28/05/2026
As a coach, here’s what I see again and again:
Women doing all the “right” core work — and still frustrated their belly won’t flatten. The piece almost no one checks first? Their breath.
Most postpartum women breathe shallow — shoulders up, ribs barely moving — or their belly pulls in on the inhale. Both push pressure forward, into the linea alba: the connective tissue down the center of your abdomen that stretched during pregnancy and is now trying to heal.
That tissue heals under balanced tension — not constant forward pressure. So you can do everything right in your session and quietly undo it with every breath in between.
This is where I start almost every client: 360° breathing. Inhale — ribs expand sideways and into your back, belly rises gently, pelvic floor drops. Exhale — everything returns. Five minutes a day, lying down.
It’s not the whole fix. It’s the foundation everything else is built on.
Season 1, Episode 1 of Why Your DR Isn’t Healing. Follow for the rest. 🤍