During this episode of Rebel Heart Radio, Genevieve and Cassie sit down for a second week with Laurel Proulx, DPT to chat about how to become your own health advocate! Laurel digs a little deeper into her own personal health journey with chronic illness. We wrap up this episode with a practical list of steps you can take to become your own health advocate. In Part 2, we chat about...

• knowing your health baseline

• Laurel’s journey to advocating for herself

• the challenges of living with invisible illness

• documenting your health journey

• knowing your practitioner’s limitations

• walking into your appointment with a goal

• sexism, bias, prejudice & discrepancy in care

• fostering the empowerment of your own care

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Laurel Proulx is a Doctor of Physical Therapy and an Orthopedic Board Certified Specialist with advanced training + experience in women’s health and pelvic health physical therapy. Her professional experience has taken her from working with high level athletes, helping mom’s get back to feeling like themselves, providing amputee rehabilitation and research within the department of defense to improve diagnosis and treatment of pelvic pain within the female active duty military population. Dr. Proulx is passionate about continued learning within her field and is a current PhD student. WHAT LAUREL IS ALL ABOUT: improving overall awareness and health literacy of women’s issues for her patients, other physical therapists, and all health professionals. And we say HELL YES to that!

Laurel Proulx, DPT is available for Telehealth services for women who want to learn to optimize their health and movement while pregnant or are interested in safe return to activity postpartum. Dr. Proulx is licensed in California, Oregon, Tennessee, and Texas.

Resources:

• Where you can find Laurel:

  • FEM Unfolding | Functional Evidence-Based Movement

  • @fem.unfolding | FEM Unfolding on Instagram

• @drjolenebrighten | Dr. Jolene Brighten on Instagram

• Resources from Episode 44: Becoming Your Own Health Advocate Part 1:

  • Episode 20: 4th Trimester Wellness, Pelvic Health & Women's Health Literacy with Laurel Proulx, DPT | Rebel Heart Radio

  • Episode 44: Enneagram Part 1 - Type Descriptions, Intelligence Centers, Identifying Your Type | Rebel Heart Radio

  • Episode 45: Enneagram Part 2 - Basic Fears & Desires, Childhood Wounds, Type 2 & Type 8 | Rebel Heart Radio

  • Mast Cells United: A Holistic Approach to Mast Cell Activation Syndrome | Amber Walker

  • Genevieve Blair | @gennybbeauty

  • Cassie Kanable | @thenorthwestkitchen

  • Rebel Heart Radio | @rebelheartradio

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