4 trimester self love 💕

Things are stretchy, squishy and at times a bit messy over here but absolutely beautiful. Postpartum. Motherhood. This tiny little human. All beautiful. ⠀

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Eight days postpartum. Eight days since becoming a mama. And I stand here immensely proud of my body and the work it did the last 10 months. It did a damn good job at morphing into a safe place for this baby to call home and then did an even better job delivering her to us. ⠀

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You guys we really need to celebrate how freaking cool the human body is and all the amazing things it’s capable of instead of wasting our time shaming it ✨⠀

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Before I had James so many moms told me how their kids ruined their bodies or tried to warn me that I’d need more than my “little at-home workouts” to get back to “normal”...⠀

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And now that I’m a mother myself all I have to say is EFF THAT. James did not ruin anything about my body and you’re definitely not going to see me rushing to get my body back because it didn’t go anywhere. It changed with the season of life and when I begin my next program in March it will change to get me through this season of life.⠀

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The goal is never about how skinny i can get or how toned I look. The goal is to feel confident in my own skin and to show myself what I am capable of mentally and physically. ⠀

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Your body is an instrument not an ornament. So let’s raise that white flag on the war against shaming our bodies and let’s work on celebrating the fact that it keeps showing up for us day after day. ⠀

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Idk who needs to hear this but you are beautiful - And that has nothing to do with how squishy or stretchy your body maybe. ⠀