The other day, I was listening to a Q&A with Brooke Cates, founder of The Bloom Method, a pioneer in the pre- and postnatal space and someone I really respect. Everything she says always feels so profound, but this one sound bite hit me differently — so much that I felt like I needed to share it with you.

She was talking about how, as women and moms, we’re constantly fed this narrative that we should look a certain way or lose the baby weight by a certain time. Her and I have talked at length about how toxic that message is and how badly it needs to change. And while we’re on the same page about it, I realize not every woman has that kind of influence or support in her life.

Then she asked something in the Q&A that stopped me in my tracks:

“Are you working out to look good… or are you working out to potentially save your child?”

That hit me hard.

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