Kelly AlhooiePelviBiz, Pelvibiz · Healthcare Business Strategy Assistant

Constant Restarts: When Life Throws Hurricanes & Babies

13 Apr 2026 · 1 min

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In this personal narrative, the speaker recounts a series of disruptive events that repeatedly forced her pelvic‑floor therapy practice to restart. Initial momentum was lost when hurricanes struck, causing patient loss and a decline in business. Shortly after, a pregnancy and subsequent maternity leave created another pause, and further hurricanes compounded the setbacks. The speaker describes how each interruption felt like a fresh start, leading to frustration, doubts about continuing the business, and a sense of overwhelming effort required to rebuild her patient base each time.

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So as I started to get momentum, hurricanes hit, lost momentum, lost patients. People put pelvic floor therapy in the background, and, you know, I lost a lot of business, and I felt like I had to start over. Then I had the baby, and I went on maternity leave, and then I felt like I had to start over. Um, more hurricanes hit, and you feel like you have to start over. So there was just a lot of pauses. I felt like in business, that was an easy time to say, this is too difficult, I don't want to do it, or, you know, there's too much effort having to go back and try to get patients