From Shame to Strength: What Every Mom Should Know About Her Pelvic Floor with Dr. Sara Reardon (E42)

Mom's Guide to Finding Herself
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Most moms don’t realize how much their pelvic floor affects their everyday life—until something starts to feel off. What’s worse? When it does feel off, we’re often too embarrassed to say anything.

In this episode, pelvic floor physical therapist and author Dr. Sara Reardon returns to talk about why we don’t know our bodies the way we should, how shame is keeping moms from getting help, and what true healing really looks like.

This conversation is about way more than pee leaks. It’s about power, ownership, and finally feeling connected to your body—instead of confused by it.

We’re Not Reconnecting—We’re Connecting for the First Time

We grow up hiding tampons, covering our pads with our sleeves, and being told (explicitly or not) that our bodies are things to be managed—not understood.

So it makes sense that when something feels off after birth—whether it’s painful sex, bladder leakage, constipation, or deep core weakness—we often don’t know what to do. Or who to ask.

“It’s not about reconnecting. It’s connecting—for the first time.

Once we can understand our bodies and know how to take care of them, I think we feel really strong.”
– Dr. Sara Reardon

Sara breaks down the basics of what the pelvic floor is, how it works, and why it deserves way more attention in women’s health. (Spoiler: it’s connected to breathing, orgasms, back pain, bladder control, posture, and more.)

Pain, Pressure, and Peeing Yourself—It’s Common but Not Normal

One of the biggest takeaways from this episode? Just because something is common doesn’t mean it’s normal—or unfixable.

Sara explains how symptoms like leaking when you sneeze, chronic constipation, or discomfort during sex are often shrugged off or minimized by doctors… even though they’re often caused by real, treatable pelvic floor dysfunction.

“Fifty percent of women over 65 leak urine. And it’s one of the number one reasons for admission to a nursing home.

These symptoms don’t go away on their own. They get worse. But they’re so treatable.”
– Dr. Sara Reardon

She also busts the myth that more tightness = more strength. In fact, a tense pelvic floor can lead to just as many problems as a weak one. Learning to relax is often the first step to healing.

The Shame That Keeps Us Quiet

One of the most powerful parts of this conversation is about shame—the silence that keeps so many moms from even acknowledging there’s a problem, let alone seeking help.

“We’ve been taught indirectly to cover this up. To not talk about it. To feel ashamed.

We need to normalize the conversations instead of normalizing the problems.”
– Dr. Sara Reardon

Sara shares how many of her patients wait years before speaking up, only to be dismissed or ignored when they do. She makes a strong case for not only better education, but also better providers—and how to find one who will actually listen.

How to Start Healing (Without Adding More to Your Plate)

The good news? You don’t need to overhaul your life or squeeze in a million kegels. Sara shares simple strategies you can try at home today:

  • Diaphragmatic breathing to help relax tense muscles

  • Child’s pose, squats, or happy baby for natural release

  • Pre-contracting the pelvic floor (she calls it “The Knack”) before coughing or sneezing

  • Knowing whether you’re dealing with tension or weakness—because they require different care

And if you're ready for more support, her online program The V-Hive and her new book Floored are powerful places to start.

About Dr. Sara Reardon

Dr. Sara Reardon is a board-certified pelvic floor physical therapist and the founder of The V-Hive, an online pelvic floor workout platform for pregnancy, postpartum, menopause, painful sex, and core recovery. Known online as The Vagina Whisperer, she’s helped hundreds of thousands of women better understand and care for their bodies.

She lives in New Orleans with her husband and two sons. Her first book, Floored: A Woman’s Guide to Pelvic Floor Health at Every Age and Stage, releases June 10, 2025.

Explore More from Sara:

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Ep 2

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Krissy: Sara, I'm so excited to have you back here again today. We heard all about your motherhood journey last time, and now today we're gonna hear about the work that you have done on the pelvic floor.

Dr. Sara Reardon: I'm so excited to be back. Thanks for having me, Krissy.

I.

Krissy: start with just the basic, with what is a pelvic floor.

Dr. Sara Reardon: So the pelvic floor is a group of muscles that sit at the bottom of your pelvis. So we can all imagine those pelvic bones we see on skeleton jammies that our little kids wear. And there's an opening at the bottom in real life, kind of in our bodies. That opening is. You know, has a floor which is made of muscles and tissues and nerves, and it's like a trampoline that sits down there and it supports our bladder, which holds urine.

Our bowels, which hold stool, our uterus, which [00:01:00] holds a growing baby during pregnancy. And you also have three openings in those muscles. One where urine exits, one for the anal opening, where poop exits, and then the vaginal opening for vaginal intercourse, vaginal birth, menstruation. So we, the pelvic floor is working for us all throughout the day with support and peeing and pooping and holding in the contents of our bladder and bowels and with posture, but yet we don't often talk about it until there's a problem.

And so I really love kind of proactively educating people, which is, you know, I wrote my book floor kind of giving women a guide to their pelvic floor health so they can really proactively take care of it and or deal with an issue that they're already experiencing.

Krissy: right. I don't think we realize at all every day how much our pelvic floor is impacting everything we do. I mean, just straight down to breathing. So what are some unexpected ways that your pelvic floor health impacts your overall health?

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know, I think to me, I think it's the most important part of our [00:02:00] body because it really is connected to everything from, as we mentioned, like going to the bathroom, which we do multiple times a day. Having sex, which, you know, in order to sometimes get pregnant, it's something that we really wanna be able to do or have joy or orgasms or pleasure.

Um, it helps support our core, so it's connected to your abdominal wall and back muscles. Um, many people who have low back pain actually have pelvic floor issues and they don't realize the pelvic floor is not contracting or strong, or there's weakness or tension in it. And. I think some of the more surprising things are when people have issues, not, you know, the most common ones we would.

C or urinary leakage or painful sex or pelvic organ prolapse. But things like pooping problems, like if you have constipation or hemorrhoids or anal fissures that's related to your pelvic floor. Um, sexual dysfunction. It could be pain with orgasms, painful sex, the inability to orgasm or leakage during orgasms.

Um, and then even things like we [00:03:00] mentioned, low back pain or hip pain or weak cores, core muscles, those are all connected to your pelvic floor.

Krissy: It's so fascinating. I went to pelvic floor physical therapy after both babies and. that I like know, and I can like visualize what's going on, everything about my life has changed. Like sometimes I'll stop and I'll like think about how I'm singing a song and what muscles are either pushing in or pushing and um, and you don't see how it's all tied together.

So what are some of the ways that we can assess ourselves for if we're having an issue? Because we might not really know.

Dr. Sara Reardon: And I think a lot of women don't realize that some of the things they're experiencing could be related to their pelvic floor. So I mean, I'll see a patient who's like, I'll tell me, I'm like, tell me about your menstrual health. And she's like, oh, well I use this and I, I only use pads because tampons are too painful to insert.

I'm like, okay, well that's a pelvic floor issue. Like your muscles are two-ten. [00:04:00] So I think one, and I go over this in the book, because I think the narrative has often been for. Pelvic floor exercises is to just strengthen. Do your kegels, keep it tight, suck it in, pull it in. And actually so many people have tension and they need to learn to relax their pelvic floors.

So the first thing kind of goes based on like what kind of symptoms are you experiencing? Is it painful sex or tailbone pain, or a hard time starting your bladder? Those may be related more to tension. Often once related to weakness or pelvic organ prolapse or urinary leakage or fecal incontinence, things like that.

The way you can assess at home is if you are feeling really brave, you can take a mirror and I tell people like, look at your vulva and your vaginal opening. Other people have seen this part of your body more than you have doctors, partners, and do a contraction and see what the muscle does. Push and bear down like you're pooping or giving birth.

See what the muscle does, like start connecting mind to body as to how the muscle functions. And then you [00:05:00] can also do an internal exam using your finger and then squeeze and relax and push out. Um, you know, having that finger in your vagina and you can feel the muscles. And then you can also assess how you're contracting or relaxing.

Krissy: That's such an easy way to go and see if you're too tight or too, or, or not hiding enough to try to figure out which area you can go. But tell me, what do you mean by relax? I. Because we are telling ourselves that all the time, but we don't know how.

Dr. Sara Reardon: Right. And this isn't a muscle that we can see, so we don't even know what it's doing. But the first way that you can really kind of relax your pelvic floor muscles are, is actually by breathing. So your diaphragm sits just underneath your rib cage, and at the bottom of the pelvic cavity is your pelvic floor muscles.

So your diaphragm's at the top, your pelvic floor's at the bottom. So it's almost like a coat can. When you inhale and take a breath in, the diaphragm presses down and kind of flattens, and then the pelvic floor relaxes. So [00:06:00] the diaphragm comes down, the pelvic floor comes down. That's relaxing the pelvic floor, so just taking big, deep rib opening breaths.

We call it diaphragmatic breathing can help you relax the pelvic floor. The other thing is I tell people to kind of even do a contraction or what you'd call a Kegel, like you're trying to stop your urine stream. That's a squeeze, but then let it go. Can you feel that relaxation afterwards or does it feel like it's still kind of hanging on?

And then other ways you can do it are also by stretching. So anything that puts you in a squatting position like. A deep squat or a child's pose or happy baby pose and staying in that pose for five or six deep breaths kind of relaxes and opens up your pelvic floor naturally. So you know, if you do have a tense pelvic floor, which many people do, you're gonna have a hard time relaxing.

But implementing some of these things will kind of help you reset it, and that will become the new normal for you.

Krissy: That's really great 'cause all of those you can fit into

Dr. Sara Reardon: Right,

Krissy: we need to do anyway. It [00:07:00] will help us in so many different ways now. a moms? Well, no. There's a lot of things that feel like they're normal because they're very common. Like today I was walking and needed to pause to sneeze, um, just to give myself a little more support. Now what's normal versus what are things that we should be really checking in on?

Dr. Sara Reardon: So you're not alone there. I mean, I have to pause when I sneeze and kind of contract my pelvic floor to prevent leakage, but yes. Yeah, even the vagina whisperer has to pre-contract. So, but no amount of leakage is normal. I think we often think like, oh, a little leak with a cough or sneeze, um, is okay. One, these issues will progressively worse.

You'll start leaking much more frequently when you're aging and you have less estrogen or you're perimenopausal, you won't have your hormones to help support you as much, and the incontinence will get more significant and severe. And then this is why one. Out of two women. So 50% of women over the [00:08:00] age, over the age of 65 leak urine, and it's one of the number one reasons for admission to a nursing home later in life.

So I say this because it's costly to buy these products. It often prevents us from doing the things we like to do, like socializing or exercising or going for walks or traveling, um, or being intimate with our partners. And it's. Giving you information that your pelvic floor can't support against whatever that force is, whether it's a run, a jump, a cough, a sneeze, a laugh, and so you, you need to start working on it.

It's never too late, but the sooner you start doing it, the better. I.

Krissy: So what do I do?

Dr. Sara Reardon: So I think first you'd have to figure out what's your pelvic floor situation? Is it tense, is it weak? I would first start pre contracting before a cough or a snee. So I call this the knack where you contract your pelvic floor, like hold it in when you cough or sneeze.

So train those muscles to turn on, um, before that kind of incident. If you can catch it every [00:09:00] time. Great. The second thing is if you do get like really sick and you're coughing and sneezing a lot, I actually tell people to use an internal bladder support. So there are things called pessaries. You can get it over the counter.

One's called revive, but you can even use a tampon and I'm like inserted tampon. And that like supports your bladder so it doesn't get pushed down as much. And then lastly. If you do have weakness, I would start strengthening because these muscles support your bladder and when they get weak or they get fatigued, they are not able to support that, and that's how you end up getting the leakage of urine.

So start strengthening. Use the muscles when you need it before a cough or sneeze, and use internal support if it's like a more chronic issue while you're still working on training the muscles.

Krissy: It is so fascinating that you said if your, if it's a weakening

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah.

Krissy: you think leakage. Everything you said before about being too tense makes sense.

Like the constipation, the pain, but to hear you say that that could also be [00:10:00] causing your

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yes. Because if you have really tight tense muscles, they can't contract well or relax well. So it's like you've got these muscles that are kind of stuck in this state and they're like, uh uh, and they can't close and contract. So oftentimes with women, we have to, or patients, I have to teach them to relax their muscles with stretching, breathing, even internal massage and external massage, and get their muscles more relaxed and then retrain and strengthen them if there's a weakness issue.

So. It's kind of like if you were to walk around like holding your elbow bent all day and your bicep gets really tight, like it's hard to let that go, but you're trying to lift something and you're like, I can't because my biceps so tight. So you have to learn to relax that muscle first, and then you can strengthen it.

Krissy: Right.

That's

Dr. Sara Reardon: I.

Krissy: fascinating. Now, you posted on Instagram not too long ago 'cause you just mentioned being sick that one of the things that we're not doing ourselves any favors by is by blowing our nose while on the toilet. What are some common things that we're doing to sabotage our pelvic [00:11:00] health

Dr. Sara Reardon: Oh my gosh. Um, so first of all, peeing is probably the biggest culprit when you pee. I really encourage you to sit down instead of hovering over the toilet. Now, I know some toilets are really yucky and you're like, absolutely not, Sara. I will not. Sit, but if you can clean the toilet, line it with toilet paper, 'cause sitting helps your muscles relax, it helps your pelvic floor relax so your bladder empties better.

The other thing is don't push when you pee. I think as moms we're always trying to be really efficient and you know, get out of there as quickly as possible, or you've got a kid. Sticking their fingers under the door sitting on our lap even. So I'm like, just sit and breathe because your muscles need to relax and your bladder pushes the urine out.

Your bladder's a muscle, and it pushes the urine out for you, so you don't need to push. When you push to pee, it weakens your pelvic floor over time. So sit, just lean forward and breathe. Take some deep breaths and your, your muscles will relax. And then if you don't feel like you empty all the way, like shake your [00:12:00] hips or you can stand up and sit down again and see if a little more comes out.

And then lastly, it's go to the bathroom when you have the urge to go. So you don't wanna go too frequently and go all the time, like, um, you know, every time you leave the house or every time you arrive somewhere because you're training your bladder to be small and have to go more frequently. But also don't delay the urge so much.

Then you overtighten your muscles and it makes it hard to start. So every two to four hours is kind of the normal range to pee. And then obviously when you are peeing, don't blow your nose, just sit and chill.

Krissy: And don't try to unload the dryer while you're doing it, is that.

Dr. Sara Reardon: You can scroll on your phone, that's fine.

Krissy: Okay. Okay. That's where I'll do my multitasking then. I guess, um, I wanna talk lastly about, this is an important one and I'm sure that it's something that you come across all the time, is the shame

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah.

Krissy: feel when we have public floor issues, whether it's tension or weakening or like, [00:13:00] it is tough. So, so can you talk about that?

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know, I think that this is probably like the emotional pull of, this is probably one of the biggest reasons I ended up starting my social media account and writing this book where I share so many patient stories and they had been. Dealing with pelvic floor issues for so long, and some of them, you know, when they finally worked up the courage to talk to a medical provider, they felt like they were dismissed.

They felt ignored. They waited for years to get treatment. You know, I think a lot of this really goes back to when we are young women. We are not educated about this part of our body. I. We maybe get a little bit of period education, maybe we maybe get a little bit of sex ed depending on where you live in the country or you know, where you go to school.

But we're not taught about our pelvic floors, and so the vagina becomes like something just for sex or something that feels dirty or we hide our periods, we slip tampons up our shirt sleeves. And I think we've always been kind of taught indirectly to [00:14:00] cover this up, to not talk about it, to feel ashamed about it.

Um, that it's almost dirty in some ways, and I think that that prevents us from having really open conversations. I think that medical providers aren't proactive enough about asking about them. Like the research is very clear. If a medical provider does not ask about leakage or sexual pain or anything like that, then we're not gonna offer it up and we don't even know what doctor to talk to sometimes.

So. I think that my goal of all of this is to really help normalize pelvic floor conversation so that we can talk about these things and then get solutions. But if we are normalizing the problems, which I think has been the case for so long of like it just an aisle of light incontinence liners or, you know, surgery's the only option, or just kind of hiding it and dealing with it.

Um, then I think that, you know, we're really just not getting the help that we deserve, and we need to normalize the conversations instead of normalizing the problems.

Krissy: That's so interesting because you're right. [00:15:00] You know, you talk to your doctors and depending on the doctor you have, may be a foreign concept to them. I, I know that my, one of my obs after I had my first. Baby. didn't even know what pelvic floor physical therapy was. He was like, oh, sure you could get physical therapy if you really think you need to. I was like, dude, I, no, not what I'm talking about. My friend on Instagram, who does?

Dr. Sara Reardon: Tell 'em, I'm like, show 'em my account. I don't care. Like, but they, they don't know what they don't know. They've been generations of, of physicians who weren't trained on this in their residencies. And you know, I think a lot of it is people like yourself going to a doctor and asking for it, which takes so much courage that helps a light bulb go off in their head and say, oh, I didn't even know that this was a thing.

And then the ripples of them kind of learning and referring other patients go. Goes a long way. But you know, there was a, there's a statistic that. At six weeks post birth, um, for vaginal birth, your pelvic floor has 50%, [00:16:00] less than 50% of the strength it did pre-pregnancy. And at six weeks postpartum is when we're sent back to the gym or to having sex, or we.

Probably you're already back at work. So I'm like, you're literally giving women the thumbs up to return to their quote unquote normal activities. And yet their pelvic floor is functioning at 50%. Like you should absolutely have rehab after giving birth regardless of which method you birth. 'cause both C-section and vaginal birth moms have pelvic floor changes.

So we're just doing women a real disservice and I can, I think it affects how women birth, how many kids they wanna have, how they exercise, how they work. And so we really need to. I think one demystify these, this part of our body and be proactive about giving women the care that they need to recover.

Krissy: Right. because there, the things that we're experiencing, the symptoms shameful in a lot of ways. You know, you're peeing yourself, you're, you're pooping yourself, you're, you have pain and sex. We don't talk about any of

Dr. Sara Reardon: I know.

Krissy: all of them make us feel like we're [00:17:00] wrong. So, so to be able to admit. That takes a lot, like you said, a lot of courage, a lot of guts to, to go out there and start talking about it. But then the, the next piece of the puzzle is not all pelvic floor therapists are created

Dr. Sara Reardon: Right, right.

Krissy: to a couple and I feel like every time insurance covers them, it's a whole other ball game where, um, like I was on the table and she was in a room, just an open physical therapy room, and she's like, are you doing a Kegel? I'm like, I. I think I

Dr. Sara Reardon: That's your job to tell me?

Krissy: Right. And this was not the only one. I've, I went to several to try to find the right fit and I finally did, thank goodness. But, um, if you just went to that first physical therapist, or even the second one I went to, and you didn't have the Vagina Whisperer on your Instagram feed telling you that this is not the right practice, this is not how we do it, you wouldn't necessarily know and you probably wouldn't try again. So can you tell [00:18:00] us what can we look for? what questions might we ask before we're making that first

Dr. Sara Reardon: You know, I'm so glad you brought this up because you're totally right. Just like no two doctors are the same. And I tell people all the time, like, no two physical therapists are the same. And I think that because. Pelvic floor health and therapy is getting buzzier. More people wanna do it, but they really don't have the training to do it.

So I think the first thing is, when you call them, I would ask them, I would look at their website, I would read their reviews, um, and then I would. Call the clinic and ask them like, Hey, I'm a pregnant woman. I wanna see if you offer childbirth preparation, or, I'm a postpartum mom. You know, do you have a therapist there who specializes in treating X, Y, and Z?

Um, second, do, do the therapist do internal examinations, because you can be a pelvic floor therapist or a, you know, pelvic health therapist and maybe not do internal work, but at some point. [00:19:00] You at least need to be referred out to someone. If you need an internal examination, because that's the way an in-person session needs to be able to evaluate your muscles.

And I know a lot of therapists out there who may disagree with me, but that's the way that you assess the muscles. And the last thing is that they should be giving you things to work on at home. You should not be on a machine the entire time. You should not be in a open gym the entire time. It's a mix of massage and manual therapy.

Exercise and then teaching you education for home so that because it's the other 23 hours of the day and you know, six days a week that you're not in the clinic, that you need to be following through on some of the things. And then lastly, like. They need to listen. I think therapists need to listen more than talk, which I've shadowed many and talked to many who I'm like, okay, they're, our patients are telling us what's wrong with us, with them.

We need to listen. And then lastly, um, you need to feel comfortable with them. If something does not feel right, like don't go back, [00:20:00] like find another one. It's like trying on a pair of pants. You're like, these pa these pants don't fit. I'm gonna try on another pair of pants, just like marriage therapists or, you know, um.

Counselors. I'm like, if I, I've seen many and I'm like, this just isn't the right fit. And so you have to kind of keep looking unfortunately, you know, and there's, the other good news is, Krissy, is there's options now. You can do online programs, you can do virtual telehealth just to get education. You can read my book, you, so you, you do have more access to information and my hope is that you can also advocate for care for yourself and.

It's a bummer that you had, it's a total bummer that you had some bad experiences 'cause it takes so much courage to go. Um, but there are great therapists out there and I want you to, don't let that be the end of your story. I want you to keep looking like you did.

Krissy: I can totally, uh, echo that because once I found the right fit, once I found the person who was going to do it, like I, if I could go to her every week, I would the things that she's able to tell me about my body, like my posture, how I'm [00:21:00] standing, what. Side, I'm like too tense on and versus not like it's things that, sure, I could probably assess with the right time and the right knowledge and, and I'm sure reading your book is gonna help tremendously, but to have somebody like just physically manipulate my whole body and.

Say, this is why your hip is Like,

Dr. Sara Reardon: Yeah.

Krissy: it, it's, it's life changing and I, I recommend it to anybody whether you've had a baby or not, whether you recently or, or further down the line. If you have like anything going on with your core or your back, your hips, like, check this out. You might have an issue here.

Dr. Sara Reardon: I tell people, ribs to knees, if there's anything going on in that arena, then see a pelvic floor therapist and we'll tell you, like, I've had people come in, I'm like, actually, you're doing great. You don't really need to come back. Let me know if there's an issue. But I think most often women really benefit from education and I.

You know, I just did an interview with somebody and they said, it sounds like there's a lot of reconnecting with your mind and body. And I was like, no, it's connecting. Like we've never been taught this. It's, it's the first time we're connecting with it, and I [00:22:00] think every single patient has said like, I'm so glad I did this because it really does help.

I. You feel more empowered, um, as a woman. It helps you feel more connected to your body and just helps you understand it, and it's really fascinating. Once we can understand it and we know how to take care of it, I think we feel really strong.

Krissy: Amazing. Well, tell us about your book.

Dr. Sara Reardon: So floored. A woman's guide to pelvic floor health, um, comes out on June 10th depending on when you're listening to this available for pre-order. And everyone who pre-orders, um, gets 30 days of free pelvic floor workouts in my platform. And I, 'cause I really wanna make this accessible to people. I really want people just to kind of.

Understand their bodies, but also like help their sisters, their moms, their daughters, you know, be able to have these conversations with their kids and help understand their bodies better. Um, there's, it goes through every age and stage from your first period to your last. So whether you're. Got a, got a kiddo who's starting their period or becoming sexually active, whether you're [00:23:00] perimenopausal or postpartum.

And then there are individual chapters on like bladder health and sexual health and bowel health. So you know, I always say read the first chapter and the last, and then go to the chapters that are relevant for you. But I think you'll really learn so much. Hopefully find it a little funny and then also feel less alone because so many women experience these issues and they just don't know anyone else, or they're not talking about it, but it's, it's very common.

Um, but I also want you to know that it's very treatable.

Krissy: I am confident that your book is going to be not just a little funny, but highly relatable and very welcoming and just really like, like you're hearing it from a friend, which is such a breath of fresh air. Tell us where we can find you. I.

Dr. Sara Reardon: Um, so I'm on Instagram as the vagina Whisper. It's the dot vagina dot whisper, and I'm on TikTok as the vag whisper 'cause TikTok doesn't like the word vagina. And my website is the vagina whisper.com. I have a pre-order floor page on there that you can go to and check it out. And I'm [00:24:00] coming to cities across the us.

And then, um, so there may be some events in your city and then you can find out more about the pre-order goodies as well. And I just, I really hope that this, um, helps a lot of women and I'm just really excited to share it with the world.

Krissy: Thank you so much for being here and for putting out this message because you know how important it is to normalize this conversation.

Dr. Sara Reardon: for having me.

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And you don't need to try harder. You just need a new way.

Mom Identity Project https://momidentityproject.com
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