Not Your Mama Podcast

With many of my clients, I get questions about pregnancy and postpartum bodily issues that are way outside of my scope, like proper skincare. That’s why I’m so excited to have Aimee Bowen on today’s episode to talk about what you should and shouldn’t be putting on & under your skin when pregnant or breastfeeding. Aimee is a Medical Aesthetician and On-Air TV Beauty Expert who is a fount of skincare knowledge. In this episode, we discuss:

• What to do about those brown spots and wrinkles that come up during and after pregnancy
• What products to avoid when pregnant and breastfeeding
• How your body can positively respond to certain injectables and treatments to help produce more of its own collagen and the like
• The value of treating your skin like your exercise regimen: staying consistent, changing things up, and focusing on your whole body outside of just your treatments.
• And more

If you’d like to connect with Aimee, you can find her on Instagram at @bowenbeauty1, and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/aimeebowentv. Plus, you can learn more about her med spa work at https://www.evolvemdmodernmedspa.com/

In this episode, we discuss Eminence Organic’s Sun Defense powdered sunscreen, which can be found at https://eminenceorganics.com/us/product/sun-defense-minerals-cherries-and-berries

If you're loving my podcast content, but are looking for something more to support your wellness journey, here are my programs currently available:

Strong As A Mother: Postpartum (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother/)
Strong As A Mother: Live (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-live/)
Strong As A Mother: Prenatal (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-prenatal/)
As always, you can find me on Instagram @kellybryantwellness

You just had a body part go from zero to 10 centimeters in a matter of hours. So are you just supposed to sit back, wait 6 weeks and then go back to everything as if it’s completely normal? No! Like any other recovery, you need to ramp back up to what you were doing before.

If you know me, you know I don’t believe that there’s some magic number where everything is magically good to go and you can exercise again. That time can be different for everyone, but I believe even from the moment of birth you can be doing things to positively affect your outcomes.

This episode is about those little routines between giving birth and getting back to exercise. Today I talk about:

• The value of early skin-to-skin contact
• How breastfeeding often can help your healing process
• How to introduce the first foray back into exercise
• Why you shouldn’t check or freak out about a diastasis recti super early in the process
• Areas to focus on when you do start exercising again
• and more!

If you’re interested in learning more about the diaphragmatic breath, check out this video I did a couple years ago now. WARNING: If you are a few days postpartum, the video does get into moves that you cannot or should not be accomplishing quite yet, so listen to your body. The breathing is at the beginning and something you can do a few days postpartum.

If you're loving my podcast content, but are looking for something more to support your wellness journey, here are my programs currently available:

Strong As A Mother: Postpartum (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother/)
Strong As A Mother: Live (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-live/)
Strong As A Mother: Prenatal (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-prenatal/)
As always, you can find me on Instagram @kellybryantwellness

Content Warning: This episode features discussions around disordered eating, rapid weight loss, and body image issues.

I am so excited to be talking to Alicia McCarvell (@aliciamccarvell), who is a body positivity expert, in this week’s episode. For lots of people, body image and diet culture may be things that you’ve been battling for years. For others, it could be something that is new to you because of pregnancy, childbirth, or even just a global pandemic that upended our lifestyles. And maybe you’ve never battled these things, but know someone who has, and you want to be an ally. In this episode, we’ll discuss:

• Her history with diet culture, extreme exercise and disordered eating
• How she realized her worth & health has nothing to do with her size
• How society often doesn’t ask the right support questions for people who “look” healthy
• How being the keynote speaker at BodCon is a dream come true and how you can listen to her talk about beach body positivity.

If you’d like to follow Alicia’s journey, you can find her on TikTok and Instagram @aliciamccarvell.

You can learn more about and buy tickets to TheBodCon TALKS: Beach Bodies - A Virtual Pool Party at https://www.thebodcon.com/beach-bodies. It will include a thought-provoking panel discussion (including Alicia!) that will tackle how 'bikini body' rhetoric affects us, how to face this potentially damaging communication, and how to promote body confidence now and in the future.

If you’re struggling with how to feel stylish at whatever size you happen to be, check out Episode 28 with Judith Gaton.

If you want to better understand how your health habits are better markers of your health than the number on the scale, listen to episode 19 with Kara Troctha.

If you're loving my podcast content, but are looking for something more to support your wellness journey, here are my programs currently available:

Strong As A Mother: Postpartum (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother/)
Strong As A Mother: Live (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-live/)
Strong As A Mother: Prenatal (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-prenatal/)
As always, you can find me on Instagram @kellybryantwellness

One of the primary areas of focus with all of my prenatal and postpartum clients is the pelvic floor, which is an amazing group of muscles that can be a key to unlocking a ton of pain relief, as well as relief from other symptoms. But most people don’t even really know what the pelvic floor is, let alone how to strengthen it. So we’re breaking it all down today!

In this episode, I discuss;

• What the pelvic floor is
• Some of the key functions of the pelvic floor
• How to learn to release and engage your pelvic floor
• How to strengthen your pelvic floor
• and more!

If you're loving my podcast content, but are looking for something more to support your wellness journey, here are my programs currently available:

Strong As A Mother: Postpartum (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother/)
Strong As A Mother: Live (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-live/)
Strong As A Mother: Prenatal (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-prenatal/)
As always, you can find me on Instagram @kellybryantwellness

If you've ever been told that pain with sex is normal, or that you should just drink a glass of wine and relax, this episode is for you. And even if you've never had pain with intercourse, it's worth sticking around to better understand how to identify and deal with pain during sex.
In this episode I'll discuss:

• Why it's important to have pleasurable sex
• Why you shouldn't just push through painful sex
• How to communicate and work on pain with your partner

During the episode I discuss/recommend:

• Call of the Wild by Kimberly Ann Johnson
• Franklin Balls
• Franklin Balls Video: Pelvic Anatomy and Hip Hinging
• Franklin Balls Video: Deep Hip Rotators Self-Massage
• Thera Wand
• The Playbook for Pain-Free Sex

If you're loving my podcast content, but are looking for something more to support your wellness journey, here are my programs currently available:

Strong As A Mother: Postpartum (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother/)
Strong As A Mother: Live (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-live/)
Strong As A Mother: Prenatal (https://www.kellybryantwellness.com/strong-as-a-mother-prenatal/)
As always, you can find me on Instagram @kellybryantwellness