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A mom in our community messaged me at 2 a.m. last week. Not because anything was wrong with the baby. Because she couldn't figure out why she felt this exhausted when she was "technically" getting sleep. She wasn't lazy. She wasn't failing. Her body was running on fumes, and nobody had told her why....
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 snap at your kid over a spilled cup of juice. Your jaw is tight before you even get out of bed. You can't remember the last time you felt actually relaxed, not just "not currently on fire."
You're not broken. Your body is doing exactly what it was built to do. The problem is it doesn't know whe...
By Mindy Lagdameo | ThriveLife / Mamafit
You went to bed at a reasonable hour. The kids slept through the night for once. You even got seven hours.
And you woke up tired anyway.
If that's you, I want you to know something: you are not broken, you are not lazy, and you do not need to just push ...
