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The Hole Shebang

by Kristen Parise

The Hole Shebang is the pelvic health podcast that goes where others won't. Hosted by Kristen Parise, a Registered Physiotherapist and owner of Blueberry Therapy Pelvic Health & Pediatrics, each weekly episode tackles the real truths about your pelvic floor, bladder, bowel, and sexual health, with zero shame and full clinical authority. From painful sex and postpartum recovery to endometriosis, prolapse, incontinence, and menopause, Kristen brings on leading experts and breaks down the evidence so you can advocate for your own body. Whether you're a new mom, navigating perimenopause, or simply wondering why nobody told you this stuff sooner, this is your permission to ask the questions you've been holding in. New episodes every week. Based in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Serving pelvic health truth-seekers everywhere. 🎧 Ep 1: Why Good Sex Matters: The Brain Science of Pleasure with Dr. Nan Wise — The neuroscientist who proved pleasure is medicine. This is where it all started. 🎧 Ep 5: Heavy Periods: When Your Period Isn't Normal with Dr. Meghan O'Leary — If you've ever been told your painful periods are "just how it is," this episode will change everything. 🎧 Ep 16: Exercise and Mental Health: How Movement Heals Your Brain with Dr. Jennifer Heisz — The science of how exercise rewires your brain for better mental health. 🎧 Ep 14: Protein in Perimenopause: How Much You Really Need with Dr. Stuart Phillips — One of the world's top protein researchers explains why muscle is your secret weapon after 40. 🎧 Ep 66: Postpartum Exercise: Why the 6-Week Rule Is Outdated with Dr. Margie Davenport — The outdated 6-week rule is officially dead. Here's what the research actually says. 🎧 Ep 74: Why Your Relationship Needs Just 60 Seconds a Day with Dr. Jessica O'Reilly — Sexologist Dr. Jess reveals why micro-moments matter more than grand gestures.

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106: Return to Running After Baby: Forget the Green Light with Grainne Donnelly

Return to running after baby is one of the most searched questions in postpartum recovery, and the guidelines most clinicians use were co written by this week's guest. Gr

Oct 1
51 min

105: Pelvic Girdle Pain: Why Your Pelvis Is Not Unstable with Dr. Sinead Dufour

Pelvic girdle pain affects about one in two pregnancies, and most women who have it are told a story about relaxin, loose ligaments and an unstable pelvis that research d

Sep 24
47 min

104: The First 1000 Days: Your Health Story Starts Before Birth with Dr. Deb Sloboda

The first 1000 days of life, from before conception to a child's second birthday, set the foundation for lifelong health, and most of us have never been told the window e

Sep 17
43 min

103: Menopause Joint Pain: Why Everything Aches and What Helps with Michelle Lyons

Menopause joint pain is more common than hot flushes, yet most women have never been told the two are connected. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, pelvic health physio

Sep 10
43 min

102: Birth Prep: The Movement Work Nobody Taught You with Gina Conley Mamastefit

Birth prep is not the same thing as birth education, and most pregnant people are only ever handed the second one. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, Kristen Parise sit

Sep 3
54 min

101: Chronic Pelvic Pain: Real Even When Your Tests Are Normal with Carolyn Vandyken

Chronic pelvic pain is one of the most dismissed conditions in women's health. Years of symptoms, multiple clinicians, clean imaging, and eventually the quiet suggestion

Aug 27
46 min

100: Low Libido After Baby or Menopause: The Pleasure Playground with Dr. Nan Wise

Low libido after a baby or through menopause is one of the most common and least honestly discussed changes in a woman's life. In the 100th episode of The Hole Shebang, K

Aug 20
48 min

99: Eating Disorders in Kids: The Warning Signs Parents Miss with Kim Doyle

Eating disorders in kids and teens surged during the pandemic, and the earliest warning signs are the ones most parents miss. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, registe

Aug 13
55 min

98: Shockwave Therapy for Painful Sex: The Blood Flow Fix with Stacey Roberts

Shockwave therapy for painful sex is one of the most promising and least understood tools in pelvic health, and this episode of The Hole Shebang breaks it down without th

Aug 6
45 min

97: Pediatric Pelvic Health: Kids Don't Grow Out of It with Keri Martin Vrbanac

Pediatric pelvic health is the part of physiotherapy almost nobody talks about, and it might be exactly what your child needs. Bedwetting, daytime leaks, poop accidents,

Jul 30
44 min

96: Pelvic Floor For Athletes: Your Hidden Force Absorber with Dr. Rachel Selman

Pelvic floor training for athletes is the missing piece in most performance programs, and this episode of The Hole Shebang makes the case for putting it back. Kristen Par

Jul 23
53 min

95: Erections and Heart Health: The Vital Sign Men Ignore

Your erections are a vital sign, and almost nobody is reading them. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, pelvic health physiotherapist Kristen Parise talks with Dr. Ellio

Jul 16
37 min

94: Don't Be an Athena: The Stories Women Don't Tell with Kayla Branstetter

Medical gaslighting is what happens when a woman names her pain and is told it is probably nothing. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, pelvic health physiotherapist Kri

Jul 9
43 min

93: Trauma Stored in the Body: Why Talk Therapy Isn't Enough with Ramona Kossowan

You have done the work. The books, the affirmations, the years of talking it through. So why does the same pattern keep running. In this episode of The Hole Shebang, Kris

Jul 2
38 min

92: Menopause and Muscle: It is NOT Too Late to Get Strong with Dr. Stuart Phillips

Building muscle in menopause is not only possible, it might be the single most important thing a woman can do for the next 30 years of her life. In this episode of The Ho

Jun 25
49 min

91: Pelvic Pain Is a Symptom, Not a Diagnosis, with Dr. Alopi Patel

You have been told there is nothing else to try for your pelvic pain. Dr. Alopi Patel is the reason that sentence is wrong. She is a dual board certified anesthesiologist

Jun 18
37 min

90: Inflammation, Hormones and the Foods That Heal with Julie Daniluk

Pain is not always mechanical. Sometimes it starts on your plate. Julie Daniluk, RHN, NNCP, the anti-inflammatory nutritionist, four-time bestselling author, and longtime

Jun 11
38 min

89: Sleep, Sex and Menopause with Dr. Woganee Filate

Why does sleep fall apart in midlife, and why does nobody seem able to explain it? Dr. Woganee Filate, respirologist, sleep medicine physician, and co-founder of Lume Wom

Jun 4
39 min

88: Painful Sex: When Your Body is Not the Problem with Dr. Jordin Wiggins

Sexual coercion is the missing piece in almost every conversation about painful sex, low desire and sexual dysfunction, and in Part Two of this conversation Dr. Jordin Wi

May 28
45 min

87: Clitoris Anatomy: What We Still Got Wrong Until 2026 with Anita Brown-Major

The clitoris was mapped from cadaver sections in 1998, imaged on MRI in 2005, its nerve fibres counted in 2023 and its full nerve network mapped in 3D for the first time

May 21
54 min

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