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Being in Motherhood Podcast

Amidst the joys of a motherhood journey, there is an undercurrent of challenge unlike any other you’ll face in your life, requiring a different kind of strength than your pre-motherhood days. The current maternal healthcare system sets moms up to get weaker in pregnancy and start motherhood with a deficit of strength and energy. This means the vast majority of mothers are slogging through motherhood feeling weak and discouraged. It’s time for that to change. Each week, Pregnancy and Postpartum Exercise Specialists (and sisters!) Kendra Fitzgerald and Nicole Coons will bring you the deep conversations needed with the practical tips and knowledge moms need to make bold decisions, heal their bodies, and live their motherhood on THEIR terms.

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Being in Motherhood Podcast

Kendra’s Story: Putting Herself Back Together Again & Making Motherhood Fit

September 20, 2022 • Kendra Fitzgerald & Nicole Coons • Episode 1

Welcome to Being in Motherhood!

We are your hosts, Kendra Fitzgerald and Nicole Coons: sisters, moms, postpartum and pregnancy corrective exercise specialists, trauma-informed yoga teachers, and cofounders of Devoted Mamas, a company that helps women access their strength and vitality through the wild, sacred journey of motherhood.

This show is all about using your perfectly messy, absurd and marvelous experiences in motherhood as opportunities to hone your greatest qualities, because your family deserves the BEST of you – NOT the most of you.

We hope to help you gain the tools you’ll need to be a bold advocate for yourself in pregnancy, claim your joy in birth and find wholeness in postpartum.

Today we’ll tell you a little more about us – focusing on Kendra in this episode, Nicole in the next – and have a little fun with words of advice, a game of “would you rather,” true confessions, and some contemplation of what it means to make motherhood fit.

We hope you’ll join us!

Notable Quote from Kendra

“Motherhood doesn’t have to look a specific way. It doesn’t have to look how it looked for our mothers or grandmothers. We get to create a new definition of what motherhood looks like for us. Really, it’s about breaking free of the conditioning that a mother does this or that or the other thing, and defining motherhood on your terms.”

Resources & Links

Learn more about Nicole and Kendra on their website, or follow @devotedmamas on Instagram for pregnancy and postpartum coaching and inspiration.

Have a specific comment or question for us? Ask us via our very cool voice notes page!

If you’re postpartum and ready to start your core and pelvic floor recovery, check out our Postpartum Repair & Restore 8-week program with LIVE coaching. In this program, we guide you through the exact workouts you need to feel your muscles strengthening + the education and LIVE supervision you need to know you’re doing it right. For more information, go to devotedmamas.com/repair

If you’re currently pregnant, check out our Expecting to Flourish membership, a mom-driven and expert-guided virtual community that we created to help you stay your strongest during pregnancy, physically practice for birth and move easily into early postpartum. Find out more at devotedmamas.com/flourish