Soula Mantalvanos & Dr Susie Gronski talk about male pelvic pain and finding the right treatment

2026-04-06T12:14:46+10:00April 6, 2026|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

Dr Susie Gronski has been My Health Story's (MHS) Advisor and Friend for several years. Founder of MHS, Soula Mantalvanos, has been closely connected with Dr Susie Gronski since 2017. Recently, Soula looked back at their 2021 pelvic pain chat and realised it was time to organise another catch-up with this incredible therapist. Soula discovered Dr Gronski's incredible resources while seeking information for the advocacy website she founded in 2011, pudendalnerve.com.au, to help people living with pelvic pain. This search [...]

Welcoming MHS Friend, Dustienne Miller & Your Pace Yoga

2026-04-04T15:31:15+11:00April 4, 2026|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

My Health Story (MHS) founder Soula Mantalvanos and Physical Therapist and Board Certified Women’s Health Clinical Specialist Dustienne Miller go way back. In fact, all the way to 2014, when Soula was desperately seeking a way to return to her yoga practice and discovered Dustienne’s website, Your Pace Yoga. This was also the time when Soula was gathering resources for pudendalnerve.com.au in order to help an expanding global pelvic pain community. The introduction led [...]

My Health Story Friend Welcome to Conscious Living

2026-03-02T14:19:09+11:00March 1, 2026|Blog, Friends of MHS|

My Health Story (MHS) warmly welcomes Conscious Living to its circle of MHS Friends. Conscious Living is a holistic, personalised, and sustainable approach to health rooted in Traditional Āyurvedic Medicine, Homeopathy, and Yoga. We all seek a vibrant state of health, don't we? Using the framework of well-established modalities, practitioner Katerina Nestorovska provides clients with assessment, guidance, education, and tested methods to prevent disease, identify and resolve the root cause of dysfunction, and manage acute and chronic health disturbances. A special discounted fee for MHS Subscribers The information Katerina Nestorovska provides to followers and website subscribers is an insight into good health in itself. But if you would like to delve deeper, Conscious Living offers consultations and short courses, including a 12-week Interactive Journey Through the Principles and Practice of Āyurveda that begins March 18. As a very warm welcome to MHS subscribers, Katerina Nestorovska is generously offering $180 off the course's total price of $540. Use 'MHS' at checkout.

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 [...]

Mandy Mercuri: An Introduction to Pain Reprocessing Therapy and Somatic Tracking

2025-11-28T14:13:07+11:00November 28, 2025|Blog, Friends of MHS, Health Management|

Guest blog by Mandy Mercuri Mindfulness & Pain Recovery Coach & My Health Story Advisory Member If you’re living with ongoing musculoskeletal pain, it’s completely understandable to feel frustrated, confused, or even hopeless at times. Many of us spend years being told to “manage” pain rather than understanding the root cause of why it’s happening or how to help it change. The good news? Pain can change. And today, I’d love to introduce [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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