It can be difficult to find balance in your life. Especially when pregnant. It can be difficult to balance: physical, emotional, professional, and familial life.

In this blog, I’ll mostly dive into t...

As much as I admire and respect dance, it makes me self-conscious, leery, and uncomfortable.

Despite this, I recently summoned up some courage. I ordered a leotard and signed my 30-year-old self up f...

This article was written by Dr. Monika Patel:

" I stayed in a relationship with a perpetually unsupportive person for far too long. I let the fear of “failure” and hurting someone hold me back from m...

You know the saying, "Everything is connected from head to toe"? Well... it's actually true. it’s certainly true with regard to the human body.

There are wonderful, beautiful nerds out there who dedi...

Scars are story starters. They're a map of our life's story. They are also something we can mindfully care for so they don’t become an adhesion, source of discomfort, or of impeded mobility. 

Scars f...

Science is limited by what research has been done. So, I always like to keep my patients informed on what research is on the horizon. Here are pelvic health topics that are being studied in 2021:

1.T...

Being both a mother and a daughter at the same time, under the same roof is filled with blessings and challenges. In my own life, it happened out of necessity during the pandemic. As much as my indepe...

Being pregnant can bring up a complex range of emotions.

You may feel overwhelmed.

Underprepared.

Thrown-off.

Scared.

Excited.

Nervous.

Curious.

Exhausted.

Anxious.

Supported.

Alone.

Leery...

I don’t think anyone enters into a relationship anticipating its end. And no one wears the divorced label proudly, like a girl scout with a new badge. We remember our friends growing up who had div...

When I was pregnant, I planned to have a home water birth. This didn’t happen (I’ll go into more detail about that later). But I was fully prepared to use a birthing tub. So I want to offer some infor...