Today’s guest used to be a bodybuilder and is now a trainer and the owner of a fitness center and the mother of two kids. I think she’d describe herself as a woman who likes a challenge, and that’s probably a good way to step into the role of becoming someone’s mother. Different circumstances required her to overcome challenges presented at each step of this process--she originally had trouble getting pregnant, she had a traumatic experience with miscarriage which ramped up her anxiety during the pregnancy that followed, she wrangled with postpartum depression--and each experience taught her something valuable that she was able to use, and from which she grow and developed into a stronger, better version of herself.

I also include the insights of a fantastic therapist

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