05- Resilience Through ACT Principles: Navigating High-Risk Pregnancy & Reconnecting with Your Body

Join me in this empowering episode as I share the transformative journey from postpartum trauma to reclaiming my strength and resilience. 

Through personal anecdotes and professional insights, I explore the importance of acknowledging our current state, meeting ourselves with compassion, and trusting our capacity to move forward. 

Discover the power of the "ACT" acronym—Acknowledge, Compassion, Trust—as a guiding principle for navigating life's challenges and achieving personal growth.

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Welcome to miles from her view, the podcast, where we dive deep into the unfiltered reality of fitness, strength, training, and nutrition within womanhood and motherhood. I am your host, Kat founder of Kat Fit Strength. I'm a career strength and conditioning coach, entrepreneur, lifelong athlete, and a mom of two. In each episode, we explore the unique challenges and triumphs faced by women navigating the complexities of life from juggling family and career to prioritizing self care. We dissect the systems and the habits that shape our health and wellness. Join us for real stories, authentic advice, and genuine conversations as we empower each other to embrace our journeys and find strength in vulnerability. I wanted to share a personal story about my final pregnancy, how it impacted not only myself, but also how I coach clients to how I engage with myself with my own physical fitness. So about 10 years ago, I found myself blindsided by a high risk pregnancy. I mentioned this in the trailer and a couple of bits along the way. And if you know me in real life, you've probably heard some of the story. It is something that I never expected, hence why I was blindsided. My first pregnancy was, dare I say, a textbook pregnancy. Nothing really alarming, just the normal things that came about. And, you know, he did wind up becoming a C section delivery due to other things. No complications. He just refused to enter the world and after laboring for a couple days the doctors needed to intervene because of Safety reasons and ensuring that both he and I were Healthy. Cleared for VBAC. We get pregnant. I get pregnant with a second child and About as soon as we got that positive pregnancy test We found ourselves in the ER thinking that we were going to be miscarrying this You Child. Well, turned out there was a strong flickering heartbeat on the ultrasound. However, we were then met with the news that there's less than a 10 percent chance this pregnancy is going to make it out of the first trimester and There's a twin that is vanishing, and hopefully it does not move, it hopefully stays where it's at, or else the whole pregnancy would have to be terminated due to potential of, like, atopic pregnancy, just based on where it was. None of that happened, unfortunately, yes. The twin did vanish, as it was already showing. It was, there was no heartbeat. We were both kind of shocked like, Oh wow, twins, twins don't run in the family, but they don't need to in order for you to have a twin pregnancy. So we made it out of the first trimester and we were like, Cool, we got all the hurdles over with in the first trimester. And now, Well, I was blindsided again by some issues that have come up. And not to get into all the nitty gritty because I don't want to go into all the medical diagnoses and all of that because it's different for every person. In short, I was diagnosed with, or the pregnancy, however you want to phrase it, was complete placenta previa stage 4, as well as a leaking placenta with a chance of acreta, or suspected acreta. What that means is the placenta was completely covering the cervix and there was no chance of it moving. There was also suspected a credo where they couldn't quite tell from the ultrasound if the placenta was growing into the uterine wall, which is not supposed to. There's supposed to be a space between the placenta and the uterine wall. So that upon delivery, the placenta clears nicely and nothing is attached or causes any tearing in the uterine wall. Then there was the aspect of the leaking placenta. What that meant was my son's nutrients and blood was essentially leaking in for lack of better terms, leaking into my bloodstream. So it caused my alpha fetal proteins to be high, which looked like it was spinal bifida. It was not that his spinal cord was fully intact and closed. However the alpha fetal proteins were high in my bloodstream. What that meant was bed rest. So here I was completely on bed rest. This was hard. It was something that I had a toddler. I'm an active person. I was very active through my first pregnancy. I, it's not that I don't like to sit down. It's I am an active person and I do enjoy resting and relaxing, but moving my body hasn't always come natural, but it's something that I do really enjoy and I crave. But here I was, needing to be on the couch because if I hemorrhaged, I would then either two things would happen. I would be definitely in the hospital until the birth of my child, or if I hemorrhaged, there was a significant chance that I would lose my child and my life would be at stake. So here I was on bedrest having to change completely how I parented my, at the time, two year old son running a business. It was. So mentally frustrating to do that. It is something when you can't move your body and you are someone who is used to using, moving your body or challenging your body, it's really hard to stay still. And I had to learn of ways to not just entertain myself, but how. Could I get movement in when I wasn't allowed to move? I could get up, utilize the toilet. I could shower. I couldn't pick up my child. I had to limit how many times I walked up and down the stairs. I couldn't grocery shop. I couldn't push a cart. I couldn't push a stroller. You know, There were other things that I just couldn't do because what would happen is if I stress my body too much, yes, I risked hemorrhaging. Number two, I was also experiencing contractions starting around 14 weeks. So it was like, you know, start getting a lot of cramping. And then as the pregnancy progressed, they moved into more of that Braxton Hicks to sometimes a little bit like painful contractions just because of the stress and the nature of the pregnancy. So it was, you had to be on bed rest, relaxed, fully hydrated. You couldn't, you know, do chair workouts or do any of the creative things. It was on the couch, nothing else. Let me tell you, watched a ton of kids shows and I felt horrible. Here I am. My kid loves being outside. You know, we would do nature walks. We go to nature preserves every day after preschool, we would go. There was a path across the street of the home that we were living and we'd walk there and there was athletic fields at the elementary school that was there and we would run around there and play together. And then we'd walk home. He would ride his tricycle down that path. He would go on runs with me. We did so many physical things that it was now we were cooped up inside the house. And. TV and building blocks from the side of my couch was what the name of the game was. Each week I had a doctor's appointment. One week would be seeing the maternal fetal medicine, and then the other week would be seeing my primary OBGYN. It was my one time to kind of get out of the house. And I remember I developed this routine because after I saw each respective doctor on their corresponding week, sometimes I'd see them both, depending on what was going on. The news they would share wasn't always the best. It was. Ooh, things are getting tougher. We're not sure how long this pregnancy is going to last. It just seemed very bleak. So what I would wind up doing is go down to the cafe in the hallway and I'd sit there and I'd order myself a chocolate milk, a burger and sweet potato fries and just sit there and eat. Sometimes I would order and I wasn't even hungry because it was just my routine to sit there and digest mentally what they had told me. And how could I go home and share the news with my husband and then look at my older son and be like, mom is becoming more limited and tell my husband, I don't know if we're ever going to meet this child. My life is in danger. There's chances. There's a significant chance that. If this child comes into the world, and even if we don't meet this child, my life may end because of the nature of the pregnancy. Sometimes I would follow up with just sitting in the parking garage, staring out. into the green space that was there, because how does one tell or share this information or process this or go about life? Like, it's all good. I can manage this. You know, yes, my overall health is there, but this pregnancy isn't quite the best. And how do I connect with this being inside of me knowing I don't know if I will ever meet this person. How do I look at my husband and be like, Hey, there's a chance I may not be here. And then look at my other child and say, think, well, I don't know if tomorrow, like tomorrow's not guaranteed. So all these things were going on in my head as I was dealing with this pregnancy and carrying on life. Like nothing ever happened sharing with friends like oh, yeah pregnancy is great. Oh, yeah, this is great or Missing out on events there was a lot of events we had to decline or I couldn't go to because if I Traveled there wasn't a hospital that would be able to Meet the needs that I had or there wasn't a hospital close enough to that I could get to if I were to hemorrhage. So it was very limited to a small circumference of travel, which was about a 10 mile radius from my hospital. Thankfully, we lived six miles away from the hospital, but it was one of those things where I felt the walls closing in on me. Obviously, we know I made it. But some of the things that occurred gave me a massively different perspective on overall health, moving your body, and the connection with your body, primarily how it pertains to pregnancy, the complications that could come about. Today marks the 10 year anniversary from when I was rushed to the hospital with the first hemorrhage that landed me on complete hospital bed rest. It was something I was hoping would never ever happen. It was something that I was just like, nope, we are going to get to schedule the, C section. He's going to come at 36 weeks. Everything is going to be fine. There will be no emergent Emergencies, there will be no hospital bed rest. It's all good. I am bullheaded and stubborn It's not that I like to control everything But if I tell myself this is what the reality is gonna be I know it's I don't control all reality But it's just I'm very headstrong that it's like nope. I am gonna refuse to believe that That something bad is going to happen. I will meet this child. It's going to work out the way, if you will, the doctor's saying we'll get to that, that scheduled C section date, and it will be good. This was after, oh my goodness, I knew everyone in labor delivery by name. They knew me. I pretty much had my own schedule. space where I'd go in primarily after appointment because the contractions were getting too close and they weren't sure and do all the non stress tests, monitor me for a little bit. Then I'll never forget the day they celebrated the viability. They're like, if you were to have him today, he is going to be able to live. There's like, he's, we've reached that mark. All I have to say is that day when the hemorrhage happened. It's the day that I went, I'm going to say internal, where I knew I could no longer put on this happy face for everyone and just. Focus on everyone else's needs. It was, there is a strong chance that I am not going to make it through this delivery. And there's also a strong chance I'm not going to meet this child. I don't know when or what is going to happen. I refused to be taken to the hospital in an ambulance. Couple reasons why. One, my ABG 1 was brilliant. She was phenomenal. Gave me her personal cell phone. We talked it over. She was the first person I called, as well as she called the hospital. And as I sat there, I saw my son. I looked in his eyes and I couldn't have EMTs and all of that storm in here and take his mom. I also knew I needed my husband to drive me to the hospital because I needed to control whatever I can control, knowing that somehow that would provide me safety. So we drove to the hospital. I also refused to sit in the wheelchair. Thankfully they were nice and they followed me up. I walked up, Well, emerging because it was just that final piece of control knowing when I got into the hospital and I was there, things were going to happen outside of my control because that is what tends to happen in medical settings. Yes, I had some advocacy, but in the end they were going to do whatever it took to save my life and the baby's life. We get in, doctors coming in and out. I have multiple IV lines started, there is, oh my goodness, I don't even know how many shots of whatever I was getting. It was overwhelming. But to kind of speed this up, thankfully he didn't come that night. I remember I got to a point where I was so overwhelmed. That I kicked everybody out. I grabbed my husband's hand and I squeezed it so hard. And I was like, I can't do this. I can't do this. I need everyone out. I can't do this. And he looked at me and I was like, I need everyone out. Like I was panicking. It was too much. It was all happening too fast between, I don't need, I think every single doctor in the hospital probably came in. I don't even remember half the specialties. It was, hi, I'm this doctor. I'm part of this department. And this is what you can expect. And if the baby's born here, dah, dah, dah, dah, and give me all the stats. And I was like, Oh my goodness. And I just remember when the room calmed down, there was one other nurse and my husband in there. I just remember crying and being like, he can't come tonight. This is not how it's supposed to happen. He cannot come tonight. After that, everyone started coming back in, but at a slower pace. I think they probably realized, or maybe the onslaught of doctors had already come, so nobody else needed to come in. I think they probably realized, she's overwhelmed, we're overwhelming her. Whatever the case may be, I sat it down, I stayed in labor and delivery overnight, and then I got checked into my room that day, or the next day. And it was one of those things where it felt weird. I'm here in the antepartum where you go after you have a baby, but yet I'm still pregnant. So everyone who came in was like, Congratulations, you had a baby! And I'm like, Oh no, you're still pregnant. And I'm like, No, still pregnant, just on bed rest. And it felt weird because I felt good. Here I am in the hospital, despite having contractions, I've been dealing with. Since week 14 with the pregnancy on bed rest, nothing has changed except my, the four walls that surrounded me and my husband and my child and my older son were no longer around me. I'm going to say 24 seven. So it felt weird. I'm like, I shouldn't be in the hospital. Cause we have this concept of if you are sick or badly injured, you're in the hospital. But here I am. I have. my health where I'm not sick and I have energy, I want to move around, but I have to stay in bed. It was tough. I don't say this to be like, Oh, look at me. I'm all healthy. And I get, just got this time away. But it's like, here you are in this able body, but you're stripped of how you can live because In order for you to, for me to get the baby here, I couldn't be mobile. Kind of the days go on and the hardest part was to say goodbye to my son every single day with the context of, I don't know what could happen in the next. I don't know, hour or two or 24 hours. And will my husband be able to make it back or will he be able to be in the delivery room when our son is born? That kind of went on for a couple of days. And I'll never forget the one day where, you know, every morning there was a team of doctors that would come in and they would discuss, okay, Hey, how you feeling? Here's your stats. You know, this is what we're looking at from based off of this ultrasound, you know, it was a very highly complicated C section. It wasn't just a routine, you know. quick incision, pulled the baby out, yada, yada, yada. It was when they did the incision, there was a lot of complications because there was major veins that were around where the placenta was. So they had to make sure they made the incisions in the appropriate places, not only to get him out safely, but also to prevent hemorrhaging. But this one day. One doctor came in and he was carrying a manila folder and he came in and he sat down Started to make small talk and I'm like, this is weird. This is weird. Where was everyone? That was the day where hospital regulations, protocol, whatever you want to say I had to essentially sign my life away where he presented me with the facts that I have less than a 40 percent chance of making it through the delivery and that I acknowledge the sole purpose of the doctors to be there is to deliver a baby healthy. and then to work on me. OBGYNs are there to bring the baby into the world. The health of a mom is secondary. I will acknowledge I was extraordinarily blessed with the hospital I went through, with the medical care that I had, because they were on the cutting edge with a lot of this stuff. Through this whole process, they really did recognize the humanistic. side of it that I was a person that I wasn't a medical procedure and they did provide me with as much autonomy of my own body as they could. And for the most part, I did feel a, dare I say, valued member of my healthcare or part of the healthcare team. But it was that stark realization that the doctors are there for my son and There's not that many people there for me in this emergency environment that it could be minutes or seconds and my life could be done. And here I am trying to build on my family and bring a child into the world in a medically complex way. pregnancy. There's no essential plan. All the focus is on the baby. And that really it's, it's mentally just warping. It's like, Oh my goodness. What about my other son? What about my husband? Will I even be able to meet? Like if something happens to me, will I even be able to meet my son? Will he know me? There's so many things that go on and go through your mind. And then there was Do I tell my husband? And I will say, I actually never told my husband until about a year later. Whether that be right or wrong, it is what it is. For me, I couldn't bear having that conversation. And I feel like for me it was speaking it out loud and saying that was too much to handle. Where I had already felt very succumbed to the situation, even more of that emotional load would have just exhausted me. And I didn't want him. He's my rock. I'm sure he could have handled it. I no doubt know he would have been fine. But looking to him, I didn't want to see the thoughts in his eyes of, is this the day I say goodbye to my wife? And maybe it was selfish for me and I totally accept that. But I handled seeing that look on his face or that worry. I needed him to be steadfast and confident wherever he was during this whole delivery. I couldn't have that pre delivery conversation with him. We're in the final hemorrhage. It all happened so fast. There was so much going on, there are only a few key points, and then there were multiple complications that I did have. Again, obviously I'm here, so I made it through. My son is here. We both made it through. It was not easy. It's one of those things when you go through a complication that is completely out of your control. Being in a healthy body really develops this mistrust between you and your body connection. I'll never forget when I It was clear to start moving my body and challenging it again. And for the first time, I didn't feel at home in my body. You know, I went through the postpartum recovery with my older son and things felt different, but I still felt like I have lived in my body. I felt like, yeah, okay. I could feel this. I'm going to say ambiguous space in my abdomen from where he was. It was squishy. It was different. You know, things felt different, but I was able to. Get me or that lived. I'm like still living in my body since there when I went through this Postpartum with my younger son. I felt like a stranger in my body. There was a complete disconnect to me and my body. And I don't, I can't really articulate why this happened. I don't know if it was the nature of the high risk pregnancy where I want to say disowned my body or the fact that I had been immobile for a really long time. Now that workout back, I don't want to say it was like, okay, like nothing ever happened. Here we are. We're going to start up where we just left off. No, it went out for a walk to a run and. I just felt like a stranger. Like I was existing in this human form, dare I say, and then it was. just felt odd. But the cool thing about this is it gave me that perspective when I work with clients who have gone through similar ask things and where they feel disconnected with their body. It is something that I don't know 100 percent how they feel, but I can help them establish that connection to feel at home and to start living in their body again, where Each person is different, so I can't speak to all my clients. But what I can speak to is the sense of learning to trust your body again, learning to keep taking the next step to build that confidence and strengthen your body. Essentially, And I'm going to use this term loosely. I had to learn to walk and run again. No, I was not incapacitated. I didn't have to learn from it from a neurological aspect or physiological, but I had to learn how to find comfort in those things. I had to learn how moving my body could be comfortable because nothing felt comfortable. It felt weird. It felt strange. It felt out of the norm. So that's what I want to say. I don't want to compare myself to any individual who has to relearn that from a biomotor standpoint, neurological standpoint. It was more the psychological standpoint where there was a difference where I felt completely disconnected and so far removed from movements that had felt very normal. So I want to be very clear on that. I am not comparing myself to a medical aspect. It was moving back into my body from a time period where I was immobile that I had to learn movement again and connect with it. I sit here 10 years. post the whole dare I say ordeal post this traumatic delivery recovered from postpartum PTSD and feeling like a stranger in my body to now feeling full of life feeling so at home and more connected with my body than I almost argue I've ever felt how I got here it's not been an easy path I will say this as someone who is in the fitness industry, someone who is a strength and conditioning coach, someone who works with people, someone who has been a lifelong athlete. I've had to learn how to be a beginner again, multiple times, how to be okay with being completely awkward in my skin, doing things that maybe felt easy at first, felt extremely, extremely hard trying to do them again. I also had to learn how to build that Mental capacity of rediscovering or just putting more fuel on that fire of that inner drive to move my body. All of that went away. Honestly, at one point could have cared less if I ever moved my body again. The sense of wanting to challenge my body completely disappeared. Didn't trust myself. I didn't trust my body. I, Could do very easily through athletics. I wouldn't think twice about like, yeah, I'm going to jump in and do that. My body had always been primed and somewhat of the sense, even if it's something I wasn't conditioned for, I was like, cool, I can do that. I know how to move my body. I no longer felt that way. I felt weak. I felt just a stranger in my own body and how I got myself back. You know, there wasn't a, I'm going to say a complete black and white plan. Like do this, do this, do this, but it was by showing up consistently. And I want to really stress, and you're going to hear me say this again, consistently does not mean every single day. There were a lot of gaps. in the beginning. I mentally didn't feel like showing up. I was fledgling between I don't care to ever move my body again to, Oh yeah, I really want to move my body again to then also deal dealing with postpartum PTSD to then with an infant, a who also had needs and had some medical things going on as well. And an older child and running a business. So there was a lot of different things going on in that time. With the consistency, it was showing up when I could. Showing up in the capacity that it could now. I wasn't always really great about that. There was a lot of shooting myself shooting yourself means, Oh, I should be able to do this. Or if I could, then I should, you know, putting yourself in that layer of guilt and shame where. You're not meeting yourself. You're putting unrealistic expectations on in a time period that may be highly pressurized or a disconnection between meeting yourself where you're at to helping yourself move forward. And had I not had that stumbling, those breaks and those times, I don't think it would have provided me with the insight. And the compassion I have for clients. I see my clients as some of the most incredible individuals who are so knowledgeable, so talented and have the capacity and are doing so much, not only mentally, physically and everything in their lives, that it's gave me a greater understanding. of having someone go from maybe not having a workout routine to having a workout routine to going through pregnancy. Your pregnancy doesn't have to be anything remotely close. You can have a textbook pregnancy and feel all this. So I really want to say, you know, you don't have to go through something medically complex to feel this way, but it has provided me with the insight of a general understanding of how someone may be feeling. This does not discredit their own feelings, but I can. create a plan to help elevate them. It's not, Oh, well, you should just be able to do it again. That's tied up in that guilt and that shame and lack of compassion and understanding it's okay. Let me meet you on your terms. Let's meet yourself on your terms and elevate you from there. And that is something that it's like, I have really walked through, through this journey and recovering from postpartum PTSD, as well as from the high risk pregnancy, because it wasn't easy on a lot of ways, but I knew deep down, you know, I get, it's my stubbornness. I think sometimes that I wanted to keep challenging myself that I, I couldn't quit and I needed not just to move my body again or do all these challenges. It was. I couldn't quit on myself. And that stems from the first workout that I did. I was trying to run and I remember probably out of sheer exhaustion and just overwhelmed. And at the time I didn't realize it, but I was in the throes of postpartum PTSD. I was having flashbacks that would happen. I, I don't even know the frequency, it would, something would trigger and I would be back in a certain memory, but I found myself on all fours on the sidewalk just with this unbearable emotional weight of, Oh my goodness, I can't do this. I can't move my body. This is just feeling awful. And this little tiny voice down inside says. You're worth it. And I'm like, I just want to curl up here and just cry and be done. Like it was exhausting and it was still exhausting because I couldn't fully, you know, heal for myself because other things demanded. I had a toddler, I had an infant that required multiple things beyond what an infant does. He had a medical complications and then, you know, still running a business that I just. found myself disregarding myself trying to put all the energy and focus out. And this little voice and that little voice that's deep down inside of all of us that kind of, we tune out, but the more you can connect to that little voice and strengthen. But for me, it was this little voice that kept telling me I'm worth it. And the more I tuned into that, It wasn't overnight. It wasn't like, Oh, cool. I found you. Let's just tune into you. This is easy. Now I started leaning on that voice versus the shoulds or the, I can't do this. I'm to this. How could I let myself go? Why did this happen to me? I was in solid shape before I got pregnant. And then this happened to me. Oh, that like, I don't want to just say it's, Oh, whoa. But it's that. All like life happened and there were so many things out of my control that I knew I was worth it. And I was fighting to gain what I, I don't want to say lost because it was always there. I was fighting to really meet myself where I was at. And the more I started leaning on that voice and putting energy into, you're worth it. You can do this. And it wasn't all rah, rah. I don't want say it's like, Oh, you got to just cheerlead yourself. But the more it was like, I'm tired, didn't get much sleep. And the right call is to do mobility today, or I'm going to go into this workout. I don't have the full energy, but I'm going to give myself permission. If I need to stop to stop, I showed up and that's awesome. So the more I started tuning into that, the less and less the shoulds and the coulds started showing up. The guilt and the shame started to go away. The self doubt started to dwindle and the other voice of Yeah, you can do this. You're here. Yeah. You went through this thing, but you're still here. You're not just surviving. You're thriving. You can do this. And that portion of it gave me a massive perspective on training clients of where I see clients, whatever they've gone through. They may feel beaten down. They're trying to overcome these voices and how to reach them on that level. Now, I don't have a perfect, perfect formula because each person is so different. And a lot of this is hard because it is stuff you have to do on yourself. It is stuff you have to sit there and you have to tune more into that. Stronger voice, that voice of belief. We all have it. And there's that louder prevailing voice of you can't do this. You can't do this year. Well, you're not worth it or filled with all the shoulds and the coulds. But if we start putting energy into the side of like, yeah, okay. You're, you're doing this. You showed up. Yeah. You know, maybe list. what happened and then meet yourself and move on. And one of the things that came out of this was a acronym to statement that has been 10 years in the making. Something that now just propels me every single day, not only in my life, in my workouts, in my business and something I incorporate with my clients is Act to take the next step. I have mentioned it in previous episodes, but going over that act is the acronym. And what it means is you have to take action to take the next step and how to get yourself to take action is acknowledge. So that's the a acknowledge where you're at. Okay. And that can be in various forms. There's no, I want to say, do this, then do that. And then boom, but acknowledge. So if I'm going into a workout and I'm exhausted, or maybe I'm really fired up or whatever the case may be, I'm going to acknowledge where and what I'm at in that current state and what I'm feeling. So I'm giving that ownership. I'm putting that, then I'm going to meet myself with compassion. So what that means is there's no shooting, there's no cutting, there's no wooding. It's. Hey, we're a little tired going into this workout. That's okay. Or whatever you want to say because there's no real protocol, but we're not shooting, cutting or winning in this. It's not, well, you're a little tired in this workout. You should have went to bed earlier or we're a little this. You should have done. There's none of that. It's, I'm going to meet myself where I'm at and I'm going to be compassionate towards myself. And then from there. The T is trust. I'm going to trust myself, my strength, my mental capacity, to be able to take the next step. So act to take the next step is what I rely on to keep myself moving forward in times where I'm not sure what maybe the next business step should be. I acknowledge I sit there and go through the act to take the next step. Acknowledge, compassion, trust, take the next step. It's that reflection of connect with yourself, acknowledge what's going around, meet yourself with compassion and trust to keep moving forward. If there's one thing I want to leave you with is no matter where you're at in your fitness journey, It can compound over time. If you would have told me 10 years ago in the throes of postpartum PTSD that I would have run over a dozen plus half marathons, marathons to now over a dozen ultra marathons while running a business and helping my kids thrive and come back from postpartum PTSD when I felt Absolutely horrible. And thinking back to that time where I was on all fours on the sidewalk, I would have never believed you because of how broken and crushed I felt that I felt like I couldn't even take the next step. But take away that no matter where you're at, The best thing you can do is acknowledge where you're at, meet yourself with compassion and trust yourself and keep taking that next step. No matter how big or small, it doesn't matter. But, acknowledge, compassion, trust, and take the next step. Thank you for joining me on another episode of Miles From Her View. Your support means the world to me and I truly appreciate you being a part of our community. If you found today's episode helpful and want to stay informed about all things CatFit Strength, make sure to subscribe to our weekly newsletter. You'll receive exclusive insights, tips, and updates straight to your inbox. To sign up, simply visit the show notes or the subscription link. 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