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Everything I’ve accomplished in my career began as a desire to address a personal problem I was experiencing and was often fueled by the fact that there was a giant gap or inadequacy that needed to be filled.

Let me back way on up.  I was in 5th grade, sitting in the library watching my sister’s 4th grade class performance.  It was a rendition of We Didn’t Start the Fire by Billy Joel, and I’m guessing the teacher had designed her own creative lyrics, but I wouldn’t know.  Because I couldn’t he...

I was 3 weeks postpartum and finally starting to emerge from the new mom haze. My soreness was starting to subside, and despite my engorged and leaky breasts, I felt the motivation to resume my standard and familiar workout routine which was corroborated at my 6 week postpartum visit when I was given a greenlight to resume the exercises I was doing before. As a Women’s Health Physical Therapist, I knew I couldn’t just jump back into regular workouts, but I really didn’t know where to start. My h...

I’ll never forget giving birth to my first baby and taking a bath sometime that first week. 

I poked, prodded, and pushed my new belly around in the water, wondering if I would ever get my old body “back.”  I remember feeling disconnected, un-tethered, and weak. 

As I slowly re-introduced exercise, I felt different, and I quickly realized that I couldn’t just jump back into my old, familiar exercise routine.  I felt like my 6-week postpartum check-up was anticlimactic:

“What birth control...

This is one of the most-asked questions I get as a Women’s Health PT and Postnatal Pilates Specialist. 

It’s a question I vividly remember asking myself one week after the birth of my first child when my once flat stomach bubbled up to the surface of the water as I attempted to relax in the tub.  I poked at this flabby skin pouch with a mixture of confusion and fascination.  The body I had once known and had grown to love over the first 28 years of my life (especially as it grew my child for t...