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You don't have to have had a dramatic birth experience for trauma to be living in your body.
It can look like a normal delivery on paper and still leave you feeling disconnected from yourself. Like you're here, but not fully here. Like your body is someone else's.
That feeling has a name. And it h...
You've been told to push through it. Ice it, stretch it, take something for it, and get back to moving. And sometimes that's the right call.
But sometimes pain is your body waving a flag, not asking to be silenced.
Here's what the research — and if I'm honest, my own story — taught me about what p...
You've been taught, somewhere along the way, that rest is something you earn.
Finish the work. Hit the goal. Check the list. Then — maybe — you can stop.
But what if that's backwards? What if rest isn't the reward at the end of the effort, but part of what makes the effort possible in the first pl...
There's a version of postpartum recovery that gets talked about a lot. The physical stuff. The weight. The core. The pelvic floor. Getting cleared at 6 weeks. Getting back to exercise. Getting your body back.
And then there's the part nobody really prepares you for.
The part where you look in the ...
By Mindy Lagdameo | ThriveLife / Mamafit
You've been waiting. Maybe for months. Maybe longer.
Waiting until the kids sleep through the night. Until you have more energy. Until your body feels like yours again. Until you finally feel ready to do something about it.
Here's what nobody is telling...
