In this episode of Cheers to Growth, I’m chatting with my husband about common pregnancy symptoms and why I think I avoided all of them. (*cough, cough… It has nothing to do with luck.)

Before I got healthy, I believed I was a victim to genetics and that I’d inevitably be doomed to experience the same type of pregnancies that my mom, aunts, and grandmothers described.

You know, the ones where you just blow the heck up, gaining 80ish pounds, feel like absolutely shit, and intensely crave highly processed foods as if it’s an emergency…

Anyone else have this as their family story?

And yeah, they had a few of those lucky friends who were just blessed with the lucky genetics allowing them to stay glowing, feeling well, and mostly just grow their belly… but not us. Our genetics won’t allow that.

So as a girl and young woman, before I got healthy, my biggest fears around pregnancy were that I’d gain a crazy amount of weight and that I’d throw up.

Neither of which happened.

More recently, I’ve heard women discuss other supposedly unavoidable pregnancy symptoms like heartburn, food aversions, constipation, arthritis, skin tags, mood swings, brain fog, hating your husband, kidney infection, and crippling anxiety…

So can all of this really just be the luck of the draw and then BOOM you’re slapped with one or many of these random ailments BECAUSE OF pregnancy???

OR was your health already in shambles before you got pregnant, making you more deeply affected by the hormonal changes?

OR is your body trying SO PERFECTLY to tell you something very important that you’ve been ignoring, like:

• Stop DoorDashing and consume REAL, homemade food!

• Stop doing so much and REST!

• Stop running from your fears and face them! Yes, your life is changing dramatically, and yes, birth trauma likely lives in your body — it’s time to clear that if you haven’t already.

This conversation is just to share my experience and to kick up some ideas that maybe a lot of people are too scared to be honest about.

Because I gained NOTHING from everyone coddling me and telling me that all these limiting beliefs are true — I am messed up and doomed with this diagnosis and that genetic fault…

It was only once I quit with all of those nonsense, validating, excuses that my life became more beautiful than I ever thought possible.

Enjoy the conversation and cheers! 🥂

This Week’s Recipe

🥂 Cheers us with this Aloe Floral Lemonade 🌺🍋🩷

Blending fresh aloe into drinks is my current obsession for peak hydration and digestion regulation.

Structured water in this mucilaginous (jelly-like) state is the most hydrating. And it’s extremely high in life force, unlike most water we have access to that is stripped and unnaturally delivered to us through man made tubes.

Our fascia (the connective tissue running through our entire bodies) is flowing with this vital jelly-like liquid. It’s highly influenced by energy, the same way water has proven to change its structure based on how it’s treated and even spoken to.

This is how we can physically change the way we look through fascia work and why positive affirmations and mindset have such a strong effect on the physical body.

So consuming more of this jelly magic is powerful just because of how resonant it is with our bodies.

But also, if your digestion feels stagnant, which is a common pregnancy symptom, and also just common for women in general from hormonal changes that we experience throughout different seasons of life, aloe can become your go-to quick fix.

Listen to: Enjoying a Negative-Symptom-Free Pregnancy Without Luck

🤍🤍 Jaclyn

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