Episode 178: Your Pelvic Floor is NOT a Unicorn

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Feb 24

Written By The Deliberate Day

For the Busy Mommas…

What is Prolapse and How to Recognize It (01:40)
The First Step When You Recognize Prolapse or Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (05:45)
Every Woman's Body Has a Unique Story (06:30)

We'd be lying if we didn't admit we've giggled over our guest’s business name.

It's actually downright brilliant. Equal parts funny and straight to the point.

Jenn Lormand is bringing some fire today mixed with humor, hope, and healing.

She's a published researcher, exercise physiologist, and author. AND she's been living and thriving with Stage 2 prolapse for the last ten years.

After being told an invasive surgery was her only hope following her third birth, Jenn was determined to create her own solution. Together with her Tighten Your Tinkler cofounder (PT + manual integrative therapist Christina Walsh), Jenn developed a new movement-based protocol that allowed her to reverse her pelvic floor symptoms.

Before going online in 2019, Jenn and her business partner Christina helped hundreds of New Orleans women reduce and eliminate pelvic floor issues.

The Journal of Women’s Health Physical Therapy featured their research, confirming the effectiveness of their protocol at ending pee leaks, back pain, and painful sex – WITHOUT kegels or trendy internal vaginal devices.

The Tinkler mission is to inspire hope and healing – helping women to heal holistically so they can show up fully present for their lives through at-home programs that are non-invasive and kegel-free.

What is Prolapse and How to Recognize It (01:40)

First, it’s important to know that pelvic floor dysfunction and prolapse are a bit different. If you’re told you have pelvic floor dysfunction, just know it is very typical (although not common) after having a baby. It’s simply an imbalance of the muscles that hold your guts in your pelvic floor.

Prolapse is just a progression of pelvic floor dysfunction, and it’s the falling down of the pelvic organs into the pelvic compartment. Unfortunately, it can progress to the point where the organs are falling out of your body.

Check out Jenn and Christina’s YouTube channel here for a variety of informative videos explaining pelvic floor dysfunction and prolapse.

This can manifest as back pain, hip tightness, pain with insertion for sex, or it can feel like pressure during sex (or soreness or swelling after sex). Pee leaks with urgency (with jumping, sneezing, coughing), gas leaks, just a myriad of different issues (and they’re all from the same thing).

Another symptom worth noting (that comes up around 9:17) is Diastasis Recti (DR, or separation of the abdominals). You could also brush off the downward heaviness in the pelvis and lower abs. Other things to look for are when a tampon won’t stay or feels like it’s inserted wrong. (You’ll find ALL the resources here).

The First Step When You Recognize Prolapse or Pelvic Floor Dysfunction (05:45)

Before you do anything else, head here and take the quiz. Jenn and Christina converted their published research into a simple quiz that will give you a category you fall into and tell you the best next step.

Prolapse is quantified by stages 0-4, and the noninvasive methods of Tighten Your Tinkler are best equipped to help women with pelvic floor dysfunction through stage 2 prolapse of bladder, bowel, rectum, etc.

Every Woman's Body Has a Unique Story (06:30)

Every woman’s body has a different story, so it’s difficult to say that every woman who’s had a baby likely suffers from pelvic floor dysfunction.

There are some things that can provoke these things through pregnancy that Jenn’s learned…

If you had chronic respiratory problems as a kid (allergies, bronchitis, asthma), it could begin to weaken the muscles (and throw you into prolapse when pregnant).

Research shows that high-impact activities (cheerleading, gymnastics, etc.) from a young age cause the highest rates of pelvic floor dysfunction in puberty because of the repetitive impact and the lack of learning diaphragmatic breathwork and simple movement patterns to strengthen the pelvic floor.

Your pelvic floor, while it IS special, it is not a magical unicorn.

If you’d like to access all the resources Jenn mentions, head to her website here. She and Christina are passionate about ensuring women feel seen, heard, and validated…that they’re not alone.

The Healing Journey (

These discussions are extremely emotional because we’re not just our bodies; we’re body + soul. So when something like this impacts the physical body with basic functions (like holding in your urine and stool), it impacts how we show up in all our roles (wives, mothers, sisters, friends).

Jenn and Christina teach extensively through their free resources and inside their paid course because every woman needs to go through a cycle of healing.

The first step is acknowledging that there’s a problem.

Step two is the belief that healing is possible for each woman.

Step three is making the decision to do something about it.

Step four is doing something about pelvic floor dysfunction.

More detailed notes to come…