I am often referencing my time after giving birth to my fourth son, (poor kid gets blamed for everything). My body fell apart after his birth, hormonally, emotionally and physically. This post will focus on what I did for my physical healing. I worked closely with my naturopath for healing my hormones and had some amazing people and groups involved in my emotional healing.

When my youngest son was born, I had just had 4 babies in 5 years. The last two babies were 9 pounds each. I'm about 5'2" tall. Immediately after giving birth to number four, I experienced heaviness in my pelvic floor. My midwife told me to wait it out, my body was still healing and it was normal. But deep down I knew what I was feeling wasn't normal. I had done this before and not experienced this heaviness. The best way to describe it is that it felt like I was sitting on a tennis ball...

Once upon a time, I fell apart, emotionally, spiritually, physically, broken. Postpartum depression meets pelvic organ prolapse, meets adrenal burnout, meets chronic insomnia meets newborn meets plus 3 little kids. The fetal position in my bed was the most likely position you'd find me assumed in. It was ugly.

I reference this period in my life so often because it was such a critical time for me. I had to dig deep but also face a lot of things I had been running from, but no longer had the...