Thanks for listening to Sex with Emily. On today's show, I'm hosting pelvic floor physical

therapist Heather Jeffko to talk about the importance of pelvic floor health for men, for women,

for everyone. We also talk about sex after having kids, painful sex, and ways to get around it,

and why kegels aren't for everyone. All this and more, thanks for listening.

Hey, Emily, you got a boyfriend? Because my man E here, he just got his heart broken, he thinks you're kind of cute.

The girls got a hair stand. Oh my! The women know about shrinkage. Isn't it common,

not only? What do you mean like laundry? It's drinks? Can we not talk about sex so much?

Are you kidding me? Oh my god, I want to feel so drunk. Being bad feels pretty good.

You know, Emily's not the kind of girl you just play with.

I'm really excited for our guest today, Heather Jeffkoat. She's the author of Sex Without Pain,

a self-treatment guide to the sex life you deserve, and a recognized expert in the field of pelvic

health physical therapy. She's a physical therapist and specializing in pelvic floor health.

And I'm so excited you're here because god, we have a lot of questions for you. We've never had

a physical therapist specializing in pelvic floor health here. I mean, we know so many women suffer

from pain, pelvic floor pain, pain during sex, and I feel like you are going to be the answer

here for so many women and men who are dealing with pelvic floor issues. So welcome to the show, Heather.

Thank you so much for having me. Yeah, this is, I mean, we are just, we are like, oh my god,

we've so many questions. So I would like to hear your story on how you get into pelvic floor health.

So my backstory goes like this, where I went to physical therapy school. So many years ago,

I was at Duke University and they have a lot of lectures, a lot of sort of advanced opportunities

for you to explore what they used to call women's health at the time within your curriculum. And I

think at the time it was really one of the few physical therapy schools that had that in their

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