Ep. 23 The Journey to Motherhood Matters w/ Ali Levine

Recovering From Reality

Dear Media, Alexis Haines

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4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I chat with my good friend and fellow mama, Ali Levine. Ali is truly such a light in my life, so I’m excited to share her with you all! She is the host of two podcasts, Things We Are Too Lazy to Blog About and Striptd Down with Ali Levine. She is also a stylist and personality on Bravo’s TV show, Stripped. Now, she has struck a balance between work life and mama life, which is so inspiring to me.

Ali and I’s friendship really blossomed when she asked me to be her doula. Her birth experience is definitely one I’ll never forget! We share all the details here, from the birthing center, to the hospital, and once her baby was born. We also talk about misconceptions toward pregnancy and motherhood. It’s not always this beautiful, magical time we see in the movies. Ali describes her struggle with postpartum depression and feeling like a “failure” as a mom. No one can fully prepare you for these challenges, so it’s nice to have mom friends to lean on.

Episode highlights:

Symptoms with pregnancy
Castor oil to induce labor
The difference between a birth plan vs. birth preferences
Doulas and midwives
Family boundaries during birth and early motherhood
Nursing and lactation consultants
How to navigate postpartum depression: therapy, meditation, mindfulness, and social media breaks

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Alexis Haynes and this is my podcast recovering from reality.
0:16.0	Hi, I am so excited to be sitting down with not just an amazing mama and you know,
0:29.9	great friend, but overall you're just such a light in my life. I'm just so grateful for our friendship,
0:38.0	Ali. I'm sitting down today with my friend, Ali Levine. Ali Levine is a stylist. She's appeared on
0:46.1	Bravo's strip and she has two amazing podcasts. Things were too lazy to blog about and her new podcast,
0:54.6	which is stripped, stripped with Ali Levine or stripped down. You got stripped down with Ali Levine. I
1:01.4	first met Ali when I went on her podcast. Things were too lazy to blog about, which is such a great title
1:09.1	for a podcast. I love it. And she was newly pregnant with her now 13 month old daughter, Amelia,
1:18.2	and she instantly asked me to be her doula. And I was like, oh, okay, you're like 12 weeks pregnant.
1:24.3	But sure, like we can do this. Fine. That's how I wrote. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just get it done.
1:28.9	Yeah. Get it done. We need to be prepared for all things right now. And so it was great. And so
1:34.9	that's kind of how we connected. And I want to have around the podcast today to talk about
1:40.2	her life and her journey into motherhood and for you guys to get to know her because she is one
1:46.1	awesome woman. So I want to start. So as I said, I was your birth doula. I was at Ali's birth.
1:58.1	Everybody I know very, this is two days long. It was one of, it was a record setter for me.
2:04.4	And so I definitely want to dive into birth and stuff like that and talk about motherhood.
2:10.8	And the ways that we change once we become mothers because it is a monumental shift.
2:20.0	Oh, you're like literally reborn. Yeah. Yeah. So talk to me about your pregnancy and like kind of
2:25.3	a little bit about what life was like before you got pregnant and then what life was like after.
2:30.6	Okay. So yeah, I, as you know, I was on Bravo strip shortly after I got pregnant. I kind of
2:37.5	think it was like a little bit of manifesting of Justin Constantly talking about I want you to be a mom.
2:42.5	I want to have a baby and I'm like, hold on my career, my career, my career is my baby. And you know,
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