Bethany C. Meyers Instagram – I’m going to be really honest, I almost didn’t post this. In fact, of all the very real, very vulnerable things I’ve posted on this platform, this one is by far the hardest for me to share.
I wanted to film a side-by-side video of me doing the same @thebecomeproject sequence – one from 2017 when I was working out and teaching every day and one from today, 12 weeks postpartum after two back-to-back pregnancies. I wanted to discuss normalizing the postpartum body and how I’m excited to get back to movement in this new year. But when I dropped these videos next to each other, I cried. Hard. Tight, tender, weak and soft was the only thing I could see.
I didn’t want to be upset. I didn’t want to feel like I had “let myself go”. After all, I spent years preaching about acceptance, neutrality and how bodies change like seasons. I shouldn’t be phased by this, right? Wrong.
I imagined when I got pregnant I would workout my whole pregnancy. I imagined I would create pregnancy programs followed by mommy and me workouts. As much as I don’t want to admit it, I imagined having the “bounce back” of all bounce backs. But that just wasn’t in the cards.
My pregnancies required rest. My babies required soft. My body required change. And so…here we are, what feels like square 1 (for me anyway.)
I’m not going to pretend like being a beginner on the mat isn’t tough for me to accept. It is. But I’m also going to use this opportunity to understand my body better, continue to show it love and regain strength and fluidity that I’ve been missing, because I do miss it.
So if anyone wants to move along with me, big or small, I still have @thebecomeproject videos available for download. Link in my bio. ❤️❤️ | Posted on 07/Jan/2025 06:59:35
