Pelvic Floor Foundations

Name: Pelvic Floor Foundations
Start: 2025-02-02T13:00:00-05:00
Location: 18 Main St, Lenox, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01240

Schedule

Sun, 02 Feb, 2025 at 01:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

18 Main St, Lenox, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01240 | Lenox, MA

Discover the power of your pelvic floor in this engaging workshop led by Molly Rivest, a Nurse Practitioner passionate about women’s health and pelvic floor awareness. Together, we’ll explore the essentials of pelvic floor anatomy and function, uncover the root causes of common challenges like incontinence, pain with intimacy, and pelvic discomfort, and discuss practical strategies for improvement. This safe and stigma-free session offers time to address individual concerns and explore potential interventions. Open to anyone curious about the female pelvis, this workshop promises to leave you informed, empowered, and equipped with actionable next steps for better pelvic health. Join us at the Lenox Library for this enlightening experience!
Childcare will be available for this program. Please call the Library at 413-637-0197 or email [email protected] to register for childcare.
Molly Rivest, DNP, FNP is a doctorally prepared Family Nurse Practitioner with extensive expertise in women’s health. She is the founder of BodyWise Health Collaborative, a private practice located in Pittsfield, where she provides compassionate, evidence-based care for women of all ages. Her practice is grounded in a patient-centered philosophy that respects and elevates each individual’s innate understanding of their own body.
Molly specializes in addressing sensitive and frequently overlooked areas of care, including sexual health, contraceptive management, perimenopausal care, and pelvic floor dysfunction. She fosters a supportive and stigma-free environment, ensuring that patients feel safe discussing even the most complex or taboo health concerns.
Before founding BodyWise, Molly delivered women’s healthcare at CHP Barrington OB/GYN and served as a primary care provider at UMass Hahnemann Family Health. She earned her Doctor of Nursing Practice degree from the UMass Tan Chingfen Graduate School of Nursing and holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from Smith College.
Molly’s dedication to women’s health is deeply influenced by her earlier career as an officer in the United States Air Force, where she conducted laser eye protection research and served as a victim advocate for survivors of sexual assault. These formative experiences strengthened her commitment to creating environments of safety, trust, and empowerment—principles that remain foundational to her clinical practice today.