The Body Resilient Mum

Postpartum can make your body feel purely functional and intimacy complicated.   Counsellor   Ashleigh Chapman   (mum of two, 3 months postpartum) shares how body image, safety and the mental load shape desire, what partners often misread as rejection, and practical ways to reconnect: the “sex-off-the-table” reset, a gentle touch ladder, real-life scripts, and tiny steps to rediscov...

Just a heads up, there is the occasional F-bomb is dropped in this episode, so if you have little ears around make sure you have your ear-buds in. In this episode, I sit down with Alice Worthy, aka The Modern Doula,  to talk about why pregnancy can be such a vulnerable time for body image, and how we can protect our minds (and hearts) through it. Alice supports women through pregnancy, birth...

In this inspiring episode of The Body Resilient Mum, I chat with Sierra Ryland, a dedicated triathlete, 5x Ironman finisher and mother (wow), to explore the challenges and triumphs of balancing motherhood with athletic ambitions. Sierra shares her journey from competing in Ironman events to navigating the complexities of recovery after a significant injury, all while maintaining her role...

Warning: This episode contains a few f-bombs, so if you have little ears around you might want to pop in your earbuds! This week I sat down with Kate Hickey and honestly, it’s one of those chats that just hits you right in the feels. Kate’s the founder of Empower 360 Fitness and she’s all about helping women feel strong and confident without getting caught up in how we should look. We talk about e...

In this episode of The Body Resilient Mum Project Podcast, I sit down with Rhiannon Walton, Exercise Physiologist at Conveniently Active to have an open and honest conversation about abdominoplasty, a surgery more commonly (and often dismissively) called a “tummy tuck.” After experiencing a very large abdominal separation and lax connective tissue post-pregnancy, Rhiannon found herself living with...

Welcome to season two of the Body Resilient Mum! We’re kicking off the season with the Gina Stear, dietician extraordinaire. Gina is the founder of Simple Steps Nutrition here on the NSW Central Coast. She’s helped hundreds of mums nourish themselves and their little ones through every age and stage and in todays episode we look at what this looks like when mums (pregnant, postnatal and beyond) ar...

Can you remember what it was like to be a teenager? Feeling insecure in your body, trying to look like yourself but at the same time fit in with everybody else? Always comparing your body and your face to those around you and the ones you saw in magazines.  Imagine going through all of that now but with access to social media and the internet 24/7. We can’t get rid of social media and we can’...

Have you ever sucked in your tummy or worn suck-it-pants to make your waist look smaller? Yep, me too… all of the time, until I became a pre and post natal fitness professional.  Has it ever crossed your mind what effect years of constant sucking in your tummy has on your body, especially your pelvic floor? In this episode I talk to Nicole Young, women's health physiotherapist and owner of Fo...

Trigger warning. In this episode we talk about birth trauma. We don’t go into detail about a specific experience but the conversation about the birth trauma may be triggering for some people. Listen with self compassion and feel free to skip this episode if you need to. I had the pleasure of chatting to Dr Rosie Pajak, clinical and perinatal psychologist and creator of the Birth Healing Collective...

In this episode I take you through one of my favourite lessons in the Body Resilient Mum Project- How to critique what you see, read and hear in the media, especially social media! We have 24/7 access to unrealistic images of human bodies (sometimes not even human now that AI has gone mainstream), which means what we see has a huge impact on how we feel about our body. A lot of the time we are una...

This week I chatted to Chelsea Clifford, owner of Marquise Mums and co-creator of the Peach Project. Chels is a fellow MumSafe trainer and a certified CrossFit coach so I wanted to pick her brains on what it really means to train for performance (getting strong, faster, better) as opposed to training to change the way your body looks (doing squats to get a bigger bum and sit ups to get a six-pack,...

In this episode I answer some of your hot topic questions on body image: "I still think that I looked better being a smaller size. How can I change my mindset around this?" "My daughter sees me putting on make up and asks why I do it. What do I tell her?" "My mum and her sister usually make a comment about what I’m eating and will probably go on and on about the diet I should join them on after Ch...

In this episode I share some of the golden content from the Body Resilient Mum Project online course. Wait! Don’t go and find another podcast to listen to- I promise you this isn’t a forty minute sales pitch! I want you to finish listening to this episode and feel that you’re walking away with some valuable skills, which you can use next time you find that your mind wanders down the “I hate my bod...

Keeping It Real episodes are made from a collection of real conversations with real mums. In this episode we talk about the comparison trap- how we often compare ourselves to other people, family, our friends, even our own pre-baby bodies. We also share our experiences of childhood, specifically the effect that seeing our mums and grandmothers repeatedly go on diets has had on our own body image....

This episode has a large focus on anorexia and the medical interventions that arose from that. If you think this may trigger unwanted emotions and memories for you please feel free to skip this one. In this very first episode I chat to Lisa. Lisa is one of the very first mums who joined my outdoor fitness groups, strong mums, 5 and a half years ago. She also happens to be one of my closest friends...

Welcome to the Body Resilient Mum Podcast! I'm your host Louise Hurley and in this season trailer I'll be introducing myself, sharing with you what I do and how I ended up in this space of fitness and body image as well as what to expect from the Body Resilient Mum Podcast. I'm so excited to be here and can't to bring you season one! For further information or to connect with me in person head to...