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Human Design for Moms: Grief, Postpartum and Coming Back to Yourself | MaKenzie Byram
What happens when grief, postpartum, and a demanding career all land in the same season? MaKenzie Byram shares how gut health and Human Design helped her come back to herself, and how she now helps moms move out of survival mode.
Content note: this episode includes discussion of suicide loss and postpartum depression. If you are struggling, call or text 988 (US) to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.
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IN THIS EPISODE
How an elimination diet in 2015 introduced MaKenzie to gut health, long before it was mainstreamPostpartum anxiety and depression with her first baby, and why she leaned on professional supportLosing her dad to suicide while nursing a six-month-old, and going back to work two weeks laterThe gut-brain connection, and why physical health was the first thing she could controlBuilding an in-house recruiting department, then hitting a wall after baby number threeHuman Design explained simply: start with your type, strategy, and authorityWhy "let me think about that" changed her decision-making as an emotional authorityThe Gut Code: receive, rhythm, regulate, release, and restoreParenting three kids with three different Human Design types
BOOKS MENTIONED
The Plan by Lyn-Genet Recitas: https://amzn.to/3T6U7Wz
The Whole30 by Melissa Urban: https://amzn.to/4hpORqp
The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman: https://amzn.to/3TRvBJe
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ABOUT MAKENZIE
MaKenzie Byram is the host of Regulating and Raising, a podcast helping moms move out of survival mode and into a life they recognize as their own. After a decade in corporate talent acquisition and a postpartum season that left her depleted, she found her way back through gut health, Human Design, and nervous system work. She teaches that moms aren't broken, they're dysregulated.