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Let’s talk about postpartum nutrition as professionals. This is not a topic that we as professionals are trained on, but we are starting to see a change in this. There are those out there that are standing up and making waves trying to get people to realize the importance of nutrition, especially in the postpartum years. 

We as professionals carry a special place in supporting women in postpartum, although there are some that don’t believe it is our job to include and guide our clients in nutrition, I am here to challenge you with that thought. I want you to consider.  If not us, who? If not now, when?

Listen in to some of the wonderful guests that I have had on the podcast as they share their experience with going through my Postpartum Nutrition Certification and how it has not only changed their lives and businesses, but also the lives of their clients. If you are ready to start supporting your clients in deep healing through nutrition, be sure to go register now for the 2022 Spring Cohort of the Postpartum Nutrition Certification here.

In this episode, I am sharing:

• Why postpartum nutrition as professionals is so important
• The changes occurring in science & nutrition
• Why I created The Postpartum Nutrition Certification
• Stories from a few professionals that have taken The Postpartum Nutrition Certification
• Jojo Hogan’s experience
• Dominika Buck’s experience
• Bethany Gerry’s experience
• Sarah Bilger’s experience
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Go to https://postpartumu.com/postpartum-nutrition-for-professionals-ep51/ for more!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification 

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Let’s get personal! What better way to celebrate the 50th episode than by answering some questions that we collected from listeners?! 

Ready to hear everything from how I navigate researching information, to my beliefs, my relationship that didn’t work out after having my first baby, and so much more? 

Come join us over in my Facebook group The Postpartum Circle after you listen.

In this episode, I am sharing:

• 50th Episode Celebration
• Being interviewed on my own show!
• Questions from listeners
• Navigating the wild world of health…how do I do it?
• Where I research
• What I look for & how I weed out
• Special attention to what pertains to postpartum bodies
• Becoming a single Mama after my first baby
• Did I get back with my son's dad, or re-marry?
• Depression, anxiety, and inability to function after having a baby
• How it’s all worked out
• How I decided where to start delegating in personal life and business
• Where to start looking for support that we all deserve and NEED
• Deciding on priorities and delegating areas you are currently showing up that you don’t want to have to as much
• Being Christian & ALSO my belief of energy chakras, and moon cycles
• What is the optimal spacing between pregnancies? 
• How do you achieve health in your body between pregnancies and feel when your body is ready to carry another?
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Go to https://postpartumu.com/50th-episode-celebration-getting-personal-ep50/ for more!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Ready to know how to heal your body in postpartum? In this episode, I’m going to share my framework, in a very short amount of time. I’m going to share everything you need to heal your body in the years after having a baby. 

Whether you are a mother, provider, or healer supporting women in the years after having a baby, this episode is for you.  Listen in to learn about the five-step framework that I use to help heal my clients with depression, anxiety, extreme symptoms, and so much more. 

Be sure to listen in, and then come join us over in my Facebook group: The Postpartum Circle.

Go to  https://postpartumu.com/how-to-heal-your-body-framework-ep49/ for more!

In this episode, I am sharing:

• Sharing my 5 step framework for healing women in postpartum
• Functional nutrition
• The forgotten aspect of healing our bodies
• Physical, emotional, and physiological changes that occur within our bodies
• Changes in our gut
• Healing of trauma
• Creating a healthy environment within our body for healing
• Somatic Healing & Nervous System Reset
• Nutrient deficiency and inability to process trauma
• Sleep & its importance in our lives
• Nervous System Reset
• Our nervous system & hormones
• Our bodies all process trauma differently
• Cyclical living and finding your rhythms 
• Falling in love with our bodies again
• Whole Body Support
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Links to episodes in regards to our gut health in postpartum: 

Postpartum Nutrition - The Physiological Changes That Shift Your Digestion: Podcast EP5 - Postpartum University

Mind-Body Connection with Logan Spacek, Physical Therapist: Ep40 - Postpartum University

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Our guest Christa Bevan is joining us and sharing about a technique that is used called TRE Therapy. It is a tension and trauma release exercise that was developed to help release stress and tension, it also helps create stress resilience for moms, and people in general. This is a technique that I use myself, I teach my clients, and one that even my children use.

Christa is an expert companion to other radical mothers. She is dedicated to consciously breaking cycles of generational trauma and is sharing how she works to do that in this episode.

You can find Christa and all of her links here on her website:

christabevan.com

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/trauma-healing-with-christa-bevan-ep48/

In this episode, we are sharing:

• TRE Therapy
• How Christa got on this path
• Talk therapy, & realizing she also needed to deal with trauma held in her physical body
• The physical expression of anxiety
• How Maranda was introduced to this therapy
• This is something that can be incorporated into everyday
• Completing the stress activation cycle within your body
• What happens when this cycle isn’t getting completed
• What TRE is and what it looks like
• This therapy method is all self-controlled
•  We can’t stop stress from happening, but we can change the way we interact with it
• This is a normal process within the body 
• How animals go through the stress cycle
• Our body naturally self regulates
• Modern conditioning to fight against that regulation
• Resistance creates more stress
• TRE therapy allows us to release a lot of the tension and stress we tend to bottle up
• Why this work is so important as a mother
• Disrupting trauma from your lineage
• How that sometimes presents itself
• This works for those that don’t identify with trauma too, TRE therapy is good for everyday stresses that we experience as well
• Different ways you can learn to do this
• To work with Christa, go to her website listed above and reach out there!
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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As high functioning boss moms, it can be extremely frustrating to be struggling with these different postpartum mood disorders, especially when we are typically successful in everything that we do. From running companies, being the boss, having your own job and business, and typically doing all the things, being faced with these mental struggles can be very shocking and discouraging. 

I want you to recognize and see that it's okay that you're here. It IS common that you're here, but that doesn’t mean that it is something normal… 

It doesn’t have to be your life...it doesn't have to be your normal. 

Find relief in the fact that this is something that can be changed, and I am here to help you do just that.  You are not alone and I have the resources to help you along this path to healing.

For full show notes & resources go to  https://postpartumu.com/burnout-and-anxiety-in-high-functioning-boss-moms-ep47/

In this episode, we are sharing:

• The secret club of postpartum
• My struggle with being a successful woman and battling postpartum mood disorders
• Some statistics for postpartum mental health
• The length of postpartum, and why it’s crap
• Commonality is never equated with normalcy
• Struggles many high functioning successful women deal with
• The years postpartum, and HEALING your body
• A majority of this is a learned behavior
• You CAN change
• Living a life that feels amazing within your body
• These disorders affect so much more than just the mom
• We need a world where women are feeling their best
• You have the ability to heal your body, you just need to be given the right tools.
• 5 recommendations to help high functioning women heal
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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So, what happens when you’re a birth professional struggling with PPD/PPA? The simple fact of the matter is, postpartum depression and anxiety can happen to anyone, regardless of the tools and knowledge you have around to prevent it. 

However, being a birth professional, you may experience even more guilt and shame when you are the one struggling. You’re likely thinking something along the lines of “it is my job to help others with this, how can I do that when I’m struggling myself.” Corina Fitch experienced all of that and more firsthand. 

 She is joining us in this episode to share her experience of PPD/PPA, and how working with me helped her to move forward. 

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/when-youre-a-birth-professional-with-ppd-ppa-a-story-with-corina-fitch-ep46/

You can find Corina Fitch here:

Corina’s retreat: https://motherflytribe.myshopify.com/pages/beta-chyrsalis, 

Website: www.motherfly.mom

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/motherflytribe/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MotherFly

In this episode, we are sharing:

• Introducing Corina
• Experiencing severe postpartum depression and anxiety
• Hiding it from her community of other providers
• Doubt & overwhelm
• Hitting a very low place
• Hopelessness, then finding me & reaching out
• Supporting women in postpartum, and struggling ourselves
• Corina’s experience working with me
• Nutrition
• Shifting perspective
• Generational trauma
• Where Corina is now after working with me
• Corina’s retreat - Chrysalis - & all the details for that (link is below!)
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Let’s address placenta encapsulation and consumption. I get questions regarding this topic VERY frequently. Questions I tend to get in regards to this topic are: “Is this something that's beneficial to us? Does it reduce the signs and risks of postpartum depression and anxiety? Does this have any effect on my breast milk? Is this safe?”…the list goes on and on. So many women report and share how helpful it has been for them, but it is not always an easy decision to make when it’s something you know so little about.

In this episode, I am going to share with you some science behind placenta encapsulation and consumption, and my overall thoughts while addressing the many questions and concerns I get in regards to this topic. If you’re considering consuming your placenta, or just want to learn more about it I highly encourage you to listen to this episode, then come join us in The Postpartum Circle Facebook Group where you can follow up with any questions you may have or if you have consumed your placenta, we would love you to share your thoughts and experience in doing so!

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• Consuming your placenta
• Frequently asked questions
• The idea behind why we think mammals consume their placentas
• Hemorrhaging and consuming your placenta
• Using this as a support system and preventative for postpartum depression and anxiety
• Myths about the placenta
• Why encapsulate the placenta?
• A couple of poor-quality studies done in the 1900s
• Women’s reports on positive results
• My postpartum experience with placenta encapsulation and consumption
• Taking science, or lack thereof, into account
• Nutrients
• Hormones
• Iron deficiency (anemia)
• Anemia - links to postpartum depression
• Two studies were done in 2016
• Sensitivity of our bodies and systems in postpartum
• Pilot Study with Placenta Encapsulation
• Sometimes the opposite occurs, it is not for everyone
• The need for more, and better research
• Do your own research from all resources & do what's best for you and your family

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Jessie Ereddia is joining us and sharing the realities of what rage and anger in postpartum means, and what we can do to support ourselves through it.

In this episode, we are going to break down what postpartum rage is, what it isn’t, and some advice from not only two professionals, but two Mom’s who have been there themselves and can help guide you on what to do and where to go next if this is something you find yourself struggling with.

You can find & follow Jessie Ereddia here:

Instagram

Website

For full show notes go to https://postpartumu.com/rage-and-anger-in-postpartum-with-jessie-ereddia-ep44/

In this episode, we are sharing:

• Jessie sharing her journey with postpartum depression, anxiety and postpartum rage
• The vision we have going into motherhood
• Anger in postpartum
• Intense out of control feelings and emotional chaos as a postpartum mom
• The DSM Five - Postpartum Rage is not yet categorized on this 
• How postpartum rage relates to mental, emotional changes you’re experiencing
• How to move out of the shame and guilt around postpartum rage
• How Find someone you can trust and start sharing your story to begin healing your postpartum rage and anger
• Explore the anxiety that is beneath that anger
• Different thoughts and emotions that create fear and drive rage and aggression
• The connection with feeling “unsafe”
• How to move out of shame
• Reframing your perspective

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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What do I mean by reclaiming postpartum wellness? The simple fact is that the understanding of how significant postpartum is and how directly it affects our overall health and wellness has been lost over so many generations. 

We are seeing this ever-growing need to reclaim and take back what is ours.  This need to really become more of who we are in this postpartum period so that we can be the best mom, community member, partner, and friend. Our world is in need of women who are at their very best. And we are not at our very best if we are struggling with being a mother if we are struggling with our health.

It’s time to make the shift, and get the support you need and deserve to reclaim your health and create a lifestyle that supports you in every way. Join 100’s of Women as they step into this space here, Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership.

We can’t wait to have you join us!

For full shownotes and other resources go to  https://postpartumu.com/reclaiming-postpartum-wellness-ep43/

In this episode, I’m sharing:

• This medical and masculine approach currently taken with postpartum
• Why all things need to be considered within postpartum
• Reclaiming postpartum 
• Postpartum affecting menopause
• Becoming who we are meant to be through postpartum
• Why so many struggle in postpartum
• There is a far healthier and more vibrant way to raise our children
• Importance of putting these tools and knowledge to use
• Healing is not linear
• Creating a lifestyle
• Why we need support systems
• Turning inward, how this changes EVERYTHING
• The health of a community relies on the health of its mothers
• Do an assessment friend………where do you want to be?
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

Courses, tools, & resources for healing in Mamas & Providers 

-Postpartum Repletion(Nutrition) Plan

*BRAND NEW - 12 weeks to whole-body transformation* 

-Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness Course + Membership 

Are your symptoms being caused by postpartum depletion, or something else? 

-Take The Postpartum Assessment HERE!

Postpartum University® Training for Professionals:

-Holistic Postpartum Nutrition Training

-Postpartum Nutrition Certification(JOIN THE WAITLIST)

- If you are in need of support, or have questions you can send an email to [email protected]   OR  you can reach out  in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group.

Where to find me: postpartumu.com

• Facebook
• Instagram
• Pinterest

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals 

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Our brains change drastically during pregnancy, postpartum, and while breastfeeding.

Pregnancy brain..... Mom brain..... Baby brain…..

In this episode, Julia and I discuss the many changes that our brain goes through during these transitions, and challenge you to view it in a different manner. Mom brain has been referred to with disdain and frustration because of the challenges it presents. Let’s shift the narrative, and instead focus on the entire picture of "Mom brain". What it is, why we have it, and how important it can be overall. We invite you to further this conversation with us in The Postpartum Circle Facebook group. We'll see you there. 

You can find & follow Julia Jones here:

Website

Facebook

Newborn Mothers Podcast

For full show notes go to...https://postpartumu.com/your-brain-in-postpartum-with-julia-jones-ep42/

In this episode, we are sharing:

• Introducing Julia
• The biological brain changes that occur during these transitions
• Physical shrinkage of the brain
• Positive aspects of these changes
• Research in this area
• Changes within our brains with a multitude of children vs. one?
• Are the changes permanent?
• Living in a patriarchal world
• Empathy and Compassion
• Heightening of Senses
• Julia’s book “Newborn Mothers” (this can be found on her website shared above)
• Our brain changes & postpartum depression/anxiety
• The drastic changes in society in the last 100 years
• The opportunity to change your brain
• Intuition vs. instinct
• Biological Changes and Environmental Changes
• How to encourage some of these changes when fostering or adopting a child
• Links to find Julia Jones are listed above!
• Come join us in the Facebook group The Postpartum Circle!

NEXT STEPS:

• 🎒Download the Postpartum Restoration Method™ Assessment Tool 
• 🧠Perinatal Mental Health Certificate Training
• 🔔Sign up for the Postpartum Nutrition Certification Waitlist
• 👍Rate, REVIEW & share the podcast
• 📱Connect on Instagram!
• 📚Get a Copy of the BOOK: Reclaiming Postpartum Wellness
•  Additional Courses for Providers & Postpartum Professionals