Helping is Healing

5 things that will ACTUALLY happen when doing a Diastasis Recti program.   We see Diastasis programs everywhere! 4, 6, or 12 weeks promises to “heal” your postpartum core can be found anywhere you look. However, if a program promises a flat stomach and/or uses safe/unsafe language surrounding core exercises, then it might be time to look into other options.  Given that you’ve found a quality program, here is what you can REALLY expect in 4 -12 weeks.  Your belly might not look much different.  The way your belly looks after having a baby is multi-faceted. How long postpartum, the way your diastasis presents, the amount of skin & fat, and many other factors contribute to this. It is impossible for any program, especially one that is not individualized to your specific needs, to “fix” all of these things. Do not buy any program with the hopes of changing the way you look. Buy a program to begin the journey of feeling stronger and more connected to your body postpa...

Me looking back wondering where the hell I went.... Who am I?! A high school English teacher CrossFit athlete CrossFit coach P&PA coach Tutor Business owner SAHM Mother Wife Daughter Friend And I want to do all those things at 110%. Yeah, nope.  I feel like I don’t have a right to complain. I GET to have a part-time business & I GET to see my kids a lot. Not everyone has that choice.  Trust me when I say I am grateful: our health, my workouts, & my business. I realize every day how very, very lucky we are in this life. But I would be lying if I said it was easy all the time. I get jealous that my husband works so much. He loves working & I’m glad he is happy with where he is at and where he is going. But I am the one that needs to order school photos, pack lunches, take them to all of their activities, & get them ready for bed, manage school projects, and manage the mental load of much more. At this stage of my ...

Last week my client was telling me the story of her back pain. The first doctor scared the shit out of her. After that, she told me about how she had to push hard to find a team of professionals to help her. She got rid of her pain and found out there was no reason to be scared and it was not as serious as she was first told.  (Also, if anyone is struggling with chronic pain you need to check out Amy Eicher )  The problem is many people get caught in this first step because they are experiencing pain and/or panic, which doesn’t make advocating easy.   So, I want to provide some insight that I hope can help.  The medical world is segmented. It is rare for medical professionals in different specialties to work together as a team. This doesn’t mean they aren’t good professionals; it is just a disjointed system. So, this means that YOU need to be the dot connector and advocate for yourself.  YOU have to create your team because no one else will...

How the hell am I supposed to love this postpartum body? The complexity of body image.  Messaging that supports embracing our postpartum bodies rather than “body back” is SO needed; however, there is still a mucky complexity that comes with it for the women that feel like they might want plastic surgery. They may feel that they “failed” at embracing their body along with a laundry list of other failures as a mother. And so continues the guilt/ shame cycle of motherhood. I thought I would NEVER love my body and got really pissed at people that told me I should or that I would with more time. But then I DID. I found a deep love for my body....  ...with time, education, getting strong AF, and helping others. But I still didn’t want a protruding belly for the rest of my life. The problem isn’t that women get tummy tucks and boob jobs after having babies. It is that they rush into these surgeries because they have a great disda...