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Feminist womens pelvic health course from Elaine Miller

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ArabellaSaurus · 22/09/2025 08:07

https://open.substack.com/pub/venusenvyxx/p/get-a-grip-my-feminist-fanny-fundraiser

I know this will be brilliant.

Educational, and also feminist.

Launching in September.

Get A Grip: my feminist fanny fundraiser

time to crack on

https://venusenvyxx.substack.com/p/get-a-grip-my-feminist-fanny-fundraiser?triedRedirect=true

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AMansAManForAllThat · 23/10/2025 19:02

Thanks @ArabellaSaurus , I’ve subscribed!

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AMansAManForAllThat · 23/10/2025 18:50

I missed this before but thanks to the slightly odd bumps of a PP I see it now. Are they ready? Has it launched somewhere? I’ll donate, but I’d like to know the actual format of it. Is it a video lecture? A series of workshops? Anyone know any more?

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EveryMeandEveryYou · 23/10/2025 18:33

Just to say she swears and isn't a prude - so when I say appropriate I mean more, will it cover her age/needs not does it have an age certification warning!

EveryMeandEveryYou · 23/10/2025 18:32

Very interested - my teen actually confided in me she keeps leaking when she laughs and had never heard of kegels...is this appropriate for her (15) and can I rewatch it or is it a live event please?

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Seriestwo · 29/09/2025 21:16

Elaine has posted about a transwoman pelvic physio in America? I would not want that, the link to the story sounds awful, I hope the woman is ok.

Substack link

Her fundraising on kofi looks steady, I sent some money. I need a pelvic floor hub!

Elaine Miller, Venus Envy (@GussieGrips) on X

https://t.co/EU7dSe2MZt

https://x.com/gussiegrips/status/1972680657135354087?s=46

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ArabellaSaurus · 24/09/2025 12:49

'50% of UK women are not sure which is their vagina and which is their vulva*'

Holy moly.

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Seriestwo · 24/09/2025 12:41

Get A Grip made me smile. It looks like the Twitter course is a fundraiser for a women’s resource? My life would have been different if I knew about bladders and pelvic floors when I was younger, that’s definitely worth a few quid. donate link

Elaine Miller, Venus Envy (@GussieGrips) on X

If you like it and want to help me build a one-stop-shop women's pelvic health resource which uses plain language with practical advice so you can self manage and know how to seek help if it doesn't work, then donate here: https://t.co/8c2RL1IMUg

https://x.com/gussiegrips/status/1970765403488940398?s=46

TanteRose · 23/09/2025 14:02

Brilliant!
Will deffo sign up

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 23/09/2025 13:55

We also need to push on the quality of NHS advice.

Squeezing your PF muscles is all well and good but you don't remain continent by constantly tensing. They are related to much larger functional muscles such as glutes and indeed the whole posterior train. I did PFX till I was blue in the face, but it took a sports physio to see that I actually had an asymmetry in glute strength so my PF couldn't engage properly when doing jumps etc.

If I'd relied on the "do your squeezes" type advice I'd have lovely toned vaginal musculature but not the freedom to go run 10k without worry.

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ArabellaSaurus · 23/09/2025 13:38

I think there may be a campaign board? Or Site stuff.

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Igmum · 23/09/2025 13:12

What a brilliant idea @ArabellaSaurus how do we suggest it to @MNHQ?

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ArabellaSaurus · 23/09/2025 11:17

I wonder if Mumsnet might want to campaign on this. Seems quite pertinent.

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RoyalCorgi · 23/09/2025 11:13

JohnnyMcGrathSaysFuckOff · 22/09/2025 20:21

I don't know Elaine Miller but this is totally a feminist issue.

I was left with post birth damage and the NHS wouldn't help. I genuinely had one HCP ask me if I would "need" to jump in future. Really.

I was lucky enough to be able to afford private specialist physio and I am back running, lifting and yes jumping - like I always have.

But the expectation that women shouldn't use their bodies anymore after childbirth is a hideous psychological shackle. It absolutely needs fighting

If you haven't heard of her, this might ring a bell:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11569705/Womens-rights-activist-flashed-Scottish-Parliament-comedian-pelvic-physiotherapist.html

She's a brilliant campaigner, a fantastic advocate for women's rights and a wonderful physiotherapist.

Women's rights activist who flashed is 'pelvic physiotherapist' 

The activist who flashed in Scottish Parliament in protest over the SNP's gender recognition reform bill has been revealed as Elaine Miller, a pelvic physiotherapist and comedian

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11569705/Womens-rights-activist-flashed-Scottish-Parliament-comedian-pelvic-physiotherapist.html

AndresyFiorella · 23/09/2025 11:08

Ooh looks amazing. I've signed up

Mmmnotsure · 23/09/2025 09:52

Thank you for this, @ArabellaSaurus

As well as postpartum, specialist physios help for menopause/post-menopause problems. I know someone in her late fifties who went to her GP with a prolapse and was told to go home, watch a video and do some exercises, and that was it. Basically, shrug, you're getting old, nothing else to be done. She ended up seeing a wonderful physio who, she feels, gave her back the ability to live normally.

stretchworkwrigglerepeat · 23/09/2025 09:14

I also had to resort to private physio. The fantastic woman I see told me she left the nhs because she could not give women the care they need. When I saw her, I was desperate due to chronic pain. I’d had four years of fobbing off and misdiagnosis, including being put on immunosuppressants. No one joined the dots until I saw her. I was on the nhs wait list for gynaecology for well over a year without an appointment. They gatekeep referrals to physio in my area, you can’t self refer. Women are suffering, it’s appalling.

I’ve been to Elaine Miller’s shows and met her. She is awesome and an incredible communicator.