Can I Cycle With a Prolapse? Last Episode Until January

And I do not have a bike.

Well, I did not have a bike.

And that really, I don't know, it's so weird that it just really, I felt it physically.

It hit something in my heart that took me by surprise.

I couldn't really at that moment really explain why.

And I sat with it for a day or so, like wondering why did I, why was it that I didn't have a bike? Like it just, I'm an active person.

I used to ride a bike all the time.

I see myself still as that person going out doing all the adventures with the boys.

And I think that's what hit was.

that, you know, I've been doing this works for such a long time in my own body, in my own practice, teaching the membership for Whole Body Pelvic Health, teaching teachers.

And I really thought I'd worked on all these things, you know.

And I recognize that, you know, I had become the woman that I'm talking to.

I became...

the person that I speak to in the podcast and it feels hard to say but I feel like I just sort of quietly drifted to the sidelines and I hadn't even noticed I didn't notice that I'd stopped riding my bike this was a just something I always did I commuted on my bike for a long long time when the boys were little we used to go out on the bike so I remember being out on the bike and um this is a ridiculous story, but we went out on the bikes and Scott would always have a boy on the back of the bike.

So we had occasion where we were out on the back and one of the boys, who will remain nameless, started pulling on my shorts and my underwear as we were riding along on the bike together because we were just having such a hilarious adventure together out on the bikes.

And he just thought this was so funny.

Luckily, I didn't fall off, but it's who I still thought I was that mum out adventuring on the bikes and I just hadn't noticed that this had drifted away and of course I could say well you know I did ride my bike about 10 years ago and I had some hairy scary experiences riding down the road from home to the studio where I I have to pass through multiple school run areas and lots of doors kept opening from the parked cars.

And I really almost got knocked off several times.

And it did shake me.

And I could say, you know, we live in a city.

It's not just as easy or as fun to ride the bike.

But that's not really happening.

what happened that's not really what's true if i'm being super honest about it the longer the time kind of elapsed from not riding the bike i think subconsciously i just sort of assumed that riding a bike would be uncomfortable and then uncomfortable kind of turned in my head to painful and that might bring my prolapse symptoms back.

Nobody said it, no doctor or health visitor or physiotherapist or anybody ever said to me You shouldn't ride a bike because it might make your prolapse worse or anything like that.

Somehow, somewhere, this drifted in, this subconscious or just behind it all, this kind of belief, this assumption really, not even a belief, but an assumption.