Anxiety and the pelvic floor are in an intimate relationship. In fact, anxiety has relationships with a lot of parts of your body. Remember last time you felt anxious or stressed and you noticed your neck was tense as your shoulders were hiked up? Or maybe your jaw cracked open after it was just in a tense battle with your thoughts? Anxiety and the neck, shoulders, jaw… they’re in a very intimate relationship, just like the pelvic floor. So how does anxiety impact the pelvic floor?

So your doctor says you have a hypertonic pelvic floor…
You may be thinking – “What does that really mean? What am I supposed to do about it? What else has this been impacting that I may not know about?”

Well let’s talk about it.