05/20/2026
FREE WORKSHOP on Body Image in Pregnancy and Postpartum this Friday, May 22nd at 1pm EST with our friends and Registered Dieticians from . Link in bio to register.
What helped you most with your postpartum bod? Here are 4️⃣ (plus one bonus) tips:
👗Buy new clothes! Your clothes are supposed to fit you, you aren’t supposed to fit in your clothes. I don’t know when it became acceptable to only purchase new clothes for your changing pregnant body and not your changing postpartum body, but im not here for that s**t! Buy clothes that make you feel good in your body!
💅🏻 In place of or in additional to recognizing the things you don’t like about your body, try and find the things you do like about your body or at least feel neutral about. For me, that’s always my hair (well before I lost it all PP 🤪), my nails, and my lips!
🪞Try and replace the negative self talk with something more positive but believable. It’s not feasible to replace “I hate my body” with “I love my body” but it might be feasible to replace it with “I appreciate what my body has given me”
👯♀️ Avoid surrounding yourself with people IRL or online that don’t make you feel good about your body and make you feel like you should look a certain way. That may mean setting boundaries or having difficult conversations with a tricky family member or friend. That may mean unfollowing certain accounts on social media or setting filters to avoid certain content. Then seek out people who have a more positive or realistic view of their body’s postpartum, or follow accounts of people who have the same body type as you.
And if all else fails, ask yourself and your loved ones to name the top 5 things you love most about yourself and they love most about you, and I guarantee you not one of those 5 things will be anything related to your appearance ❤️
