Hey, welcome to the Therapy Thoughts podcast. This is Tiffany Rowe. I'm a licensed clinical mental health

counselor and psychology teacher. I own mindful counseling in ORM, Utah, and I'm on a mission to

break down mental health stigma. Therapy Thoughts is a podcast all about helping you love yourself

and make peace with your mind, body, and food. I'll share some education, tips, interviews, and tools from my

clinical experience so you can improve your mental health. Stay tuned as we change the mental

health game and talk all about therapy.

What's up, my fam? We hear on episode 15 of the Therapy Thoughts podcast. Today's topic is postpartum body image. So we're going to talk about postpartum depression on another podcast. We'll talk about

infertility on another podcast. In fact, I'll be launching a course on that soon.

Today's podcast is specifically about postpartum body image. Now, let me say this. You do not have to

give birth to a child to deal with postpartum issues or postpartum body image.

But this is a specific topic I want to address for women who do give birth to kids and

dealing with that. But even if you are not a biological parent, you are dealing with

infertility, you've adopted, you can still have postpartum, quote-unquote,

body image issues. So I don't really want to exclude anyone from this conversation. I want it to

be inclusive. Because the real issue is once you're a parent, the body image expectation is to

look like you never had a kid. So we can all relate to that.

If you find this episode triggering because you're dealing with infertility,

it's okay to turn it off and to come back when I talk about that issue specifically.

I want to be mindful of that and careful of that.

But we are going to dive into postpartum body image. And let me give you my spiel. So

body image expectations on women, beauty expectations for women are unrealistic, right? The second we

hit puberty, we start to enter into the world of expectations for our bodies. We gain weight, we mature sexually,

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