July 7, 2025 • 18 mins
Taboo topics and awkward silences have no place in healthcare, especially when they prevent us from addressing issues that affect our daily lives and wellbeing. That's what makes this conversation with Ashley Murray, founder of Breeze Pelvic Health, so refreshingly important.
Ashley demystifies pelvic floor therapy with clarity and compassion, explaining that her work goes far beyond the simplified "just do Kegels" advice many people receive. She treats urinary and bowel issues, sexual dysfunction, pelvic pain, and helps people through pregnancy and postpartum recovery. Most importantly, she normalizes these conversations, making it clear that pelvic floor dysfunction affects people of all genders and ages.
The discussion takes a fascinating turn when Ashley shares her personal journey. As a college athlete who experienced urinary issues in her late teens, she initially had no idea pelvic floor therapy existed. This firsthand experience now allows her to connect authentically with clients who feel isolated by their symptoms. Her mobile practice brings specialized care directly to people's homes, removing barriers to treatment while allowing her newly established business to grow organically.
If you've ever experienced "leaking" during exercise, felt constant urgency, or dealt with pelvic discomfort, this episode offers validation and hope. Pelvic floor issues aren't just "something to live with"—they're treatable conditions that respond to specialized physical therapy. Join us as we break the silence surrounding this crucial aspect of health and explore why proper pelvic floor function is essential for everyone. Find Ashley at breezepelvichealth.com or on Instagram @breezepelvichealth to continue this essential conversation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right, well, welcome back to the Vero Beach
podcast.
I'm Brian and.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Shauna.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
And today we are sitting here with Ashley Murray
from the Pelvic Floor PhysicalTherapy Clinic.
Is that correct?
Is that the name of thebusiness?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's called Breeze Pelvic Health.
Well, that was a lot easier tosay there.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Ashley, we're super excited to have you here on the
Vero Beach podcast.
Love to just go and get startedoff and have you introduce
yourself and tell us a littlebit about you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, so thank you so much.
I was really intrigued byseeing your guys's Instagram
posts and I'm happy that youguys accepted my plea to be on
your podcast.
But yeah, so my name's Ashleyand I am a physical therapist
that specializes in pelvic floorphysical therapy.
So what that means is I treatpeople for urinary bowel sexual
(00:48):
dysfunction.
I also treat people for pelvicpain or any sort of like pelvic
heaviness anything that could bedysfunctional with a
pelvis-related organ or muscletissue.
I help people with postpartumand pregnancy recovery and
teaching them how to have a baby.
That's probably too simplisticto say, but you know there's so
(01:11):
much that goes into it that Ithink modern medicine does not
teach us.
We don't even know much aboutour bodies as, let alone like,
our genital regions.
Really, this is this is just metrying to raise awareness, get
people to talk about thesethings first and foremost and
Breeze is kind of my child andmy offering to the world to help
(01:33):
people through the tough timesof having a baby, having a
C-section, having a prolapse,repair surgery, which we can get
into all of that but yeah, someof these things are really hard
to talk about for people andthis is a really cool platform
to be able to talk about it.
So thank you guys again forthis platform.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I definitely have to say, I have to agree, it
probably is definitely going tobe hard for me to talk about
because, I've never experiencedpregnancy myself.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You do have a pelvic floor.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's right so.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I am going to like I'm super excited that Shauna is
here to kind of lead up thisconversation, but I'm excited to
to learn more as well.
Yeah, kind of be that I wasgoing to say the oddball person
out, but you probably I saw onyour Instagram you actually work
with men too.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, I actually passed life.
I worked in Colorado Springsfor a while and I treated a lot
of Air Force and Army populationthere and I saw so many males
with pelvic floor dysfunctionand that was a really cool area
to treat in.
I loved living in Colorado andthere's a lot of guys that need
help, and I think guys even moreso than women.
Just don't talk about thesethings.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, we're excited that you're here.
We're excited you're here,ashley, and I'm going to turn it
over to Shauna and we can justgo and get started.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Let's do it, yeah.
So I'm really excited to talkabout this because, like you
said, it's hard to talk aboutthings like this, and it does
become easier, I think, afteryou have a baby, because then
you know you've had people allover the place on you, so it's
like modesty is out the window.
Exactly, that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It wasn't like that for me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You didn't have a baby.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I was there.
No, all right, I'm going toback off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, don't back off.
I'm just glad that you're doingthis and you're making it
accessible to talk about, and apodcast is a great format for it
, because someone can listenwithout really any
accountability.
To start with, they don't haveto look at someone in the eyes,
right, they can just be in theircar listening while they're
driving, yeah, and they canlearn what's normal and what's
not normal and that there'ssomething that can be done about
(03:29):
it, which I think is reallyexciting.
Will you explain to us whatpelvic floor therapy?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
is, yes, so kind of the things that I mentioned
earlier, the things that couldbe dysfunctional with your
pelvic floor.
So, for example, a big thingthat I treat is urinary
incontinence and that just meansleaking urine when you don't
want to be leaking urine rightAny.
Any time where you're notsitting on the toilet and you're
leaking urine is incontinence.
(03:54):
So pelvic floor physicaltherapy can help with that and
there's so many things that thatpelvic floor physical therapies
or physical therapists can helpwith.
And I think one of the biggestmisconceptions is do your Kegels
.
Come to PT and do your Kegelsand it's all about the Kegels.
It's.
It is so funny because I hearthat in conversation a lot.
I'm like, oh, what do you dofor work?
(04:15):
I'm a pelvic floor physicaltherapist.
Oh, you teach people how to doKegels.
Um, yes, but so much more thanthat.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I was just going know what you're talking about.
I was just going to explain itto you.
Okay, what a Kegel is Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So a Kegel is a pelvic floor muscle contraction.
It's like a squeeze and a liftof your pelvic floor muscles and
actually backing up even morethan that.
Some people don't even knowwhat the pelvic floor is.
So let's.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, I was going to ask that too.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, let way up, we'll do a little thing.
Um, take your hands and gounderneath your sit bones and
kind of take your fingers and,like, curl up into that um soft
space.
Um, so if your fingers couldkind of poke through that skin
you would be on your pelvicfloor.
The pelvic floor is also themuscles around the vagina,
underneath the base of the penis, a base of the scrotum controls
(05:02):
bowel function.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So if you're squeezing like this is
definitely awkward to talk about.
So everybody's like how's hesitting here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
okay, I'm just, it's okay we'll move on from this
eventually we'll talk about hangin there, guys, hang in there I
think it's great that you'reexplaining it very clearly like
that yes, okay, everyone needsto talk about this stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Everyone needs, yeah, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
and like, if you don explain it clearly, then if
there's ambiguity around it, andthen someone's still going to
be thinking well, I still don'tknow what that means.
Right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And the one other thing I wanted to say there was,
you know, yes, themisconception is we just do
kegels, but a lot of timespeople come in with their pelvic
floor that is squeezing toomuch, yeah, and, and sometimes
that can lead to pelvic pain, um, pain with intercourse.
Sometimes that can lead toconstipation.
So there's a lot of things thatcan come with pelvic floor
(05:52):
muscles being too engaged toturn on all the time.
Um, yeah, so, so it's reallyimportant to be able to have
both functions being able tosqueeze when you need to and
also being able to rest when youneed to.
Oh, that's so interesting, andso that's that in, in a nutshell
, is kind of more of no punintended.
Um, is more of my job.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm staying away from the jokes myself on this one.
You girls can do all the jokesyou want.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you get to say that occasionally?
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Public health is like a sensitive topic, so you have
to be able to laugh about itsometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I love that.
That was so funny.
So where did the name Breezecome from?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, I love that question.
So Breeze started officially inNovember of last year.
So it's it's still my, my newbaby, um, but in November I had
just gotten back from a trip tosee some family in Seattle and
you know they're veryencouraging and inspiring to me
and you know they, they inspireme to, you know, chase my dreams
(06:57):
and live life to the fullest noday but today.
And so I chased after Breezeand I opened my LLC in November.
I was talking to my boyfriendand I was like, okay, this is
awesome, this is what I want todo.
I've been thinking about it fora while, but what am I going to
call it?
We were, we were thinking ofsome names and you know other
pelvic floor physical therapypractices, like some of them are
(07:18):
called like core restore, and Ididn't really want it to seem
so like, you know, likeaggressive, like we're going to
restore your core, you know, um,and then I also didn't want it
to be like female focused.
So I didn't want it like mamaand baby pelvic, for you know, I
didn't want it to be femaleonly so I was talking to him
(07:41):
about it.
I'm like I want it to feel verylike easy, and you know, I mean
I'm going to be in Vero beachand it it has to kind of match
the area too, and I just wantedto feel like easy, approachable.
We're listening to like somebeachy type music and he's like,
well, what about Breeze?
And I'm like actually I lovethat.
(08:01):
And I was like, okay, well,we'll leave that and we'll keep
thinking of other things.
But literally nothing else cameto me.
That was as good as Bree'spelvic health.
I love it.
Yeah, so I think it fitsexactly what I wanted.
And so what?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
led you to pelvic health as a focus.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So I wanted to be a physical therapist when I was in
11th grade in high school andkind of my backstory to that is
I'll try to keep this superbrief, but I ran cross country
and track.
I ran in college and I'm stilla runner now, and so I was
running in high school and Ialso had an eating disorder.
I had a stress fracture and Iended up not having a period
(08:41):
anymore and all of that iscalled the female athlete triad
or there's another name for it,called red S.
I had all of these things goingon.
A lot of it, I think, was verylike anxiety fueled because I
was also in like a more likeadvanced high school educational
program too.
So there was just a lot offactors, I think, playing a role
into that.
But I went to physical therapyfor the stress factor side of
(09:05):
things and my physical therapistwas like oh well, what are you
eating?
Are you sure you're eatingenough?
Are you still having yourmenstrual cycle?
That was a really coolconversation that I could have
with my physical therapist andfrom that I had a good
relationship with my PT.
But I still had no idea thatpelvic floor physical therapy
(09:26):
was a thing and so, fastforwarding.
I'm running in college, I amalso having urinary incontinence
and urgency, and so basically,what urgency means is like I
have to be really bad right nowand sometimes I would like have
some leakage on a run or havesome leakage on the way to the
bathroom, and, you know, this isall around the time where I'm
like 18 to 20 years old, youknow no babies.
(09:50):
There's no you know glaringreason why this should be
happening.
Um, now, looking back, itdefinitely was very like anxiety
driven, but I know these thingsnow and we're doing good.
That's, I think, was sort ofjust divine intervention,
honestly like leading me to thispath.
Still did not know pelvic floorphysical therapy was a thing,
but I still wanted to be aphysical therapist.
(10:12):
Later down the road, I wasactually shadowing with my
physical therapist who washelping me with the stress
fracture from a few years agoand she was treating pelvic
floor and she described it to meas okay, this is to help help
women who leak urine and thatwas literally all I knew about
it.
I was like, oh, interesting, Imight could use that, you know.
(10:33):
But at the time I didn't sayanything about it because this
is an embarrassing topic and I'm18, 19, 20 years old.
Why would we be talking aboutthis?
So I am guilty of all thethings that I tell people not to
do.
Like let's talk about it now.
So in PT school later, like 2018, 2019, we have one lecture
about pelvic floor physicaltherapy and four hours of pelvic
(10:56):
floor education was what I gotin PT school.
I had two clinicals.
Two of my three clinicalrotations were pelvic floor and
again, that was not somethingthat I chose.
I think that was again divineintervention like leading me
into this.
Yeah, so I learned so muchthrough my own story, through my
clinical rotations and thenafter school.
I did so much and I still do alot of continuing education
(11:20):
about pelvic floor physicaltherapy.
It's a long story to bring mehere.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I love it.
I think it's amazing,especially like that your PT
said it's basically to helpwomen who you know have urgency,
kind of are leaking, and that'sexactly what you had
experienced.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's the type of people you want to work with,
too, is people that haveexperienced it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, I think part of that is the whole aspect
of like I can validate it forsomeone you know and everyone
thinks okay, this is just me,they don't want to talk about it
.
I'm the only person that'sexperiencing this Like no, I
literally have experienced ittoo, and I do a lot of the same
exercises that I give my clientsand my patients, and you know,
I have to stay on top of my ownpelvic floor.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, Also, though, you experience that at such a
young age, because I couldimagine you know a lot of girls
dealing with the same thing butthen feeling like they wouldn't
even know who to talk to aboutit, because you know it's not
the type of thing you reallytalk about with your friends.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At least I didn't when I was in high school.
Well, and then even whenever Iwas in college running on the
cross country team there, all ofmy teammates were like oh yeah,
we all pee our pants a littlebit at races and I'm like, oh
okay, I guess, I guess this isjust what we do.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's no reason for us to be embarrassed about
things that are happening withour body when there's things we
can do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anybody that's listening to the podcast right
now.
This is a great avenue for themto be able to.
I guess, a great medium forthem to be hearing and learning
about it.
So thank you for reaching outto us to bring this awareness
and and if anybody is listeningyou make sure if you want to, if
you have any questions, you canuse the Texas link right there
in the notes and you can send usquestions and what's the best
(12:58):
way people can reach out to youas well.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, so I um.
I'm on line at breeze pelvichealthcom.
I'm also on Instagram at breezepelvic health and my email is
Ashley at Breeze Pelvic Healthdot com and I have a phone
number which is on all of thesesites and links as well.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So I would love to ask you, ashley, what made you
decide to go mobile instead ofjust like setting up a
traditional, like office?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, so I haven't talked about that too much on
the podcast yet, but I treatfrom people's houses, primarily
meaning I bring my backpack anda large table to people's houses
in my car and I go to theirhouses and treat them.
And it's quite an ordeal.
My backpack is a 47 litertravel backpack and my table
(13:45):
weighs 50 pounds.
But it's fun, you know, there'snothing like sweating a little
bit.
But my main reason for treatingmobile right now is really two
reasons One, because I am kindof new to the area as well.
I just moved here in March andI wanted to kind of scope the
area out before I found alocation to have, you know, my
(14:08):
people coming to me and one thatI felt good into, what felt
good treating in and could kindof make it my own space and make
it how I wanted to make it,which is, you know, the whole
purpose of starting your ownpractice.
And then the second reason isbecause I am new and this is my
baby.
Business is really thefinancial side of things and I
(14:29):
love having the opportunity togo to people's homes and treat
them.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I love that.
I love that.
I know in the next episodewe're going to get a little bit
more into what the day-to-daylooks like, which I'm sure is
going to be probably just asinteresting as how this
conversation started, and I seeyou brought some stuff for us to
check out some models orsomething like that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh yeah, I have my pelvis model.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We'll have to take some pictures and show them on
Instagram.
So that way we can have that toshow, we'll probably get
flagged.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's okay, listen, I have not gotten flagged on my
Instagram, yet that's goodenough.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
She's like you are safe.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, I did Google.
Is it okay to say vagina onInstagram?
And it is.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So as long as it pertains to your subject matter,
there you go.
I would like to ask you onemore question before we wrap up
this episode.
You know you say you're newright now, so how long has your
business been going right now?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Officially since November, but November to March
was more of just like the setupand I was also working a full
time job in that time frame aswell.
But March was really when Istarted marketing.
Getting myself out there.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
This is a pretty early question for you, though,
but I'm still going to ask itbecause I mean, I know, as a
business owner, we learn a lotevery day.
What have you learned aboutyourself since starting, since
actually going all in and sayingOK, I'm going to, we're going
to launch the breeze and we'regoing to go for it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So actually I was just thinking about this the
other day, like you know howpeople say, like I'm both
introverted and extroverted.
Yeah, and I am learning aboutmyself that I am not both.
I am introverted, are youserious?
Are you sure?
I'm sure.
Yes, yeah, I was at a businessthing on Friday and it was like
(16:07):
two hours long and you know,crowded, lots of people, very
fun environment.
I got home afterwards and I'mlike man, I just need to sit on
the couch for like three hoursand recover from that.
Yeah, yeah, um, but all goodthings, like I appreciate all
the opportunities.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
you know I don't know if you've ever heard, but I
think there's like do youremember Shauna?
There's like a you haveintroverts and extroverts, but
there's an in-between yeah,remember what it's called.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't remember which I should remember, because
that's where I'm finding that Iam.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chad GPT says it's an ambivert ambivert.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh yeah, ambivert, so yeah so it's ambivert.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It says enjoy social interaction, but also values
alone time that's me, so we'reambiverts.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We're ambiverts All right, that doesn't roll off the
tongue, it doesn't really Likeoh, I'm an ambivert Like you
should do that next time.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
someone says I'm an introvert, I'm an extrovert.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Just throw it out there.
I'm both.
I'm an ambivert, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I'm an omnivert Omnivert pronouncing it wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, that's all verts, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, this has been a great first episode so I'm
excited to get into episode two,where we're going to get to
know a little bit more aboutwhat it's like behind the scenes
and doing that mobile as well.
So with that, everybody, if youguys are enjoying the podcast,
make sure you leave us a review.
That'll help.
All right, well, welcome back to the Vero Beach
podcast.
I'm Brian and.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
I'm Shauna.
Speaker 1 (00:04):
And today we are sitting here with Ashley Murray
from the Pelvic Floor PhysicalTherapy Clinic.
Is that correct?
Is that the name of thebusiness?
Speaker 3 (00:12):
It's called Breeze Pelvic Health.
Well, that was a lot easier tosay there.
Speaker 1 (00:16):
Ashley, we're super excited to have you here on the
Vero Beach podcast.
Love to just go and get startedoff and have you introduce
yourself and tell us a littlebit about you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, so thank you so much.
I was really intrigued byseeing your guys's Instagram
posts and I'm happy that youguys accepted my plea to be on
your podcast.
But yeah, so my name's Ashleyand I am a physical therapist
that specializes in pelvic floorphysical therapy.
So what that means is I treatpeople for urinary bowel sexual
(00:48):
dysfunction.
I also treat people for pelvicpain or any sort of like pelvic
heaviness anything that could bedysfunctional with a
pelvis-related organ or muscletissue.
I help people with postpartumand pregnancy recovery and
teaching them how to have a baby.
That's probably too simplisticto say, but you know there's so
(01:11):
much that goes into it that Ithink modern medicine does not
teach us.
We don't even know much aboutour bodies as, let alone like,
our genital regions.
Really, this is this is just metrying to raise awareness, get
people to talk about thesethings first and foremost and
Breeze is kind of my child andmy offering to the world to help
(01:33):
people through the tough timesof having a baby, having a
C-section, having a prolapse,repair surgery, which we can get
into all of that but yeah, someof these things are really hard
to talk about for people andthis is a really cool platform
to be able to talk about it.
So thank you guys again forthis platform.
Speaker 1 (01:50):
Well, I definitely have to say, I have to agree, it
probably is definitely going tobe hard for me to talk about
because, I've never experiencedpregnancy myself.
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
You do have a pelvic floor.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
That's right so.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
I am going to like I'm super excited that Shauna is
here to kind of lead up thisconversation, but I'm excited to
to learn more as well.
Yeah, kind of be that I wasgoing to say the oddball person
out, but you probably I saw onyour Instagram you actually work
with men too.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Yeah, I actually passed life.
I worked in Colorado Springsfor a while and I treated a lot
of Air Force and Army populationthere and I saw so many males
with pelvic floor dysfunctionand that was a really cool area
to treat in.
I loved living in Colorado andthere's a lot of guys that need
help, and I think guys even moreso than women.
Just don't talk about thesethings.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Well, we're excited that you're here.
We're excited you're here,ashley, and I'm going to turn it
over to Shauna and we can justgo and get started.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Let's do it, yeah.
So I'm really excited to talkabout this because, like you
said, it's hard to talk aboutthings like this, and it does
become easier, I think, afteryou have a baby, because then
you know you've had people allover the place on you, so it's
like modesty is out the window.
Exactly, that's exactly.
Speaker 1 (03:01):
It wasn't like that for me.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
You didn't have a baby.
Speaker 1 (03:04):
I was there.
No, all right, I'm going toback off a little bit.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
No, don't back off.
I'm just glad that you're doingthis and you're making it
accessible to talk about, and apodcast is a great format for it
, because someone can listenwithout really any
accountability.
To start with, they don't haveto look at someone in the eyes,
right, they can just be in theircar listening while they're
driving, yeah, and they canlearn what's normal and what's
not normal and that there'ssomething that can be done about
(03:29):
it, which I think is reallyexciting.
Will you explain to us whatpelvic floor therapy?
Speaker 3 (03:34):
is, yes, so kind of the things that I mentioned
earlier, the things that couldbe dysfunctional with your
pelvic floor.
So, for example, a big thingthat I treat is urinary
incontinence and that just meansleaking urine when you don't
want to be leaking urine rightAny.
Any time where you're notsitting on the toilet and you're
leaking urine is incontinence.
(03:54):
So pelvic floor physicaltherapy can help with that and
there's so many things that thatpelvic floor physical therapies
or physical therapists can helpwith.
And I think one of the biggestmisconceptions is do your Kegels
.
Come to PT and do your Kegelsand it's all about the Kegels.
It's.
It is so funny because I hearthat in conversation a lot.
I'm like, oh, what do you dofor work?
(04:15):
I'm a pelvic floor physicaltherapist.
Oh, you teach people how to doKegels.
Um, yes, but so much more thanthat.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
I was just going know what you're talking about.
I was just going to explain itto you.
Okay, what a Kegel is Okay.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
So a Kegel is a pelvic floor muscle contraction.
It's like a squeeze and a liftof your pelvic floor muscles and
actually backing up even morethan that.
Some people don't even knowwhat the pelvic floor is.
So let's.
Speaker 1 (04:38):
Yeah, I was going to ask that too.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Yeah, let way up, we'll do a little thing.
Um, take your hands and gounderneath your sit bones and
kind of take your fingers and,like, curl up into that um soft
space.
Um, so if your fingers couldkind of poke through that skin
you would be on your pelvicfloor.
The pelvic floor is also themuscles around the vagina,
underneath the base of the penis, a base of the scrotum controls
(05:02):
bowel function.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
So if you're squeezing like this is
definitely awkward to talk about.
So everybody's like how's hesitting here?
Speaker 2 (05:09):
okay, I'm just, it's okay we'll move on from this
eventually we'll talk about hangin there, guys, hang in there I
think it's great that you'reexplaining it very clearly like
that yes, okay, everyone needsto talk about this stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Everyone needs, yeah, that's right, yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
and like, if you don explain it clearly, then if
there's ambiguity around it, andthen someone's still going to
be thinking well, I still don'tknow what that means.
Right, right.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
And the one other thing I wanted to say there was,
you know, yes, themisconception is we just do
kegels, but a lot of timespeople come in with their pelvic
floor that is squeezing toomuch, yeah, and, and sometimes
that can lead to pelvic pain, um, pain with intercourse.
Sometimes that can lead toconstipation.
So there's a lot of things thatcan come with pelvic floor
(05:52):
muscles being too engaged toturn on all the time.
Um, yeah, so, so it's reallyimportant to be able to have
both functions being able tosqueeze when you need to and
also being able to rest when youneed to.
Oh, that's so interesting, andso that's that in, in a nutshell
, is kind of more of no punintended.
Um, is more of my job.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I'm staying away from the jokes myself on this one.
You girls can do all the jokesyou want.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Do you get to say that occasionally?
Yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Public health is like a sensitive topic, so you have
to be able to laugh about itsometimes.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
I love that.
That was so funny.
So where did the name Breezecome from?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yes, I love that question.
So Breeze started officially inNovember of last year.
So it's it's still my, my newbaby, um, but in November I had
just gotten back from a trip tosee some family in Seattle and
you know they're veryencouraging and inspiring to me
and you know they, they inspireme to, you know, chase my dreams
(06:57):
and live life to the fullest noday but today.
And so I chased after Breezeand I opened my LLC in November.
I was talking to my boyfriendand I was like, okay, this is
awesome, this is what I want todo.
I've been thinking about it fora while, but what am I going to
call it?
We were, we were thinking ofsome names and you know other
pelvic floor physical therapypractices, like some of them are
(07:18):
called like core restore, and Ididn't really want it to seem
so like, you know, likeaggressive, like we're going to
restore your core, you know, um,and then I also didn't want it
to be like female focused.
So I didn't want it like mamaand baby pelvic, for you know, I
didn't want it to be femaleonly so I was talking to him
(07:41):
about it.
I'm like I want it to feel verylike easy, and you know, I mean
I'm going to be in Vero beachand it it has to kind of match
the area too, and I just wantedto feel like easy, approachable.
We're listening to like somebeachy type music and he's like,
well, what about Breeze?
And I'm like actually I lovethat.
(08:01):
And I was like, okay, well,we'll leave that and we'll keep
thinking of other things.
But literally nothing else cameto me.
That was as good as Bree'spelvic health.
I love it.
Yeah, so I think it fitsexactly what I wanted.
And so what?
Speaker 2 (08:13):
led you to pelvic health as a focus.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
So I wanted to be a physical therapist when I was in
11th grade in high school andkind of my backstory to that is
I'll try to keep this superbrief, but I ran cross country
and track.
I ran in college and I'm stilla runner now, and so I was
running in high school and Ialso had an eating disorder.
I had a stress fracture and Iended up not having a period
(08:41):
anymore and all of that iscalled the female athlete triad
or there's another name for it,called red S.
I had all of these things goingon.
A lot of it, I think, was verylike anxiety fueled because I
was also in like a more likeadvanced high school educational
program too.
So there was just a lot offactors, I think, playing a role
into that.
But I went to physical therapyfor the stress factor side of
(09:05):
things and my physical therapistwas like oh well, what are you
eating?
Are you sure you're eatingenough?
Are you still having yourmenstrual cycle?
That was a really coolconversation that I could have
with my physical therapist andfrom that I had a good
relationship with my PT.
But I still had no idea thatpelvic floor physical therapy
(09:26):
was a thing and so, fastforwarding.
I'm running in college, I amalso having urinary incontinence
and urgency, and so basically,what urgency means is like I
have to be really bad right nowand sometimes I would like have
some leakage on a run or havesome leakage on the way to the
bathroom, and, you know, this isall around the time where I'm
like 18 to 20 years old, youknow no babies.
(09:50):
There's no you know glaringreason why this should be
happening.
Um, now, looking back, itdefinitely was very like anxiety
driven, but I know these thingsnow and we're doing good.
That's, I think, was sort ofjust divine intervention,
honestly like leading me to thispath.
Still did not know pelvic floorphysical therapy was a thing,
but I still wanted to be aphysical therapist.
(10:12):
Later down the road, I wasactually shadowing with my
physical therapist who washelping me with the stress
fracture from a few years agoand she was treating pelvic
floor and she described it to meas okay, this is to help help
women who leak urine and thatwas literally all I knew about
it.
I was like, oh, interesting, Imight could use that, you know.
(10:33):
But at the time I didn't sayanything about it because this
is an embarrassing topic and I'm18, 19, 20 years old.
Why would we be talking aboutthis?
So I am guilty of all thethings that I tell people not to
do.
Like let's talk about it now.
So in PT school later, like 2018, 2019, we have one lecture
about pelvic floor physicaltherapy and four hours of pelvic
(10:56):
floor education was what I gotin PT school.
I had two clinicals.
Two of my three clinicalrotations were pelvic floor and
again, that was not somethingthat I chose.
I think that was again divineintervention like leading me
into this.
Yeah, so I learned so muchthrough my own story, through my
clinical rotations and thenafter school.
I did so much and I still do alot of continuing education
(11:20):
about pelvic floor physicaltherapy.
It's a long story to bring mehere.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
I love it.
I think it's amazing,especially like that your PT
said it's basically to helpwomen who you know have urgency,
kind of are leaking, and that'sexactly what you had
experienced.
Speaker 1 (11:38):
That's the type of people you want to work with,
too, is people that haveexperienced it.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
You know, I think part of that is the whole aspect
of like I can validate it forsomeone you know and everyone
thinks okay, this is just me,they don't want to talk about it
.
I'm the only person that'sexperiencing this Like no, I
literally have experienced ittoo, and I do a lot of the same
exercises that I give my clientsand my patients, and you know,
I have to stay on top of my ownpelvic floor.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, Also, though, you experience that at such a
young age, because I couldimagine you know a lot of girls
dealing with the same thing butthen feeling like they wouldn't
even know who to talk to aboutit, because you know it's not
the type of thing you reallytalk about with your friends.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
At least I didn't when I was in high school.
Well, and then even whenever Iwas in college running on the
cross country team there, all ofmy teammates were like oh yeah,
we all pee our pants a littlebit at races and I'm like, oh
okay, I guess, I guess this isjust what we do.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
There's no reason for us to be embarrassed about
things that are happening withour body when there's things we
can do.
Speaker 1 (12:37):
Anybody that's listening to the podcast right
now.
This is a great avenue for themto be able to.
I guess, a great medium forthem to be hearing and learning
about it.
So thank you for reaching outto us to bring this awareness
and and if anybody is listeningyou make sure if you want to, if
you have any questions, you canuse the Texas link right there
in the notes and you can send usquestions and what's the best
(12:58):
way people can reach out to youas well.
Speaker 3 (13:00):
Yeah, so I um.
I'm on line at breeze pelvichealthcom.
I'm also on Instagram at breezepelvic health and my email is
Ashley at Breeze Pelvic Healthdot com and I have a phone
number which is on all of thesesites and links as well.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
So I would love to ask you, ashley, what made you
decide to go mobile instead ofjust like setting up a
traditional, like office?
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Yeah, so I haven't talked about that too much on
the podcast yet, but I treatfrom people's houses, primarily
meaning I bring my backpack anda large table to people's houses
in my car and I go to theirhouses and treat them.
And it's quite an ordeal.
My backpack is a 47 litertravel backpack and my table
(13:45):
weighs 50 pounds.
But it's fun, you know, there'snothing like sweating a little
bit.
But my main reason for treatingmobile right now is really two
reasons One, because I am kindof new to the area as well.
I just moved here in March andI wanted to kind of scope the
area out before I found alocation to have, you know, my
(14:08):
people coming to me and one thatI felt good into, what felt
good treating in and could kindof make it my own space and make
it how I wanted to make it,which is, you know, the whole
purpose of starting your ownpractice.
And then the second reason isbecause I am new and this is my
baby.
Business is really thefinancial side of things and I
(14:29):
love having the opportunity togo to people's homes and treat
them.
Speaker 1 (14:32):
I love that.
I love that.
I know in the next episodewe're going to get a little bit
more into what the day-to-daylooks like, which I'm sure is
going to be probably just asinteresting as how this
conversation started, and I seeyou brought some stuff for us to
check out some models orsomething like that.
Speaker 3 (14:48):
Oh yeah, I have my pelvis model.
Speaker 1 (14:49):
We'll have to take some pictures and show them on
Instagram.
So that way we can have that toshow, we'll probably get
flagged.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
It's okay, listen, I have not gotten flagged on my
Instagram, yet that's goodenough.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
She's like you are safe.
Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yeah, I did Google.
Is it okay to say vagina onInstagram?
And it is.
Speaker 1 (15:09):
So as long as it pertains to your subject matter,
there you go.
I would like to ask you onemore question before we wrap up
this episode.
You know you say you're newright now, so how long has your
business been going right now?
Speaker 3 (15:17):
Officially since November, but November to March
was more of just like the setupand I was also working a full
time job in that time frame aswell.
But March was really when Istarted marketing.
Getting myself out there.
That's awesome.
Speaker 1 (15:30):
This is a pretty early question for you, though,
but I'm still going to ask itbecause I mean, I know, as a
business owner, we learn a lotevery day.
What have you learned aboutyourself since starting, since
actually going all in and sayingOK, I'm going to, we're going
to launch the breeze and we'regoing to go for it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
So actually I was just thinking about this the
other day, like you know howpeople say, like I'm both
introverted and extroverted.
Yeah, and I am learning aboutmyself that I am not both.
I am introverted, are youserious?
Are you sure?
I'm sure.
Yes, yeah, I was at a businessthing on Friday and it was like
(16:07):
two hours long and you know,crowded, lots of people, very
fun environment.
I got home afterwards and I'mlike man, I just need to sit on
the couch for like three hoursand recover from that.
Yeah, yeah, um, but all goodthings, like I appreciate all
the opportunities.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
you know I don't know if you've ever heard, but I
think there's like do youremember Shauna?
There's like a you haveintroverts and extroverts, but
there's an in-between yeah,remember what it's called.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
I don't remember which I should remember, because
that's where I'm finding that Iam.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
Chad GPT says it's an ambivert ambivert.
Speaker 2 (16:42):
Oh yeah, ambivert, so yeah so it's ambivert.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
It says enjoy social interaction, but also values
alone time that's me, so we'reambiverts.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
We're ambiverts All right, that doesn't roll off the
tongue, it doesn't really Likeoh, I'm an ambivert Like you
should do that next time.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
someone says I'm an introvert, I'm an extrovert.
Speaker 3 (17:00):
Just throw it out there.
I'm both.
I'm an ambivert, yeah.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
I'm an omnivert Omnivert pronouncing it wrong.
Speaker 3 (17:08):
Yeah, that's all verts, I think, I don't know.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Well, this has been a great first episode so I'm
excited to get into episode two,where we're going to get to
know a little bit more aboutwhat it's like behind the scenes
and doing that mobile as well.
So with that, everybody, if youguys are enjoying the podcast,
make sure you leave us a review.
That'll help.
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