, Krissy.

Now don't go too far because in the next episode, Dr. Sara [00:26:00] is coming back to do a deep dive into pelvic floor health. The everyday habits that we're doing to sabotage our recovery. The shame that keeps us silent, and exactly what you need to do to reclaim control of your body.

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