The Tummy Team Journey

Join Kelly Dean, Founder of The Tummy Team, and Beth Learn of Fit2B. Beth interviews Kelly about embracing the new and her journey into her 50's. We talk about being proactive, setting goals, doing what you love and staying fit with new perspective. This is the first in our series of podcasts that follow Kelly into her 50th birthday. Related Links: Fit2B Core Foundations and Core Smart Fitness are...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews  client Zahra from Saudi Arabia as she shares her story of self neglect, depression, birth trauma and her way back to finding herself again. This is a powerful interview to understanding how important self care is especially in the postpartum season. Join us and connect with the hope and encouragement found in Zahra's journey. Related Links...

This is part two of our functional integration series with Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team. This week Kelly shares about how to take your newly restored core back into the sports you love. She discusses how we deconstruct the sports into drills and skills so that we can reconstruct the sport with your core strength at the focus of it all. We talk about so many different sports includ...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares in depth about one of the foundational components of The Tummy Team's functional core rehab approach: Functional Integration. This is part 1 of 2 about how to make core work functional and how our real life actually can create opportunities for our core to be strong. We dive into all the little and big things that consume your day like kitchen...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews colleague and chiropractor Dr. Michelle Gerbi as she shares how functional core rehab dramatically impacted her approach with her prenatal and postpartum clients. This is a great discussion about the standard of care for the treatment of new moms and how women need support and realistic tools to honor the changes their bodies are experienci...

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews Tummy Team client and author Sharon Czerwein who shares how her physical therapy experience with The Tummy Team led her to writing her book Core: Biblical Principles for When Life Gets Bumpy. Kelly had the privilege of contributing the first few chapters of this book and the interview will help you see the big picture connection...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Core Foundations client Taryn who shares about the chronic low back pain and instability that plagued her since she was 13 and how functional core rehab has changed everything. Taryn had a diastasis and was on a journey to heal from her second pregnancy when she found The Tummy Team and realized all her symptoms were related AND trea...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about how fitness and rehab differ and the importance of building the solid core foundation prior to adding challenges of fitness to get lasting results. Related Links: Functional Core Weakness and Diastasis Recti Why You Should Stop Doing Crunches

Kelly interviews Tummy Team online administrator Miranda Anderson as they share about the most common questions our clients ask and the answers. We discuss how weight loss is not required to strengthen your core, how men struggle with body image too, how addressing grief is a surprising factor in the healing process, and so much more. Join us to get to know more about our team and how we are dedic...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client Lori who after years of avoiding truly investing in herself started a functional core rehab journey that she translated into a water aerobics core class for her community. Lori has a great story and shares how she has not only learned how to heal her own body but she has shared this knowledge with her friends, family and women...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how diastasis and digestion are so connected and how addressing this can help kids and adults that are struggling with both. Kelly shares more about our Tummy Team Toddler Course in this episode and how healing the core has changed the lives of many people struggling with chronic constipation. Take a listen, you might be surprised to learn how...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews clinic and online client Erika as she shares her healing journey from abdominal trauma related to severe endometriosis and chronic pain. Erika has a complicated medical and motherhood history but has found healing and freedom through retraining her connection to her core and pelvic floor with The Tummy Team. Join us to here her encouraging...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 66-year-old client Sheila as she shares her inspiring story out of depression, narcotic use and into a strong and confident life while working with The Tummy Team. Sheila shares the benefits of functional core strength and practical tools to help her manage her chronic pain to her overall mental health. Join us to be inspired and encouraged...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how our mental health symptoms are often impacted by our physical weakness in the core and pelvic floor, and our core and pelvic floor can actually be directly impacted by our mental health. There are so many ways that we can look holistically at the body and help clients address issues like depression, anxiety, body image issues and more throu...

Join Kelly Dean as she interviews personal trainer Chiara De Benedetti from Italy as she shares her journey through her diastasis recti education. Chiara is an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner and is making a huge impact in Italy in changing what they know about fitness, diastasis recti and healing. She is a resource to many and has great passion and insight for all fitness professionals a...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team Endorsed Midwife Kirsten Zimmerman from Switzerland as she shares how she started treating her clients for diastasis recti and what a difference it has made in their pregnancies, births and birth recoveries. Kirsten is passionate about making a difference in the birth community and is excited to share how rewarding this work is....

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Katrin Rey, an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner and physical therapist from Germany. Katrin shares how learning about diastasis, the big picture of functional core weakness and how to treat it has changed the entire direction of her career and helped her love her profession again. Take a moment to listen to this inspiring story. Rel...

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews professional colleague Cheryl Mostowski from Strong Tummies in the Chicago area. Cheryl shares how she first learned about diastasis and transformed her pilates practice into a diastasis recti rehab business. Cheryl has tons of passion for the work she does and has become a resource in her community to clients and professionals...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team,  shares about the knowledge gap about diastasis in the training program of most medical, rehab, fitness and birth professionals and how The Tummy Team is trying to fix that. In honor of Diastasis Recti awareness month, The Tummy Team is doing an educational promotion geared to professionals called "What we (and our clients) wish professionals knew abo...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client 58-year-old John from Ohio. He shares how injuring his abdominals turned out to be a blessing in disguise to actually help him be stronger than ever. John is incredibly physically fit and passionate about weight training so when he thought his abdominal injury was an umbilical hernia he immediately panicked. John shares how th...

Chareen and Paul share how working with The Tummy Team took Paul from daily pain and immobility back to the work he loves as a zookeeper. In desperation to help her husband, Chareen found The Tummy Team's Core Foundations program first and just started giving him little strategies to try. Then Paul decided to do the full Core Foundations for Men course and really experienced the relief he needed....

Online Tummy Team client Jim from New York  joins Kelly for another interview. This time Jim shares how being connected to his body has influenced the ways he can be a positive role model for his sons. This episode will help clients understand how much more there is to functional core rehab and the role the core truly plays in their life. Related Links: Men vs. Women: Treating Diastasis Recti Onli...

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team and her sister-in-law Brittany as they share about the importance of birth processing in the healing process. Brittany is honest and vulnerable as she shares about a missed miscarriage and the fear-ridden following pregnancy. Brittany gained an understanding of how the pain of loss can directly impact your birth experience and how your body needs...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 62-year-old online client Lori as she shares how she invested for years in fitness yet still never felt connected to her core or pelvic floor. She shares about her core and pelvic floor rehab journey and how she sees strength and connection in her body she has not felt for years. We talk about the emotional demands of being a mother to adul...