The Tummy Team Journey

This is Part 2 of a 2-part podcast series where Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how functional core rehab supports the early years of motherhood. We discuss the role of the core from the early elementary stage through mothering our adult children. Motherhood is far more than getting pregnant and giving birth. It is from our strength that our kids grow and enter the world.  It...

This is Part 1 of a 2-part podcast series where Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how functional core rehab supports the early years of motherhood. We discuss the role of the core from conception, to pregnancy, birth, birth recovery, newborn care through toddler care. Mothers are the life line to their families, and The Tummy Team invests in mothers around the world with free r...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Holly. She shares her relatable story of core connection and its relation to her postpartum depression.  Holly has a beautiful and realistic story of the challenges of motherhood and how her physical disconnect played a significant role in her emotional disconnect.  Her journey through Core Foundations was the beginning of...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team interviews client, colleague, and Floor of Your Core contributor, Gillian Sukachevin, MSPT. Gillian shares her own birth stories and her journey to The Tummy Team.  Gillian has worked in The Tummy Team clinic and is a phenomenal functional core and pelvic floor physical therapist.  Her heart to help clients at a deep meaningful level is inspiring.  Her...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how the body stores emotional pain physically and how physical experiences have an emotional component. The Tummy Team holistically addresses the emotional components of the core rehab process in very specific ways. Join us to better understand how this might be the missing piece in your healing journey. Related Links: The Journey to Learning H...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, talks with Tummy Team client Katie as she shares her story of healing her diastasis (while pregnant) and completely healing her bladder prolapse using The Tummy Team's Prenatal Core Training and Core Foundations programs.  Katie, like many of our pelvic prolapse clients was in complete panic when she discovered her bladder prolapse at four weeks into...

Rebecca, Tummy Team client,  shares her journey to reclaiming motherhood after years of birth related trauma, chronic pain and postpartum depression. Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Rebecca who shares her story of very difficult births and birth recovery and how everything changed with baby number 5 after doing The Tummy Team's Prenatal Core Training course.  Rebecca shar...

Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Heather who shares her journey of 20 years of core weakness, a tummy tuck and then core rehab with The Tummy Team.  Heather has a story that so many of us can relate to, and we discuss the taboo topic of plastic surgery and its role in her healing journey.  Related Links: Core Prep for Abdominal Surgery and Core Foundation...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client and postpartum doula, Sheila from Texas. Sheila has a great story about how she learned about diastasis recti. Sheila's healing journey has transformed her life -- giving her real mental and emotional strength needed for motherhood and supporting others in their motherhood journey. Related Links: Prenatal Core Training and...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how she learned more and more about pelvic floor health through functional core rehab and how that has lead to the Floor of Your Core online functional pelvic floor courses.  Understanding the pelvic floor connection has changed everything and opened up an entire new way to help our clients be strong for the life they were meant to live! Relate...

Kelly interviews Tummy Team client Dan from California. Dan is a retired police officer who was a pro at powering through pain and pushing his body in life and fitness. As a result, he found himself with a weak distended core and a diastasis at the age of 72.  Dan shares his journey to finding help for his diastasis and his experience with Core Foundations for Men.  His journey to stop powering th...

Kelly interviews doula and midwifery student, Hannah Payseno, as she shares about her 7 years of birth experience and the impact of prenatal core and pelvic floor training with The Tummy Team. Hannah is also an Endorsed Tummy Team Birth Professional.  Join us to hear her encouraging journey and how she is applying this information to her own pregnancy as well.  Related Links: Prenatal Core Trainin...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about the importance of physical connection, physical attunement and ultimately learning to listen, and then respond to your body.  Disconnect is the most prevalent issue that our clients need to overcome to be physically strong and pain free.  Listen to how we help you reconnect and reclaim your true self in your functional core rehab journey....

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, as she talks to Tummy Team client Jim from Philadelphia, Pa. Jim is a long time avid athlete and found himself with a diastasis and ultimately a very weak core.  Jim shares his personal journey through our Core Foundations for Men course, and how he has completely changed his view of fitness, his core and real life strength as a result. Related L...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Core Foundations and Core Integrations client Dee as she shares how The Tummy Team shifted her entire perspective about how her body was designed and how to honor it well.  Dee was on an 18-year journey to heal from her first traumatic birth when she found The Tummy Team.  That was 6 years ago and she is still implementing the tools she lea...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Jessica as she shares how Core Foundations helped her relieve pain and weakness after a traumatic birth and specifically how it helped her scoliosis symptoms.  Related Links: How Core Strength Impacts Optimal Fetal Alignment How to Set Up Your Nursing Throne A New Standard for Postpartum Care

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares more of her personal journey to embrace getting older.  Kelly shares how entering her 40's and starting The TummyTeam shifted her perspective on what it really means to be strong for the life you were meant to live. Kelly turns 49 this year and has some great insight into how to set goals, respect your limitations, honor your body and live a co...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner Helle Birke-Nielsen from Denmark.  This is a great story of how this pilates instructor found out she had a diastasis and then decided to be a part of the solution by purchasing a diastasis rehab center in Denmark.  Be inspired to use your story to help others just like Helle! Related Links: Helle's...

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews Beth Learn of Fit2B again.  Kelly and Beth share how they have been called to share what they have learned about Tummy Safe™ Fitness to clients and professionals around the world. Fit2 is hosting a digital conference, Bits Bones & Booties, on January 8th! Kelly Dean, MPT, is just one of the speakers. This is an all day live...

Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she shares about about functional integration, or "real life rehab".  Making it meaningful is one of the foundational pillars to The Tummy Team approach. Learn why our clients say "That was easier than I thought it would be!", and how we help you be consistent in meeting your goals.   Related Links: Why Functional Integration is So Important A...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Elizabeth.  Elizabeth worked with The Tummy Team after her second baby was born for her low back pain and birth recovery core strength, then again after donating her kidney, and most recently after experiencing sexual trauma. Her openness in how her body needed the emotional connection to fully heal is inspiring.  Related...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Vanessa who struggled with debilitating low back pain and found complete relief through Core Foundations.  Listen to how she moved from feeling defeated and broken to being active and pain free. "It is so much easier than people think!" Related Links: Could Your Symptoms be Diastasis Recti? Abdominal Massage YouTube Video...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team Core Foundations client, Jothi, as she shares how functional core rehab was the missing link to help her recover from a very traumatic c-section. Jothi was unable to walk without severe pain for over a year after her 3rd baby and found several holistic ways to reclaim her life including The Tummy Team.  Join us in listening to he...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client, Katy, six years after she completed Prenatal Core Training. Katy, mom of 6 boys, shares how disconnected she was after two traumatic births and multiple back to back pregnancies and how regaining her core strength has gradually helped her return to her first love, Dancing! Related Links: Prenatal Core Training is availabl...

Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how online functional core rehab is effective.  Not all physical therapy works well remotely, but The Tummy Team approach uses education and functional integration strategies to help each client become their own best therapist. The core is all about how we sit, stand, walk, lift and function throughout our every day life.  Listen to how we have...