In the fifth episode of The Embodied Mommy Podcast, Alyssa Knapp and season one guest host, Jayme Rose Gray, are joined by Chelsea Skaggs to discuss relationships. Chelsea is a certified professional life coach, an intimacy expert, a communication trainer for parents, the owner of WTF Trimester, and a mom of two. The women talk about taboo topics, intimacy, and building strong relationships as the foundation of the home to teach you and your partner how to grow and change more easily together through early parenthood. After having a baby, new parents are evolving as individuals. This episode will show you how to create the space to process the changes of this journey, check in with your wants and needs, how to work on connection and communication, and know that you don’t have to do it alone. Discussed in this episode: Changing dynamics with the introduction of children into a relationship Influence your relationship has on your child Getting stuck in cycles and conversations Revisiting strategies, connection planes, and how you communicate Redefining and routing down values Push back on mothers and relationships after birth Spectrum of feelings that you have for your partner post birth: good and bad Determining what matters to you and communicating needs Checking expectations Careers as new parents Top relationship problems: expectations around help and duties, sex and intimacy, trying to communicate with little clarity Reframing self-care and how to take care of yourself: getting connected with your identity and learning who you are Acknowledging times that you have to yourself Going through different shifts and seasons of who you are Checking in with each other and aligning with your partner Tips for couples who feel that their relationship has become strictly business How you show love: love languages Creating consistency through gathering Nagging and codependency Offers: Embodied Mommy Grounding Practice: https://www.embodiedmommy.com/embodied-mommy-grounding-practice Jayme’s Transformational Coaching: https://linktr.ee/jaymegray Jayme’s Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1469403176420594 Keep in touch: Alyssa Instagram: @embodiedmommy Website: https://www.integrativewellnessjourneys.com/ Links: https://linktr.ee/theembodiedmommy Jayme Instagram: @jaymerosegray @trackingnorthco Links: https://linktr.ee/jaymegray Chelsea Instagram: @thewtftrimester Coaching: https://calendly.com/chelseaskaggs/coaching-exploration?month=2022-05 Podcast and Other Links: https://thewtftrimester.ck.page/buzz --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/alyssa-knapp/support