On a gym wall in South London, a simple but powerful phrase is scrawled:
“PB with a bit of wee.”
Emily Westray, a competitive powerlifter, openly talks about the time she peed mid-deadlift—on camera, no less—while a male spotter stood nearby in socks. Did she feel ashamed? Not at all. She just shrugged it off and kept lifting.
So why do so many other women feel the need to hide incontinence?
Let's make our pelvic floor health as high a priority as brushing our teeth! If your kegel weights have been gathering dust in a drawer for a while, this is your reset!
Do you pee in the shower? A quick straw poll in the office shows that probably 50% of people do. And why not? It's convenient and even environmentally friendly.
But on social media, you'll seeposts from pelvic floor specialistssuch as Dr Alicia Jeffrey Thomas saying that it's maybe not a good thing if you suffer from any type of urinary incontinence, depending on the type of incontinence you suffer from.
Here we look at the case for and against peeing in the shower...