Pelvic Pain, Movement, and Learning to Trust Your Body

What does it look like to feel safer in your body when movement, touch, or sex has become associated with pain? In this episode, host Daniel Lyman talks with pelvic floor occupational therapist, sexual health counselor, and advanced PRT clinician Cait Van Damm about bringing pain reprocessing principles into pelvic health. Cait shares how she uses movement, curiosity, and patient choice to help people build confidence in their bodies, why safety and challenge can work together, and how pleasure and intimacy can become part of recovery when those are meaningful goals. They also discuss her approach to dilators, the importance of inclusive care, and how structural conditions and neuroplastic pain can overlap. Throughout the conversation, Cait returns to a central message: your pain is real, you deserve care, and your body has capacity for change.