Introduction

This is a good place to be, Kraken. Many of us have been/and are going through similar experiences as you.

If you travel around on this site, you will be encouraged, helped and informed

Welcome aboard!!

:-)
w2k

I am also new here so cannot, at this time, offer you more than a hug. This truly is a wonderful site and the first thing I did was to read everything. I kid you not. I have been post-menopause for ten years now (am 59), but I still read posts by the young mom's and even posts that were about things I have have not experienced (just in case some day something new POP's up), and have found some wonderful information on this journey of my new, though not quite so improved version of my body. The isolation, as you said, is the worst. I had a lot of long tearful nights before I found this site. There are still the bad days and some epic pity-parties (party for one), but I truly believe this is the place to start. Start here...the surgeons can wait. So welcome, read around and ask away. The other ladies will be along soon so don't get discouraged if it takes a bit for an answer. Life goes on in spite of prolapse.

Hi Kraken, glad to have you on the forum. As a professional student you will find a mid-blowing wealth of info on this site, forum, blog, library, video page, and that's not even counting Christine's book and DVD's. I would first direct you to my personal favorite introduction to all of this which is the first video on the Video page under Resources. It is something to start wrapping your mind around. I have been here over 3 years, with cystocele and rectocele. I would venture to correct Arizona's statement because my body is truly new and improved. If you have spent your adult life sucking in your belly in the name of "good" posture, then you do indeed fit the profile for prolapse and there is no time like the present to start losing that habit forever and restoring order to your hips, spine and pelvic organs. Not a quick-fix, not a cure because there is none.....it is a new way to look, feel and carry yourself, without fear. You have just joined the biggest club in the world, because most of us do have this, now or eventually. So don't feel alone. Jump right in, you can feel better starting right now. - Surviving

I must remember to watch my wording. Thanks for the great catch Surviving60! Kraken, when I said my "not so improved condition" it is NOT because of any failure of the Whole Woman Program. I am waiting for this weekend (payday) to purchase Christine's book and the DVD. I have not started the program yet because I wish to have better clarity of how to do the exercises. I'm one of those people that needs pictures ;-) I have been trying to do the posture with the mental images in my head of how I think it goes and some of the stretching stances that I have read on here. So as you see, we are both new and will be learning together in a way. Wishing you all the best in the journey.

I am the same as you with visuals, Arizona. Put what where?? Lol! I can't say enough about those DVDs! I felt awkward at first, because, except for downward dog, they are unlike anything I have done before. Just love them, and the book is sooo informative. You will feel like a new woman with all that valuable information!! Wish you the best!

Thank you for the kind words of encouragement. I have read many of your posts over the past few weeks. You're in the group of members that I envision as the "Wise Women". Those who paved the road so the journey of the women to follow would be easier. My, what I have learned here that I could not and did not find anywhere else. I like having options (surgery ever as a last option), as much as I like pictures ;-) Gonna try working on this body of mine first, with the help of the Wise Women.

Keep reading, Arizona! I am always learning something new here!

Arizona, the new and improved part probably didn't hit me until into the second year of doing this work. So you are forgiven for feeling this way. It takes time and work for the hips and spine to restore themselves to this correct alignment and I am still working on it.....not starting until post-menopause just means there is a lot of catching up to do and I'll never achieve what a younger body might achieve. But it does "click" and a day comes when you can't remember the old way and never want to go back. Truly "new and improved". Good luck to all you lovely ladies in your quest. - Surviving

oh strange gigantic monster of Norway or Greenland. Do we have here Medusa, or a wonderful whale which we here in the southern hemisphere once having plundered now try to protect against Japanese scientific study, or perhaps you are more like the Loch Ness monster of druid mystic force and poetry and song, or failing that some black spiced rum from the Carribean? I like the idea of the eternal student, isn’t that a euphemism for us all? There is always that spark eluding us, that self correction needed to dampen that unbidden mindsnap, that ignorance that we even are so ignorant. So come welcome aboard and teach us all. Connective tissue hey? Like ligaments in particular? Now that’s the very thing we could all be enlightened upon. Learn what we can teach, ask your questions and then my girl teach us.

Welcome Kraken and all newcomers to this site.
There's a wealth of resources embedded within this site, (check out the blog, the library and resources...), &/or available in the form of the WW book, dvd's and you tubes... The WW women appear to be exceptionally fabulous - so willing to support, share and care... There are also an increasing number of WW practitioners and of course Christine, who are well qualified to offer individual face to face, tel/SKYPE and in some cases group tuition or workshops.

As someone who loves to learn - and wants to be happier and healthier - you have the opportunity to be at the beginning of a potentially amazing journey.

Good luck and wishing you all the best,
wholewomanuk

Thanks for the reminder WWUK - be sure and visit the practitioners tab if you haven't been there lately - the roster is growing! Gives me goosebumps!! Congrats to the new additions. May the network continue to grow and expand to all corners of the globe. - Surviving