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I went to buy three different types of chocolate and Diet Pepsi, in a snowstorm, today from our corner store. I want us to, specifically, recognize the body privilege that exists in me even being able to recount this story to you.  Consider the way you receive this message from me, as a thinner, able bodied, white, seemingly ‘healthy’ (much to unravel here) person.  What do you think about me when I tell you that I’m going to eat chocolate and drink soda for lunch today? 
What do you think of a person in a larger, or fatter body who you see eating chocolate and drinking soda?  Especially as we come upon the next 6 weeks of sharing meals and food with others, let’s continue considering how diet culture, anti-fatness, and weight stigma is impacting all of us.  And, if you’re a thinner bodied person too, how we are upholding and allowing for the oppression of those in larger bodies in our personal and professional lives? Go.

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Such magic yesterday.
 There’s nothing like being in-person with a group of people who also geek out on pelvic floor, coaching, fitness, and body things.  Yesterday, at Postnatal Fitness Specialist LIVE in Calgary, we had 25 fitness coaches, physiotherapists, chiropractors, athletic therapists, exercise therapists, kinesiologists, and those who are purely interested in postpartum health. 
We covered coaching the postpartum person, diastasis recti assessments, techniques and cueing for helping the client connect to their deep core system, strategies to troubleshoot when people are experiencing core or pelvic floor symptoms.  Plus, coaching crunches and sit-ups, the distinction and relationships between body image and body positivity, the white-washing of health, and Cesarean scar massage.  Side note: Yes, that is a lot of topics. LOL. I told the group yesterday that this is how an introvert hosts a professional development event. One day only. 6 hours. Learn 437 things. Crash for 2 days after. Wouldn’t have it any other way.  Such an immense privilege - on so many levels - to be able to host these workshops. I learn so much from you all in these rooms. Thank you for allowing me to do this work. Special thanks to Gayle, Megan, and Leah from @lakeview_physio for their help educating, teaching, and assisting yesterday. You elevated the experience in a palpable way. Next up: Fort Myers, FL on February 16th! Details and registration are on their way soon. ❤️🎉 #pfslive #pfslivecalgary

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One of my 💥 Works Almost Every Time 💥 tips for when you don’t feel like getting started, but know the movement is going to serve you best? Pair two exercises. ✌🏼 Go back and forth until you don’t want to anymore. Maybe it’s one round. Maybe it’s four. All good outcomes. When it feels like too much for your body, make it easier for your brain. 😍 #topregnancyandbeyond

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Don’t forget that bodies jiggle. Some less, some more. All fine. Jiggly bits need not require changing.👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼 #topregnancyandbeyond

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It’s not enough to talk about how we need to relax our bellies for better pelvic floor health.  First, we need to be talking about why we’re holding our bellies in tight, in the first place. Why are you (and ME 🙋‍♀️) doing this? We’re trying to make our bellies appear smaller. Flatter. We don’t want people, even the people closest to us in our homes, to see our visible belly lines. We’re wearing clothes that don’t comfortably fit the shape of this version of our body. We’re feeling overwhelmed trying to get lunch on plates for crying kids. Your anxiety is ramping as you prepare to lead that important work meeting.
 Yes, I want you to relax your belly.  More so, I want you to unpack all the reasons for why you’re holding your belly in tight. ❤️❤️ #topregnancyandbeyond

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It was so nice outside today on our stroll, once my face froze off. 😍😩🥶

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This morning, we were on our way to go play at an indoor playground. But then, I asked myself why I was going to PAY ACTUAL MONEY to go chase two kids around for an hour by myself, when we could go buy chips and cookies with that money instead? Chips and cookies. 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼

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This is a photo of me from 6 years ago. I shared a post from @thefatsextherapist in my stories today, regarding what they said about bodies sometimes requiring more padding with age. My body looks so, so different today. I look so different today. Namely, I slept through the night every night at this stage of my life 6 years ago. 😩 Was I well-rested here?! I was rested, wasn’t I? I wear a size of clothes that is multiple sizes larger today. The current version of my body would not fit into the dress pictured. And, this isn’t ‘a thing’ for me. Mostly, I think it’s interesting to look back on this photo to remember what I was like. What I thought about. What I cared deeply about. Who I even was then. I, as Jessie, am so different now. That’s what I see when I look upon this photo. I don’t look back on this photo and wish for the same body. I don’t think my body looked better than it does now, with it being a larger shape and size. It’s just one singular, point in time of me living in my body. I know, and hope, that there will be so many more versions of my body. They will all be ME, yet not this same me. ❤️

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Thing is, we need to consider the utility of the message when we see another post from a thin, able bodied, white woman grabbing a handful of belly fat, talking about how she learned to love her body despite it being like this. It this revolutionary? No. Is this fat liberation? No. Is this body acceptance? Yes. Might this have been difficult work for the person? Yes. Does it consider body politics in its positioning? Often not, yet wildly important to do so.

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Done. Like, done done. Anybody else feeling tapped out the last couple of weeks? What’s the moon doing? Is something in retrograde?! How many months until the next time change?? Is this my life forever now? HELP. 😭😩😂

Jessie Mundell

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