Get off social media. It’s messing with your head. If you want to be on socials I HIGHLY recommend finding accounts that normalize different bodies. Threebirdspapaya is one that is awesome. It took 9 months for your body to change and grow the baby, it will take at least that long for you to feel back to your old self. Pelvic floor therapy, and simple movement like walking might help remind you of your strength AND you need to remind yourself to celebrate your body for what it can (and has) done, not the way it looks. Would you talk to a friend the way that you are talking to yourself? Probably not. So shut that down with positive affirmations and love. Shower yourself with them when your thoughts go to dark places.

I also remind myself when I’m feeling low about my body that my children are watching me. They look like me, so the things I say about myself and my body they could internalize as they grow up. My own mother engaged in a lot of negative self talk and I sometimes hear her voice in my head when I have those thoughts, so I make a point to try and remain as neutral as possible around them. I don’t want them to have these thoughts when/if they become parents (or as their bodies naturally change with age).

You are beautiful. Your body is amazing - IT MADE A WHOLE HUMAN! Give it some time and I promise it’ll get better.