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I support a significant number of breast/chest fee

I support a significant number of breast/chest feeding people.⁣
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And, I breastfed two babies for a combined 2 years, 8 months.⁣
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As an exercise coach and Kinesiologist to pregnant and postpartum people, understanding one’s relationship to feeding, the demands on their body, the impacts on their mental health, how their race and gender shape their experience 👉🏻 it’s all necessary.⁣
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Reposting the following words from my friend @theworkingmomtras because go read every word she writes forever, thank you.⁣
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BREASTFEEDING WAS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE 🤱🏿🍼✊🏿.⁣
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I used to tell people I was adamant about nursing my children because I wanted to give them what was nutritionally "best." ⁣
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This was a half truth. It felt too heavy to explain that I was doing this for my enslaved ancestors who were forced to act as wet nurses during slavery and post slavery in domestic work. This was an act of healing generational trauma.⁣
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I chose to breastfeed because black women do not have as much access to breastfeeding support via lactation consultants and it is having a detrimental effect on our babies.⁣
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I chose to breastfeed because though I sought and found a community to encourage and help me establish my nursing relationship, it was white AF. We deserve to see ourselves in this experience. ⁣
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I schlepped my 2 weeks postpartum body and newborn to film a news segment about breastfeeding because representation matters. I wanted to prove that Black women can and do breastfeed. I wanted to be a resource to any mom that made this choice.⁣
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I nursed in public with or without a cover because I had the legal right to do so, and I dared anyone to try me.⁣
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To be clear, fed is best. However you choose to feed your baby is political. It's your body and your choice all day, everyday, no matter the context. ⁣
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For me, breastfeeding was one of my first conscious acts of releasing internalized oppression. ⁣
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How did you feed your baby? All perspectives are welcome. These kids end up eating fossilized eggs anyway 🤣.⁣
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📷: @theblk.creative

I often wonder how different my first birthing exp

12:37am Friday morning. We locked the door on this

12:37am Friday morning. We locked the door on this house for the final time.
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The house we moved into when it was just us. When I was 37 weeks pregnant for the first time. ⁣
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The house I thought I was going to birth my first baby in. ⁣
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The house we brought two babies home to, after two C-sections. ⁣
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The house that held us through immense joy and deep pain, and all the in-betweens that come with 5 years and 1 month of finding our footing through parenting and marriage and being human. ⁣
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I was at least 3-versions-of-me-ago when we moved into that house. The experiences had there pushed me further than I could have guessed they would.⁣
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Someday I’ll tell you the stories about leaving that house. When the dust has settled and it feels like there’s more of a middle, than just the beginning. ⁣
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For now, we’re right here.⁣ ❤️

Once upon a time, my value as a fitness profession

Once upon a time, my value as a fitness professional was largely dependant on my client’s bodies getting smaller.⁣
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And, wow, how miserable that was. 💯⁣
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(This is exactly why we show you in the ✨ Body Talk workshop ✨ which is closing for enrolment tonight at midnight PST, that there is another way to do fitness and health coaching that doesn't feel soul sucking.)⁣
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I remember being nervous for my client’s weigh-in days. Measurement days. "Progress photos" days. ⁣
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Because what if they didn’t change? What if the numbers got bigger? What if the photo showed a bigger body from two weeks ago? 🧐⁣
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Then what? ⁣
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...Was I fired? Had I failed them? Did the fitness-ing fail? Wahhhh. 😩⁣
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An underlying anxiety that if their numbers didn’t shrink, or photos didn’t show progressively smaller bellies then I was bad at my job, their money and time wasted.⁣
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I remember feeling constant pressure for my client’s body composition goals. ⁣
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Here’s a thing…⁣
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Turns out fitness coaching is way more meaningful, for me, when relationships are built centred on more than someone’s thighs changing shape. 👌🏼👌🏼⁣
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Further, when the size of someone’s thighs aren’t even a discussion point.⁣
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What is not lost on me, is how in my participating in fitness coaching, done in these ways...it fuelled my OWN body discomfort.⁣
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✨ My relationship with my body has never been more comfortable, the further I have separated my fitness coaching from fat loss. ✨⁣
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And, I want to recognize that there is much privilege in me even having the opportunity to feel comfort in my body. ⁣
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Directly contributing to my comfort in my body is my body size, skin colour (white), and thin privilege.⁣
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This needs to understood when having responsible, respectful, understanding conversations about body image by fitness and health practitioners. ⁣
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If you work in fitness or health, get the replay of my online workshop 👉🏻 Body Talk: Managing Conversations About Body Image, Body Size, and Body Discomfort With Your Clients and Patients.⁣
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To help yourself. To help your people. ⁣
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It is only available until TONIGHT and then will be removed from the internet shelves 👉🏻 @jessiemundell

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I stopped doing any fat or weight loss coaching in

You were looking for helpful pelvic floor tips fro

You were looking for helpful pelvic floor tips from 19 of the top pelvic health physiotherapists, all in one place? We knew it! 🥳⁣
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On the latest @tobirthandbeyondpodcast episode we are so excited to have some of the most incredible pelvic health physiotherapists join in to share their top pelvic health tips. 🤩⁣
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Tune in to find out:⁣
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✨ How to connect with your pelvic floor⁣
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✨ What you should look for in your pelvic floor physiotherapist⁣
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✨ Tips to help stop leaking pee with coughing/sneezing/exercise⁣
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✨ Tips for helping pelvic organ prolapse symptoms⁣
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✨ Pelvic floor considerations with exercise ⁣
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✨ How the pelvic floor is related to internal pelvic pain⁣
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✨ Intimacy and your pelvic floor⁣
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✨ Tips to decrease pelvic girdle pain⁣
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✨ Preparing your body, pelvic floor and mind for birth ⁣
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✨ Postpartum recovery tips⁣
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You’ll be learning from:⁣
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Anita Lambert - @holistichealthphysio⁣
Amber Brown - @rootptwell⁣
Tia Ukpe-Wallace - @selfcarephysio⁣
Joanne Ukposidolo - @yourphysio_jo⁣
Melissa Dessaulles - @mommyberrieshealth⁣
Nelly Faghani - @pelvichealthsolutions⁣
Munira Hudani -@munirahudanipt⁣
Trish Brunelle - @vaginaphysio⁣
Melissa Wong - @markhampelvichealth⁣
Lori Forner - @loriforner⁣
Chana Ross - @vitalphysiotherapyandwellness⁣
Robyn Synnott - @physio.robyn⁣
Carolyn Vandyken - @reframerehab⁣
Sara Reardon - @the.vagina.whisperer⁣
Uchenna Ossai - @youseelogic⁣
Kenael Segal - @lotuspelvicpt⁣
Kate Roddy - @kateroddy_6sixphysio⁣
Juan Michelle Martin - @thepelvicperspective⁣
Sheela Zelmer - @sheelazelmer⁣
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WOW. Yes.⁣
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Let us know what your favourite tips were from today’s episode. 💕⁣
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Listen to episode 131 on tobirthandbeyond.com, on Apple podcasts, Stitcher, and Spotify.

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Is recommending weight loss your top coaching or t

✨ 3 Phrases to Help Soothe Yourself During Feeli

✨ 3 Phrases to Help Soothe Yourself During Feelings of Postpartum Body Discomfort ✨⁣
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On this week’s episode of the @tobirthandbeyondpodcast, we’re going to focus on 3 phrases that you might help to soothe yourself during feelings of postpartum body discomfort.⁣
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Specifically related to feeling like your body is too big, too fat, too soft, too round, too _______.⁣
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First, these thoughts are so valid and real and fully understandable.⁣
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Particularly in the West, we live in a patriarchal, misogynistic, white centred, racist, fat phobic culture.⁣
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There are true concerns about being in a larger body. There are many privileges that come with living in a smaller body.⁣
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We are conditioned to celebrate and strive for smallness – in our bodies, our thoughts, our voices, our dreams.⁣
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To question these narratives is an act of resistance to these systems and these norms.⁣
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1). Let yourself be postpartum. ❤️⁣
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Could you allow yourself, even the tiniest bit, to experience this time period in your body as it is? To allow your body to be this way right now?⁣
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2). You can never feel fully at home in a body that you view as temporary. ❤️⁣
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I don’t know who the original author of this quote is, but it is not me!⁣
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If you are thinking about how you can continue to change your body, it takes you out of the present, yes?⁣
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If you are keep taking yourself out of right now, you never get the chance to question why the discomfort is the way it is.⁣
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3). Thank you, body. ❤️⁣
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Could you remind yourself of what your body and whole self has endured?⁣
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You may feel that you have given so much of yourself, your body, your health, your relationships, your professionals work. That this adventure has transformed you.⁣
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Could you offer your body the recognition of the bigness of that?⁣
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Go listen to episode 130 of the To Birth and Beyond podcast on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Spotify, tobirthandbeyond.com or wherever you listen to pods. 🤩⁣

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