09/02/2026
Is your pelvic pain there because of stress? Here's how to connect the dots.
If you're experiencing tailbone pain when sitting, spasms in your butt, groin pain, ge***al pain, or pain during or after s*x — this is for you.
A busy mind creates a tense pelvic floor. Your pelvic floor is a stabilizing muscle, and stabilizing muscles are anticipatory. That means they respond to your thoughts, feelings and mental state.
It doesn't matter if you're thinking about the future or the past, or if you're happy or upset. Your body thinks it's all happening right now, and it needs to prepare you for it. You may not feel stressed, but your pelvic floor is holding tension anyway.
And a tense pelvic floor can create pain anywhere — abdominals, lower back, hips, glutes, groin, even your neck and jaw.
The first step is understanding the connection between your pelvic floor and your mind. The second is learning how to breathe correctly and coordinate your breath with your pelvic floor, so you can relax your pelvic floor properly.
Within a week of understanding this connection and practicing proper breathing, many of our patients have meaningful pain reduction — before any other work is layered in. That's the power of the mind-body-pelvic floor connection.
If you can’t feel your pelvic floor or you don’t know how to coordinate pelvic floor relaxation with your breathing, book with us at the link in our bio.
We offer in-person pelvic floor physical therapy if you live in the Atlanta area or virtual pelvic health coaching worldwide.
Please note: this is education, not individual medical advice.
