I have always tried to lead a healthy lifestyle, including eating healthily and exercise especially since becoming a Mummy, but as a busy Mum with a toddler and running my own business I never seem to find the time. Between working full time, being Mummy, and also trying to factor in childcare so that I am able to go to the gym or fitness classes, I always find it really difficult to get out the house, even to go for a wee alone is a challenge!  That’s when we found Move with Mumma – the platform sharing exercise videos for mums at home.

What is Move with Mumma?

Move with Mumma is a health and fitness service which has been created by Manda for Mums to be, and new Mums.  Manda loves nothing more than to work with other Mums, to help them to reconnect with their body and feel stronger, and more confident after having their little ones.   The group is for any postnatal woman, not just in the early days.. it’s never too late to reconnect to your core and pelvic floor, and to feel strong for every day life!

Exercise from Home with Move with Mumma

Move with Mumma was created to create a comfortable and unintimidating environment for Mums and their little ones, and to teach women about healing their bodies after childbirth, whilst also helping to build their strength and confidence.

How can I join the Move with Mumma community?

Move with Mumma have such a strong community of support around their classes, they have had some amazing results with pelvic floor, diastasis recovery and helping women feel stronger than ever!

Move with Mumma have recently launched their Membership Site and Private Facebook Group to reach out to women outside of their local area, and are looking for more Mums to join their community and help it grow!

Everything that helps the class members face to face is included in the online programme, and the online membership includes a lot of information, guidance and also videos for postnatal recovery.

• Short Home Workouts
• Private Facebook Community
• Postnatal Healing & Fat-Loss Guidance
• Pelvic Floor Coaching
• Healthy Recipes
• Diastasis Healing Guidance

The workouts are suited to a range of fitness levels, and different stages of post pregnancy.

The website is really easy to use as well, so makes the whole experience stress free.

Work out at Home – Why I love Move with Mumma

What I love about using Move with Mumma online, is knowing that if I don’t have the time to get out of the house to exercise, then I can log in to my account online and use the information to exercise in the comfort of my own home whilst also keeping an eye on my little one. I also don’t need to worry about getting childcare sorted, as I can exercise in the comfort of my own home.   Another benefit that I have found is that by using the online group, I am able to connect with other Mum’s, get advice and make friendships along the way, along with getting constant support from them and Manda – it always keeps me motivated!

Energy Increase

I have really seen and felt the benefits of using Move with Mumma, and I have started feeling so much better in myself.  I have found that my energy has increase massively throughout the day, and I have been left feeling more productive, which is great especially for play time with my little one, and my business!

Healthy Recipes

I also love that on the website, you have access to healthy recipes that are easy to make and follow, and provides lots of knowledgeable information on what to eat, and what you should be including in your diet, to make sure it is healthy and balanced.  Along with that, and the classes online I have felt much better in myself.

Recommended on MyBump2Baby

I would highly recommend Move with Mumma to other mums, especially if you never seem to find the time to exercise, being able to plan this around my daily routine and not have to worry about arranging childcare is a huge plus for me.

If you would like to join this amazing community online, please use the following link www.movewithmumma.co.uk/online-membership.  Once you sign up, you will be taken to a page which gives you more information about the group and how it works which is really useful!

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Jen is a certified mindset and confidence coach, who specialises in working with women who have started to feel stuck or lost in their lives. Through 1:1 coaching Jen will explore with you, how you can move from feeling stuck or lost, to feeling like you know who you are, what you want and how you’re going to get it so that you can feel confident in your own skin and know that you are living your best life. Jen can be found on Instagram @jensmollett or on Facebook on her business page @jensmollett or inside her free Facebook group – the Fulfilled Women Collective. Today Jen shares a blog with MyBump2Baby readers called “How to rid yourself of limiting beliefs.”

How to Rid yourself of Limiting Beliefs

I can’t run because I’ve got a bad back…

…This is what I told myself repeatedly from 2009 (2 years after I had run the London marathon) to 2019! 10 years I believed that I could no longer run because I had a bad back.

But it wasn’t true, don’t get me wrong I really believed it was true, I had tried a couple of times – I’d gone for a 45min run (when I was marathon training, this was an easy run), and then my back hurt and so I quickly realised it was a no go for me.

I was so upset! Back when I ran the marathon, I felt like that was it, I would always be a runner and now I could no longer do it. Then in May 2019 I went on a mini break with my sister and she had just started couch to 5k. She was on week 2 and asked me to join, “I can’t” I said, “I’ve got a bad back”. She cajoled me, “come on, it’s really easy, if you hurt at all we can stop”. And it was easy! It didn’t hurt.

To cut a long story short I now run for at least 30minutes 3 times a week and my back doesn’t hurt from it at all!

Why should you care about my running story?

Because I guarantee you have your own version of my running story, yours could be, ‘I’m not very good at making friends’ – because you went to one social event and didn’t click with anyone, or ‘I’m not a very good Mum’ because you didn’t notice when your child had a pimple. These are called limiting beliefs.

Limiting beliefs are things that we’re pretty sure are true, that limit us in some way. The problem of course is in the “pretty sure”, sometimes we even “know” something to be true (like when I walk into the room, if people go quiet they are definitely talking about me, right?). The way our minds work is they constantly seek out confirmation of our thoughts and so once you have the thought of ‘I’m not a very good Mum’ your brain will seek out confirmation.

You missed that pimple once, then your child banged their arm when you had turned your back, then they didn’t cry when you left the room – instead of recognising that all children hurt themselves – it’s part of them developing their spatial awareness, and sometimes they might not cry when you leave the room because they’re so distracted by something they’re playing with, your brain will see it as confirmation of your initial thought – “I’m not a very good Mum”.

Add this to the fact that your brain is also a data store, it stores all of your thoughts, but it has no idea whether they’re true or false, it simply works that if you tell it something often enough, it stores that information as truth.

So what can you do about it?

Notice it

What thoughts do you regularly have that limit you in some way? Limit you from doing things, limit you from enjoying things or limit you from being happy? Make a list of as many of them as you can think of.

Pay attention to yourself when these thoughts come up and start to challenge yourself.

Instead of thinking it and accepting it, when you think it ask yourself – is this really true? What other options could also be true? For example, ‘I’m not a good Mum because my child didn’t cry when I left the room’ and ‘it’s also true that my child is playing with their favourite toy’ and ‘my child is in a room she/he knows and with other people they’re secure with’ and ‘it’s nice that my child is feeling secure right now’.  This can be really hard and it may be worth asking someone you trust if they can help you to find other possible truths.

Start to replace your limiting belief with an empowering belief.

An empowering belief being the exact opposite of a limiting belief – it is something that you are pretty sure is true, that empowers you. Using the same example as above it could be ‘I’m a good Mum, who is raising a child who is secure with other people she/he knows’. If at first this doesn’t feel true (I hope it can feel true for you, though I recognise this is a hard thing for many women to feel) then it could be ‘I’m raising a child who is secure with other people she/he knows’.

I really hope these three steps can help you towards uncovering and getting rid of your limiting beliefs, though if you would like some help uncovering them, or identifying an empowering belief then I would love to offer you a free clarity coaching session. In this free coaching session we can dig a little deeper and I can use my coaching experience and skills to help you get back on track, so that you can stop standing in the way of your own happiness and start to feel like you are living your best life! Book your free coaching session here