Bounce Back Culture, Broken Pelvic Floors and Postnatal Mental Health

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Wednesday, 13 May 2026 - 56 minutes

Kat Suchet is a women's health physiotherapist, former competitive CrossFit athlete, founder of Hatch Athletic and mum of two. She has spent her career sitting at the intersection of intense training and female physiology. Which is exactly what makes her story so important. Because despite all of that knowledge, all of that training and all of that expertise, the postnatal period still brought her to one of the darkest places of her life.With it being Maternal Mental Health Awareness Week, Kat joins host Claira Hermet to talk honestly about what that darkness actually looked like, why maternal mental health doesn't discriminate between those who should know better and those who don't, and what she wants every woman who is quietly struggling right now to hear. She also gets into the culture of bouncing back, why the pressure on women to be fine, to be fit and to be grateful is actively making the maternal mental health crisis worse, and why she built Hatch Athletic to fill the gap that nobody else was filling.But that's only half the conversation. Kat also unpacks everything the fitness industry consistently gets wrong about women: from training through pregnancy to the pelvic floor issues millions of women are whispering about instead of fixing, to why losing your period should never be brushed off, to how your menstrual cycle should be influencing the way you train every single month. She also gets into what women in their late thirties should be doing right now to protect themselves ahead of perimenopause and the most common thing women believe about their bodies that simply isn't true.

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