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  📍 📍 📍 📍 Hey, everyone. Welcome back to. The healthy postpartum mama podcast. This podcast episode is going to be very different. There's no fancy intro. Um, There's not a lot of editing that I'm going to do. I am just here to share with you. Um, a change. And where the podcast is headed based off of all of the changes. And all the growth that I've personally been going through over the last few months.

It's been a while since I have uploaded a podcast episode. It's been a while since I have recorded a podcast. I haven't forgotten about the podcast. You guys have been on my heart. Um, over the last few months, but. This has definitely been a refining season for me. For those of you all who are connected with me on Facebook, I'm sure that you have noticed a change and a difference in my life. And I just wanted to speak freely from my heart. And share this episode with you guys, because there are some exciting changes on the horizon. Um, I've always based the focus of my support and service. Um, just to my community and to those who listen into the podcast online. My focus has always been centered around reclaiming health. Um, in the first few years postpartum and this season, it's, it's not going to be. A huge difference on that mission. But I do want to share with you kind of where I'm headed.

I think that it's going to change a lot of, who's going to be listening into the podcast and. All I can do is show up. To, um, be the person that I feel that I was created to be. And to create a space where I can be authentically me and just, just be able to give a space to where those who are, uh, experiencing some of the things that I'm experiencing or going through some of the same things that I'm going through, where they can have a safe space to truly feel validated.

And so. Yeah, buckle up. Um, I think this next season is going to definitely be a transition. It's definitely going to be a wild ride and I just want to do what God has put on my heart. Um, leading in to, uh, the future. So,

for those of you who might not know me, it might be listening in for the very first time. My name is Kilah Lawson and I am a child of the most high God.

I'm a follower of his son, our Messiah.

And I'm a wife to an amazing husband. And a mom of five beautiful children. I'm also the owner of elephant baby. Um, elephant baby is an agency where we are committed to supporting moms in their postpartum journeys.

I have been called to spearhead a radical movement in which we rise together as a women. To just reclaim postpartum to reclaim support. To reclaim collectivism. And just to truly radically change the way that society views postpartum. And I want to come on here and just share with you guys where I've been led to, to, um, shift in my position in just the way that I approach this. Um, so the first thing that I want to outline is the fact that. The healthy postpartum mama will no longer be the healthy postpartum mama. So we currently have the healthy postpartum mama blog. The host healthy postpartum mama podcast.

And we have our YouTube channel which is essentially a huge reflection of the podcast, but. Moving forward. Um, I just wanted to announce that I have been called and I feel very pressed to my heart. To just pioneer a movement, like I said, Where we reclaim postpartum. And we acknowledge the fact that, uh, mothers are struggling.

Like we are struggling after birth and it's not only, um, impacting us within those first few weeks in the first few months. And not even the first few years, and I've taught this previously, but the impact of childbirth can truly last for decades. If we do not replenish in the way that we need to replenish after having our babies.

And so I am here to submit to you that postpartum is not just a few weeks. Postpartum is, um, not just a few months. The term postpartum literally means after childbirth. Unfortunately, a lot of, uh, people in our society equate postpartum. Directly with depression, which is so sad. But I am here to submit to you that we desperately need to reconfigure and acknowledge the fact that postpartum. Um, is much longer than what we are laying it out to be.

Um, we have peer reviewed articles that are now, um, acknowledging the fact that. You know that postpartum mood and anxiety disorders, the onset of them can be triggered. Even, um, within the first year or first couple years after childbirth. Um, there's new information again, like I said, that points to the fact that the direct impact of childbirth. Um, Kim last, we can feel the lingering effects of that. Uh, even decades after we've given birth.

So. This new movement. It's. It's all centered around the fact that mothers we needed support through the infinite chapters of postpartum. This whole mantra that, you know, after six weeks, you're good to go. And, um, you can go back to your primary care physician and you don't need postpartum care. And. Uh, it's crazy.

Cause when I, um, when I mentioned this on a Facebook post. How, you know, just how much it annoys me that. We chalk up the postpartum period to be that six to 12 week range. And then from there we should kind of just be back to normal. We're never postpartum again. Um, a lot of women just started chiming in, on their experiences about, um, you know, what their their doctor said to them when, um, they acknowledged that, Hey, you know, I'm still going through depression or I'm having pelvic floor issues.

I'm having these issues that are directly related to my postpartum time. And, you know, I need a little bit of help and when they went to their health providers and then they essentially referred them out because they said, you know, well, you're no longer considered postpartum. So you have to go to like, just your general primary care physician. I can no longer like work with, um, you know, this is basically out of my scope. If you've ever felt that, you know, I don't feel back to normal and you are six months postpartum or you are two years postpartum or. You're five years into your postpartum journey, and you're still not feeling back to normal.

I'm here to validate you and I'm here to, um, just rally the collective of people who understand. That we as mothers, no matter where we are in our postpartum journeys, we're going to need support through the infinite chapters of postpartum. And so I'm so excited to announce to you all the eternal postpartum movement. The eternal postpartum movement is all about supporting mothers and supporting not only mothers, but providers in reclaiming collectivism support and wellness through the infinite chapters of postpartum.

I'm so excited about this movement. I'm so excited just to be able to challenge the norms. Because the norms in our society are detrimental. They're impacting us as mothers. We're just not, well, we're not whole as mothers and it's really important that we pay attention to this because we are the foundations of our households.

We are the foundations and the pillars of our community. So we are suffering as women. Then it's going to be a domino effect. It's going to trickle into the way that we interact with our children, the way that we raise our children. Have you ever felt so guilty because in your mind, you know, my children deserve a mom who's healthy. My children deserve a mom

who's not flying off the handle and consumed with rage. My children deserve a mom. Who's able to break the generational patterns that are toxic to my bloodline. My children deserve a mom who is well, who was energized, who is rested, who feels good. My children deserve this, but I cannot provide it to them.

Have you ever felt that. So we have to understand how.

We. Our wellbeing trickles into our families. And it sets up the generations that come after us. The reason that we are struggling as mothers

is likely

because our mother struggled and our grandmother struggled. And before that, our great, great grand struggle. And we live in a generation now to where I believe a lot of women are actively working. To break those toxic generational patterns and we're realizing them, but we're struggling. Because we're trying to change and we're trying to be, well, we're trying to address our trauma.

We're trying to, um, address our physical health, but. We're left to do it alone. We're left without the resources and the knowledge to propel us into change. And quite frankly, we don't have the energy to change. Even if we had all the information before us. We don't have the energy. Because our responsibility load is that high. And so the eternal postpartum movement. It's a rattle whole movement to reclaim wellness support and collectivism through the infinite chapters of postpartum. So no longer are we addressing. Um, moms who are in the first few years postpartum or the first few weeks, that's what the healthy postpartum mama podcast is about.

But as we enter into the eternal postpartum movement, We're going to, uh, welcome mothers no matter where you are in your. Postpartum journey because we're redefining what postpartum is. We're going to welcome other women into the movement who may not be mothers, but they're passionate about this mission of reclaiming collectivism and ensuring that mothers have support, do the infinite chapters of their journeys. So I'm really, really excited if you can't hear it in my voice, I'm really excited. I've always, always, always stood on. The foundation and the premise that in order to truly reclaim our health in order to truly rise as women in strength and resilience. That we have to approach this with a holistic empowered mindset. Get what I said there. A holistic empowered mindset. Currently we live in a system where our healthcare. Is I think purposely meant to disempower us. We are told that we do not have the expertise to make changes. Um, about our health. Because we don't have a degree or we're not an expert in the field. We are meant to rely on healthcare professionals in order to maintain our general health. And I see that as a problem, you know, I think, um, healthcare professionals are, um, necessary.

I think that allopathic uh, solutions to health are necessary when they are necessary. I believe in an integrative approach to health that acknowledges the fact. That most of our general health care of general wellbeing. We should have the information that we need in order to make choices that truly empower us. We should be able to be informed about certain foods, certain herbs, certain natural remedies, certain things about our emotional health, certain things about our physical health, certain things about our spiritual health, all of these things we should we should understand. First off how they interconnect and we should also be empowered with information.

That's going to help us to make changes towards our health that truly create. Um, patterns they're going to set us up for lifelong wellness.

And we have been stripped that. When I first entered the work of postpartum when I first became a postpartum doula, when I first, um, Referenced myself as a post-partum vitality coach. I recognized this very clearly. We've been stripped of vital vital information that truly helps us to thrive within those first few weeks postpartum. Nobody's talking about how the digestive system changes.

Nobody's talking about how our hormones change, why they change and when they should be brought back to balance. Um, nobody's teaching these things. Nobody's teaching us the physiologic, physiological changes that happen. As a result of pregnancy and childbirth. And how those physiological changes, it should propel us to living a different type of lifestyle for a short period of time. Nobody's telling us what foods are, um, ideal for the first few weeks postpartum.

If you Google post-partum foods up. You might get a variety of just information that pops up. You might get casseroles, you might get, um, pastas, you might get just a. A bunch of different stuff. But nobody is truly empowering women in this way. We're not empowered. And equipped with the information. That is going to propel us to lifelong wellness.

And I am to the point where I, I am starting to believe that some of this is on purpose.

Some of this is on purpose. And so I'm really excited to, just to just be authentic. Like I said, I've always come from the approach that. Um, wellness is truly holistic in nature, meaning that we have to acknowledge the physical, the mental, the emotional, and the spiritual. We have to acknowledge how all of those aspects of health truly interconnect, I've always said that. But as I have come to a different understanding. Um, on specific things,

it's just going to change the podcast as a whole. As I'm evolving as I am changing, the podcast will evolve. The podcast will change. And so again, you guys are going to see some changes. We're changing the name and a lot of the content that I'm going to be talking about is truly going to be holistic in nature.

I'm going to share with you guys. Just the journey that I've been on and a lot of that change has been a spiritual change. I have felt very convicted on my own beliefs. and I'm, I'm walking in a new understanding of how, um, my spiritual life has been connected to my physical wellbeing all along. And so a lot of you guys know that my, um, background is in psychology and I'm a researcher.

I love information. It's probably why I am such a great teacher. Um, when it comes to, um, helping women to reclaim their health and breaking down all of the things, I'm a nerd when it comes to information. So. Over the past five, six years. I dove into a lot of books that were related to women's health, hormones, depression, anxiety. Why these things happen. I've reviewed a lot of peer reviewed articles on this topic and it was first for me because I had been wrestling with depression for. Eight plus years.

And you know, it was still a strong hold over my life. And I started to read and research and implement the things that I was learning about how the body works and acknowledging the fact that, um, depression truly can't be solved with a pharmaceutical drug or a pill that you have to address it from a holistic standpoint and observe you know, what are the things that are happening physically with nutritional deficiency? You know, what's going on in my environment, that's throwing off my hormones, whether it be products that I'm using and toxins that I'm putting on my skin or whether it's the stress of having five children and. Um, you know, the environmental stressors that I encountered every single day, all of these things are things. That I began to truly pay attention to. Um, I came into a deep understanding of the basis of what is needed in order for us to just bring our bodies back to balance. Um, because again, I'm just a researcher.

I love information. I love reading. But it ha it wasn't until this year that, um, God really. Connected how spiritual wellbeing and the spiritual realm connected with my health and my state of depression and all of the things that I was dealing with. And I've always said that health. Um, involves the physical, mental, spiritual, and the emotional, but just to be 100% honest, The spiritual was kind of like a whole nother category for me. Um, And I just want to get in and share with you guys a little bit of my background. Um, because as we move forward into podcasts episodes, I am going to be talking a lot about my faith. I am going to be talking a lot about, um, the Bible.

And I realized that this is not going to align with many listeners who were previously aligned with the podcast. So I just want to say that out from the jump that. In order for me to show up in a space and be authentically me I can no longer separate the things that the most high is revealing to me when it comes to spirituality.

And when it comes to health and wellness, because all of those things connect. And that's exactly where I'm headed. But I grew up in a Christian household. Um, I went to a Christian school, my entire life that was associated with a Baptist church. And the church that I went to was a non-denominational church.

Growing up in that type of religious setting, I feel like from my perspective and from my experience, um, Mental health was kind of taboo. Uh, really physical health was taboo. Everything that I learned regarding health just was on the spiritual side of things. Um, I didn't have pastors or teachers who correlated. Uh, physical wellness, mental wellness, and emotional wellness.

All of those things were kind of separate when it comes to the faith. And I am a. A little bit of a rebel and a challenger. And so. I really began to question why mental health is such a taboo topic when it comes to the Christian community. At least the communities that I grew up in. And I really began to just, um, Honestly, just get upset.

Like why does the church not talk about these things? Like. Uh, and that's probably what propelled me into getting a bachelor's in psychology. Um, that experience was a great experience for me because it was the first time that I ever observed mental health from a Christian perspective. I had never experienced that my entire life. And so being able to experience that. Throughout my college years was really great for me. Um, But as I have grown, as I have become a mother, I also, I just realized the disconnect that we have.

I think it's why I'm so passionate about holistic healing, because I believe that the Most High is the creator of the mind, the body, the soul, the spirit. I believe that the Most High Designed our bodies in such a way that if we keep them in balance and if we pay attention to the way that he designed them, Then we are going to rid ourselves of a lot of ailments and trouble, um, in our life.

And again, that not only connects to our physical wellbeing and the practical things that we can touch and feel like what we eat and exercising and moving our bodies. But it also connects to the spiritual aspect. And I've just been in a season of really digging into the Word, really trying to understand who God is. Um, really trying to understand the heart of the Most High. And

I'll be sharing a little bit more about that in future episodes. I don't want to get into all of it right now. I could probably talk for hours on end, but I do want to keep these podcasts episodes shorter, but I just wanted to come on and re-introduce myself in a way. And my reintroduction will honestly, it'll be, you'll get an understanding of where I've been and where I am and where I'm headed over the next few episodes. But as for now, I can tell you that I'm really, really excited about the eternal postpartum movement. Um, again, this movement, it's a radical movement.

It's um, It's a movement. That's going to propel our culture and our society to shift and change and to put our focus on uh, reclaiming collectivism and supporting mothers in wellness throughout the infinite chapters of postpartum. And the piece that's really key to me is that I want to do this from an eternal perspective. And some of you guys have been confused.

Some of you guys have been asking, you know, well, do I fit into this? Um, because for a short while I put a pause on healthy postpartum mama. And I created this space for healthy kingdom mamas.

And some of you guys have been asking me, you know, well, I don't identify as a kingdom. Mama, am I still welcome into your space? Um, and I just want to say just with the most humility and, um, with sincerity that it's not my intent to leave anybody out. Uh, it's not my intent to exclude anyone. But I do want to be very, very clear on where I stand and why it was so important for me to shift in the way that I'm addressing my audience.

And the reason is that.

My faith is a pivotal part of my journey. What I believe about the Most High God. Is a pivotal part of my healing and the deliverance that I've received in my own personal life.

And it's going to be pivotal in the way that I teach moving forward. And for a very, very long time, I've separated my faith with, um, The things that I teach about health.

And I've been woken up in such a radical way. The most highs revealed things to me in such a radical way. Where it became very, very apparent to me that I can no longer separate the two.

I can no longer separate. My spirituality with every other aspect of my health and what I teach about those things. And so when I address and when I say healthy kingdom mamas, or I'm addressing kingdom mamas, it's not necessarily to exclude people or leave people out. I just want you guys to be very clear about where I stand.

And I want to be clear about where I stand. I want it to be known that because I believe in the Bible, because I believe that the Bible is the inspired word of the Most High God and it influences and it shapes our perspectives.

Because I believe those things. That has to be a part. Of what I teach now. And I realize that there are women who don't align with that thinking. There are women who don't believe the Bible, and I'm not here to condemn you or judge you or say, you're not welcome to the club you're not a part of the club because you don't believe. But I just want to be clear on my stance so that there's no confusion. So that when people who walk into the eternal postpartum movement, they know exactly what I stand for and they know exactly what I'm going to be teaching about with no surprises. I don't want you ever to enter a space and be like, oh wow.

Why is she talking so much about God? Why is she, why is she talking about the Bible? Like, I don't even believe in the Bible. So you are more than welcome into the space even, if you don't adhere to the Bible as a moral standard of truth, or if you don't believe in God, you are more than welcome. But

I just want you to know clearly. That this is where, where I feel called. And like I said, coming into this season, I have to show up in spaces. Where I can be authentically me. And it's not just about me. It's about what the Most High has revealed to me what He's revealing in this season, because I want Him to get all the glory.

It's not about me and my beliefs and trying to tiptoe and walk on eggshells to prevent people from being uncomfortable because of the things that I'm sharing and teaching. At the end of the day. All glory goes to the Most High. And that's what I want to center my teachings around. So again, coming in the future at podcasts episodes, You're going to hear me talking about the Bible.

You're going to hear me talking about God. There might be an episode on here. Where we do nothing but talk about the Bible. I'm always going to try to tie every aspect of health in but just like, there might be some episodes where we hone in on the spiritual. There might be some episodes where we simply hone in on the physical.

So I don't know what it's going to look like. I don't know where he's going to lead me. I can just only say that. I just want to approach this with humility. Um, I just want to be genuine. I just want to be authentic. And so that's kind of where I stand. Um, so I, again, I'm excited about future episodes.

If you are interested in joining. The eternal postpartum movement, you can absolutely join us in the movement. It doesn't matter if you are a mother who's in need of support or a mother who wants to be supportive of the movement and support other mothers, or if you're a provider and you are just, you know, you're feeling called. To the radical change that I'm speaking about as I'm talking about this.

So I'm going to place a link in the show notes. To invite you guys to our Facebook community. And to also show you where you can join the movement and be a part of this movement as a mother provider or anyone who's just really passionate about ensuring that we reclaim um, collectivism support and wellness through the infinite chapters of postpartum.

And so I'm really excited just to know where we're headed. I'm truly just so excited to see even thinking about all of the lives that are going to change. Um, through this podcast. And so make sure that you're subscribed and I will see you in the next episode.