I built Hearth because I've been exactly where you are.
I'm Laura Williams — Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board-Certified Women's Health Clinical Specialist, founder of Hearth Healing, and mom of two who has personally navigated the gap between what postpartum care is supposed to look like and what it actually is.
Clinically, I've spent my career helping hundreds of women prepare for birth, minimize injury during delivery, and recover fully in the weeks and months that follow. I know this work inside and out.
But it wasn't until I went through it myself — twice — that I understood what was really missing.
Not the exercises. Not the clinical protocols. The support. The personalized, unhurried, someone-is-actually-paying-attention-to-you support that disappears the moment your baby is born and the entire world pivots to focus on them.
You went from being the center of your prenatal care to being an afterthought in your own recovery. Your body changed completely. Your identity shifted. The demands multiplied. And the message you received, implicitly or explicitly, was: figure it out.
That is not acceptable. And it is not inevitable.
A mother's ability to show up fully — for her baby, her relationships, her career, her life — is directly tied to how well she is supported in healing her own body. This is not a luxury. This is foundational.
Hearth exists to give you that foundation. A personalized, expert-led, fully virtual pelvic floor and deep core coaching experience — built around your body, your birth history, and the reality of your actual life.
You are not an afterthought here. You are the whole point.
Laura Williams, DPT, WCS, Founder, Hearth Healing
My Story
My first child was born via emergency cesarean after ten hours of labor.
I had the support that most women never get — a medical background, a strong partner, access to resources — and those first postpartum weeks were still the loneliest, most disorienting weeks of my life.
That's the part nobody talks about. Not the recovery itself, but the isolation inside it. The way the world keeps moving while you're lying still, trying to figure out who you are now, in a body you don't recognize, responsible for a life that depends entirely on you.
And in the middle of all of it, I kept thinking: if I feel this alone with everything I have — what does this feel like for women who have less?
The answer was hard to sit with. They were surviving. But they were not thriving. And the gap between those two things — between making it through and actually healing — was entirely preventable.
That realization changed the direction of my work.
I know from personal experience what it takes to rebuild physical strength as a working mother with a full life and zero extra hours. I know what it feels like to have to fight for your own recovery while everything and everyone else demands your attention. And I know — clinically and personally — that your physical healing and your emotional wellbeing are not separate things. They rise and fall together.
The perinatal care system was not built to address that. Hearth was.
A little more about the human behind the practice.
I grew up in Evanston, IL, and now live in the mountains of Salida, Colorado, which tells you most of what you need to know about me.
Before I was a physical therapist, I was a professional contemporary dancer. Movement has been my first language my entire life — which is probably why I ended up so obsessed with how the body works and what it's capable of.
I spent seven seasons as a ski instructor at Vail (where I also happened to meet my husband), and I've been teaching yoga for 20 years — including anatomy of yoga in teacher trainings, because, of course, I have opinions about how the body moves.
At home, I have two girls who make everything louder and better, and two dogs who do the same.
When I'm not working, you'll find me trail running, skiing, hosting dinner parties, or having kitchen dance parties with my girls.
I make epic playlists. I take new restaurants seriously. And I believe firmly that joy is part of the healing protocol.
Our MISSIon
Our MISSIon
Our Mission
Hearth exists because the standard of perinatal care is not good enough, and we're done pretending otherwise.
Pregnancy and postpartum are two of the most physically demanding experiences of a woman's life. And yet the support most women receive is reactive at best, dismissive at worst. You're told to rest, cleared at six weeks, and sent home to figure out the rest on your own. The leaking, the pain, the disconnection, the confusion — normalized, minimized, or ignored entirely.
We believe pelvic health education and support should be primary care during pregnancy and postpartum. Not a specialty you have to fight to access. Not something you wait months for on a waitlist. Not a luxury for the few women who happen to have the right zip code, the right referral, or the right amount of free time.
Foundational. Accessible. From the start.
Hearth was built to make that real — to meet women where they are, remove every barrier between them and the support they deserve, and replace the confusion and isolation of the perinatal experience with clarity, strategy, and genuine human connection.
Because a well-supported pregnancy leads to a more confident birth. A well-prepared birth leads to a stronger recovery. And a woman who understands her own body — who has been given the truth instead of just told to be grateful — heals differently. Moves differently. Shows up differently.
For herself. For her family. For her life.
This is a safe place to ask the questions you've been too embarrassed to Google. To show up exhausted, in your robe, nursing a baby with one hand and a coffee with the other, and be met with real answers — not judgment, not generic advice, not a referral to a six-month waitlist.
Come as you are. We built this for exactly you.
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“Hearth is an expression of turning grief into growth — and making sure every birthing person has the chance to do the same.”