Navigating Miscarriage: What Helps, What Hurts & How to Return to Exercise While Healing — with DR. ANIETIE UKPE-WALLACE

Send us Fan MailToday, I speak with Dr. Anietie Ukpe-Wallace, PT, DPT, also known as Tia. She is an orthopedic and pelvic health physical therapist who specializes in providing a continuum of care and support from pregnancy loss to postpartum all while emphasizing the importance of self-care. After her own chronic struggles surrounding her pelvic floor and multiple miscarriages she has grown a love for learning and understanding this part of the body that is rarely talked about and sometimes even misunderstood. She is currently a Doctor of Physical Therapy in Oakland, CA where she offers both telehealth and clinic based services through her practice, Self-Care Physio. In addition, she is the creator of Tending to Your Womb, a soon to be book and online platform and blog offering wisdom around caring for the womb through all stages of life. Tia is an amateur pole artist, rollerskater, and budding herbal student. She is a wife, mother to her 10 year old daughter and a cat mom.We talk about:-pregnancy loss-learning from grief-having conversations about pregnancy loss-the roll of pelvic PT in miscarriage -caring for the body after pregnancy loss-utilizing breath work-finding movement that works -providing support after a loss-different types of grief-emotions surrounding peri/menopauseTime Stamps1:00 Introduction6:30 learning from grief9:33 creating a safe space to talk about miscarriage15:02 physical changed with miscarriages18:50 avoiding the “wrong” thing23:23 return to activity27:51 getting into pole sport and rollerskating32:20 avoiding re-traumatization as a provider35:20 advice for supporting someone after loss44:30 changes in quality of life47:30 the grief with perimenopause and menopause51:01 writing a book55:00 unexpected factors on fertility58:29 rapid fire questionsCONNECT WITH CARRIEIG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/Website: https://carriepagliano.comCONNECT WITH ANIETIEInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/selfcarephysio/Website: selfcarephysio.comThe Active Mom Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to pregnancy, postpartum, perimenopause & beyond for active moms & the professionals who help them in their journey.  This show has been a long time in the making!   You can expect conversation with moms and professionals from all aspects of the industry.   If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST!  If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)