Bupa Partnership with MoreGoodDays® – Helping You get Passed Persistent Back Pain

2025-11-28T15:10:09+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

MoreGoodDays: A science-backed back pain management and recovery program from the comfort of home. Bupa has partnered with My Health Story Friends, MoreGoodDays® to help our eligible customers* with persistent back pain reduce pain, move more freely, and feel more like themselves again. And this is HUGE news because it means members may be eligible to receive the 8-week MoreGoodDays® Program (delivered by MoreGoodDays®) FREE: Up to 8 video or call consultations~ with physiotherapists [...]

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The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic & Sexual Pain: Offering a free 30-minute introductory call

2025-11-28T14:39:53+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friend, The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain is a non-clinical education and advocacy initiative dedicated to making invisible pain visible. And to help My Health Story followers, they are generously offering a free private 30-minute introductory call. Founded by retired gynecologist and telehealth educator, Robert J. Echenberg, MD FACOG (Dr E), The Echenberg Institute for Pelvic and Sexual Pain empowers patients and providers affected by chronic pelvic, genital, and sexual pain through evidence-based [...]

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025, a huge success

2025-11-02T12:58:32+11:00November 2, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals aim to create spaces where everyone feels welcome — no matter age, background, or experience. Whether it’s through expert talks, hands-on workshops, cooking demos, fitness sessions, or creative activities, the events are designed to make health approachable and engaging – and the Geelong Health Festival did exactly that. Whether you wanted to learn about fertility, fitness, chronic pain, physiotherapy or find helpful products to help you manage your health [...]

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Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025

2025-09-21T13:45:22+10:00September 21, 2025|Blog, Education, Events|

Join My Health Story at Literacy For Life’s Geelong Health Festival 2025 Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals idea began with a simple belief: when people come together to share knowledge and talk openly about wellbeing, communities grow stronger. What began as a small local event has blossomed into a vibrant celebration of health, bringing together families, health professionals, and community leaders from all walks of life. Literacy For Life’s Health Festivals exit to create [...]

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Free Resource: Live PelvicSense Session With Evelyn Hecht

2025-07-10T11:43:21+10:00July 10, 2025|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) friend, Evelyn Hecht (and a great comrade of the pelvic pain world), who created PelvicSense has an invitation for MHS followers. If you are experiencing persistent pelvic pain, urgency, or burning symptoms and need help learning more about these issues and how to manage them (yes,  you can!), then here’s a must-attend event for you. MHS Founder, Soula Mantalvanos, understands that these events can be difficult. ‘I’ve often sat and stared at the thing [...]

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Dr Gronski & Team on Blocking Pudendal Nerve Pain

2024-11-15T15:39:23+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

Dr Gronski & Team have many patients asking questions about pudendal nerve blocks for pelvic pain. So they created this video with licensed Occupational Therapist and Certified Pelvic Health Specialist Lainie Givens, who explains pudendal nerve blocks for diagnosis and treatment of pudendal neuralgia while also offering additional tips to help patients find relief from pelvic pain – it is possible! Watch or jump specific video chapters: […]

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MoreGoodDays Have Found MoreGoodWays to Help With Your Recovery

2024-11-15T15:27:08+11:00November 15, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story Friends, MoreGoodDays understand how tough living with back pain can be—whether it's from sciatica, a disc bulge, or something less clear. It's exhausting, frustrating, and can make everyday activities feel impossible. Bringing the best experts, scientists and clinicians from around the world, the team at MoreGoodDays has been busy working on a new program that is specifically for ongoing back pain. Bringing you insights from leading experts in pain: Your Content Goes Here [...]

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The Health Festival of Geelong – a Huge Success

2024-07-28T12:26:36+10:00July 27, 2024|Blog, Education, Health Management, Media|

My Health Story (MHS) was thrilled to be invited as 'a fellow dedicated health care provider' to the inaugural Health Festival of Geelong last week. The event was a unique opportunity to focus on Health Promotion and increase health literacy. Organised by a team of clinicians, the Health Festival of Geelong was a chance for all stakeholders (patients, carers, professionals, allied healthcare workers, specialists, Government, and more) to discover resources in the region of Geelong Victoria, all in [...]

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The Health Festival of Geelong

2024-07-13T10:50:03+10:00June 15, 2024|Blog, Education|

A team of clinicians is organising The Health Festival of Geelong, and My Health Story (MHS) is thrilled to be invited as ‘a fellow dedicated health care provider’ to this inaugural event. MHS look forward to sharing this exciting experience with you. The event is a unique opportunity to focus on Health Promotion and increase your health literacy. It’s a chance to discover resources and knowledge that you may not be aware of in the region, all in [...]

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Soula Presents at the RACGP Chronic Disease Workshop

2023-11-18T11:09:02+11:00November 18, 2023|Advocacy, Blog, Education, Health Management|

My Health Story founder, Soula Mantalvanos, was recently invited to share her valuable expertise for GP training, once again highlighting the significance of lived experience for chronic pain management education. The Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) GP training session, ‘An approach to non-cancer pain,’ was hosted by Dr Paul Grinzi on Wednesday, 15 November 2023, in Melbourne. Soula’s 20-minute presentation included details of her 4.5-year medical odyssey that led to her chronic illness – one she believes could have been completely avoided with educational training sessions such as the one she was presenting at. Soula began her presentation by stating the vision and mission that have driven her advocacy and to becoming the founder of pudendalnerve.com.au and My Health Story: Understanding the unique lived experience is critical to tailored care and relieving the global burden of disease.

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