The Busy Mom's Survival Guide to Staying Consistent (When the Newborn Stage Is Over)
Embrace Your Real
Julie Ledbetter
5.0 • 982 Ratings
🗓️ 23 April 2026
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
Hey hey beautiful human! This one is for the mom who made it through the newborn stage, finally feels like herself again, and is still somehow struggling to stay consistent with her health and fitness.
Because here is what nobody tells you. The school age years are their own kind of hard. Your schedule is no longer just yours to manage. It is dictated by school start times, pickup windows, sick days, and a never ending stream of things that need your attention right now. And the strategies that worked before kids, or even in early postpartum, were never designed for this season.
So if you have been blaming your discipline, stop. This is not a you problem. It is a season problem. And in this episode I am giving you three practical systems for staying consistent when your schedule belongs almost entirely to everyone else.
What's Discussed:
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Why this is a season problem and not a discipline problem
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The definition of consistency that is making women in this season feel like they are failing when they are actually not
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How to anchor your workout to something that already exists in your day
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Why shrinking your workout before skipping it changes everything
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Why the movement that does not look like a workout counts more than you think
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What to take away from today and how to stop letting a disrupted week convince you to quit
Ready to find a program that makes it easy to show up consistently even on the weeks when life is full? Head to movementwithjulie.com to get started inside the Movement With Julie app.
If you loved this episode, you'll also love: Episode 516: The Do's and Don'ts of Nourishing Your Body Postpartum. It pairs perfectly with everything we covered today.
If you want more from me, be sure to check out…
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Follow me on Instagram: @juliealedbetter | @embraceyourreal | @movementwithjulie
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Movement With Julie | App: https://sale.movementwithjulie.com/
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Website: www.juliealedbetter.com
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, hey, beautiful human. Can I steal five minutes of your time? I have something super important to share with you, but I promise I'll be really quick. You're listening to my weekly bonus episode of Embrace Your Real with me, Julie Labbetter. I'm about to give you a quick tip for building your confidence, honoring your body, and unconditionally loving your authentic self. Stay tuned. If you're ready to embrace a real, let's get it. |
| 0:22.5 | Let's go. |
| 0:30.0 | Hello and welcome back to the Embrace Real podcast. |
| 0:33.4 | Today's bonus episode is for a very specific woman. |
| 0:36.9 | And if this is you, I want you to know that I see you completely. |
| 0:40.2 | You are past the newborn stage. You are out of the postpartum fog. Nobody is waking you up every two |
| 0:45.5 | hours anymore and your body is yours again, at least in theory. But somehow, staying consistent with |
| 0:51.3 | your health and fitness still feels as hard as it did in those early |
| 0:55.0 | months. Maybe even harder because now the chaos is a different kind of relentless. Maybe you've got |
| 1:00.5 | school pickups or drop-offs after-school activities and that somehow just takes up every weekday |
| 1:07.3 | evening, homework that needs supervising, meals that need making, a household that needs |
| 1:11.4 | running. And somewhere in the middle of all that, you're supposed to find time to work out, |
| 1:16.5 | to eat well, to take care of yourself. And most days, that just doesn't happen. In today's |
| 1:20.6 | bonus episode of Embrace You Roil, I want to give you a practical survival guide for staying |
| 1:25.9 | consistent when your schedule belongs almost entirely to |
| 1:29.8 | everyone else. And we're just going to dive right into it. So first, I just want to validate |
| 1:34.0 | something because I think a lot of women in this season beat themselves up for not being able to |
| 1:38.3 | make the same things work that they used to work. And I know that you need to hear this. |
| 1:43.2 | Like the strategies that |
| 1:44.4 | worked pre-kids or even in early postpartum are genuinely not designed for the season that you're in |
| 1:49.7 | right now. Before kids, you had autonomy over your entire time. Like you could schedule a workout and |
| 1:55.3 | actually do it. And you could schedule a workout literally in the middle of the day and nothing |
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