Let me paint you a picture: I’m a prenatal and postpartum fitness specialist. I’ve helped hundreds of other moms heal their diastasis recti. I teach this stuff. But after my twin pregnancy? My own core healing hit a giant, soul-sucking wall.

After spending a nearly 2 years in what felt like my own personal version of mental purgatory, I had nearly given up all hope that my core could ever be fully healed. I felt like a fraud. I felt broken. I felt betrayed by my body. And as a wife, a mom, and a coach, I was carrying way too much shame about it.

I made one last-ditch decision. “If this doesn’t work, I give up,”

I hired a physical therapist with an ultrasound machine. She showed me right there in black and white what had been preventing my healing all this time (spoiler alert: it’s me, hi. I’m the problem, it’s me)

That was the moment everything shifted. I prayed (a lot), let go of deep-seated fear, got to work in the gym, and healed my diastasis recti in 6 weeks.

I know, I’m still in shock too.

In this episode, I’m sharing the messy middle of my diastasis recti healing journey, the mindset change that finally allowed my core to recover, and encouragement for every mama who’s staring down her own “this will never get better” moment.

So if you’re a mama who’s overwhelmed, healing, curious, or broken-open, grab your coffee and settle in. Things are about to get real.

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