Truth-telling Thursdays: The Social Anxiety Monster.

June 20, 2019.Reading time 7 minutes.

Until 3 years ago, this is what my beach life looked like. EMPTY. This isn’t a metaphor for anything. No connection to my infertility journey.This is my anxiety convincing me that I needed to be off the beach any time I went, before everyone else showed up – or else… I was born and raised […]

My body on display: Society’s “standard of postpartum”.

May 3, 2017.Reading time 12 minutes.

I’ve read a few blog posts lately, and have seen several posts pop up over Twitter and Instagram that respond to those ugly, hateful messages that public figures see in their comments sections, or find in their inboxes target at their bodies. In an interesting twist of life events, I’ve personally had a sudden influx […]

Self-care: Empty tanks and relationships.

November 13, 2016.Reading time 7 minutes.

I woke up in a panic on Saturday morning after having a dream that my muscles literally deflated. Like, straight out of a cartoon. A needle pressed to them, and POP! Down they went. It was an irrational fear that came from needing to be down from any and all weight lifting for a solid […]

#takebackfitspo

March 21, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

Life never really goes as expected. Yet, we never fail to hope, and in some way, expect that it will. The entire time I was trying to get pregnant, and even when that miracle finally came, I had expected to gain a crap ton of weight. On both sides of my family, history shows a […]

Let’s talk ‘bikini bridge’.

January 16, 2014.Reading time 5 minutes.

My hair is long enough to have to tie back now. But it’s at that stage where you still need a bunch of clips to pin up the back bottom layers so I feel like a four year old struttin’ my stuff at the gym. However, that’s not what makes me a smidge annoyed today. […]

The Body War.

July 27, 2013.Reading time 3 minutes.

I thought of a way to title this blog for the entire day, and kept coming back to The Body War. Why war? Because that is exactly what is going on. A war. It’s not a discussion or a conversation, it is an all out war. And the media is fueling it. This won’t be […]