What They Didn’t Tell You: From Core to Floor

Finding My Flow: Faith, Body Confidence, and Life Behind the Scenes

• Millie Schweky

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In this raw and real solo episode, Dr. Millie opens up about life behind the scenes,  from balancing her work in Israel and the U.S. to the big shift of hiring an assistant, skyrocketing on Instagram, and navigating the personal journey of feeling empowered in her own body. 

She reflects on authenticity, body image, faith, and the importance of embracing both light and heavy seasons of life. With honesty, vulnerability, and encouragement, Millie invites you to find your own flow, honor where you’re at, and reclaim confidence in body and spirit.

Honest. Uplifting. Real. This is Dr. Millie, unfiltered, and you won’t want to miss it!

Email: millie@preparedpelvis.com 

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[Millie Schweky]

Hey guys, welcome back to What They Didn't Tell You from Core to Floor. I'm your girl, Millie Schweky, a doctor of physical therapy specializing in pelvic health. And today is a solo episode. Not sure if you can hear it in my voice, but I actually just got my period and I felt like, maybe I shouldn't be recording an episode today because I sound a little bit down. But I think it's better to be real with you guys and just go with it.


I like to use these episodes between seasons to kind of like catch you guys up for anyone that's new here. This podcast kind of runs in season. So season one was a sex Q &A. Season two is all about hormones and nutrition. Season three is coming out soon. I'll let you know what it is going to be very shortly. But for now, you're going to hear from me solo. Not sure if it's going to be just this week, possibly this week and next week as well. But

I of just want to catch you up on what's going on on this side of things. So as many of you know, we live in Israel. We moved here a little bit more than two years ago. And my main thing is seeing patients here in the clinic in the center of Israel, sometimes in Jerusalem. And we go to America for the summer. And I actually see patients there. And that's been lovely.

love my original patients from my hometown in Brooklyn so much. And it was so nice to see everyone and heal together. And really, there's nothing like treating people that grew up in the same culture and backgrounds as you. I feel like I understand you guys, you understand me, and there's just like this unspoken connection that you have when you grew up with like almost the same exact culture as someone.

Shout out to my community in Brooklyn and Deal. And I really love you guys. And stay tuned for announcements of when I come back again and do a pop-up clinic. So now I'm back here in Israel. And I'm seeing patients taking it easy before the holidays. And then after the holidays, it's about to get super busy. ⁓ Major business update is that I hired an assistant. So now whenever you guys reach out to me to be booking appointments,

You'll be hearing from my assistant, anything related to scheduling, billing, it's on her. So shout out to Hindy. She's been handling my WhatsApps and that's been really, really amazing. Life changing, I was spending so much time on my phone dealing with all these logistics and just to be able to like be with my kids more because you know, I'm busy working all day and then when the workday's over is when people are texting me like, hey, I didn't get my invoice, I didn't get my exercises. 

when could I change my appointment to, you know, people messaging me like, hey, I never paid and I'm just like so bombarded. It's like can't do this anymore. My kids need me. I have two toddlers, you know, I just can't be on my phone all the time. So I started outsourcing it. And it's really amazing. Like I've heard people say like get a separate work phone. And it's just it's it doesn't matter. I'm still on my phone if I have another work phone. So now I literally just outsourced it to someone.

trained her up, she knows exactly what to say, she handles everything really professionally. And if you're a small business owner and something's holding you back from hiring, I highly recommend it. It just gives you your sanity and your mental energy back. I'm just so grateful that I had the clarity to make a decision like that. A lot of people have been asking me how she found me or how I found her. Really, she found me and reached out to me like, are you looking for someone?

happened to be that week I was telling my mother-in-law like I really need to hire someone I can't go back to Israel after the summer and be glued to my phone 24 7 like this is really just not how I want my life to be and someone actually reached out to me saying hey are you looking for an assistant and I'm like I actually am and I'm bringing that up just to show you that the universe has shim whatever you want to say works like that.

And when you're more in tune with it, you kind of pick up on things and like get the little breadcrumbs and are able to see what comes into fruition. Which brings me to my next point because you found me on Instagram is I know if any of you here follow me. think most of you actually probably are here because of my account, which used to be a whopping 5,000 followers.

I was kind of wondering why I didn't have more. I was just like, I love what I do. I'm so passionate about spreading education. And I love putting content out there. Why don't I have more followers? Not in a conceited kind of way, but more like, there's no one else doing this. I'm giving such valuable information. Why didn't my account blow up yet? And the last meeting I had with my social media manager, I had...

have had, I'll give you the scoop on that in a minute, like this social media manager who was coming to my house, she was writing all the scripts for my videos, helping me film them, and I remember looking at her and I was like, why is my account stuck at such a low number? And she looked at me and she was like, it's only a matter of time, it's just a matter of time. And we had this film day in May, and I got the videos back, and I'm gonna get into later why I didn't post them until the middle of the summer.

but she was like, it's really just a matter of time. And there was one video that perfectly introduced me. If you see it on my feed, it's the pinned reel. That's like the narrator trend introducing me. I got over 32,000 followers from that video alone, which is so wild. It has over a million views. My content manager, like her strategy was just really on point. Like she knew exactly what she was doing when she constructed that video. The funny thing is that we like,

filmed it in little snippets. It's like two seconds here, two seconds there. Like I didn't understand what the video was going to be until she put it all together, but it basically blew up. And for a minute I was nervous because I was like, I don't know who these people are. My Instagram account was 5,000 people that were like mainly Jewish women in their childbearing years. And now I have as of today, 41.9 thousand followers, which is insane growth for such a short period of time.

And I was a little bit overwhelmed and I decided right away and a lot of people that tell me this like don't change anything about your page. Keep being authentic. Keep being you. Keep being openly Jewish. Keep being proud of your faith on there. Don't change anything because people like the authenticity and if you know me that's not even like a second thought. I don't know how to be non-authentic. Like I really it's just like a trait in me. I just I can't

beat around the bush, I don't play games, I say it how it is, you know, for better and for worse, sometimes I really just have no filter. But I am very intentional about what I post online because my number one goals, always want to empower, educate, and help. And I just hope that you feel that through the content I'm putting out there because I don't take it lightly. I don't see that there's any other religious Jewish

English speaking at pelvic floor PT putting out the kind of content that I'm doing as consistently as professionally. And again, I'm not trying to like toot my own horn here. I'm really just insanely passionate about this because I see the need and how valuable the education is and how people are able to make decisions about their health when they just have a little bit more information or resources. So again, I really

I appreciate everyone who knows me for my page. I don't take it lightly. I literally think part of the reason I'm on this earth is to help women own their bodies and feel empowered in their bodies and strong in their bodies and like they own all of their decisions. So again, if you're on, if you're with me for the ride, I totally appreciate it. I would not have a platform without each and every single one of you who sends it to their friends and reposts it.

and books appointments and purchases and on purchases on one of my online programs. So that's really something that I'm super grateful for. So thank you everyone, because yeah, nothing's gonna change. Nothing's gonna change with the amount of followers. I'm you know, just being conscious as usual, authentic as usual. ⁓ So I was telling you before is that I didn't post the videos for a while after I got them back from my content manager and I'm going to be very real with you guys right now, like super vulnerable. So listen closely. When I got those videos, I actually cried. I looked at myself in the videos. The outfit I was wearing in most of them was super not flattering.

my face looked very puffy and bloated and no, I was not on my period. I think I was even like mid-cycle where I'm usually feeling really good. But the truth is that I was not feeling safe and empowered in my body at the time of the filming. I was eating. I was eating and I had gained weight and when I got the videos back, I was like, that is not me. And I'm never one to preach weight loss at all or anything like that, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a little bit of vanity or more than a little bit of vanity, but I looked in the mirror and I said something needs to change because I feel like I'm not eating the right way and I'm not going to get so deep into it, but I did change the way I ate, gave me more energy, lost a lot of pounds. A lot of it was water actually. And my number one takeaway from everything, you know, in this department is number one. The number one thing that was stopping me from changing the way I'm eating was black and white thinking. I was always like, okay, I'm on a good program now, like I'm just being good, blah, blah, blah, blah. And then if I ate something that wasn't quote unquote good in my head, I'm like, okay, I'm off track now, we'll start again. But now I don't know how to explain this in other words, but it's like I'm always on.

 And if I enjoy myself and eat something that's like not particularly in my plan it's fine like okay I deviated for second I'm back like I never I in my head I was never off so I got rid of that black and white like I'm good I'm bad I'm just like I'm always fine like there's flow in it like I'm trying to get rid of the rigidity I have a lot of rigidity in my thinking something that you know working on in therapy but,

Yeah, it's just it's just not that I'm being good on being bad It's more like taking a decision by decision look. Okay. I'm out with my friends. I want to enjoy a little bit Okay, want to feel good on my skin. I know exactly what to eat to feel good in my skin and I was like healthy and strong in those videos where I looked 15 pounds heavier and was 15 pounds heavier But I didn't feel like I looked good, and I didn't feel like I looked good in the mirror.

And you know, when you're like married and having fun behind closed doors, you also want to feel really good. So I highly recommend getting into a little bit of a vanity mode. I call it my hot girl era. I'm still in my hot girl era and I hope to always be in my hot girl era for the rest of my life. But I just feel so much better when I look in the mirror. I'm like, who is she? And I just like took extra care of myself this summer and I hope it's inspiring for you. there's nothing wrong with taking care of your looks. And I think so many people try to be like, not about how you look and it's not about how much you weigh. But like at the end of the day, you have to look in the mirror and feel good. Because if you don't feel like you look good, you're not going to feel good inside. And I just don't want to shy away from that because I think it's like a really big lie. So if there's something you've been pushing off, like signing up for a gym, going walking with a friend, coloring your hair, getting a pedicure, doing self-tanner, spray tan, like if this is anything that you know makes yourself, like, if you know there's anything that makes you feel good, even if it's something as small as getting your eyebrows done, like just do it. You'll just feel so much hotter. And there's so much into that, like I could give a whole course on why it's good to feel hot in your body.

 It actually gives you lot of authority. great for your nervous system. great for your sex life. ⁓ I don't feel like getting into that now. I guess it's because I'm on my period. I'm just like, whatever. Maybe that's like another episode for another day, but you just should own all of it and feel really good when you get dressed. So if you're not in that ever right now, and what I'm saying sounds so out of reach and so not attainable,

It's okay, like just put it in your pocket for later. Like I probably wasn't ready to hear this a couple of years ago when I just had a baby or when I was pregnant. So just put it away and remember that when you're ready, it's there for you. It's there for you to come to. So that's, you know, I just wanted to touch on that. Another thing I wanted to address in today's solo episode was that I'm actually turning 30, which is wild.

Very excited about it actually I'm always hearing that like your 30s are where it's at and you know I have all these self-reflections and blah blah blah but something I want to talk about in this is that my Hebrew birthday and English birthday this year are actually like two days apart, which is cool, but the Hebrew birthday is Kapta Elul, which for any of you who follow the lunar calendar, it's the last day of the year. 

 It's a really special birthday. It's a really intense birthday. I feel like my whole entire personality is based off of the fact that I'm so cusp, Libra Virgo, like last day of Virgo on the lunar calendar, second day of

Sorry, did I say that right? I'm the last day of Virgo on the Hebrew calendar and the second day of Libra on the solar calendar. So I'm really in that cusp area and so much of my personality is formed around it. And usually this time of year is like insanely intense for me. I'm doing what's called Cheshbon HaNefesh, which is where you kind of like take inventory on your soul of what's going good, what's going bad.

being very intentional about it, I'm usually meditating and listening to tons of classes and journaling and doing breath work and energy work and all these things that in the past I really needed. I needed them to help me push through. I totally, totally was in that era. And this year, something completely shifted for me where I just feel a bit lighter. I feel like I went through that whole intense dark era.

of just being super intentional on healing and now I'm in the point where I could kind of like, I don't want to say coast, but more like enjoy the fruits of my labor more and I could just be in it intuitively and not overthink too much. ⁓ Happens to be now with like the onset of getting my period. I am feeling a bit more introspective and I'm not gonna like force to push it away because I've been doing so well without it. I'm just gonna let it.

and wash through me and be a vessel for it. But I'm just going with it. That's exactly what I mean. Like I'm not forcing anything. I'm not pushing anything away. I'm just like taking whatever comes as it is. Like I just know that everything that's supposed to happen has happened and is happening. And the more open you are to possibilities, the more the possibilities will flow to you. And I've just been seeing so many changes

in my life since looking at it like this. And it actually saves me a lot of headache and heartache and has given me a lot of peace in my daily life with all of my, you know, situations. So the reason I'm sharing this is because I think it would be helpful for at least someone, someone that likes to overthink, likes to overly, you know, think about things and heal. Sometimes I think a break.

is really good. You know, I posted this video on Instagram in the summer and it got so many shares. If you scroll down, it starts with me saying like I used to be different. And it's a video of me talking about, you know, my journey through motherhood and how I used to be like just a much lighter person and then going through literally anything motherhood related like toughened me up and made me this

darker deeper more intense version of myself and the video I talk about how I miss my lighter self and like really what I was saying is that I also miss my old life before having kids and I can't even tell you how many messages and comments I got people are definitely feeling this way but no one's saying it out loud definitely no one's posting it on social media so I was happy to be a voice it was actually very cathartic for me.

It feels nice to share these kind of things, kind of like exactly how I'm doing in this episode right now, because I feel like I just have a talent of saying things that you kind of like don't want to admit and being like very real and honest with myself. And I really hope it just helps you look inside and see if there's anything that needs to be clarified, like maybe you're just being clouded. And since posting that video, I've been doing like, you know, some thinking, nothing like too intense again, trying to keep it light.

But I did realize that I stopped trying to be who I was. And when I'm leaning into this version of me that has been through all the crap that I went through, I actually really liked this version of me better. And when I was able to do that, I actually felt myself lighten up. You know, I did do some energy work. I did some healing here and there, nothing too intense, kind of like one-time things that were effective. 

I don't know, I just feel different. feel lighter. I feel like I don't need to always be meditating and journaling and thinking and doing. And it really did. It really did help. Disclaimer. I am about to go into another period of deep work just because there are things I know need to be solved. But for these past few months, I'm so happy that I was able to lighten up and I feel like this sounds like it is TMI like I'm oversharing with you guys.

Maybe for some of you, it does feel like oversharing, but for me, I just feel like this is so relatable. As a provider, like I totally understand what it is that you're going through when you come in to see me. I ask a lot of questions. Like I want to know exactly what's going on in your life because everything's so connected. Like you really can't separate your pelvic floor issues from any of the things that I'm talking about. And I try to be as holistic and zoomed out as possible. And the reason I'm sharing all this with you again is you know, you could look inside yourself, but I also want you to understand, like, the full scope of healing. Like, it's not just coming in for a physical exam. I look at everything, and I think you should look at everything, too. Listen, this episode's getting very long. I have so much more to share. I feel like I'm rambling a bit, and I don't have a script for this, so... I'm gonna stop here, but can you please do me a favor?

There's a button when you listen to the episode on Spotify that says send us a text. I really would love to hear feedback from you about how any of this landed. You could DM me on Instagram. You could send me an email at millie at the prepared pelvis.com. I'll put that in the show notes and it would be so nice to just connect with you because again, this the point of these episodes that are between seasons are just to reconnect and get to know you and you get to know me before I come on with the next guest.

That I'm interviewing and I hope you all have a great rest of your week and I again, I would really love to hear from you. I love to know who I'm speaking to. Have a great day everyone.