6 Steps to Embrace your Postpartum Body
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5 • 965 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
What if the real celebration of postpartum isn’t about “bouncing back” but about honoring the powerful changes your body has embraced? Too often, society’s expectations push new mothers to fixate on returning to pre-pregnancy shapes, overlooking the strength, resilience, and beauty gained through the journey of childbirth. This is what I dive into in this episode of Embrace Your Real.
I will also discuss some practical ways to embrace your current self—from choosing clothes that bring comfort and confidence to recognizing milestones like renewed energy and strength. Let’s celebrate each stage of postpartum, creating a space for shared experiences and unity in honoring our unique transformations!
I also discuss:
(02:51) Embracing Postpartum Body Transformation
(07:15) Embracing Movement Postpartum
(11:04) Navigating Postpartum Body Confidence
(13:32) Embracing Body Confidence Through Dressing
(20:32) - Embracing Postpartum Strength and Unity
and more!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, beautiful human. You're listening to Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Ledbetter, |
| 0:05.4 | a podcast where I empower you to just be you. With each episode, I dish you a dose of real talk |
| 0:11.4 | and actionable advice for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving |
| 0:16.6 | your authentic self. Stay tuned if you're ready to embrace your real. Let's get and let's go. |
| 0:28.3 | Hello and welcome back to another episode on the Embrace Real podcast. I'm really excited to |
| 0:33.1 | dive in today's topic because I think that it's something that many of us can relate to |
| 0:37.0 | and something that I personally am going through something that many of us can relate to and something |
| 0:37.7 | that I personally am going through and have been going through for the last almost four months. |
| 0:42.5 | And that is postpartum body image. So whether you have recently had a baby, maybe you're getting |
| 0:47.8 | ready to kind of be in that journey or you even had a baby a few years ago. I want to firsthand |
| 0:53.3 | want you to know that how much |
| 0:56.4 | your body changes and how much your life changes if this is going from zero to one, it can be |
| 1:01.2 | super overwhelming. Like, trust me, I'm in the thick of it. But there's also this pressure that I think |
| 1:06.6 | society puts on us, whether we recognize it or not with this bounce back culture. And I know |
| 1:11.9 | that that's very cliche to say. But I want to kind of pause on that because I really want to talk |
| 1:17.6 | about really embracing this new body and loving it for what it's accomplished and celebrating it |
| 1:23.3 | for everything that it is and everything that it's doing and really finding new ways to honor it |
| 1:27.4 | without having this pressure so that you can really start to feel like yourself again in this |
| 1:33.2 | body. Before we dive in though, I want to share this review. It comes from Biscuits and Bull G-O-G-O. |
| 1:41.0 | I don't really know if I said that right, but she gave a five-star review and said, I'm a smarter, wiser |
| 1:46.6 | woman listening to this podcast. Hi there, if you're like me and get so much joy from exercise |
| 1:51.0 | and eating healthy, but may have found yourself on the border of having an unhealthy |
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