Hey, hey, welcome back. I'm so glad that you show up here every week. It truly means the world to me.

And I hope so much that I bring topics to you that you find educational that you can learn from

and that we learn and laugh and cry and do all the things together along the way.

And today's topic is going to be no different. I have found that in women's health, there seems

to be a lot of gray unspoken area. I feel like we're pretty good about making some things clear,

but as a female, as I have gone through pregnancy and postpartum and dealt with my own core issues

and then hormone issues and so many other layers, I feel like there's so much gray. There's

so much confusion. And so today, the topic that I want to cover is something called rib flare,

which is actually really common for women after they have babies, but it's not really talked about

or explained really well. So that is what I am going to break down today for you.

So I'm sure you've noticed after you have had babies and whether that was four weeks ago or

40 years ago, that sometimes our bras become tighter, like around our rib cage. And it's one of

those things that we're like, why, why does this happen? And then we start to have core issues for

multiple different reasons and the bras tighter. And we've never really thought that possibly

they can be linked. Now, our core issues happen for many different reasons, which I've covered many

different episodes on different reasons why, but one of them is rib flare and the connection to

a weakened core and our ability to fully inhale and exhale, because with rib flare, our

breathing patterns get stuck in an inhalation pattern. So today, we're going to break down what

that is, how we can recognize it, what it means, what we can do to improve it, because yes,

we can improve it. It's crazy, right? You can truly help the ribs to come in and down better,

but we're going to break that down in detail, what to be aware of, and even what to avoid,

because oftentimes people overcompensate when they're trying to improve their rib flare.

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