The Tummy Team Journey: Recent Episodes
Kelly Dean
Share the experiences of people just like you struggling to understand their true core and how to reclaim the connection and strength they once had as they describe their personal Tummy Team Journey with Kelly Dean, MPT.
A Journey to Becoming One with Myself Again Join Kelly as she interviews online client Heather from upstate NY as she shares her personal journey through Core Foundations and Floor of Your Core on a mission to reconnect with body. Heather realized she had been holding on to birth trauma for years and as a teacher during the pandemic realized she internalized stress and disconnected from her body to power through life. Core Foundations helped her to reconnect and recharge so she could be there for her family and herself moving forward. Join us as she shares her experience. Additional Resources: Core Foundations How Trauma is Stored in the Core
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Kelly's Return to SwimmingKelly's Journey to returning to competitive swimming. After being diagnosed with a severe (6 finger wide) diastasis, Kelly was told by a diastasis rehab specialist that she should never swim again. Listen to Kelly share her story and how that information was incorrect and how she used swimming as a way to completely close her diastasis. Sometimes the things we love to do can actually become part of our healing story.Additional Resources:DR and Swimming Video8 Steps to Meeting Your Goals10 Life Lessons from US Masters National Swimming Championships Subscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Feeling Validated and No Longer Alone in the Physical Struggles of MotherhoodJoin Kelly as she interviews Tummy Team client Micah. Micah has four kids and had lost all of her physical stamina when finally turning to The Tummy Team's Core Foundations course. Realizing she was not alone on this journey was so validating. Micah shares how implementing strategies into her daily life that she learned from The Tummy Team helped her reclaim her strength and stamina as well as finish closing her diastasis.Additional Resources:Book a Free Consult with KellyCore FoundationseSessions Subscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Healing Pain and Being the Best Version of MOM AgainOnline Tummy Team Client, Cherith lives in rural Papua New Guinea and after years of suffering with pelvic pain and instability after a traumatic third birth, she was finally able to get care through our online Core Foundations course. Cherith shares with Kelly how she has implemented what she has learned into her daily routine as a homeschool mom of four in a rural community. Take a listen and see how functional core and pelvic floor rehab has helped Cherith become the best version of mom again.Additional Resources:Core FoundationsFloor of Your CorePelvic Pain Relief Subscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Feeling Like "Me" AgainDon't miss this episode with Tummy Team client Chrissy from Pennsylvania. Chrissy is a mom of 12-year-old twin boys and shares her long journey to understanding what was really going on in her body and finding answers to feel like herself again. We can all relate to feeling dismissed by a doctor and feeling despair about not having any direction to feeling better. Take a listen to see how Chrissy navigated that journey and how only four eSessions with The Tummy Team has changed everything now and moving forward.Additional Resources:How to Book an eSessionCore Smart Fitness Functional IntegrationSubscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Reclaiming Deep Connection After Four PregnanciesJoin Kelly Dean with online Core Foundations client Julia as she shares her journey to not only heal her diastasis but also reclaiming her deep connection to herself again after four babies in five years. Julia shares her honest story about losing herself in the joy and demands of motherhood, ignoring her body and powering through life for years before she realized it could be different. The awareness and connection to herself on her functional core rehab journey helped her slow down, receive help and reclaim a sense of herself that she lost. This rehab process is far more than simply physically healing muscles. Take a listen and be encouraged.Additional Resources:Parenting Posture Youtube PlaylistCore Foundations Subscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Understanding How Prenatal Core Training Impacts Pregnancy, Labor, Delivery and Birth RecoveryJoin Kelly Dean as she unpacks the importance of being proactive and addressing core and pelvic floor weakness during your pregnancy. After decades of working in rehab, prevention always proves more effective that rehabilitation. What if you could do some key things and have a great birth and minimal birth trauma? We can actually help you. This is a great podcast to learn about fetal alignment, practice pushing, prenatal pain management and setting the stage for a great "fourth trimester" of birth recovery and newborn care.Additional Resources:How to Improve Optimal Fetal AlignmentPrenatal Core TrainingPrenatal Crash CourseCore Prep for C-SectionDR and Pregnancy Subscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Pelvic Floor Therapist's Journey to Finding Her Own RehabA pelvic floor therapists journey to finding her own core rehab and getting professional training to make her treatment plans more functional for her clients. Megan Miller is a licensed pelvic floor physical therapist in Harrisburg, PA who has had a long journey doing a combination of personal and professional training with The Tummy Team. Join us to hear her story and learn how you can take the next step in your journey too.Additional Resources:Floor of Your CoreTummy Team Apprenticeship ProgramsMegan Miller, MPTSubscribe to Our Podcast Here
A Journey to Finding Her True Self After Years of Postpartum Disconnect Join Kelly Dean, MPT, as she interviews online client Laura from Seattle. Laura shares a powerful story of being dismissed and desperate to feel better after a traumatic c-section and long postpartum recovery. Seven years after the birth of her first baby, Laura was still struggling with bloating, fatigue, disconnect, pain and so many other elusive symptoms that made her just feel "off". After seeing specialists, multiple tests, physical therapists and counseling she heard about The Tummy Team and started Core Foundations. Her body responded immediately. Laura tells us how everything has changed from that point forward. Take a listen. Additional Resources: Core Foundations Grief Routine Driving Infographic
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A Journey to Relieving Chronic Low Back Pain Join Kelly Dean, MPT as she interviews online client, Katie from Delaware, who shares her inspiring story to reclaim her life after years of low back pain using The Tummy Team functional core rehab approach. Katie's story is not uncommon. So many of us struggle with elusive low back pain that slowly takes over our life, and often doctors and traditional physical therapists do not have the answer. Take a listen and learn how simple it might be to change your life by relieving your low back pain. Additional Resources: Core Foundations Could Your Symptoms be Diastasis Recti The Transverse Abdominis is Your New Best Friend
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A Man's Journey to Healing Diastasis Recti and Reclaiming His Life Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews online client Todd from Washington as he shares the end of his 5 year struggle to heal his diastasis using the functional integration approach of our Core Foundations for Men course. Todd was an avid runner for years but life, work and family shifted his priorities for a season. Once he tried to get back into physical shape he injured himself in the gym doing weighted crunches and created a diastasis recti. After years of powering through pain and trying other programs, he finally found The Tummy Team and it changed everything. Additional Resources: Core Foundations for Men Diastasis Recti in Men
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A Journey to Healing Diastasis and Pelvic Floor Prolapse after 6 Babies Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Megan Layaw who found The Tummy Team between baby #6 and baby #7. She was a doula and thought she already knew everything she needed to know about birth and recovery, but realized the dramatic difference that functional core rehab had in healing her own body. She had a huge improvement in her fetal alignment for baby #7 and a far easier birth. Now Megan is getting her personal training certificate to supplement her doula work and help women everywhere heal their core and pelvic floor. Additional Resources: Layaw Health and Wellness Follow Megan on Instagram How DR Affects Pregnancy
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A Journey to Discovering Diastasis Recti, Healing It with Simple Strategies Kelly interviews online Tummy Team client Rashida who shares a story of finally understanding her body. Rashida had a traumatic birth recovery with baby #1, a complicated birth with baby #2, and had a long history of powering through pain. Learning about Diastasis Recti and how it was impacting her ability to care for her young family changed everything. Rashida shares how "simplicity is underestimated" when healing her diastasis. Join us, and be inspired to take the next step to heal your core. Additional Resources: Core Foundations Prenatal Core Training Diastasis Recti- It's Kind Of a Big Deal
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Welcome to Season 3 of The Tummy Team Journey Podcast Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about the importance of looking at functional core and pelvic floor rehab as essential self care for life. There is so much more to The Tummy Team approach than just Diastasis Recti rehabilitation. We are passionate about teaching clients life long skills to be the best version of themselves physically, mentally, and emotionally. How are you doing with your own self care? Take a listen to see how we might be able to get you on the right path. Additional Resources: Free Resources Core Foundations Core Foundations for Men
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A Journey to Overcoming Skepticism, Physical Disconnect to Heal Diastasis Kelly interviews online client, Julia, who struggled with diastasis, back pain and pelvic floor issues from her first pregnancy. Julia shares how it took her several attempts to heal her diastasis as she was so used to powering through her symptoms and disconnecting from her body that she was very skeptical and resistant to The Tummy Team approach which included slowing down, breathing, realigning and connecting. Julia stopped and started several times before she was able to really connect to her core and then she closed her diastasis quickly. She has since done several Tummy Team courses and laughs about how her skepticism sabotaged her in the beginning. Many of us will be able to relate to Julia's journey. Take a listen. Additional Resources: Core Foundations Floor of Your Core Prenatal Core Training
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A Journey to Healing Pubic Symphysis Pain Kelly interviews online client, Bonnie, who has four children under the age of six and was suffering with debilitating Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction (SPD). Bonnie shares how she has progressed from daily pain, fear and the inability to do the simple things of motherhood to being pain free and returning to the things she loves. We talk about the importance of baby steps and making rehab functional. Bonnie has a lot to share and her story is inspiring to anyone feeling limited and hopeless. There is hope, you can be strong and painfree again. Additional Resources: Pelvic Pain Relief eSessions with Kelly Prenatal Core Training Core Foundations
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A Journey to Starting Core Smart Fitness at 48 Kelly interviews online client and her good friend Molly as she shares her personal journey to start exercising for the first time in her life at 48. Molly did not struggle from diastasis recti but had long standing functional core weakness, poor posture and disconnect from her body. After developing an autoimmune disease and being inspired to take charge of her health during the pandemic, Molly shares her beautiful baby steps journey into fitness following The Tummy Team Core Smart Fitness Transition course. This is an encouraging story for all of us who are scared to start something new and have not felt good about exercise in the past. Join us and be inspired to moving toward your goals with baby steps too. Additional Resources: Core Smart Fitness Core Foundations
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Intermittent Fasting Stories with Gin Stephens In this episode of Intermittent Fasting Stories, Gin talks to Kelly Dean from Camas, WA. Kelly is a physical therapist, and has her own practice. Growing up, Kelly was a swimmer, and very lean. She continued to swim through college, but when she graduated, her swimming career came to an end. She got married, and experienced five miscarriages. Kelly found herself eating to cope with the sorrow. “It was emotional trauma, and I began to punish my body with food.” At this same time, Kelly was diagnosed with Diastasis Recti, which is a condition where the abdominal muscles separate. This diagnosis began a journey to heal her core, which also led Kelly to start her own practice, The Tummy Team. Kelly was passionate to help others with this same condition. When her practice shifted to being completely online and with the stressors of the pandemic, her weight steadily climbed, and eventually Kelly was at her highest weight of 212 pounds. Kelly knew it was time to do something about her weight. A friend shared intermittent fasting with her, and she quickly read Fast Feast Repeat. In the first 28 days, Kelly dropped 15 pounds, and knew IF would be something she’d do the rest of her life. “I enjoy the graciousness of this lifestyle,” Kelly exclaims. She has lost 50 pounds, and feels wonderful. The advice she’d give the new IFer: “It’s okay to start with small steps. You don’t have to be perfect. It’s all a process.” Additional Resources: Get Gin’s books including Cleanish and the New York Times Bestseller, Fast. Feast. Repeat., available wherever you buy books! Delay, Don’t Deny is available on Amazon. Join Gin’s community! Visit Gin’s website. Check out Gin’s Favorite Things.
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A Journey to Healing Pelvic Prolapse by Regaining Functional Core Strength In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, is joined by online Floor of Your Core client Stefanie Overstreet as she shares her journey as a nurse to learn more about her body after experiencing pelvic prolapse. Stefanie shares her motherhood journey including depression, anxiety, overzealous workouts and disconnect that all lead her to feeling like her body was falling apart. Stefanie shares how her reconnection to her posture and her transverse were pivotal to her prolapse improving. Her journey has inspired her to help other women throughout the motherhood transformation in her PEACE method as a nurse and nutritional coach. Her story is inspiring.
Additional Resources: Floor of Your Core Stefanie Overstreet or follow her @stefanieoverstreet on Instagram
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A Journey to Releasing Muscles while Regaining Real Strength In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client Carolin who shares her story to reconnect to her core after diastasis and disc herniation. Carolin was diagnosed with a five-finger diastasis and was able to do some in person rehab prior to doing The Tummy Team's online core rehab program, Core Foundations. She shares how learning why her body was compensating made a huge difference for her overall strength. Carolin has a great story about learning to address tension while building strength and how her back pain resolved with functional core rehab.
Additional Resources: Core Foundations Functional Core Advanced Integration eSessions with Kelly
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A Journey to Pain Free Intimacy In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, discusses the delicate subject of pain with sex and how trauma impacts intimacy. Sex is an important part of our adult life, and it should not hurt. One of the areas that The Tummy Team helps clients in is reclaiming their sex life. In this podcast, Kelly shares about the delicacy of the pelvic floor tissues, how a pain cycle can be broken, and how we can heal from trauma and move forward.
Additional Resources: eSessions with Kelly Nurturing Core Trauma Recovery Course Floor of Your Core
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The Journey of Surviving Breast Cancer and Fertility Struggles In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Tummy Team Client Stephanie from Virginia who shares her journey to even acknowledge the trauma from her breast cancer and fertility experiences. Sometimes, you are so busy surviving that you struggle to even see how much your body has been through. Stephanie shares honestly how the core rehab process helped her see the roadblocks in her ability to connect and fully heal. Understanding how past trauma can derail even our best efforts is an important first step to Core Trauma Recovery. This podcast is from our series on Core Trauma Recovery.
Additional Resources: Core Foundations Nurturing Core Trauma Recovery Course Core Support Trauma Recovery Course Online Core Trauma Recovery Trauma/Grief Resources
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An Ongoing Journey to Emotional Core Strength After a Life Threatening Miscarriage In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Andrea from Boise, Idaho who shares her journey through Core Foundations seeking physical healing and realizing what she really needed with emotional core healing. This is an emotional and empowering story that helps us understand how trauma is held in our body and the journey to heal emotionally and physically. This is a part of our series on Core Trauma Recovery.
Additional Resources: How Grief is Stored in the Core Fit2b Grief Routine Free Trauma/Grief Resources Online Core Trauma Recovery
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Kelly's Journey to Understanding the Role of Trauma Recovery in Core Rehab In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how physical disconnect seems to be the main speed bump that clients have when trying to fully restore their core. Kelly shares about how trauma is stored physically in the body, explains the role of muscle memory and the process of healing emotionally, mentally and physically. This is an insightful look at how beautifully our body is designed to help us survive, endure all kinds of trauma and continue to carry on. Kelly shares a bit about our two new trauma recovery courses: Core Support and Nurturing Core that will launch this spring.
Additional Resources: How Grief is Stored in the Core Fit2b Grief Routine Free Trauma/Grief Resources Online Core Trauma Recovery
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A Journey to Healing the Pelvic Floor during Pregnancy for a Better Birth Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client Mackenzie and discusses her pelvic floor rehab journey after a traumatic first delivery. Mackenzie tried in person pelvic floor physical therapy without success and then was able to find healing and strength while 5 months pregnant with our Floor of Your Core rehab course. Mackenzie shares her story from feeling desperate and discouraged to feeling strong and empowered. Mackenzie also shares her experience postpartum with the Core Smart Fitness Transition course.
Additional Resources: Floor of Your Core Core Smart Fitness Transition How to Improve Optimal Fetal Alignment
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A Journey to Having a VBAC after an Unexpected C-Section Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client Megan who found The Tummy Team while pregnant with baby number 3 on her search to avoid another C-Section delivery. Megan has an encouraging story to share to help other moms be proactive and prepared for birth and birth recovery. Join us to hear how Prenatal Core Training impacted her birth experience.
Additional Resources: Prenatal Core Training How To Prepare for a Stronger Birth How to Train for the Pushing Phase of Labor
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The Journey to Setting and Meeting Your Goals Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how to set meaningful goals and gives you strategies to be successful including identifying all the ways we sabotage ourselves and ways to overcome those self defeating habits. Life -long strength is more than a simple fitness goal. Understanding what is really important and creating a realistic plan to get there is our specialty.
Additional Resources: Book an eSession with Kelly Dean Online Program Questionnaire
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A Journey to Fully Reclaiming Strength After a Difficult Postpartum Recovery Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Tummy Team client Jen Miller who shares her powerful journey through postpartum depression to reconnecting to her core. Jen shares how hard it was to feel "herself" when she felt like she had a hole in the middle of her body. Her journey led her to write music and share with other women struggling with postpartum depression. This is an inspiring story that many women will be able to relate to.
Additional Resources: Grief Routine Core Foundations Jen Miller Music Collective Top Tracks for Jen Miller Music Collective Brave is One More Step in the Dark
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The Journey to Turning 50, Being Pain Free, Strong and Connected Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about the beauty of turning 50 right after her 50th birthday and parallels her personal journey with the role that The Tummy Team functional core rehab approach has played. This is the last podcast in our Embracing the New series.
Additional Resources: Online Program Questionnaire Schedule an eSession or package of eSessions with Kelly Book a Free 15-Minute New Client Phone Consult Do you have a story to share? Fill out our podcast guest application.
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The Bigger Picture of My Journey Through the Eyes of My Daughter A podcast discussion between Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, and her oldest daughter (middle child) Kadie. Kadie shares a bit about how Kelly’s core rehab journey has influenced her life. Kelly shares more about how healing her broken core started a journey of living a strong, connected and intentional life and how that impacted her kids and her family in unexpected ways. This is a fun look behind the scenes into the bigger picture of why moms need to prioritize their own self care. This episode is part of our series Embracing the New: The Focus That Comes with Turning 50! 50 and focused!
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A Journey to 50 Pounds Lighter at 50 Kelly Dean, Founder of The Tummy Team and Miranda Anderson, Online Administrator with The Tummy Team, talk about all the things related to core rehab, diastasis, weight loss and strength gain. Kelly shares about her recent journey to changing her relationship with food and the dramatic impact that has had on losing weight. Miranda shares her journey to building strength and connection while losing weight. Together we talk about how weight loss is not required for core rehab and how we need strength at every size and shape. We also share why The Tummy Team has never been about body image or the aesthetics but about being strong and pain free and capable. This podcast is part of our series Embracing the New: The Focus that Comes with Turning 50!
Related Links: Gin Stephen's Books on Intermittent Fasting Strong at Every Size YouTube Video Body Expectations YouTube Video
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A Journey to Being 50 and Focused Join Kelly Dean, Founder of The Tummy Team, and Beth Learn of Fit2B. Beth interviews Kelly about embracing the new and her journey into her 50's. We talk about being proactive, setting goals, doing what you love and staying fit with new perspective. This is the first in our series of podcasts that follow Kelly into her 50th birthday.
Related Links: Fit2B Core Foundations Core Smart Fitness
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A Journey to Understanding the Necessity of Self Care in the Postpartum Season Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews client Zahra from Saudi Arabia as she shares her story of self neglect, depression, birth trauma and her way back to finding herself again. This is a powerful interview to understanding how important self care is especially in the postpartum season. Join us and connect with the hope and encouragement found in Zahra's journey.
Related Links: Book a Virtual Appointment with Kelly How Grief is Stored in the Core Your Core, Your Pelvic Floor and Your Mental Health A New Standard for Postpartum Care
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A Journey to Returning to the Sports/Fitness Activities You Love This is part two of our functional integration series with Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team. This week Kelly shares about how to take your newly restored core back into the sports you love. She discusses how we deconstruct the sports into drills and skills so that we can reconstruct the sport with your core strength at the focus of it all. We talk about so many different sports including hockey, volleyball, surfing, swimming, rowing and more....
Related Links: Running with Diastasis Recti Swimming and Diastasis Recti Core Smart Fitness
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A Journey to Making all of our Life Activities Core Strong Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares in depth about one of the foundational components of The Tummy Team's functional core rehab approach: Functional Integration. This is part 1 of 2 about how to make core work functional and how our real life actually can create opportunities for our core to be strong. We dive into all the little and big things that consume your day like kitchen chores, driving posture, gardening strategies, parenting postures and so much more. Our new course Functional Core is scheduled to launch on Dec 1st!
Related Links: Why Functional Integration is so Important (YouTube Video) Our Approach Driving Posture Infographic Office Posture Infographic
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A Chiropractor's Journey to Understanding the Diastasis Recti Missing Link Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews colleague and chiropractor Dr. Michelle Gerbi as she shares how functional core rehab dramatically impacted her approach with her prenatal and postpartum clients. This is a great discussion about the standard of care for the treatment of new moms and how women need support and realistic tools to honor the changes their bodies are experiencing and heal from the transformation of birth. Dr. Gerbi also shares about her upcoming new projects Breastfeeding 911 and her 16-week postpartum recovery course. Join us for a great conversation.
Related Links: Dr. Michelle Gerbi Standard of Care Blog Professional Training with The Tummy Team
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A Journey from Physical Core Strength to Spiritual Core Strength Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews Tummy Team client and author Sharon Czerwein who shares how her physical therapy experience with The Tummy Team led her to writing her book Core: Biblical Principles for When Life Gets Bumpy. Kelly had the privilege of contributing the first few chapters of this book and the interview will help you see the big picture connection and parallel between physical core strength and spiritual core strength.
Related Links: Core: Biblical Principles for When Life Gets Bumpy Core Foundations Our Comprehensive Approach
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A Journey to Healing from Both Chronic Pain and Diastasis Recti Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Core Foundations client Taryn who shares about the chronic low back pain and instability that plagued her since she was 13 and how functional core rehab has changed everything. Taryn had a diastasis and was on a journey to heal from her second pregnancy when she found The Tummy Team and realized all her symptoms were related AND treatable. Join us to hear more about how your body can heal even after years of pain.
Related Links: Diastasis Recti: The Bigger Picture (YouTube Video) Neutral Pelvis Stretches Core Foundations Core Smart Fitness
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A Journey to Understanding the Different Roles of Fitness and Rehab with Diastasis Recti Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about how fitness and rehab differ and the importance of building the solid core foundation prior to adding challenges of fitness to get lasting results.
Related Links: Symptom Checker Online Program Questionnaire Functional Core Weakness and Diastasis Recti Why You Should Stop Doing Crunches
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A Journey to Understanding the Support our Clients Need Kelly interviews Tummy Team online administrator Miranda Anderson as they share about the most common questions our clients ask and the answers. We discuss how weight loss is not required to strengthen your core, how men struggle with body image too, how addressing grief is a surprising factor in the healing process, and so much more. Join us to get to know more about our team and how we are dedicated to loving our clients well.
Related Links: Grief Resources Men's Youtube Playlist Prolapse and Diastasis Healing a Diastasis during Pregnancy
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The Journey from Investing in your Own Body to Investing in the People You Love Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client Lori who after years of avoiding truly investing in herself started a functional core rehab journey that she translated into a water aerobics core class for her community. Lori has a great story and shares how she has not only learned how to heal her own body but she has shared this knowledge with her friends, family and women in her community.
Related Links: Core Foundations Floor of Your Core Core Smart Fitness
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The Journey to Treating Diastasis Recti in Babies, Toddlers and People Struggling with Intestinal Issues Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how diastasis and digestion are so connected and how addressing this can help kids and adults that are struggling with both. Kelly shares more about our Tummy Team Toddler Course in this episode and how healing the core has changed the lives of many people struggling with chronic constipation. Take a listen, you might be surprised to learn how easy this is to treat with the right tools!
Related Links: Tummy Team Toddler Course Abdominal Massage Blog Potty Posture Infographic Diastasis Recti in Children
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A Journey to Getting Your Power Back Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews clinic and online client Erika as she shares her healing journey from abdominal trauma related to severe endometriosis and chronic pain. Erika has a complicated medical and motherhood history but has found healing and freedom through retraining her connection to her core and pelvic floor with The Tummy Team. Join us to here her encouraging story of recovery.
Related Links: Here's What You Need to Know About Hormones and Diastasis6 Benefits of Abdominal Massage Myofascial Release & Core Rehab Core Foundations
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A Journey to Core Strength and Improved Mental Health Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 66-year-old client Sheila as she shares her inspiring story out of depression, narcotic use and into a strong and confident life while working with The Tummy Team. Sheila shares the benefits of functional core strength and practical tools to help her manage her chronic pain to her overall mental health. Join us to be inspired and encouraged by her story.
Related Links: Virtual AppointmentsGrief, Trauma & Core Recovery ResourcesCore FoundationsYour Core, Your Pelvic Floor, & Your Mental Health
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The Journey to Learning About the Connection Between Your Core, Pelvic Floor & Mental Health Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how our mental health symptoms are often impacted by our physical weakness in the core and pelvic floor, and our core and pelvic floor can actually be directly impacted by our mental health. There are so many ways that we can look holistically at the body and help clients address issues like depression, anxiety, body image issues and more through our comprehensive functional core and pelvic floor rehab approach.
Related Links: Core FoundationsFloor of Your CoreGrief, Trauma, & Core Recovery Free ResourcesUnderstanding the Emotional Component to the Core Rehab Journey - Episode 33Check Your Symptoms
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A Personal Trainer's Journey to Being a Diastasis Recti Specialist Join Kelly Dean as she interviews personal trainer Chiara De Benedetti from Italy as she shares her journey through her diastasis recti education. Chiara is an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner and is making a huge impact in Italy in changing what they know about fitness, diastasis recti and healing. She is a resource to many and has great passion and insight for all fitness professionals and fitness enthusiasts.
Related Links: Chiara's WebsiteTummySafe Fitness CEU Course6 Ways to Achieve Tummy Safe FitnessTummy Safe Fitness Professional Apprentice Training
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The Journey to Becoming a Tummy Team Birth Professional Midwife Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team Endorsed Midwife Kirsten Zimmerman from Switzerland as she shares how she started treating her clients for diastasis recti and what a difference it has made in their pregnancies, births and birth recoveries. Kirsten is passionate about making a difference in the birth community and is excited to share how rewarding this work is.
Related Links: To Push or Not to PushComprehensive Prenatal CEUTummy Team Birth Professional Apprentice Program
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The Journey to Becoming a Holistic Women's Health Physical Therapist Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Katrin Rey, an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner and physical therapist from Germany. Katrin shares how learning about diastasis, the big picture of functional core weakness and how to treat it has changed the entire direction of her career and helped her love her profession again. Take a moment to listen to this inspiring story.
Related Links: Katrin's websiteTummy Team Trained Practitioner ProgramTummy Team Fitness Professional ProgramTummy Team Birth Professional ProgramWhy Functional Integration is so Important
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The Journey from Pilates Instructor to Tummy Team Trained Practitioner Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews professional colleague Cheryl Mostowski from Strong Tummies in the Chicago area. Cheryl shares how she first learned about diastasis and transformed her pilates practice into a diastasis recti rehab business. Cheryl has tons of passion for the work she does and has become a resource in her community to clients and professionals alike.
Related Links: Strong TummiesTummy Team Trained Practitioner ProgramCore Foundations CEU Course
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A Journey into Training Professionals Worldwide Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about the knowledge gap about diastasis in the training program of most medical, rehab, fitness and birth professionals and how The Tummy Team is trying to fix that. In honor of Diastasis Recti awareness month, The Tummy Team is doing an educational promotion geared to professionals called "What we (and our clients) wish professionals knew about Diastasis Recti." Listen with us and see how you can help us impact the medical community with up to date education.
Related Links: The Tummy Team for ProfessionalsTummy Team Trained Practitioner ProgramTummy Team Fitness Professional ProgramTummy Team Birth Professional ProgramTummy Team Endorsed Professionals
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A Man's Journey to a Strong Core after Abdominal Injury Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online client 58-year-old John from Ohio. He shares how injuring his abdominals turned out to be a blessing in disguise to actually help him be stronger than ever. John is incredibly physically fit and passionate about weight training so when he thought his abdominal injury was an umbilical hernia he immediately panicked. John shares how three eSessions with Kelly transformed what he knew about his core, kept him from surgery and returned him to fitness with a new found strength and confidence.
Related Links: eSessions with KellyTummySafe Fitness & Diastasis RectiDiastasis Recti & MenWhat Men Need to Know About Diastasis Recti
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A Journey to Treating Men with Diastasis Recti Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares why men get diastasis recti and explains the differences between working with women and men. Understanding how the body was designed and the incredible capacity for healing brings hope for men dealing with diastasis. This is not just a women's health issue.
Related Links: Men's YouTube PlaylistCore Foundations for MenWhat Men Need to Know
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A Husband and Wife's Journey to Living Pain Free Chareen and Paul share how working with The Tummy Team took Paul from daily pain and immobility back to the work he loves as a zookeeper. In desperation to help her husband, Chareen found The Tummy Team's Core Foundations program first and just started giving him little strategies to try. Then Paul decided to do the full Core Foundations for Men course and really experienced the relief he needed.
Related Links: Core FoundationsCore Foundations for MenHow The Tummy Team Helps Men
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The Journey of a Connected Father Online Tummy Team client Jim from New York joins Kelly for another interview. This time Jim shares how being connected to his body has influenced the ways he can be a positive role model for his sons. This episode will help clients understand how much more there is to functional core rehab and the role the core truly plays in their life.
Related Links: Men vs. Women: Treating Diastasis RectiOnline Rehab for Men with Diastasis RectiVirtual Appointments with Kelly Dean
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A Journey of Processing a Traumatic Birth Join Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team and her sister-in-law Brittany as they share about the importance of birth processing in the healing process. Brittany is honest and vulnerable as she shares about a missed miscarriage and the fear-ridden following pregnancy. Brittany gained an understanding of how the pain of loss can directly impact your birth experience and how your body needs to heal emotionally as well as physically.
Related Links: Birth Processing eSessionGrief, Trauma & Core Recovery Free Resources6 Steps to Understand and Address Grief and Trauma in Your Core
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A Journey to Being a Strong Grandma Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 62-year-old online client Lori as she shares how she invested for years in fitness yet still never felt connected to her core or pelvic floor. She shares about her core and pelvic floor rehab journey and how she sees strength and connection in her body she has not felt for years. We talk about the emotional demands of being a mother to adults, the physical demands of being a grandma and how she has the tools to do both.
Related Links: Core FoundationsFloor of Your Core - Add-OnFloor of Your CoreYou Are Never Too Old to Have a Strong Core
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A Journey to Building Up Strong Mothers: Part 2 This is Part 2 of a 2-part podcast series where Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how functional core rehab supports the early years of motherhood. We discuss the role of the core from the early elementary stage through mothering our adult children. Motherhood is far more than getting pregnant and giving birth. It is from our strength that our kids grow and enter the world. It is from our strength that we impact our families and our communities. The Tummy Team is passionate about helping moms get the resources she needs to be strong, pain free and present to be the mother you were meant to be.
Related Links: Core FoundationsFloor of Your Core - Add-OnFloor of Your CoreYou Are Never Too Old to Have a Strong Core
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A Journey to Building Up Strong Mothers This is Part 1 of a 2-part podcast series where Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how functional core rehab supports the early years of motherhood. We discuss the role of the core from conception, to pregnancy, birth, birth recovery, newborn care through toddler care. Mothers are the life line to their families, and The Tummy Team invests in mothers around the world with free resources and comprehensive online rehab programs.
Related Links: How to Improve Fetal Alignment Through Functional Core StrengthHow to Train for the Pushing PhaseNewborn Parenting Postures YouTube PlaylistPrenatal Core TrainingCore Foundations
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A Journey to Core Connection and Addressing Postpartum Depression Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Holly. She shares her relatable story of core connection and its relation to her postpartum depression. Holly has a beautiful and realistic story of the challenges of motherhood and how her physical disconnect played a significant role in her emotional disconnect. Her journey through Core Foundations was the beginning of a several year journey to finding herself again.
Related Links: Core Foundations Grief, Trauma & Core Recovery Resources How Grief is Stored in the Core
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The Journey to Becoming a Functional Pelvic Floor Physical Therapist Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team interviews client, colleague, and Floor of Your Core contributor, Gillian Sukachevin, MSPT. Gillian shares her own birth stories and her journey to The Tummy Team. Gillian has worked in The Tummy Team clinic and is a phenomenal functional core and pelvic floor physical therapist. Her heart to help clients at a deep meaningful level is inspiring. Her story is powerful. Join us to learn more about what led her to do the work she does.
Related Links: A Story of Transformation - Gillian Sukachevin, MSPT Floor of Your Core How Does Online Pelvic Floor Rehab Work?
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Understanding the Emotional Component to the Core Rehab Journey Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, shares how the body stores emotional pain physically and how physical experiences have an emotional component. The Tummy Team holistically addresses the emotional components of the core rehab process in very specific ways. Join us to better understand how this might be the missing piece in your healing journey.
Related Links: The Journey to Learning How to Listen to Your Body Grief Routine Free Resources for Grief, Trauma & the Core
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A Journey to Complete Bladder Prolapse Healing Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, talks with Tummy Team client Katie as she shares her story of healing her diastasis (while pregnant) and completely healing her bladder prolapse using The Tummy Team's Prenatal Core Training and Core Foundations programs. Katie, like many of our pelvic prolapse clients was in complete panic when she discovered her bladder prolapse at four weeks into her postpartum journey. She shares how she consistently incorporated the "tummy safe" lifestyle and fully healed her prolapse enough to get pregnant again without fear or symptoms.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Prolapse: A Diastasis of the Pelvic Floor Floor of Your Core Online Functional Pelvic Floor Rehab: Could this be the missing link?
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The Journey to Reclaiming Motherhood Rebecca, Tummy Team client, shares her journey to reclaiming motherhood after years of birth related trauma, chronic pain and postpartum depression. Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Rebecca who shares her story of very difficult births and birth recovery and how everything changed with baby number 5 after doing The Tummy Team's Prenatal Core Training course. Rebecca shares how she grieved the impact her pain had on her motherhood journey and how blessed she feels now to have a solution.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training
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A Journey to Retraining Her True Core After a Tummy Tuck Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Heather who shares her journey of 20 years of core weakness, a tummy tuck and then core rehab with The Tummy Team. Heather has a story that so many of us can relate to, and we discuss the taboo topic of plastic surgery and its role in her healing journey.
Related Links: Core Prep for Abdominal Surgery Core Foundations
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A Journey to Reclaiming Mental, Emotional and Physical Core Strength Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client and postpartum doula, Sheila from Texas. Sheila has a great story about how she learned about diastasis recti. Sheila's healing journey has transformed her life -- giving her real mental and emotional strength needed for motherhood and supporting others in their motherhood journey.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Core Foundations A New Standard for Postpartum Care Parenting Postures - Free Resource
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The Journey to Understanding the Pelvic Floor Connection Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how she learned more and more about pelvic floor health through functional core rehab and how that has lead to the Floor of Your Core online functional pelvic floor courses. Understanding the pelvic floor connection has changed everything and opened up an entire new way to help our clients be strong for the life they were meant to live!
Related Links: Pelvic Floor Heath YouTube Playlist Floor of Your Core Diastasis Recti and the Pelvic Floor
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A Man's Journey to Not Powering through Pain Kelly interviews Tummy Team client Dan from California. Dan is a retired police officer who was a pro at powering through pain and pushing his body in life and fitness. As a result, he found himself with a weak distended core and a diastasis at the age of 72. Dan shares his journey to finding help for his diastasis and his experience with Core Foundations for Men. His journey to stop powering through pain has left him stronger in all the right ways.
Related Links: Core Foundations for Men What DR Looks Like in Men Diastasis Recti in Men
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The Journey of a Midwifery Student and Tummy Team Birth Professional Kelly interviews doula and midwifery student, Hannah Payseno, as she shares about her 7 years of birth experience and the impact of prenatal core and pelvic floor training with The Tummy Team. Hannah is also an Endorsed Tummy Team Birth Professional. Join us to hear her encouraging journey and how she is applying this information to her own pregnancy as well.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Prenatal Core/Pelvic Floor Connection Fetal Alignment Hannah Ray - Tummy Team Birth Professional Professional Training with The Tummy Team
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The Journey to Learning How to Listen to Your Body Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares about the importance of physical connection, physical attunement and ultimately learning to listen, and then respond to your body. Disconnect is the most prevalent issue that our clients need to overcome to be physically strong and pain free. Listen to how we help you reconnect and reclaim your true self in your functional core rehab journey.
Related Links: Grief Routine How Grief is Stored in the Core Core Foundations Core Foundations for Men
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A Man's Journey to Smarter Fitness Performance Join Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, as she talks to Tummy Team client Jim from Philadelphia, Pa. Jim is a long time avid athlete and found himself with a diastasis and ultimately a very weak core. Jim shares his personal journey through our Core Foundations for Men course, and how he has completely changed his view of fitness, his core and real life strength as a result.
Related Links: 6 Ways to Achieve Tummy Safe Fitness Diastasis Recti in Men Core Foundations for Men
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A Journey to Learning to Honor Your Body Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Core Foundations and Core Integrations client Dee as she shares how The Tummy Team shifted her entire perspective about how her body was designed and how to honor it well. Dee was on an 18-year journey to heal from her first traumatic birth when she found The Tummy Team. That was 6 years ago and she is still implementing the tools she learned from that process to help her be present and powerful in her life.
Related Links: Dee's Review of The Tummy Team's Core Foundation Online Rehab Program Dee's Journey: Continuing Tummy Rehab Core Integrations: Holding My Head Up The Tummy Team Rehab Chronicles: Part 3
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A Journey to Healing Weakness from Scoliosis and a Traumatic Birth Recovery Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Jessica as she shares how Core Foundations helped her relieve pain and weakness after a traumatic birth and specifically how it helped her scoliosis symptoms.
Related Links: How Core Strength Impacts Optimal Fetal Alignment How to Set Up Your Nursing Throne A New Standard for Postpartum Care
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A Journey to Embracing Core Strength for Life Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares more of her personal journey to embrace getting older. Kelly shares how entering her 40's and starting The TummyTeam shifted her perspective on what it really means to be strong for the life you were meant to live. Kelly turns 49 this year and has some great insight into how to set goals, respect your limitations, honor your body and live a core-strong life.
Related Links: Kelly's Story - Episode 1 The Tummy Team Story Swimming and Diastasis Recti The Olympics, Diastasis & My Magazine Debut 10 Life Lessons from US Masters National Swimming Championships
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A Journey to Helping Others with DR Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner Helle Birke-Nielsen from Denmark. This is a great story of how this pilates instructor found out she had a diastasis and then decided to be a part of the solution by purchasing a diastasis rehab center in Denmark. Be inspired to use your story to help others just like Helle!
Related Links: Helle's Website Why Train with The Tummy Team? Apprenticeship Program
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The Journey to Sharing about Diastasis around the World Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she interviews Beth Learn of Fit2B again. Kelly and Beth share how they have been called to share what they have learned about Tummy Safe™ Fitness to clients and professionals around the world. Fit2 is hosting a digital conference, Bits Bones & Booties, on January 8th! Kelly Dean, MPT, is just one of the speakers. This is an all day live event that will kick start your New Year with exercise and education focused on being strong as you age. We are so proud to be a part of this event.
Related Links: Bits Bones & Booties Continuing Education Courses Apprenticeship Program Types of Endorsements
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A Journey to Real Life Rehab Join Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, as she shares about about functional integration, or "real life rehab". Making it meaningful is one of the foundational pillars to The Tummy Team approach. Learn why our clients say "That was easier than I thought it would be!", and how we help you be consistent in meeting your goals.
Related Links: Why Functional Integration is So ImportantOur Approach
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A Journey to Full Healing after Kidney Donation Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Elizabeth. Elizabeth worked with The Tummy Team after her second baby was born for her low back pain and birth recovery core strength, then again after donating her kidney, and most recently after experiencing sexual trauma. Her openness in how her body needed the emotional connection to fully heal is inspiring.
Related Links: How Grief is Stored in the Core Abdominal Massage YouTube Video Grief, Trauma & Core Recovery Resources
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A Journey to Relieve Chronic Low Back Pain Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client Vanessa who struggled with debilitating low back pain and found complete relief through Core Foundations. Listen to how she moved from feeling defeated and broken to being active and pain free. "It is so much easier than people think!"
Related Links: Could Your Symptoms be Diastasis Recti? Abdominal Massage YouTube Video DR & Functional Core Weakness
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A Journey to Heal the Core After a Traumatic C-Section Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team Core Foundations client, Jothi, as she shares how functional core rehab was the missing link to help her recover from a very traumatic c-section. Jothi was unable to walk without severe pain for over a year after her 3rd baby and found several holistic ways to reclaim her life including The Tummy Team. Join us in listening to her inspirational story that has led her to change her career and help others find healing too.
Related Links: Core Foundations Could your symptoms be related to Diastasis Recti? The Grief Routine 10 Body Fails Connected to the Core
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A Journey Back to Dancing Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client, Katy, six years after she completed Prenatal Core Training. Katy, mom of 6 boys, shares how disconnected she was after two traumatic births and multiple back to back pregnancies and how regaining her core strength has gradually helped her return to her first love, Dancing!
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Diastasis Recti and Pregnancy How to Set Up Your Nursing Throne
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The Journey to Effective Online Core Rehab Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares how online functional core rehab is effective. Not all physical therapy works well remotely, but The Tummy Team approach uses education and functional integration strategies to help each client become their own best therapist. The core is all about how we sit, stand, walk, lift and function throughout our every day life. Listen to how we have learned to help you be effective in your rehab process with our online courses and 1:1 eSessions.
Related Links: Top 10 Reasons to Do Online PT with The Tummy Team Hope for Diastasis Online Core Rehab Our Approach
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A Journey to a Redeeming Birth after a Traumatic Experience Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Elif, Tummy Team client, who shares about her traumatic first birth experience and how The Tummy Team helped her redeem the birth of her second baby. After experiencing brokenness and hopelessness, prenatal core training helped Elif have a pain free second pregnancy and a beautiful birth experience.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Parenting Postures Splinting During Pregnancy Learn How to Improve Fetal Alignment - YouTube Video
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A Journey to Understand Diastasis Recti & Functional Core Weakness In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, shares the big picture about Diastasis Recti. Yes, this is a separation of the abdominal wall, but it is much more than just a gap in your belly. All the confusion is cleared up as Kelly shares in depth what really causes diastasis, why traditional physical therapy is not super effective at treating it, and how you can heal (and prevent) Diastasis Recti by addressing functional core weakness.
Related Links: Diastasis Recti: The Bigger Picture Diastasis Recti & Functional Core Weakness Check Yourself for a Check Yourself for a Diastasis
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A Journey to Healing an 8-Finger Wide Diastasis without Surgery Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Core Foundations client, Noa, a mom of three. She was diagnosed with an 8-finger wide diastasis and was told that surgery was her only option. Noa shares how she refused to settle for that answer, searched for more information, and discovered Core Foundations. Our online core rehab program helped her take her diastasis from an eight-finger separation to only one finger without surgical intervention.
Related Links: Core Foundations Abdominal Massage Video Check Yourself for a Diastasis
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A Journey of Hope for Diastasis During Pregnancy with Prenatal Core Training Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Jessica, Tummy Team client, as she shares about feeling scared and overwhelmed after learning about her diastasis with her first pregnancy and how prenatal core training changed everything. She reports feeling stronger at 40 weeks than she was at 30 weeks.
Related Links: Prenatal Core Training Diastasis Recti During Pregnancy What We Do
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A Journey of Recovering from the Empty Feeling of a 10-Finger Diastasis Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Monet Noriega, Tummy Team client, who is also now an Endorsed Tummy Team Trained Practitioner. Monet shares how emptiness and disconnect led her to seeking help for the weakness she felt in her core after birth. Her journey to heal herself has motivated her to help others heal, too.
Related Links: Monet's website Core Foundations Myofascial Release & Core Rehabilitation Grief Routine
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A Journey to Honest Self Assessment In this episode, Kelly Dean, MPT and Founder of The Tummy Team, describes in detail the importance of client self assessment to fully understand your starting point in the functional core rehab process. We often ignore or minimize symptoms that give us valuable information about what our body needs and what it is lacking. Join us and spend some time being honest about what your body needs right now.
Related Links: DR Self Check Problem Solving Your Diastasis Recti Self Check DR Self Check for Men
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A Man's Journey to Healing His Diastasis & More Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews online Tummy Team client, Jim, as he shares about how he first learned about diastasis recti in men and how The Tummy Team helped him realize that the separation of his abdominals was just one thing holding him back from being strong. Jim is an older client who has a very similar story to many of the men we work with at The Tummy Team. He has been eager to share his experience so that more men can see how they can have a strong core again, too.
Related Links: Core Foundation for Men How Do Men Get DR? Men vs. Women: Treatment of Diastasis Recti Learn More About DR in Men Learn More About eSessions
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A Journey of Regaining Strength at 60 Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews 61-year-old Tummy Team client, Beth Forsberg, who shares her story of feeling strong and connected, and relieving her back pain so she can continue to do what she loves as she moves into the next season of her life. Beth shares how you are never too old to retrain your core and reclaim the strength you once had.
Related Links: https://online.thetummyteam.com/core-foundations https://online.thetummyteam.com/core-integrations https://fit2b.us/
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Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team Client, Jenifer, who is a mother of 9, doula and EMT. Jenifer shares her incredible motherhood journey which includes multiple traumatic births and how everything changed after baby #7 when she started our Core Foundations program. She now incorporates the knowledge she has gained through Prenatal Core Training and Core Foundations into the way in which she works with other moms as their doula.
Related Links: Splinting During Pregnancy Prenatal Core Training Core Foundations
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Kelly Dean, MPT and founder of The Tummy Team, interviews Tummy Team client, Jenika Johnson, who shares her journey through our Core Foundations and Floor of Your Core programs. Jenika has four kids and her youngest was seven years old before she realized her core and pelvic floor weakness was not normal. She shares how empowered she is to be finally able to return to jogging without leaking.
Related links : Core Foundations 8 week online course: https://online.thetummyteam.com/core-foundations Floor of Your Core 8 week online course: https://online.thetummyteam.com/floor-of-your-core Diastasis and Pelvic Floor: https://online.thetummyteam.com/diastasis-recti-and-pelvic-floor/ Kegels vs Functional Pelvic Floor: https://youtu.be/HduL5hoa5wU
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A Journey to Understanding Diastasis Recti & Fitness with Beth Learn of Fit2b.us Kelly Dean, MPT interviews Bethany Learn, founder of fit2b.us online fitness studio. Beth shares her journey with The Tummy Team and how learning about her own diastasis recti impacted how she does fitness as well as the entire direction of her business.
Related Links: https://fit2b.us/ https://online.thetummyteam.com/core-foundations https://pro.thetummyteam.com/tummy-safe
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Kelly Dean's Story Kelly Dean (physical therapist and founder of The Tummy Team) shares her personal story of healing her core and how it unexpectedly lead to the building of The Tummy Team. She answers questions that clients have sent in and talks about how her journey and her physical therapy training collided to create the holistic and comprehensive approach she now uses to help clients around the world heal their core and reclaim a pain free and strong life.
Related Links: https://online.thetummyteam.com https://online.thetummyteam.com/broken-at-the-core-hope/ Why You Should Stop Doing Crunches
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