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Raising a family can be emotionally overwhelming. Managing the logistics of a household can be such a grind. Life in general can be extremely exhausting. Can you relate? Many families feel overwhelmed by the fast pace of family life. Enter yoga and mindfulness. Let The Feelings Fitness Podcast be your guide to understanding what yoga and mindfulness is and how it can help your family. Allow Feelings Fitness to show you how simple yoga sequences, yogic philosophy, and mindfulness practices can help on the home front. By using The Feelings Fitness hacks you can create a peace living space and a calm mindset for your family. Each week we will dive into how to make your home life more functional. You will learn how to use these yoga and mindfulness practices to guide you through the seasons of life. After listening to each episode, you will walk away with yoga and mindfulness tools and lots of inspiration. You will be all set to move through the fast pace of family life with intention and ease.Your host, Suzanne Bazarko, is a registered yoga teacher, licensed professional counselor, certified mindfulness practitioner, and mom of two. She created Feelings Fitness as a vehicle to share with you what she has learned from raising her own family and how yoga and mindfulness has helped along the way.

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Feelings Fitness Podcast

Yoga Saved My Motherhood (And Maybe It Can Save Yours Too)

July 01, 2025 • Suzanne Bazarko

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Speaker 0: 0:00

Welcome back to the Feelings Fitness Podcast, where we do the heartwork behind the home life. I'm Suzanne, and today we're going to talk about grief and motherhood, finding purpose after loss and how gentle movement and meaningful connection can help us come back to life. There's a quote I love by Brene Brown that says we are wired for connection. It's what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. That one always stops me in my tracks, because if there's one thing grief has taught me, it's that feeling disconnected can make you feel like you're disappearing. And motherhood, as beautiful as it is, can be deeply lonely too. Add grief to the mix and suddenly the isolation deepens. Today I want to talk about how I found my way back to purpose, not through a big reinvention, but through something simple offering gentle yoga to other parents. Let's talk about how connection, story sharing and quiet movement have become not just healing for me, but a gift I can now offer others. Let's name it honestly Motherhood is often lonely.

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You can be surrounded by people your partner, your kids, your extended family and still feel emotionally alone. And when you're grieving a parent, especially your mom, it's like the one person who used to get your motherhood journey is gone. You feel invisible, disconnected, emotionally exhausted. You know you need to reach out, but you have no energy to do it. So you isolate, not because you want to be alone, but because the thought of showing up for one more thing feels impossible. And yet, in that silence, something starts to stir. There's this powerful shift that happens when we realize the very thing that hurt us is now the thing we can help others through.

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For me it began with yoga gentle movement, soft breath, quiet spaces. Not the high energy kind of fitness, but something nurturing, slow, sacred. At first it was just for me to help me stay grounded through grief and hormonal shifts, but over time I realized other moms need this too. Other parents are caring so much and have so few places to exhale. That's when teaching gentle yoga became more than a practice. It became a purpose, a space where I could say you don't have to be okay, you just have to show up. Let's breathe through this together.

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Brene Brown reminds us that sharing our story is healing. When we connect with others through vulnerability, through sweatpants and grief and stretch marks and unfinished to-do lists, we remember that we're not alone. Each class I teach, I feel that connection. Each time a mom exhales deeply or tears up during Shavasana. I know this isn't just yoga. This is emotional recovery, this is community. This is quiet purpose, rising through the cracks. And here's the beautiful part you don't have to be totally healed to help someone else.

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Sometimes your purpose is the process. If you're in a low energy season, emotionally or physically, here's what I want you to know You're not stuck. Energy returns. Purpose unfolds, not through forcing, but through gentle momentum. Start with small movements a walk outside, a short yoga flow, a minute of deep breathing. Start with small connections one message to a friend, one journal entry, one class or space where people see you. That's where healing happens In the quiet, in the stillness, in the breath.

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Fulfillment doesn't always roar back in, sometimes it whispers. So maybe your purpose has shifted, maybe it's evolving like you are. Maybe the version of you before the loss or before having kids doesn't quite fit anymore. That's okay. You get to find new meaning. You get to offer what you've learned. You get to become the support you once needed. And if you're still deep in your own healing, here's your reminder Just because you feel low doesn't mean you have to stay there. There is something waiting on the other side of this quiet season. Maybe not a comeback, maybe something softer, maybe a life that's more aligned, more true, more you. Thank you for joining me today, for holding space for this honest conversation. Whether you're grieving, healing, mothering or just trying to make it through the day, you are not alone. In your stillness, your body remembers how to move forward. In your breath, purpose begins to rise and in your story, others find the courage to heal too. Until next time, keep doing the heart work, keep listening to your body, keep allowing your purpose to unfold gently, right on time.