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Physio | MSc Nutrition & Health | Primal Health Coach

Connecting the dots on your midlife body — movement, hormones, nutrition & mind
The leaking, the pain, the weight, the fog — it's all connected
📲 Online and in person on request

07/07/2026

Tell me you have pelvic floor issues without telling me ...... 👀

See my big toes coming off the floor during the deadlift?

That's not a foot problem. That's a pelvic floor problem. And That's what my toes uses to look like when I leaked on sneezing or running (both was a nightmare 😅).

Here's the connection nobody talks about:

Your big toe stays grounded through a facial chain that runs all the way up the inside of your leg - through your inner thigh, your pelvic floor, and into your deep core.

When your pelvic floor isn't coordinating properly, your body loses the ability to manage load through that chain. So it compensates. The foot rolls in, the arch collapses, and the big toe lifts - because your body is desperately searching for stability it can't find at the top.

As a physio, yoga teacher and Pilates instructor, I see this constantly - in women who have no idea their foot pattern is telling me everything about what's happening at their pelvic floor.

And the fix isn't arch supports. It's not foot exercises.

It's fixing the pressure system - breath, deep core, pelvic floor - so your body can find it's stability where it's supposed to come from.

Your feet are nit the problem. They are the messenger.

Save this - and share it with every woman who's been given insoles when what she actually needed was a oelvic floor assessment.

It's All Connected 🔗

06/07/2026

A 10-minute walk after dinner does more for your insulin than an hour in the gym.

I know - it sounds wild. But for midlife women dealing with changing hormones, this one habit can be incredibly powerful.

Walking after your evening meal helps:
✔️ Blunt blood sugar spikes
✔️ Improve insulin sensitivity
✔️ Reduce that heavy, bloated feeling
✔️ Support better sleep
✔️ Make fat-burning easier

Your muscles literally use up the glucose from dinner instead of letting it hang around stressing your system.

No gym. No intense workout. Just 10 minutes of walking.

Who's adding this to their routine tonight? Drop a 🚶‍♀️if you're in and tag a friend who needs this!

05/07/2026

Your frozen shoulder isn't a shoulder problem. Here's what it actually is:

Frozen shoulder is 5 times more common in perimenopausal women - and most of them are never told why.

Not injury. Not overuse. Oestrogen.

Oestrogen receptors sit inside your joint capsule. When Oestrogen declines, that capsule becomes inflamed, thickened, and progressively restricted. That's the mechanism behind adhesive capsules- frozen shoulder.

This is why it seems to appear from nowhere. Why physio treatment that ignores the hormonal context works slowly, it at all. And why women in their 40's and 50's are disproportionately affected.

The fix when you kniw the cause:

✔️ Oestrogen support (discuss HRT with your GP early to reduce capsule inflammation.
✔️ specific shoulder mobility - gentle, progressive Not aggressive stretching (which makes it worse)
✔️ Nervous system regulation - the shoulder capsule is highly sesitised; pain amplification is common.

Hormones. Connecting to something most people would never link to hormones.

Save this and share it. This is the concersation most physios aren't having.

It's all Connected 🔗

04/07/2026

You've Google it, done the kegels, tried the apps- and you still leak.

You're not doing it wrong. Kegels alone were never the complete answer.

Your pelvic floor is part of a pressure system - - it works with your breath and your deep core, notbin isolation. When that system isn't working together, squeezing harder doesn't fix anything.

It's like trying to drive with only the accelerator. The brake and the steering wheel matter too.

The fix isn't more kegels. It's retraining the whole system - breath, deep core, and pelvic floor working as a team.

Save this for the next time someone tells you to "just do more kegels"

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04/07/2026

If you are a midlife woman whose body feels like it's working against you - you are in the right place.

I'm Victoria. Chartered Physiotherapist. MSc in Nutrition & Health Science. Primal Health Coach. Yoga and Pilates teacher. 25+ years studying how humans build movement- and a midlife woman who's lived everything I now help others through.

Perimenopause. Fibromyalgia. Hypermobility EDs. IBS. Leaking. Brain fog. Anxiety. I have had all of it. I've fixed all of it. Not by treating each thing separately- by understanding how everything connects.

Here's the thing that nobody tells you:

🔗 The leaking and the frozen shoulder are connected
🔗 The anxiety and the weight gain are connected
🔗 The back pain and the pelvic floor are connected
🔗 The brain fog and what you are eating are connected

Your body doesn't work in seperate departments. But most healthcare does - which is why midlife women get treated for symptoms in isolation, told it's normal, told it's age, told to manage it, and sent away still struggling.

I'm here to connect the dots.

Movement. Hormones. Nutrition. Nervous system. Mind. The whole picture - explained clearly, practically, and in a way that actually makes sense of what's happening in your body.

This is what I post about. This is what I teach. This is what the programme I am building is based on.

If that's what you have been looking for - follow along.

Welcome. I'm glad you are here 🔗💖

02/07/2026

It's all Connected 🔗

Some of the fittest women I assess have the weakest pelvic floors.

This isnt a theory. It's what I see week after week in clinical practice.

Years of high-impact training - running, HIIT, spin classes - without ever addressing the pressure system underneath creates a pelvic floor under constant load with no ability to manage it.

Fitness and pelvic floor health are not the same things.

If you leak when you run, jump, sneeze or laugh - and you're confused because you're actually really fit - this is why. And it's fixable.

Share this with the fittest woman you know who's quietly dealing with this 👇

Share to a friend 🧡

30/06/2026

It's all Connected 🔗

Your pelvic floor might not be weak. It might be too tight. And the treatment is the opposite.

This is one of the most important things I tell every new client- because most women arrive having been told to "just do more keels," when keels are actually making their problem worse.

A WRAK pelvic floor can't generate enough force. It needs strengthening - loading, coordination, resistance work.

A TIGHT pelvic floor can't relax enough to function properly. It's stuck in contraction. Keels add more tension to an already-overloaded system.

How to tell the difference:

⚫️ Signs of TOO TIGHT:
✔️Pain with s*x or tampon insertion
✔️Urgency (needing to go NOW and barely making it)
✔️Constipation or difficulty emptying
✔️Pelvic pai , pressure, or aching
✔️Leaking with urgency (not just impact)

🔵 Signs of TOO WEAK:
✔️Leaking on coughing, sneezing, jumping, running
✔️Heaviness or prolapse sensation
✔️Poor bladder control without urgency

Some women have both - tight in some areas, weak in others. Which is why generic advice fails.

Save this and share it with every woman who's been told to just do more kegels.

29/06/2026

Your body is compensating right now - and you have no idea where.

Maybe it's your hip taking the load your gluten shoukd be handling. Maybe it's your neck doing the work your feep core can't. Maybe it's your jaw holding the tension your pelvic floor is supposed to manage.

I'm Victoria- a Chartered Physiotherapist with 25 years studying how humans build movent. I started by training as a PTI in the British Army at 19. Now I work with midlife women who are strong, capable, and quietly falling apart in ways nobody's bothered to look at properly.

That changes here.

Follow along - I'm going to show you exactly what's going on 👇

28/06/2026

A park bench. No equipment. No gym membership.

Single leg squats, press ups, planks mountain climbers, curtsey squats - all part of the strength work your midlife body actually needs.

Because here's what 25 years of studying movement has taught me; it's never been about where you train or how long you spend doing it.

It's about understanding how your body works - and building strength in a way that accounts for where you actually are right now.

This cheeky little workout was added into a walk before work. I couldn't access my gym and I was short in time but no excuses 💪.

If you're waiting until you're 'ready' to start - this is your sign ✨️ 💖

Your body doesn't need a gym. It needs the right foundation - built around how your body actually works right now, not a generic programme designed for someone half your age.

Save this for the next time you think you need more equipment to get started.

What's your go-to no-equipment movement?

Drop it below 👇

27/06/2026

This is a grip strength test - and for women in thier 40's, anything over 33kg is optimal for longevity.

Mine came in at 38kg.

Not because I'm lucky - not genetics - because I've spent 25 years studying how the body actually builds strength, and I train accordingly.

This is what working together looks like: not a generic programme, not "just lift more" - a proper understanding of where your body is right now, and how ro build it for the long haul.

Drop a 💪 below if you want tobknow your number .

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