The Embodied Mommy Podcast

In the twelfth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Melissa Nassaney to discuss pelvic floors. Melissa is a pelvic floor physical therapist who has been practicing in pelvic health for 15 years and in physical therapy for 20 years. The women talk about all things pelvic health including personal experiences, doing the research, and knowing it’s never too late. This episode will help you understand pelvic floor health and share advice on how to improve your own during your Motherhood Journey.

Discussed in this episode:

• Personal experiences with pelvic floors
• Knowing what your pelvic floor baseline is
• Vaginal versus cesarean births and the traumas they each cause
• Pressure to get back to normal postpartum
• Connecting with others
• The delay in the healing journey caused by dismissing and downplaying postpartum changes
• The combination of physical and emotional pain
• Pelvic floor disorders
• Comfort levels and varying cultures
• Importance of exercise, walking, and stretching
• Managing expectations and doing what you can right now
• Intercourse; including when to have it and the husband stitch
• Tears and appreciating tissues
• Honoring the time of healing
• Hemorrhoids
• Perineal massages during pregnancy

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In the eleventh episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Jasmin Acevedo to discuss womb wellness and the energetics of the womb space. Jasmin is a registered nurse, yoga teacher, and well-being educator. She studies and teaches lifestyle medicine, organic nutrition, and womb wellness in a spiritual way. The women talk about energy centers and the importance of body literacy, organic nutrition, self-love and self-confidence. This episode will help you embrace your body postpartum and teach you how to be stronger by turning pain into love for your baby and yourself as a new woman.

Discussed in this episode:

• Jasmin’s personal experiences during the fourth trimester and how it changed her life
• Womb wellness and energy centers; including the sacral chakra
• Getting back to your roots and honoring ancient practices
• Recognizing who you are you learning from and where are you are getting your information
• Food as life force energy and the foundation of your overall health and wellness
• Changes within the womb space; physically and energetically
• The energetic and emotional side of conception
• Bringing awareness and educating yourself
• Meeting yourself where you are right now
• Connecting to the wisdom your body holds and listening to what it tells you
• Herbal Medicine and Yoni Steaming
• Connecting with your soul work

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In the tenth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Angel Newton to discuss mental health during the Fourth Trimester. Angel is a practicing mental health therapist, specializing in perinatal mental health, women’s wellness, and couples therapy. The women talk about knowing when to seek help and how to find it in your own community, as well as, understanding that what you’re experiencing is temporary and that everything is going to be ok. During this episode, you will learn how to create yourself in your new role, and realize that joy and challenge can coexist.

Discussed in this episode:

• Personal experiences with mental health after giving birth
• Scary thoughts, physical symptoms, and when to seek help
• Mom rage and irritability
• Finding community support
• Knowing your limits and being assertive with your needs
• Seasons of giving versus seasons of taking
• Continuing conversations and consistently checking in
• Realizing therapy looks different for different people
• Different aspects of wellness
• Emotions from the loss experienced after giving birth
• Removing negatives influences and unapologetically being yourself
• Making the most of this time in your life and thriving
• Being intentional to better yourself in your life
• Managing expectations and leaning into your values

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In the ninth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Aisha Nayyar to discuss conscious parenting. Aisha is a parent mentor and educator, the founder of Trusting Children and host of Trusting Children Podcast. The women talk about mindful parenting, including the RIE Method, and how to connect with your baby right from birth. This episode will teach you how to trust your instincts as well as your baby, and how to respond to your child as they develop naturally.

Discussed in this episode:

• Evolving and growing as families
• RIE Method: Resources for Infant Educarers
• Importance of the formative years in a child’s life
• Trusting your baby and your instincts
• Postpartum rage and guilt
• Grieving the change from one child to multiple
• Slowing down and being in the moment with your baby
• Finding time, communicating, and creating habits
• Giving your baby freedom to develop naturally
• Removing comparisons and judgements
• Choosing not to be stressed and building resilience
• Doing your best
• Understanding that your child will do things their own way
• Relearning and reparenting
• Creating space to problem solve
• Taking yourself out of it and recognizing your child’s capability
• Accepting and dealing with all emotions
• Determining your ultimate goal

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In the eighth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Melissa Bowley to discuss finding support and building a community throughout the Motherhood journey. Melissa is the founder of The Flourish Fund, the only experiential baby registry focused on wellness essentials for mom and baby, self-care and support. The women talk about recognizing needs as mothers and bringing together resources, tools, and support to meet them. This episode will teach you how to prioritize and take care of yourself throughout your Motherhood journey.

Discussed in this episode:

• The Flourish Fund
• Recognizing a mother’s need for support
• Birth experiences
• Next level consciousness: soulpreneurs and mompreneurs
• Identifying and finding resources, tools, and support in the community
• Improving access to wellness; making it simple for people to become aware of resources, access the right ones, and pay for them
• Remodeling existing structures and making an impact now
• Facing and learning from adversity
• Understanding various perspectives
• Call-in versus call-out cultures
• Keeping an open mind
• Putting your health and wellness first, including spending money on yourself without feeling guilty
• Preventing things on the front end to drive better outcomes on the backend
• Understanding that we’re all individuals and honoring everyone in their path of wellness no matter what that looks like
• Working together towards success
• Meeting the needs of the family

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In the seventh episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Stephanie O’Donnell to discuss energies and their influences throughout Motherhood. Stephanie is an energy worker, spiritual guide, and Registered Dietitian Nutritionist. The women talk about their experiences with energy work and about learning how the spirit’s of our children align with our own. This episode will help you understand that everyone is on their own path, and teach you to lean on supportive tools with an open mind.

Discussed in this episode:

• Energy influences during Motherhood
• Mind-body connection
• Fourth trimester experiences and the initiation into Motherhood
• Adjustments including recognizing the lessons our children are here to teach us
• Health anxiety
• Energetic blueprints and living out our paths’ in specific ways
• Conscious parenting
• Understanding our children more and learning to work with them
• Energy changes and higher vibrational children
• Astrology charts
• Taking the pressure off by granting ourselves the permission to do what we need to do for our children without thinking about the judgements of others
• Unlearning old ways and rebirthing this new way of being
• Understanding everybodies individual needs and helping one another along our own unique paths
• Bridging science and spirit
• Reiki, accepting others, and healing religious trauma
• Leaning on support and recognizing that not every tool works for everybody
• Being open to shifts and receiving lessons when we’re meant to
• Acknowledging that each lesson is a gift

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In the sixth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Dr. Amber Pederson to discuss chiropractic practices throughout the Motherhood journey. Amber is a chiropractor, Certified Functional Medicine Practitioner, Certified Reiki Master, wife, mom, and student of life. The women talk about chiropractic practices during pregnancy, post-partum, and with children, including their own experiences with it. Pregnancy and labor change women’s bodies. This episode teaches the importance of utilizing chiropractic as you enter Motherhood, and how it influences various other aspects of life.

Discussed in this episode:

• Physical Healing
• Tools to use during the healing journey
• Being on the clock 24/7 and going through many different emotions
• Transition from maiden to mother
• Chiropractic practices during pregnancy, post-partum, and with children
• The various changes women’s bodies experience throughout pregnancy and after giving birth - weight gain, hormone imbalances, nerve pain - and ways to treat them
• When to see a chiropractor after giving birth
• Impact of physical alignment on mental and emotional health
• Connection between what your body tells you and how you can meet its needs
• Allowing your body to heal itself
• Health issues chiropractic practices can relieve babies and children of
• Feeling empowered and grounded in the decisions you make for your child
• Ways to supplement chiropractic work
• Finding support in your community and red flags to look for
• Being the best support for your families and kids

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In the fourth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Janet Iacobucci to discuss sleep. Janet is a postpartum doula, a newborn care specialist, and a lactation counselor, who through her own experience, created Well Nested Rhode Island; a business catered to moms and families trying to navigate their new lives. The women talk about their experiences with sleep as new moms, including the challenges they’ve faced and the lessons they’ve learned. This episode will help you understand that everything is doable and it will get better with time.

Discussed in this episode:

• Chaos and unpredictability during the first few weeks after birth
• Varying sleeping patterns between babies
• Sleep conditioning, sleep training, and the cry-out method
• Bad habits
• How to be successful: learning cues, and establishing sleep environments and patterns
• Influences of sunrise and sunset on sleeping patterns, as well as, how to maintain a consistent environment during these times
• Mental health and setting boundaries
• Being mindful of yourself and your baby, and doing what’s best for both of you
• Intuitively connecting with your children
• Reflecting and pinpointing responses
• And so much more!

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In the third episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, discuss expectations, boundaries, asking for help, and receiving support during the Fourth Trimester. They talk about giving yourself permission to breathe and make the choices you need to for your family, without feeling bad or guilty. Alyssa and Jayme encourage saying yes to yourself, your worthiness, your energy, and putting up loving barriers so that you can contain that love and light for yourself and your kids. This episode focuses on bringing to light and questioning expectations while giving yourself the space to step into your own power at this emotional, hormonal, and intense time.

Discussed in this episode:

• Transitioning into the Fourth Trimester
• Setting up boundaries without feeling guilty
• Questioning expectations and not getting pushed over by them
• Defining who you are, what is ideal for you, and what kind of support you want
• Having the ability to change your mind
• Getting into the habit of listening, tuning in, and asking what your needs are in the moment
• Creating predictability through structures and routines
• Taking time and getting quiet to think about decisions
• Holding space for freeing conversations and standing solid in your truth
• Playing the mother role; giving yourself permission as the mom to let go of other responsibilities
• The pandemics impact and destruction of social norms
• Internal versus external pressures
• Dealing with changing dynamics
• Stepping into your own power

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In the second episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, discuss breastfeeding and the breastfeeding journey. They talk about and validate the unique experiences that mothers face during this time in their lives. This episode focuses on tuning into your own intuition and guidance, and trusting yourself that you are making the right decisions, without overly investing in what anybody else is saying. Breastfeeding has become taboo due to shame and judgment, but in this episode Alyssa and Jayme open the invitation for you to go deeper. Being present and open to the energy of your child, and your own internal wisdom, will give you the information and guidance that you’re seeking.

Discussed in this episode:

• Benefits and challenges of breastfeeding
• Releasing control and accepting that things occur in ways that you haven’t imagined
• The pressure and responsibility put on breastfeeding mothers
• Stress and anxiety feeding into your ability to produce milk
• The weirdness of breasts being used both sexually and to feed their baby
• Breastfeeding classes and new moms groups
• Enhanced and differing nipple sensations
• The time and energy required for breastfeeding
• Medical conditions; including C. Diff infections, thrush, underdeveloped esophageal sphincter
• Tips for tuning your body into what’s happening
• Weaning
• Getting your first period post birth
• Cluster feeding and ways to soothe nipples
• Choosing not to breastfeed and honoring your decision
• Trusting your instinct as a human and as a mother
• Tapping into energy and being open enough to receive information from their child

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In the first episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, get to know Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, as they share stories and lessons during the Fourth Trimester. Alyssa Knapp is a holistic health coach and owner of Integrative Wellness Journeys, and Jayme Rose Gray is a soul purpose business coach and channeler for the rainbow tribe. During the Fourth Trimester, the 12-week period after giving birth, women experience great physical and emotional changes as they adjust to their new life as a mom. Alyssa and Jamie delve into this topic head on and authentically address what happens after giving birth. Throughout this season, they will name and witness things that they have experienced and bring to you the lessons that they have learned, all shared through a flow and feminine lens.

Discussed in this episode:

• Getting to know your hosts
• Coming home from the hospital
• Primal and hormonal changes that occur on a nonconscious level, including the explosions of love and the internal pressure to keep your baby alive
• How to appreciate strong emotions
• Mourning during the transition from maiden to mother and the guilt associated with a feeling of freedom loss
• Tuning into your intuition

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