Modern womanhood involves an astonishing amount of clenching. We’re clenching through stressful meetings. Through traffic. Our jaws while we sleep. Our core. Clenching every muscle in our body while replying “no worries!” to an email that, in fact, is causing quite a lot of worries. But there is one place you probably haven't unclenched.
In a classic “of course there is” fashion, there’s a name for it - part of a growing, long-overlooked conversation around pelvic health and how we hold stress in the body. Enter “stress holding” - what pelvic health experts are calling the way chronic stress shows up as unconscious, sustained muscle tension.
