066: When You're Struggling With Your Post-Baby Body - Kristen Gottwald
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Life is beautiful and messy, yet there is nowhere self-love advocate and stay-at-home mom, Kirsten Gottwald, would want to be.
If you haven’t graced your newsfeed with her hilarious, real and honest presence on Instagram, you’re going to want to hit the Follow button over on her account @topknotanddoubleshot. Kristen shares honest truths about motherhood, including the personal, identity and body-related challenges that can often come with it. In this episode we discuss:
- The pressure to get your “pre-baby body” back
- It’s okay to grieve your old life when you become a mother
- How to find your mama community online
- How not to lose your sense of purpose or identity as a mother
- Kristen’s eating disorder, and it’s return post-pregnancy
- The language we use (and don’t use) around children is critical
- Instagram: how it can save your sanity when you’re a mother
- Connecting with other people who are going through the same thing as you
- Dirty Secret Sunday
- Body-image boosting strategies
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As mentioned in this episode:
- Website: topknotanddoubleshot.com
- @topknotanddoubleshot on Instagram and TikTok
- @thebirdspapaya
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