August 31, 2024 • 34 mins
In this episode, Ellie Morris, a life coach, shares her journey of becoming a health coach and how she discovered the power of coaching in all areas of life. She explains the concept of the model, which states that our thoughts create our results, and how it can be applied to loving the way we look and feel. Ellie also discusses her three-part system for postpartum self-care, which includes body awareness, thought work, and refining daily habits. She emphasizes the importance of setting intentions and practicing feelings to achieve sustainable goals. Finally, Ellie guides the listeners through a short relaxation meditation and shares the concept of a safety anchor.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Introduction and Background of Ellie Morris 03:12 Discovering the Power of Coaching 07:49 Applying the Model to Self-Care 11:05 A Three-Part System for Postpartum Self-Care 22:29 Slowing Down and Grounding Yourself 25:17 Guided Relaxation Meditation 28:48 Creating a Safety Anchor 33:05 Recommended Resources and Final Thoughts
RESOURCES Nexxus Protein infused Shampoo The Big Leap Ellie's Website Ellie's Instagram
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It's the Best Birth Podcast, wherewe interview experts that elevate
you as you prepare your heartand mind to have the best birth.
Each episode will interviewprofessionals so you are prepared
for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum.
Our experts will build your confidenceand empower you to trust your
intuition throughout your pregnancy.
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The Best Birth [00:02]
Welcome to the Best Birth Podcast.
We're here today with our episode.
Ellie Morris is our expert.
She is a health coach and will be teachingus how to love the way you look and feel.
Ellie is a health coach from thelife coach school and a mom of
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three kids, five chickens, and oneyellow lab in Denver, Colorado.
She loves all things healthy living,but also loves a good taco and night
out with friends or her husband.
Her passions include yoga, cooking,baking, biking, reading rom
-coms, and anything that givesher deeper human connection.
Welcome, Ellie.
I love that.
My highest value too is connection.
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So I'm grateful we can have thisconnective conversation with you.
Ellie Morris [00:44]
Yay, well thank you guysso much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here and I just,I think people are gonna absolutely
love this topic and conversation.
So, thank you.
The Best Birth [00:56]
Thank you so much.
Well, we want to kind of jump rightin and tell us how you became a
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health coach and a life coach.
What was your journey likearriving at what you're doing now?
Ellie Morris [01:07]
actually followed a coach fromthe Life Coach School, but she
created a program for coaches.
So it's very similar, but it's notquite we're actually certified in
a process called the framework.
But just for simplicity, I justI wanted to type, just to clarify
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that for anyone who listens andis like, this is a difference.
But so I
will say I found coaching when I feltcompletely desperate in my business.
And I didn't realize that findingcoaching through business would actually
permeate into all areas of my life.
So I had felt really stuckmaking a certain income level
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in my social selling business.
And as a last ditch resort, I joinedthis coaching program and learned
about this process called the model.
And
I will say I was doing all the rightthings and I promise you this actually
does connect back to how we takecare of ourselves in pregnancy and
life, postpartum and all the things.
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But I was doing all the rightthings and it was actually my
thoughts and my energy that werenot aligned with what I was doing.
And so as soon as I learned aboutcoaching and started getting
coached and self coaching,
Within 90 days, I doubled myincome, I grew my team, I was
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invited into my first mastermind.
A year after that, I was invited to do atraining in front of 100 people on thought
work and how that impacts your life.
And then a year after that, I wasaccepted to speak in front of close to
1 ,000 people on the power of coaching.
And at that training, just acouple of months ago, I actually
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did connect it back to...
serving people bigger in the realmof health coaching and how people
really love the way they look and feelbecause that's a huge part of my story.
So I kind of fell into it in adifferent way, but I'm so thankful.
The Best Birth [03:06]
That is so great.
For those that may not be aware ofthe model, could you give us a Cliff
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Notes version of what the model is?
Ellie Morris [03:14]
it's your thoughts thatcreate your results.
And the way that they map it out isthat when you have a circumstance
in your life, we all are in, we alllive in our set of circumstances.
So a circumstance is something thata million people could look at and...
label as a fact and there'sno question about it.
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So it's like the temperature is 70degrees, you know, kind of thing.
And then it's the story or the thoughtsthat we tell ourselves that actually
give meaning to our set of circumstances.
And when you think a certain thought,it will create a feeling in your
body and your feeling is always whatdrives your actions and your actions
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are the things that you either door don't do in support of a goal or,
to create what you really want.
And then your result is what'screated by your actions.
And so that, I know in our conversationwe'll give more concrete examples to that.
I have a very funny one that I'llshare later in our chat, I'm sure.
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But yeah, so that's kind of like a highlevel or skin version of the model.
The Best Birth [04:24]
That's awesome.
I was able to find the model through somepodcasting a few years ago and just really
found that it was helpful to me as a mom,figuring out how I was managing my home,
how I was managing my time, how I was,using my thoughts to either improve all of
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those situations or like kind of be stuck.
And so I think it's a great conversationthat we can have today about utilizing.
you know, what we allalready possess, right?
Like our thoughts and our actions.
Ellie Morris [04:53]
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, and I'll just share whatI was going to say before.
So my kids are seven, five, and two.
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And I feel very like myself again.
And I know what we're going to betalking about is more in the weeds
of when you really don't feel likeyourself through pregnancy and then
that first year or two postpartum.
But last spring, I wasfeeling I'm back to.
feeling like the old Ellie,which I'm so thankful for.
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And last spring, I was having so much fun,like birthday parties, and we had Easter,
wedding celebrations, all these things.
And I noticed that the scale wascreeping up, or my pants were feeling a
little tighter, just different things.
And I stepped on the scale,and I was like, my gosh, I'm
like five pounds heavier thanwhere I really feel comfortable.
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And the first thought that my braingave me was, this is menopause.
This has got to be menopause.
And so instead of taking responsibilityfor my actions and really like, you know,
not eating chips at night or just makingdecisions that were more in alignment
with giving myself space to love the wayI look and felt in my body, my brain first
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was like, okay, we're going to conserveenergy and take out the part of you
cleaning things up to feel good again.
And so I just sat therethinking I'm powerless.
I have no control overmy results of my body.
And so then I didn't change anything.
I just kept watching Netflix at nightand having a snack with Nick and
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just going about everythingthat I was doing.
And as soon as I caught myself, and I waslike, I wonder if this is a story that
I'm just telling myself about where I am.
And as soon as I did thatand got curious about like,
how I might feel the next day if I cut thesnack or if I had one piece of cake or not
every day or whatever it was because wewere just, for whatever reason, I think
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our birthdays are all really concentratedin a couple months in the spring.
But all that melted away quickly andit was like the result changed the
second that I changed my thought andgot into more of a curious kind of
posture, which is so interesting.
So yeah.
The Best Birth [07:16]
I love how you interrupted thatpattern because it is so habitual
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and a lot of times we're not evenconscious of our thoughts and once we
pay attention to that, we gain morecontrol and ownership of our situation.
Ellie Morris [07:28]
Yeah, for sure.
The Best Birth [07:31]
Can you give us some examples ofhow you have used these tools in
loving the way that you look and feelkind of like directly postpartum?
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Ellie Morris [07:42]
Yeah, so I will saybefore I had the tools,
with my first, she was measuring small.
And so my doctor told me that Ineeded to go on a modified bed rest
and really pick up my calorie intake.
And I remember asking him.
And I'm like a very, Ilove eating healthy things.
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I love taking good care of myself.
And movement is really important to me.
So I was like, this isgoing to be really hard.
But I asked him what kind of calorieshe meant and he said if it were summer,
I would probably have you have ablizzard every day from Dairy Queen
kind of thing, like just pack it on.
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And I was just like, I think bug -eyed.
And my husband that night took meout for like a heavy Thai dinner
and then he bought me a blizzard.
He was like, you will eat this.
And I just like didn't,it didn't feel good.
And so I got to the end of that pregnancy.
B was perfect, a littlesmall, 6 '1", I think.
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And then after being my first, Ihad no idea what I was walking into.
I had no idea of the hormonechanges that would be coming.
I remember at her 10 to 14day postpartum well check,
the pediatrician being.
like the first person that I talkedto that was not in my family where
I had a human being in front ofme who asked me how I was doing.
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And I'm pretty sure I broke into tears andwas just like, I think I made a mistake.
I'm not sleeping.
I'm changing.
I don't know my body.
Like, this is all just so much.
And he said, wow, I'm really gladthat you shared that with me.
And you know, it's OK.
And.
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He was just such a warm andresponsive kind of person.
And from there, I willsay, I don't think I...
I just really put one foot in frontof the other and took care of myself,
but I will say having the tools when Idelivered my third of being able to use
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the model, it just made everything feela lot smoother where I could actually...
journal out my thoughts right away,notice that these were just thoughts
coming through and to not feel likeI needed to, like my being didn't get
totally gripped on to all of them andrun away with into rabbit holes, I guess.
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And so it just made theprocess a lot lighter.
And to just know that one day at atime, one step at a time, one meal at a
time, you know, whatever it is, takingcare of yourself goes part of them is.
such a journey of being with yourselfand holding yourself in that discomfort.
And I felt like myself again, somuch faster after delivering Nora.
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So it's just, it's an interestingcomparison to be able to make from
before and after having those tools.
The Best Birth [10:48]
It's so great to hear your experienceand what it looked like for you
as you gained that knowledge.
What is your three -part system andhow can that benefit new moms as they
are postpartum in that situation?
Ellie Morris [10:59]
Yeah, so the way that I like towork with clients or even, you know,
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use for myself is noticing, helpingpeople gain deeper body awareness.
And
specifically, if someone has a goal withlike, with someone that has a health goal,
I would say using a hunger scale is huge.
And that's not just for
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losing weight.
Like a hunger scale is somethingthat can just help you really honor
eating when you're hungry, stoppingwhen you're feeling close to full.
And, you know, that's actually thesecret of the Okinawa Blue Zone region
and how they just have longevity.
And so I just I like to mentionthat because it's it's something
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it's a really critical tool to beable to honor your own like needs.
physically, which I think also helpsyou tap into giving yourself what
you need emotionally and spirituallyand in other areas of life too.
So that's a huge component.
I will say the second part ofmy process is thought work.
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So really sitting with someoneand going deeper on some of the
thoughts that they're having.
So I think applying that to postpartum,I remember my mother -in -law asking how
I was doing and really looking at me.
like deep in the eyes andjust saying like, how are you?
And again, just like breaking down intotears, not like full on hot mess, but like
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crying a little bit and just saying like,I feel like I don't know my body anymore.
Like, I feel like I don't recognizethe Ellie that's left postpartum.
And so being able to like sit with someonewho's in that space and then asking like,
okay, and let's go a little bit deeper.
Like what else is coming up for you?
and then picking out a thought that wouldbe worth modeling through so someone can
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see like, okay, these are the feelingsand the actions that are actually
coming from having those thoughts.
So I love that part.
And then the third one is actuallyrefining like your daily habits or
your own process that you follow.
So it's really customized andtailored to the individual.
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Because different things feelgood for different bodies
The Best Birth [13:23]
The hunger cues likereally hits home for me.
I felt like when I was breastfeeding,there was so many times, I
would get real shaky if I hadn'thad proper protein intake.
And I just remember feeling how isthis going to help me when I feel
like I'm overeating and so likekind of recognizing that I wasn't
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overeating my hunger cues were real.
And I was,
producing milk and so I was alsoburning calories through lactation
and trying to honor the nutrientsthat my body actually needed.
Ellie Morris [13:50]
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, I love that.
And as someone, you know, I probablyshould have given a deeper introduction
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at the beginning, but I havelike a very deep cyclical dieting
background from my young twenties.
And I had gotten to a place beforewe decided to start a family where
I felt so good in my body and feltafraid of like the weight gain and then
wondering if it would come back down.
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And that does, especially with thefirst one, like it does get in the
way of you wanting to listen to hungercues because you're like, not that
I was never trying to be on a diet.
I had given myself permissionto like take care of the human
being that was growing in me.
But those thoughts are definitelyreal thoughts that can come up.
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And when you're trying to honoryour hunger cues and you have...
old patterns from before, I think it canbe really hard to like give yourself,
to feel safe enough to give yourselfwhat you really needed when it felt like
either way more than you would usuallyhave or think you need or like, why does
my body want all this red meat right now?
Or like, why does it not want sameit when you get aversions or, you
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know, whatever, whatever it is,it's so different for each person.
But yeah, super interesting and so, sohelpful to be able to pair together.
noticing your thoughts around using ahunger, like following a hunger scale.
The Best Birth [15:26]
And when you honor your emotional needs,when it comes to hunger, I find that
your body also, responds more positively.
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Right?
So in thinking that it's my son'sbirthday, cake is one of the
things that we love to share.
And my first, when my son was oneyears old, that was the first time
we had introduced him to any sortof sugar with his little smash cake.
And he was double fisting the cake.
Like you've never seenlike the entire thing.
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But it was really good cake.
It's like my mom's white cake recipe.
And all of us were like, thisis really good cake and feeling
like letting yourself emotionallyappreciate the cake and celebrate.
I think that it functionsdifferently in your body than if
you're eating for other reasons.
tying the emotional and the physicaltogether, will almost like trigger
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your metabolism to work for you.
Instead of just like alwayshating yourself if you're enjoying
something that's highly caloric.
Yeah.
And translating that too, to your body.
I've heard before, youcan't hate yourself skinny.
You know, you have to be in aplace of acceptance before you
even get to your celebrated goal.
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Can you talk a little bit moreabout feelings and how that
impacts what you're doing?
Ellie Morris [16:48]
my gosh, yes.
And I got chills too, Sarah, whenyou were talking because I just
have to add one thing to that.
I used to always, we used to livein Fort Collins, which is like the
brewery center of Colorado for sure.
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And maybe, I mean, it's like a very,that's just like a way of life.
And I've never been a big drinker,but I always told Nick, I was like,
when I feel like when I get it fromthe source of where they made it,
it feels like healthy and like mybody does process it so differently.
where it just, it's like, it is,I think there's so much more than
just putting food in your mouth thathelps you metabolize it differently.
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So I love what you just said about that.
And
yeah, so Jen, I think when we thinkabout setting a goal, like it was not
long after, I will be very honest.
I mean, I love feelingreally good in my body.
And I really, I think that,
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You move differently through the world.
I think you connectdifferently with people.
And having a spacious mind andbeing able to connect with myself
and other people and spirituallyreally well is really important to
me in helping other people do that.
And I think when you set a goal foryourself, whether it's postpartum
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or any time of saying, OK, Ireally want to lose 20 pounds, for
example, or 10, whatever it is, it's
I think we think when we get there thatwe'll feel calmer or more confident or
freedom, like freedom around your bodyweight and food and thoughts around that.
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And if you don't
start to practice some of those feelingsthat you think you're going to feel
in the future, you'll hit your goalin a way that is just not sustainable
because you get there and you're stillcraving feeling those things when really,
your feelings are things thatyou need to practice every day.
And it's not
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toxic positivity.
It's not that in saying I'm justgonna feel positive all the time.
It's instead for a few minutes everyday, I'm gonna practice feeling like odd
by something or calm or curious, open.
The things that we allwant to feel are joy.
And when you give yourself permissionto build up safety around feeling
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those things, even when youhaven't yet reached your goal.
it'll actually make the goalcome to you a lot faster, which
is really counterintuitive.
But I've experienced time andtime again how that happens.
And it feels like magic.
It really does.
The Best Birth [19:28]
When you take the ownership andrealize your goal for the reasons
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that are like purely motivated, byyour intentions, I also feel like
you are able to kind of soar, right?
Like if the reason that you're trying tolose this postpartum way is to impress
others meet a certain date, okay, wellby six weeks, I want to, you know, be
wearing my pre maternity clothes again.
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It always seems to fall flat, but ifyou're able to kind of come at it with
some intentions, like you said, like Iwant to feel, I want to feel beautiful
in my body and I want to feel confident.
I want to be able to interactwith my children and the world in
a way that serves others and youknow, brings beauty to the world.
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Not in a way that you're likeshowing off, your mom bod or your
physique or anything, but just ina way that's like really honoring.
for your soul and yourspirit and your body.
I feel like this ties right intobeing mindful about the journey and
the pregnancy and the postpartum.
If you set those intentions orfind your why beforehand, you're
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able to draw back to it when youneed that motivation or support.
And like you said, just narrowing downthose reasons of why it's important
to you to look or feel certain.
Ellie Morris [20:49]
Yeah, I definitely agree.
I mean, having, yeah,I've experienced both.
I've experienced having, like, wantingcertain goals, not really in the realm
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of health, but in other parts of mylife that were motivated by, like,
proving something or just somethingthat I didn't really even want.
And then when I finally got safeenough to say, okay, it's okay
for me to not hit that milestone.
and then realign to my values,it's like, my gosh, something even
more amazing was waiting for me togo after in another area of life.
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So it's, yeah, it's yourintentions and your values are
huge pieces in all of this.
The Best Birth [21:32]
You've mentioned feeling safe a coupletimes, certain people that have come to
you and you feel safe or allowing yourselfto feel safe to process these reasons.
How can we teach ourselves to feel safe?
Ellie Morris [21:44]
Yeah, so I have gotten really into,I've learned a lot about regulating
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through my own coach over the last year.
And I didn't realize until I startedreally slowing down and being with myself
that I was operating from a lot of stress.
And so I think this like,
I didn't realize that theslower I moved, meaning like,
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energetically or the more that I likelisten to my thoughts and gave myself
space to really notice like how I wasfeeling physically, where my thoughts
were, you know, what was going on.
I love operating at a higher speed andI just, I like being a task master.
I like getting a bunch ofthings done, but I, yes.
And, but I feel like I'm so muchmore efficient and able to make
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more clear decisions in all ways.
the more that I slow down and reallylike come at it from, we call it
from my CEO brain, when I justlike feel really calm in my body.
And so that was definitely a practice.
Like at the beginning I was like, thisfeels counterintuitive or it feels just
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kind of like weird to slow down and notmake decisions out of stress anymore.
But so much of us operate ina way where we don't even know
that we're doing that until.
you kind of draw a line orstart practicing, you know,
just slowing down in your body.
And one of my favorite ways todo that, so I have a 500 hour
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yoga teacher training background.
And so I also bring some of thatinto the body awareness piece where
it's like walking people through justeven one or two minute meditations to
just get really presentin their bodies because...
When your body is relaxed,there's not really room for
stress to live there anymore.
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And so that to me, as you're growingthrough pregnancy and then as you're going
through all these changes postpartum,the more that we can spend just even a
couple minutes a day of really noticinglike, okay, how does my, like when I
put my awareness down, like in my...
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tailbone area and work my way up my spine,like how am I actually feeling or what
aches and pains are kind of existing in myback, like the back was a big one for me.
But like the more that we can reallydo that, the mind actually grounds
down into your body and so it doesn'thave the chance to give you all these
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overwhelming thoughts as frequently.
The Best Birth [24:25]
Would you be willing to walk us throughone of those short relaxation meditation?
Ellie Morris [24:32]
Yeah, just right on the podcast?
yeah, sure, yeah, let's do it.
Yeah, okay, I'll do it with you guys.
So if your legs are crossed, Iwould ask you to just uncross them
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and get your feet on the floor.
And if you feel comfortable,you can close your eyes.
We can also just look at eachother, whatever we wanna do.
So.
The Best Birth [24:34]
I think so!
Hey, we'll do it with you.
Ellie Morris [24:59]
To start, just noticewhere you are right now.
And you can let the breathjust fall out your mouth.
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And we're not going totry to change anything.
We're just going to noticethe texture of your breathing.
Let it feel short and shallow.
Does the breath feel tightor does it feel more smooth?
And
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your next breath in, I want you to letit draw your chest and your head up
a little bit higher, as if there's astring pulling you up through your spine.
And when you let the breath out,let it draw your seat a little
bit deeper into your chair.
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And we're just gonna keep following that.
So every breath in is gonna pullthat string a little bit higher
up towards the ceiling, drawinglength through your spine.
And then every exhale is gonna bring you alittle bit deeper into your body, through
your chair, through the feet on the floor.
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We spend a lot of time holding our belliesin and through pregnancy, through life,
like this is a time where you can just letthat go and just notice your breath coming
in and out and let it expand your belly.
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On your next breath in, let it drawyour shoulders up to your ears.
And then on your breath out, let yourshoulders just melt down your back.
And notice the space that itcreated between your ears.
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And when you're ready youcan let your eyes open again.
And do you guys feel any different?
I do.
Like we should have started with this.
The Best Birth [27:35]
100 % different and every time I doa yoga meditation or you know some
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of these deep breathing exercisesI'm baffled at my physical changes.
Ellie Morris [27:47]
Yeah, good.
The Best Birth [27:49]
For sure, I think it was a great idea toactually do it mid -episode because we did
see the contrast and feel the difference.
And I think, like you said, themore we practice that, the more
we'll be able to know when we needit or recognize it when we have it.
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Ellie Morris [28:02]
Yeah, and you know, the other thing, I'dlove to leave this as a resource, but
the, and maybe we can do like a follow -uptraining or talk about it, but there's,
my coach helped me create a safety anchor.
And that is something where I wasjust thinking when you, when you have
these experiences of, of meditationand following your breath, there's
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something that you can come back to.
Like I would be changing my daughterat her changing table and she'd be
screaming or have an accident on thechanging table while I'm mid change.
And just the things that youthink could throw you off.
But I remember just standing really firmand imagining myself in like mountain
pose on my yoga mat and just feelinglike so grounded and just being able to
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weather just the rises and falls of yourinternal experience throughout the day.
So this concept of a safety anchoris locking in this feeling of a time
that you can remember feeling justso calm and grounded and free or
whatever those feelings are that youreally would love to be feeling or
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that you imagine feeling when youfeel like yourself again postpartum.
It's locking those into a physical form.
So for me, I like to justclasp my hands together.
And when I do that,
I immediately, it's like thisphysical representation of the
memory that I have kind of storedin that, if that makes sense.
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So it's something that's really helpedme to like, stay calm and carry on.
So.
The Best Birth [29:41]
And something you can come backto so easily in any moment.
I was thinking about just how relaxedand wonderful we all felt breathing
just for a couple of minutes.
And could we attach that to another habit?
could we brush our teeth and thenjust take 30 seconds to breathe.
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And so we really look forward to brushingour teeth because we also get to come back
to that grounded, you know, like really.
Internal awareness, you know,like everything just feels so.
peaceful and so measured, how oftenin our lives as mothers, do we, do we
have that feeling of, of contentment?
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And so thank you for sharing, youknow, like clasping the hands,
doing those deep breaths, kindof focusing on those thoughts.
Ellie Morris [30:28]
Yeah, you're welcome.
I love the idea of attachingit to another habit.
And one that helps me is just anytimeI go to the bathroom, because I'm
already like, I'm sitting, the kidsat this stage, they're not usually
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with me I have 30 seconds to myself.
And so it's just a time where you canlike, ground yourself for a few minutes.
And it happens a fewtimes throughout the day.
So you can.
just have that opportunity.
But yeah, I think attaching it,brushing your teeth, shower,
anytime you go in the bathroom.
Yeah, I love that suggestion.
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The Best Birth [31:04]
Thank you so much.
And you shared some resources with us.
Was there anything else that you had forour listeners, either a book or another
expert that you have really appreciated?
Ellie Morris [31:15]
Yeah, so there is a book called TheBig Leap and that one is, I think,
a little bit, it's well suited forentrepreneurship, but the idea in it is
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allowing yourself to feel really good atthe edge of your comfort zone and really
like embracing the positive feelings,which I think can be kind of hard to do
sometimes when you feel like you have sofar to go in your journey or in your goals
or when your body just doesn't feel like
you in the moment.
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And so giving yourself space to feellike just really alive and awake is
something that can really help youcontinue the process of self -care.
So I think that's a great resource.
And then I'd be happy to share my website.
I have a couple other friends I'drecommend following on social media,
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or I can share my social media account.
So yeah, there's a lotof great stuff out there.
The Best Birth [32:14]
So great, we'll putthose in the show notes.
And every week we sharea mom squad secret.
So we'll end with that.
It's from Nora this week and shesays, receive chiropractor adjustments
when you are pregnant to make sureyour baby is in good alignment,
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especially when birth is near.
And just as we've talked about thephysical and mental and how those connect
and with our goals and just reallytaking care of our bodies and our minds.
If you want to share a mom squadsecret, we'll also have the link to
that Facebook page in our show notes.
Thank you so much, Ellie.
It was great to meet you.
Was there any last thing youwanted to share with our listeners
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or in part before you go?
Ellie Morris [32:54]
Yeah, I think the best, one ofmy favorite thoughts to just
try on as you're moving througheverything is just there is no rush.
Like there's no rush to change,there's no rush to fix anything.
And just let yourself gothrough the journey of
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pregnancy and birth and postpartum,just knowing that there's a little
circle around you and you'reright where you're meant to be.
So.
The Best Birth [33:23]
Thank you so much, Ellie.
I hope we can all takethat home with us today.
There is no rush.
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The Best Birth [00:02]
Welcome to the Best Birth Podcast.
We're here today with our episode.
Ellie Morris is our expert.
She is a health coach and will be teachingus how to love the way you look and feel.
Ellie is a health coach from thelife coach school and a mom of
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three kids, five chickens, and oneyellow lab in Denver, Colorado.
She loves all things healthy living,but also loves a good taco and night
out with friends or her husband.
Her passions include yoga, cooking,baking, biking, reading rom
-coms, and anything that givesher deeper human connection.
Welcome, Ellie.
I love that.
My highest value too is connection.
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So I'm grateful we can have thisconnective conversation with you.
Ellie Morris [00:44]
Yay, well thank you guysso much for having me.
I'm so excited to be here and I just,I think people are gonna absolutely
love this topic and conversation.
So, thank you.
The Best Birth [00:56]
Thank you so much.
Well, we want to kind of jump rightin and tell us how you became a
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health coach and a life coach.
What was your journey likearriving at what you're doing now?
Ellie Morris [01:07]
actually followed a coach fromthe Life Coach School, but she
created a program for coaches.
So it's very similar, but it's notquite we're actually certified in
a process called the framework.
But just for simplicity, I justI wanted to type, just to clarify
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that for anyone who listens andis like, this is a difference.
But so I
will say I found coaching when I feltcompletely desperate in my business.
And I didn't realize that findingcoaching through business would actually
permeate into all areas of my life.
So I had felt really stuckmaking a certain income level
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in my social selling business.
And as a last ditch resort, I joinedthis coaching program and learned
about this process called the model.
And
I will say I was doing all the rightthings and I promise you this actually
does connect back to how we takecare of ourselves in pregnancy and
life, postpartum and all the things.
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But I was doing all the rightthings and it was actually my
thoughts and my energy that werenot aligned with what I was doing.
And so as soon as I learned aboutcoaching and started getting
coached and self coaching,
Within 90 days, I doubled myincome, I grew my team, I was
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invited into my first mastermind.
A year after that, I was invited to do atraining in front of 100 people on thought
work and how that impacts your life.
And then a year after that, I wasaccepted to speak in front of close to
1 ,000 people on the power of coaching.
And at that training, just acouple of months ago, I actually
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did connect it back to...
serving people bigger in the realmof health coaching and how people
really love the way they look and feelbecause that's a huge part of my story.
So I kind of fell into it in adifferent way, but I'm so thankful.
The Best Birth [03:06]
That is so great.
For those that may not be aware ofthe model, could you give us a Cliff
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Notes version of what the model is?
Ellie Morris [03:14]
it's your thoughts thatcreate your results.
And the way that they map it out isthat when you have a circumstance
in your life, we all are in, we alllive in our set of circumstances.
So a circumstance is something thata million people could look at and...
label as a fact and there'sno question about it.
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So it's like the temperature is 70degrees, you know, kind of thing.
And then it's the story or the thoughtsthat we tell ourselves that actually
give meaning to our set of circumstances.
And when you think a certain thought,it will create a feeling in your
body and your feeling is always whatdrives your actions and your actions
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are the things that you either door don't do in support of a goal or,
to create what you really want.
And then your result is what'screated by your actions.
And so that, I know in our conversationwe'll give more concrete examples to that.
I have a very funny one that I'llshare later in our chat, I'm sure.
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But yeah, so that's kind of like a highlevel or skin version of the model.
The Best Birth [04:24]
That's awesome.
I was able to find the model through somepodcasting a few years ago and just really
found that it was helpful to me as a mom,figuring out how I was managing my home,
how I was managing my time, how I was,using my thoughts to either improve all of
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those situations or like kind of be stuck.
And so I think it's a great conversationthat we can have today about utilizing.
you know, what we allalready possess, right?
Like our thoughts and our actions.
Ellie Morris [04:53]
Yeah.
Yeah, for sure.
Well, and I'll just share whatI was going to say before.
So my kids are seven, five, and two.
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And I feel very like myself again.
And I know what we're going to betalking about is more in the weeds
of when you really don't feel likeyourself through pregnancy and then
that first year or two postpartum.
But last spring, I wasfeeling I'm back to.
feeling like the old Ellie,which I'm so thankful for.
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And last spring, I was having so much fun,like birthday parties, and we had Easter,
wedding celebrations, all these things.
And I noticed that the scale wascreeping up, or my pants were feeling a
little tighter, just different things.
And I stepped on the scale,and I was like, my gosh, I'm
like five pounds heavier thanwhere I really feel comfortable.
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And the first thought that my braingave me was, this is menopause.
This has got to be menopause.
And so instead of taking responsibilityfor my actions and really like, you know,
not eating chips at night or just makingdecisions that were more in alignment
with giving myself space to love the wayI look and felt in my body, my brain first
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was like, okay, we're going to conserveenergy and take out the part of you
cleaning things up to feel good again.
And so I just sat therethinking I'm powerless.
I have no control overmy results of my body.
And so then I didn't change anything.
I just kept watching Netflix at nightand having a snack with Nick and
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just going about everythingthat I was doing.
And as soon as I caught myself, and I waslike, I wonder if this is a story that
I'm just telling myself about where I am.
And as soon as I did thatand got curious about like,
how I might feel the next day if I cut thesnack or if I had one piece of cake or not
every day or whatever it was because wewere just, for whatever reason, I think
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our birthdays are all really concentratedin a couple months in the spring.
But all that melted away quickly andit was like the result changed the
second that I changed my thought andgot into more of a curious kind of
posture, which is so interesting.
So yeah.
The Best Birth [07:16]
I love how you interrupted thatpattern because it is so habitual
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and a lot of times we're not evenconscious of our thoughts and once we
pay attention to that, we gain morecontrol and ownership of our situation.
Ellie Morris [07:28]
Yeah, for sure.
The Best Birth [07:31]
Can you give us some examples ofhow you have used these tools in
loving the way that you look and feelkind of like directly postpartum?
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Ellie Morris [07:42]
Yeah, so I will saybefore I had the tools,
with my first, she was measuring small.
And so my doctor told me that Ineeded to go on a modified bed rest
and really pick up my calorie intake.
And I remember asking him.
And I'm like a very, Ilove eating healthy things.
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I love taking good care of myself.
And movement is really important to me.
So I was like, this isgoing to be really hard.
But I asked him what kind of calorieshe meant and he said if it were summer,
I would probably have you have ablizzard every day from Dairy Queen
kind of thing, like just pack it on.
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And I was just like, I think bug -eyed.
And my husband that night took meout for like a heavy Thai dinner
and then he bought me a blizzard.
He was like, you will eat this.
And I just like didn't,it didn't feel good.
And so I got to the end of that pregnancy.
B was perfect, a littlesmall, 6 '1", I think.
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And then after being my first, Ihad no idea what I was walking into.
I had no idea of the hormonechanges that would be coming.
I remember at her 10 to 14day postpartum well check,
the pediatrician being.
like the first person that I talkedto that was not in my family where
I had a human being in front ofme who asked me how I was doing.
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And I'm pretty sure I broke into tears andwas just like, I think I made a mistake.
I'm not sleeping.
I'm changing.
I don't know my body.
Like, this is all just so much.
And he said, wow, I'm really gladthat you shared that with me.
And you know, it's OK.
And.
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He was just such a warm andresponsive kind of person.
And from there, I willsay, I don't think I...
I just really put one foot in frontof the other and took care of myself,
but I will say having the tools when Idelivered my third of being able to use
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the model, it just made everything feela lot smoother where I could actually...
journal out my thoughts right away,notice that these were just thoughts
coming through and to not feel likeI needed to, like my being didn't get
totally gripped on to all of them andrun away with into rabbit holes, I guess.
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And so it just made theprocess a lot lighter.
And to just know that one day at atime, one step at a time, one meal at a
time, you know, whatever it is, takingcare of yourself goes part of them is.
such a journey of being with yourselfand holding yourself in that discomfort.
And I felt like myself again, somuch faster after delivering Nora.
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So it's just, it's an interestingcomparison to be able to make from
before and after having those tools.
The Best Birth [10:48]
It's so great to hear your experienceand what it looked like for you
as you gained that knowledge.
What is your three -part system andhow can that benefit new moms as they
are postpartum in that situation?
Ellie Morris [10:59]
Yeah, so the way that I like towork with clients or even, you know,
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use for myself is noticing, helpingpeople gain deeper body awareness.
And
specifically, if someone has a goal withlike, with someone that has a health goal,
I would say using a hunger scale is huge.
And that's not just for
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losing weight.
Like a hunger scale is somethingthat can just help you really honor
eating when you're hungry, stoppingwhen you're feeling close to full.
And, you know, that's actually thesecret of the Okinawa Blue Zone region
and how they just have longevity.
And so I just I like to mentionthat because it's it's something
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it's a really critical tool to beable to honor your own like needs.
physically, which I think also helpsyou tap into giving yourself what
you need emotionally and spirituallyand in other areas of life too.
So that's a huge component.
I will say the second part ofmy process is thought work.
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So really sitting with someoneand going deeper on some of the
thoughts that they're having.
So I think applying that to postpartum,I remember my mother -in -law asking how
I was doing and really looking at me.
like deep in the eyes andjust saying like, how are you?
And again, just like breaking down intotears, not like full on hot mess, but like
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crying a little bit and just saying like,I feel like I don't know my body anymore.
Like, I feel like I don't recognizethe Ellie that's left postpartum.
And so being able to like sit with someonewho's in that space and then asking like,
okay, and let's go a little bit deeper.
Like what else is coming up for you?
and then picking out a thought that wouldbe worth modeling through so someone can
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see like, okay, these are the feelingsand the actions that are actually
coming from having those thoughts.
So I love that part.
And then the third one is actuallyrefining like your daily habits or
your own process that you follow.
So it's really customized andtailored to the individual.
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Because different things feelgood for different bodies
The Best Birth [13:23]
The hunger cues likereally hits home for me.
I felt like when I was breastfeeding,there was so many times, I
would get real shaky if I hadn'thad proper protein intake.
And I just remember feeling how isthis going to help me when I feel
like I'm overeating and so likekind of recognizing that I wasn't
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overeating my hunger cues were real.
And I was,
producing milk and so I was alsoburning calories through lactation
and trying to honor the nutrientsthat my body actually needed.
Ellie Morris [13:50]
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, I love that.
And as someone, you know, I probablyshould have given a deeper introduction
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at the beginning, but I havelike a very deep cyclical dieting
background from my young twenties.
And I had gotten to a place beforewe decided to start a family where
I felt so good in my body and feltafraid of like the weight gain and then
wondering if it would come back down.
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And that does, especially with thefirst one, like it does get in the
way of you wanting to listen to hungercues because you're like, not that
I was never trying to be on a diet.
I had given myself permissionto like take care of the human
being that was growing in me.
But those thoughts are definitelyreal thoughts that can come up.
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And when you're trying to honoryour hunger cues and you have...
old patterns from before, I think it canbe really hard to like give yourself,
to feel safe enough to give yourselfwhat you really needed when it felt like
either way more than you would usuallyhave or think you need or like, why does
my body want all this red meat right now?
Or like, why does it not want sameit when you get aversions or, you
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know, whatever, whatever it is,it's so different for each person.
But yeah, super interesting and so, sohelpful to be able to pair together.
noticing your thoughts around using ahunger, like following a hunger scale.
The Best Birth [15:26]
And when you honor your emotional needs,when it comes to hunger, I find that
your body also, responds more positively.
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Right?
So in thinking that it's my son'sbirthday, cake is one of the
things that we love to share.
And my first, when my son was oneyears old, that was the first time
we had introduced him to any sortof sugar with his little smash cake.
And he was double fisting the cake.
Like you've never seenlike the entire thing.
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But it was really good cake.
It's like my mom's white cake recipe.
And all of us were like, thisis really good cake and feeling
like letting yourself emotionallyappreciate the cake and celebrate.
I think that it functionsdifferently in your body than if
you're eating for other reasons.
tying the emotional and the physicaltogether, will almost like trigger
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your metabolism to work for you.
Instead of just like alwayshating yourself if you're enjoying
something that's highly caloric.
Yeah.
And translating that too, to your body.
I've heard before, youcan't hate yourself skinny.
You know, you have to be in aplace of acceptance before you
even get to your celebrated goal.
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Can you talk a little bit moreabout feelings and how that
impacts what you're doing?
Ellie Morris [16:48]
my gosh, yes.
And I got chills too, Sarah, whenyou were talking because I just
have to add one thing to that.
I used to always, we used to livein Fort Collins, which is like the
brewery center of Colorado for sure.
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And maybe, I mean, it's like a very,that's just like a way of life.
And I've never been a big drinker,but I always told Nick, I was like,
when I feel like when I get it fromthe source of where they made it,
it feels like healthy and like mybody does process it so differently.
where it just, it's like, it is,I think there's so much more than
just putting food in your mouth thathelps you metabolize it differently.
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So I love what you just said about that.
And
yeah, so Jen, I think when we thinkabout setting a goal, like it was not
long after, I will be very honest.
I mean, I love feelingreally good in my body.
And I really, I think that,
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You move differently through the world.
I think you connectdifferently with people.
And having a spacious mind andbeing able to connect with myself
and other people and spirituallyreally well is really important to
me in helping other people do that.
And I think when you set a goal foryourself, whether it's postpartum
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or any time of saying, OK, Ireally want to lose 20 pounds, for
example, or 10, whatever it is, it's
I think we think when we get there thatwe'll feel calmer or more confident or
freedom, like freedom around your bodyweight and food and thoughts around that.
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And if you don't
start to practice some of those feelingsthat you think you're going to feel
in the future, you'll hit your goalin a way that is just not sustainable
because you get there and you're stillcraving feeling those things when really,
your feelings are things thatyou need to practice every day.
And it's not
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toxic positivity.
It's not that in saying I'm justgonna feel positive all the time.
It's instead for a few minutes everyday, I'm gonna practice feeling like odd
by something or calm or curious, open.
The things that we allwant to feel are joy.
And when you give yourself permissionto build up safety around feeling
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those things, even when youhaven't yet reached your goal.
it'll actually make the goalcome to you a lot faster, which
is really counterintuitive.
But I've experienced time andtime again how that happens.
And it feels like magic.
It really does.
The Best Birth [19:28]
When you take the ownership andrealize your goal for the reasons
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that are like purely motivated, byyour intentions, I also feel like
you are able to kind of soar, right?
Like if the reason that you're trying tolose this postpartum way is to impress
others meet a certain date, okay, wellby six weeks, I want to, you know, be
wearing my pre maternity clothes again.
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It always seems to fall flat, but ifyou're able to kind of come at it with
some intentions, like you said, like Iwant to feel, I want to feel beautiful
in my body and I want to feel confident.
I want to be able to interactwith my children and the world in
a way that serves others and youknow, brings beauty to the world.
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Not in a way that you're likeshowing off, your mom bod or your
physique or anything, but just ina way that's like really honoring.
for your soul and yourspirit and your body.
I feel like this ties right intobeing mindful about the journey and
the pregnancy and the postpartum.
If you set those intentions orfind your why beforehand, you're
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able to draw back to it when youneed that motivation or support.
And like you said, just narrowing downthose reasons of why it's important
to you to look or feel certain.
Ellie Morris [20:49]
Yeah, I definitely agree.
I mean, having, yeah,I've experienced both.
I've experienced having, like, wantingcertain goals, not really in the realm
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of health, but in other parts of mylife that were motivated by, like,
proving something or just somethingthat I didn't really even want.
And then when I finally got safeenough to say, okay, it's okay
for me to not hit that milestone.
and then realign to my values,it's like, my gosh, something even
more amazing was waiting for me togo after in another area of life.
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So it's, yeah, it's yourintentions and your values are
huge pieces in all of this.
The Best Birth [21:32]
You've mentioned feeling safe a coupletimes, certain people that have come to
you and you feel safe or allowing yourselfto feel safe to process these reasons.
How can we teach ourselves to feel safe?
Ellie Morris [21:44]
Yeah, so I have gotten really into,I've learned a lot about regulating
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through my own coach over the last year.
And I didn't realize until I startedreally slowing down and being with myself
that I was operating from a lot of stress.
And so I think this like,
I didn't realize that theslower I moved, meaning like,
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energetically or the more that I likelisten to my thoughts and gave myself
space to really notice like how I wasfeeling physically, where my thoughts
were, you know, what was going on.
I love operating at a higher speed andI just, I like being a task master.
I like getting a bunch ofthings done, but I, yes.
And, but I feel like I'm so muchmore efficient and able to make
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more clear decisions in all ways.
the more that I slow down and reallylike come at it from, we call it
from my CEO brain, when I justlike feel really calm in my body.
And so that was definitely a practice.
Like at the beginning I was like, thisfeels counterintuitive or it feels just
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kind of like weird to slow down and notmake decisions out of stress anymore.
But so much of us operate ina way where we don't even know
that we're doing that until.
you kind of draw a line orstart practicing, you know,
just slowing down in your body.
And one of my favorite ways todo that, so I have a 500 hour
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yoga teacher training background.
And so I also bring some of thatinto the body awareness piece where
it's like walking people through justeven one or two minute meditations to
just get really presentin their bodies because...
When your body is relaxed,there's not really room for
stress to live there anymore.
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And so that to me, as you're growingthrough pregnancy and then as you're going
through all these changes postpartum,the more that we can spend just even a
couple minutes a day of really noticinglike, okay, how does my, like when I
put my awareness down, like in my...
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tailbone area and work my way up my spine,like how am I actually feeling or what
aches and pains are kind of existing in myback, like the back was a big one for me.
But like the more that we can reallydo that, the mind actually grounds
down into your body and so it doesn'thave the chance to give you all these
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overwhelming thoughts as frequently.
The Best Birth [24:25]
Would you be willing to walk us throughone of those short relaxation meditation?
Ellie Morris [24:32]
Yeah, just right on the podcast?
yeah, sure, yeah, let's do it.
Yeah, okay, I'll do it with you guys.
So if your legs are crossed, Iwould ask you to just uncross them
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and get your feet on the floor.
And if you feel comfortable,you can close your eyes.
We can also just look at eachother, whatever we wanna do.
So.
The Best Birth [24:34]
I think so!
Hey, we'll do it with you.
Ellie Morris [24:59]
To start, just noticewhere you are right now.
And you can let the breathjust fall out your mouth.
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And we're not going totry to change anything.
We're just going to noticethe texture of your breathing.
Let it feel short and shallow.
Does the breath feel tightor does it feel more smooth?
And
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your next breath in, I want you to letit draw your chest and your head up
a little bit higher, as if there's astring pulling you up through your spine.
And when you let the breath out,let it draw your seat a little
bit deeper into your chair.
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And we're just gonna keep following that.
So every breath in is gonna pullthat string a little bit higher
up towards the ceiling, drawinglength through your spine.
And then every exhale is gonna bring you alittle bit deeper into your body, through
your chair, through the feet on the floor.
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We spend a lot of time holding our belliesin and through pregnancy, through life,
like this is a time where you can just letthat go and just notice your breath coming
in and out and let it expand your belly.
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On your next breath in, let it drawyour shoulders up to your ears.
And then on your breath out, let yourshoulders just melt down your back.
And notice the space that itcreated between your ears.
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And when you're ready youcan let your eyes open again.
And do you guys feel any different?
I do.
Like we should have started with this.
The Best Birth [27:35]
100 % different and every time I doa yoga meditation or you know some
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of these deep breathing exercisesI'm baffled at my physical changes.
Ellie Morris [27:47]
Yeah, good.
The Best Birth [27:49]
For sure, I think it was a great idea toactually do it mid -episode because we did
see the contrast and feel the difference.
And I think, like you said, themore we practice that, the more
we'll be able to know when we needit or recognize it when we have it.
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Ellie Morris [28:02]
Yeah, and you know, the other thing, I'dlove to leave this as a resource, but
the, and maybe we can do like a follow -uptraining or talk about it, but there's,
my coach helped me create a safety anchor.
And that is something where I wasjust thinking when you, when you have
these experiences of, of meditationand following your breath, there's
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something that you can come back to.
Like I would be changing my daughterat her changing table and she'd be
screaming or have an accident on thechanging table while I'm mid change.
And just the things that youthink could throw you off.
But I remember just standing really firmand imagining myself in like mountain
pose on my yoga mat and just feelinglike so grounded and just being able to
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weather just the rises and falls of yourinternal experience throughout the day.
So this concept of a safety anchoris locking in this feeling of a time
that you can remember feeling justso calm and grounded and free or
whatever those feelings are that youreally would love to be feeling or
(29:42):
that you imagine feeling when youfeel like yourself again postpartum.
It's locking those into a physical form.
So for me, I like to justclasp my hands together.
And when I do that,
I immediately, it's like thisphysical representation of the
memory that I have kind of storedin that, if that makes sense.
(30:04):
So it's something that's really helpedme to like, stay calm and carry on.
So.
The Best Birth [29:41]
And something you can come backto so easily in any moment.
I was thinking about just how relaxedand wonderful we all felt breathing
just for a couple of minutes.
And could we attach that to another habit?
could we brush our teeth and thenjust take 30 seconds to breathe.
(30:26):
And so we really look forward to brushingour teeth because we also get to come back
to that grounded, you know, like really.
Internal awareness, you know,like everything just feels so.
peaceful and so measured, how oftenin our lives as mothers, do we, do we
have that feeling of, of contentment?
(30:49):
And so thank you for sharing, youknow, like clasping the hands,
doing those deep breaths, kindof focusing on those thoughts.
Ellie Morris [30:28]
Yeah, you're welcome.
I love the idea of attachingit to another habit.
And one that helps me is just anytimeI go to the bathroom, because I'm
already like, I'm sitting, the kidsat this stage, they're not usually
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with me I have 30 seconds to myself.
And so it's just a time where you canlike, ground yourself for a few minutes.
And it happens a fewtimes throughout the day.
So you can.
just have that opportunity.
But yeah, I think attaching it,brushing your teeth, shower,
anytime you go in the bathroom.
Yeah, I love that suggestion.
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The Best Birth [31:04]
Thank you so much.
And you shared some resources with us.
Was there anything else that you had forour listeners, either a book or another
expert that you have really appreciated?
Ellie Morris [31:15]
Yeah, so there is a book called TheBig Leap and that one is, I think,
a little bit, it's well suited forentrepreneurship, but the idea in it is
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allowing yourself to feel really good atthe edge of your comfort zone and really
like embracing the positive feelings,which I think can be kind of hard to do
sometimes when you feel like you have sofar to go in your journey or in your goals
or when your body just doesn't feel like
you in the moment.
(32:15):
And so giving yourself space to feellike just really alive and awake is
something that can really help youcontinue the process of self -care.
So I think that's a great resource.
And then I'd be happy to share my website.
I have a couple other friends I'drecommend following on social media,
(32:35):
or I can share my social media account.
So yeah, there's a lotof great stuff out there.
The Best Birth [32:14]
So great, we'll putthose in the show notes.
And every week we sharea mom squad secret.
So we'll end with that.
It's from Nora this week and shesays, receive chiropractor adjustments
when you are pregnant to make sureyour baby is in good alignment,
(32:57):
especially when birth is near.
And just as we've talked about thephysical and mental and how those connect
and with our goals and just reallytaking care of our bodies and our minds.
If you want to share a mom squadsecret, we'll also have the link to
that Facebook page in our show notes.
Thank you so much, Ellie.
It was great to meet you.
Was there any last thing youwanted to share with our listeners
(33:20):
or in part before you go?
Ellie Morris [32:54]
Yeah, I think the best, one ofmy favorite thoughts to just
try on as you're moving througheverything is just there is no rush.
Like there's no rush to change,there's no rush to fix anything.
And just let yourself gothrough the journey of
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pregnancy and birth and postpartum,just knowing that there's a little
circle around you and you'reright where you're meant to be.
So.
The Best Birth [33:23]
Thank you so much, Ellie.
I hope we can all takethat home with us today.
There is no rush.
Thanks for joining us on today's episode.
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