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Ten things I’d do differently if I had another baby.
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Our bodies WILL go through seasons. It’s SUPPOSED to change through adolescence and into adulthood. It’s SUPPOSED to grow with pregnancy. Our body is SUPPOSED to age.
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FIVE LIES I’m constantly having to talk about with my patients. Do you need to hear this too?
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Do you struggle with leaking when you jump? (or sneeze, cough, laugh, or run?) Here’s a typical progression where I take a patient from… 1. Foundational level exercises (re-establishing “normal” brain-body control)⬇️2. Advanced levels where we move into functional movement (things you do in your every day – b/c I’ve not met someone who leaked […]
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The LIE you’ve been told (and probably believed…) 👉🏼That surgery was your ONLY option…If you struggle with leakingMild/Moderate Prolapse (vaginal heaviness/pressure)And Diastasis (ab separation) Yet literally every single day, I see women OVERCOMING these issues, WITHOUT invasive surgery. I’ve seen hundreds of women no longer leak with basic activities AND with running, jumping, and heavy […]
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5 simple exercise tweaks to incorporate pelvic floor into your workout! Who wants to add another exercise to their list or a whole extra workout? Not me, and I don’t know many women who have time for that. But here is what I see with women that I treat and work with…they get some results […]
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Basically me in my teens and 20s. I thought walking was for moms, 😉 I literally couldn’t imagine a day without going for a run, and I thought weight training wasn’t worth my time b/c it didn’t burn enough calories. But when you know better…you do better. REST days are just as important as workout […]
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Shop the Items Here I’m a bit of a closet curator. Now that my body isn’t in a phase of life where it’s constantly changing (as it does with pregnancy and postpartum), it’s been easier to really figure out what I like, what colors and styles look good on my body, and what’s worth investing […]
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I think it might surprise you that “most” postpartum women who have had at least a couple of babies probably have some degree of prolapse.
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Mom #1 has her first baby. She’s always been super active and pretty fit. But she ties much of her identity to her fitness, body, and what she can accomplish. She believes a GOOD workout is at least 45 min long, and she’d honestly rather do a bunch of hard cardio than strength train because […]
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Hot take: if it’s free advice, it will probably not fix your issues…You need to STOP trusting your pelvic floor rehab to someone who’s never actually worked with vaginas. Would you trust your ACL rehab to some online “expert” who’s never rehabbed a knee? When you finished with surgery, how would you feel if the […]
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What matters most when it comes to movement? How often you move? What you do for movement? How long you move? These are all great questions, and to some extent, they all matter or can make a difference in how your body responds to movement. But when I’m working with women, I find that this […]
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POV you walk into PT feeling frazzled. Running to the bathroom every hour at work. Getting up 3x a night to pee. Wearing a pad every day becuase you leak. Feeling overwhelmed. But after just THREE appointments: TRUE story. This patient is real, and her results are NOT unusual.This is, in fact, something I see […]
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The FEAR you have over making a “mistake” with diastasis is actually keeping you from healing. I get it because I work with SO many women who are scared they’ll do something wrong and make their diastasis worse. They’re afraid to lift, exercise, and even do daily tasks like picking up their toddlers or bathing […]
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You’ve probably heard these diastasis ‘rules’—but are they true? Let’s find out! 🤔 1. Planks and crunches are always bad – FALSE. I give crunches and planks to my diastasis patients all the time. The KEY is working with someone who is trained and can show you how to do them well! When they are […]
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