This is my first year postpartum with my second baby and it has been a challenging one. My daughter is 10 months old, not sleeping through the night, getting sick on a regular basis, and I'm not mentally there just yet. I am stressed, my body is stressed and my hormones are still all over the place because I'm breastfeeding, lack of sleep and well, stress. This does not mean that I am not taking care of myself. I exercise regularly but also understand my body's limits. If m

Alright, you’ve had a baby and have discovered that your abs have separated. Yep, I know this feeling and didn’t learn anything about diastasis recti until the day before my second pregnancy, 3.5 years after my first. I like many new moms, wanted to drop the baby weight ASAP!! Only I wasn’t losing it fast enough. You see, my expectation was that because I was fit before and during my pregnancy, I would leave the hospital looking the way I did before pregnancy--nope!!! So,

This topic comes up a lot and I want to share it with you because it’s important for you to know that your health and wellness goals are yours and yours alone. They are personal, private, and a part of you. I have worked with a lot of women over the years who felt ashamed of the goals that they wanted to reach. They weren’t supported or encouraged and definitely not getting what they needed from their partner, spouse or other loved ones. They felt like they needed permissio

Well, Mother’s Day is here and I really hope you had the opportunity to relax a little. With 150 + hour work weeks, mandatory night shifts, breaks not guaranteed,and no sick days, we often wonder how we’re going to get through the day--or night. We all want to be the best mom possible. We may spend hours trying to create veggie animals so that our kids will eat them, we stay up late cleaning so that everything is ready for the next day, we try our best to soothe a teething