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Healing Post: Everything from C-Section Scar to Chocolate & Spa Week winners!

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How are you today?

I have an exciting edition of Brand New Mommy TV – it’s all about healing the core, the mind, body and spirit to usher in your BEST ‘brand.’

Meet Takeyah A. Young, CEO of Core Connection Lifestyle based in Atlanta, GA., a woman on a mission to empower us all to connect with our body through yoga, dieting, and breathing. Woo-hoo!!

How many of you will honestly admit you are struggling?

Struggling with the stress of life, post-childbirth depression, bills, unemployment, scars hurting after a c-section and so on? Recently, I interviewed Ade, Chief Therapist at Empirical Therapeutic, based in lower Manhattan and learned that a few simple steps like stretching can help the body manage the daily stresses of life. Also, mention The Brand New Mommy for a 10% discount off your services.

Thank you for taking the time to post a comment and enter our contests – we love to share our love and applaud winners for a complimentary treatment courtesy of Spa Week (Spa Week, 10/10-10/16, treatments for $50); and, a deluxe chocolate gift basket courtesy of The Hershey Company.

Drum roll please…

Spa Week Treatment winner: Christine Pembleton of Ready to be a Wife

Hershey Chocolate winners: Morgan Bryant and Donna Stewart

As always, I love your energy and welcome your comments and re-post!

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Kids Back To School, It’s Time for Mommy-time: 5 Mom Friendly Ways to De-Stress:

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Thank you so much for responding on Twitter and Facebook on how you plan to take back or jumpstart your ‘brand’ once school is in session.

For many it was as simple as watching a movie alone and eating a cinnabon (without having to share), scheduling a much needed spa day, getting back to a workout regimen with Zumba and Yoga, and (some) BNMs going back to school to compete in this crazy economy.

I spoke with a BNM Vikki, a soon-to-be empty-nester thinking about her reinvention. As I have stated, being a brand new mommy is more than giving birth and having a newborn. ;-)

As moms we spend every day, all year, taking care of others and often times forgetting about our personal brand/self. Continue reading →

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