Welcome to the Being in Motherhood Podcast (Trailer)

Amidst the joys of a motherhood journey, there is an undercurrent of challenge unlike any other you’ll face in your life, requiring a different kind of strength than your pre-motherhood days.

The current maternal healthcare system sets moms up to get weaker in pregnancy and start motherhood with a deficit of strength and energy. This means the vast majority of mothers are slogging through motherhood feeling weak and discouraged. It’s time for that to change.

Each week, Pregnancy and Postpartum Exercise Specialists (and sisters!) Kendra Fitzgerald and Nicole Coons will bring you the deep conversations needed with the practical tips and knowledge moms need to make bold decisions, heal their bodies, and live their motherhood on THEIR terms. Welcome to Being in Motherhood!

Resources & Links

Looking for support to stay active during your pregnancy or start your postpartum recovery? Here are some options to get you started on a great path forward:

1) Take the Pelvic Floor & Core Strength Quiz. After taking the quiz, you'll get a score and based on your results, guidance on what steps to take to move you forward in your recovery.

2) Check out our podcast listening guides: Download the Pregnancy Listening Guide or Postpartum Listening Guide.

3) If you're pregnant, want to be way more active than you have been, AND want connection with other mothers, but don't know where to start…join the Expecting to Flourish™ Membership - a mom-driven and expert-guided virtual space empowering moms with a new approach to prenatal fitness and birth prep that actually prepares you for the physical and emotional hurdles of motherhood.

If you’re postpartum and ready to get moving, need to heal your body but you don’t know where to start…join us for Postpartum Repair & Restore LIVE, a science-backed and fun-stacked, Diastasis and Pelvic Floor Strength program. Start healing your diastasis and eliminating leaking in 8 weeks or less with our guidance.

4) Do you prefer working one-on-one, or have a high risk pregnancy, a severe diastasis or leaking that won’t quit? You might be a candidate to work with us privately. To find out, take this quick self assessment! If you qualify, you'll be invited to schedule a complementary Postpartum Strategy Session with us where we'll take a good look at what's not working in your repair process, and come up with a great plan just for you.

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You know how we buy clothes for our kids - “just a little bit too big”, expecting them to grow into them? Motherhood sometimes feels the same - like we have some growing to do before things ‘fit’. Welcome to the Being In Motherhood podcast.

We’re your hosts Kendra Fitzgerald and Nicole Coons, Co-Founders of Devoted Mamas, sisters in real life, and moms just like you.

For me, Kendra, specializing in Pregnancy & Postpartum Fitness became my passion after having my first baby in 2013.

For me, Nicole, I’d been on the path of yoga practice and spiritual inquiry for a decade before becoming a mother.

Even though I was a fitness professional before having kids, I experienced the frustration and confusion so many women feel in getting back to exercise after birth. The arduous journey to healing myself and realizing there was a MUCH better way led me to develop a direct path to truly help moms feel strong again - without the frustration.

With my first pregnancy, I followed a lot of common approaches - only to discover that they fell massively short of what a mother actually needs to feel calm and in control. AND they definitely don’t make space for the disappointment and even trauma that can occur along the way. Now, as a Pregnancy & Postpartum Empowerment Coach and Trauma Informed Yoga Teacher, I guide mothers to cultivate the inner skills needed to be a confident advocate for themselves.

This show is all about you and using the messy, mundane…outrageous, and blissful experiences in motherhood as opportunities to hone your greatest qualities… because your family deserves the best of you, not the most of you.

Motherhood will test you!

We’re here to help you bust through the bad habits, mental blocks, societal norms and broken maternal health care system that are making you ask, “Is this it?” “Who am I now? And “what’s next?”

Each week, we’ll bring you the perfect blend of science, spirituality and practicality so you have the tools to take charge of your well-being.

If you’re a mom who wants to feel like motherhood finally ‘fits’, who values the direct path to feeling your best, has little time to waste on trial and error, and is ready to think and act differently to get a different result than what’s being shown out there, this show is for you.

You can listen to the Being in Motherhood podcast for free on apple podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts and your favorite place to download podcasts.

Remember to subscribe and share it with other mothers you know, and if you have a special topic or question you’d love for us to cover, reach out to us on Instagram @devotedmamas.

Be courageous and stay devoted to growing into your best self as a mom.