Today I speak with Dr. Nicole Cozean, founder PelvicSanity in Southern California, with the belief in putting patients first. She also hosts the Pelvic PT Rising podcast and co-founder of PelviCon. She is also the mom of a six month old! Nicole now spends much of her time training and mentoring her dedicated staff, enabling far more people to receive expert care at PelvicSanity. Our conversation delves into her experience as a long time pelvic floor PT and a new mom!  Nicole shares her journey to motherhood under the lens of being a pelvic health specialist, as well as fertility struggles. We talk about:-finding the “why" behind symptoms-functional & dynamic pelvic floor assessments-seeing the full picture/full body-mom guilt & and working-meeting people where they are-different priorities for different seasonsTime Stamps1:00 introduction1:37 journey to motherhood7:30 dealing with pregnancy lost10:40 doing versus resting13:50 postpartum expectations 19:55 advocating for yourself postpartum25:49 physical changes postpartum28:50 taking your time postpartum36:00 comparison traps 42:40 challenges of different seasons50:40 rapid fire questions CONNECT WITH CARRIEIG: https://www.instagram.com/carriepagliano/Website: https://carriepagliano.comCONNECT WITH NICOLEIG: https://www.instagram.com/pelvicsanity/IG: https://www.instagram.com/nicolecozeandpt/Website: www.pelvicsanity.comWebsite: www.pelvicptrising.comThe Active Mom Postpartum Podcast is A Real Moms' Guide to Postpartum for active moms & the postpartum professionals who help them in their journey. This show has been a long time in the making! You can expect conversation with moms and postpartum professionals from all aspects of the industry. If you're like me, you don't have a lot of free time (heck, you're probably listening at 1.5x speed), so theses interviews will be quick hits to get your the pertinent information FAST! If you love what you hear, share the podcast with a friend and leave us a 5 start rating and review. It helps us become more visible in the search algorithm! (Helps us get seen by more moms that need to hear these stories!!!!)