We can’t ignore that physical changes are a major part of our transformation into motherhood, that it plays a big role in our matrescence.
We can’t ignore how our bodies shift and change, but also how we see our bodies, how we identify who we are through our bodies and of course how our society and culture talks about both pregnant and postpartum bodies.
So you can imagine I loved this chat with Kimmy from the Empowered Motherhood Program (EMP). Kimmy is one part of this amazing duo and Lyz the other at the time of recording was about to have her third baby and well you guessed it, she was unavailable!
Kimmy is a pregnancy and postnatal exercise specialist, yoga teacher and a proud Mum to three little girls and was a former professional athlete and corporate lawyer.
Lyz is one of Australia's leading women's health physiotherapists with a Masters in Womens' Health and Continence and is passionate about preventive healthcare.
After Kimmy’s third child these two amazing women joined forces to help women have the best access to not only physical care for pre and postpartum but to open up the dialogue and provide the best education on those shhh ‘don’t talk about’ topics such as incontinence, prolapse, recovering from episiotomies and abdominal separation to name a few.
What I loved about this chat was that it wasn’t all about the actual physical challenges, but we dived deeper into a woman’s self worth and how our sense of self alters as we physically transform from a maiden to a mother. And how the pregnant body is admired, but the post body is seen as something that needs to ‘bounce back’ or to be fixed.
But honouring postpartum bodies like we do pregnant bodies is where we want to be and I so strongly share Kimmy and Lys’ vision.
I hope you enjoy this podcast.
Warmest love
Laura
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