The Healthy Post Natal Body Podcast

Send us Fan Mail  In this week's, nice and brief, episode I talk about some of the basics of post-partum exercise such as "how diastasis recti can cause knee-pain." I also touch on the idea that diastasis recti can not be healed, or is more difficult to heal, when you're still breastfeeding "because of Relaxin". The role of Relaxin on post-partum recovery has not been...

Send us Fan Mail  In this weeks episode I am joined by Court Garfoot and we're talking everything PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) Court is a nutritionist and specialises in hormone imbalances including PCOS and Endometriosis. She is also very eloquent and knowledgable so she is just the ticket when you want to talk to someone about this sort of thing. We went over loads including some of the...

Send us Fan Mail  In this weeks episode I have the pleasure of talking to post-partum anxiety expert Allison Lieberman. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist, postpartum anxiety expert, mom of 2, and 2x postpartum anxiety survivor. She is the co-founder of Rooted in Harmony Counseling , a California-based group therapy practice dedicated to helping moms with anxiety, relationships, and p...

Send us Fan Mail  In this weeks episode I have the pleasure of talking to Susannah Juteau  Susannah Juteau, MSc, CLT, RD, is a registered dietitian who specializes in headache and migraine nutrition for women. She has a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and a Master’s in Nutrition and Dietetics from McGill so she definitely is the person to listen to! We are talking about many things; The differen...

Send us Fan Mail  In this weeks episode I am talking about the importance of getting the basics right. I had an email where someone asked how to tighten up the bit below her bellybutton and when I mentioned exercises that could help (such as the TVA leg raises that are part of the HPNB program) she said "Yes, I can easily do them and they don't help". This reminded me of the importa...

Send us Fan Mail In this weeks episode I had the pleasure of talking to Anna Maria DiDio Anna Maria DiDio, MSW is an adoptive mother and was inspired to write her memoir, Love at the Border, An Adoption Adventure after her own family journey to Mexico.  Now her L.I.F.E.* ( *Love Inspires Families Everywhere ) Adventures children’s books feature stories about adoption, foster care, stepchildren, an...

Send us Fan Mail This week I talk about exercise during pregnancy and answer 4 questions I get asked a lot ; What can you do? What can you not do? What should you do? And, what should you NOT do? I also go into metabolism and weightmanagement/weightloss. A lot of people keep making the fundamental mistake that they don't understand just how big of a difference a small change in metabolism rea...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the absolute pleasure of talking to Ryan Rae Harbuck. She's the author of " When I grow up, I want TO BE A CHAIR ", mother of 2, swim coach and a paraplegic. She talks to me about her experience of being pregnant, giving birth and early post-partum stages whilst being a paraplegic. It's an astonishing insight in a world which, most able-bodied,...

Send us Fan Mail This week I start talking about The UK government's, rather shameful, decision to delay the ban on multi-buy deals of shitty food (and related advertising). And this leads me to the subject of personal responsibility for your own health; YOUR choices are the things that affect YOUR health the most. I quote from Dr Morgan Levine, a scientist at Yale, in the above bit. You can...

Send us Fan Mail  This week I answer 3 diastasis recti related questions; Is Hula Hooping really good for healing diastasis recti? I answer the question and talk you through how to make sure you can do your hula hoop class safely when you have diastasis recti/or at least a gap. Is it normal to have lower back ache the day after doing some diastasis exercises? It is not uncommon but it's also...

Send us Fan Mail  This week I talk about the easiest ways you can improve your health. They barely require you to get off the couch AND don't cost you the earth so there is NO reason not to take this advice :) I also briefly discuss some changes that are coming up for HPNB :) "In the news this week" I talk a bit about Dr Mark Hyman and one of the big issues there is when it comes to...

Send us Fan Mail This week I have the pleasure of talking to author Dawn M Barclay. She's the author of a book called; " Traveling Different: Vacation Strategies for Parents of the Anxious, the Inflexible, and the Neurodiverse." It's basically the travel bible for those on the autism spectrum as well as those with mood/attention disorders. Anyone who has a child with such issue...

Send us Fan Mail After doing several "In the news this week" segments about household chemicals, micro plastic etc I finally found the perfect guest to come on and talk about exactly that. Therese “Tee” Forton-Barnes is a Household Toxins health specialist and we talk about many, many things. The problem with certain popular household cleaning products, aerosols and PFAS. How my generati...

Send us Fan Mail Have I ever told you how lucky I am with my expert guests? This week I had the pleasure of talking to Dr David Prologo. He's a is a dual board-certified interventional radiologist and obesity medicine specialist. Dr. Prologo has spent more than twenty years specifically analyzing the phenomenon of diet attrition—why do diets always fail? More importantly, when they do fail, w...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the pleasure of talking to nutritional therapist Kirsten Chick. Not only is Kirsten a nutritional therapist, She's a public speaker, educator, podcast host of not one but TWO podcasts and author of " Nutrition brought to life ". In other words, she's incredibly knowledgable about all things food related. We spent a solid hour talking about the e...

Send us Fan Mail  This week I talk about something that is very commonly discussed on diastasis recti support forums, and usually without the real answer actually being given. The question will be something long these lines; "My eldest child is 5 (nearly) and I had a 5 fingers gap closed down the 1-2 over the years but I can’t seem to get it to close any further . I’m a active person and not...

Send us Fan Mail  This week we have a relatively short podcast. I mainly talk about why a program to heal your pelvic floor can not really be done/purchased online where as a program to heal Diastasis Recti can. There are some excellent pelvic floor specialists on Instagram and a lot of the information they give is very useful however I personally wouldn't recommend you invest in any of their...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the pleasure of talking to Athina Crilley (and her cats, Quiet Jasper and Shouty Jake) Athina is a podcast host , author, content creator (and all-round very busy!). She is also a recovered anorexic and was kind enough to take some time out of her very busy schedule to talk to us about her recovery journey and her experience in overcoming her eating disorder. She s...

Send us Fan Mail This week I had the pleasure of talking to Danielle Sullivan. She's a neurodiversity life coach, autism and disability advocate, autistic mother and host of the Neurodiverging podcast . We had a tremendous chat about various things to do with either being diagnosed as neurodivergent yourself or raising neurodivergent children. We covered "What to do if your child gets a...

Send us Fan Mail This week I talk about the, frankly ridiculous, idea that you can't sit upright when getting into and out of bed. Or that you can't lift weights when you have diastasis recti. Sure, that might be the case early on in your post-partum recovery but the thought that one of my clients expressed to me that "my physio told me that I always had to do that from now on"...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am talking about an email and conversation I had with someone; She had twins 10 months ago, worked with a PT for 5 months and  saw no improvement at all. In her words; My belly is "huge and hard" and her personal trainer said it was down to bloating. So I go over the 3 causes of big round post-partum bellies and, as always, offer the solutions in each case as...

Send us Fan Mail We're back to normal this week! After the episode on the "top 3", and talking about Michael Mosley's flawed book, I had an email asking me to go into some more detail about the "satiety theory" so I'm doing a bit about that. I'm talking time-management. I know how many of you are struggling to fit everything in, especially your exercise rout...

Send us Fan Mail In the aftermath of last week's episode, or actually..last Saturday's Instagram post where I dared suggest that The Fat Doctor was not a positive influence in the health industry..someone very kindly sent me a link to the following paper. https://nutritionj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1475-2891-10-9 "Weight Science: Evaluating the Evidence for a Paradigm Shif...

Send us Fan Mail On this week's episode I'm getting myself into trouble by mentioning my top 3 "worst people in health and fitness". My top 3 are; First bit up to 27-28 minute mark; Nr 1 Dr Michael Mosley. He makes the list as a serial publisher of crash-diet books built on iffy interpretations of research. Then 28 minute to Approx 52 minutes; Nr 2 Dr Asher Larmie, also known a...

Send us Fan Mail  On this week's episode I'm answering some questions that you sent in such as; Does sleeping with a pillow between my legs really help my diastasis recti? My physio told me I had to exercise for an hour a day to heal my diastasis but I don't have the time for that. Can I do less? My personal trainer doesn't like me asking questions during exercise. But some of...