“Girl, you look good… you don’t even look like you had a baby,” she said, as she grabbed my waist. It was my husband’s hairdresser and I was newly postpartum. She continues to say it every time she sees me. She’s sweet and has children of her own so I know she means it as a compliment. And for that, I usually smile and say thank you or nod sweetly. Had I had a baby in my twenties, I would have reveled, puffed my chest, and smiled in glory knowing that I got my “body back”. I

Symphysis pubis diastasis or disorder (SPD), occurs as a result of injury or irritation at the pubic symphysis- the joining point of the pubic bones at the front of the pelvis. If you are familiar with this term likely, you know how uncomfortable pelvic pain can be during pregnancy. Especially, when it feels as though it’s accumulated in or around one specific joint (or pair of joints). During pregnancy, our joints are already subject to vulnerability due to an excess of the

In 2008 while going through my 2nd yoga teacher training program and starting grad school, I also, coincidentally met the man who is now my husband. The combination of the three occurrences caused me to open myself in a way I never had before. The man lived 1200 miles away, student teaching was nerve-wracking, and grad school was hard. I had to learn to be engaging while also opening myself freely to critique, I had to be open to the possibility of heartache, and I had to wor