Tend to your Temple

For all you Besties out there. Keep yapping 🗣️🗣️🗣️

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It’s so important to be informed and aware of marketing ploys when it comes to choosing what we eat. It is worth taking the time to educate yourself so you can make informed choices.

🔄 • The new Dietary Guidelines encouraging more protein from whole, nutrient-dense foods reflect an important shift in how we think about food quality and metabolic health. Protein plays a critical role in muscle preservation, satiety, and healthy aging.

But confusion starts with what’s already happening in response.

Food companies are using “protein” as a marketing tool to put a health halo on foods that are still highly processed and often loaded with added sugars, refined starches, flavorings, and other additives. We’re seeing it happen in real time.

Adding protein to a highly processed food doesn’t turn it into a health food. Protein doesn’t cancel out sugar, refined carbohydrates, or chemical additives. It just makes the product look healthier than it is.

Be mindful of the health halo.
Look past the claim.
Pay attention to the ingredients and overall food quality.

That’s how the Dietary Guidelines are meant to be applied.

When I think about this, I can’t help but notice how beautiful it is, and what a privilege it is. ❤️

🔄 • There’s a moment in every parent’s journey when you realise you’re not just raising a child —
you’re rewriting a story.

Not because the generations before you failed,
but because you can see something now
that perhaps they couldn’t.
A gentler way.
A slower way.
A way with more listening,
more presence,
more room to feel and to grow.

And stepping into that role can feel lonely at times.
Breaking patterns often does.
But it’s also an act of courage —
the quiet kind that doesn’t announce itself,
the kind that chooses healing over habit,
understanding over fear,
connection over control.

You’re allowed to do this differently.
To pause where others pushed.
To soften where others hardened.
To question what never quite felt right
and to build something that finally does.

And one day, your child will feel the ripple of that choice.
They’ll grow up carrying a story shaped not by old wounds
but by the love you were brave enough to offer
in a new way.

Changing the direction of a family
isn’t loud work —
but it is sacred work.
And you’re already doing it. ❤️

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I’ve been thinking about discipline lately. It’s not something that comes easily to most people. It takes a lot of work and intentionality and you have to stick with it until it feels less and less like work and intentionality and more like habit. You need it in one way when you start and then you need it in another way when it’s established. Then you look back and realize the results have been a side effect of your commitment.

🔄 • Soft life, strict habits.

So important. And remember, these go for your relationship with yourself too. ❤️

Happy 2026!

🔄 • 2026 relationship

Notice defensiveness, pulling away, and overthinking without letting those patterns run the relationship. Take responsibility. Practice loving in ways that create safety, trust, and connection.

I’m really proud of myself. These are my 2025 workouts.

Despite ongoing questions about my health this year, I stayed disciplined and consistent. This commitment didn’t just happen this year. It happened over 7 years, after dealing with my worst health challenges up to that point, and was supported by hundreds of accountability buddies and clients, and despite hardships and unexpected twists and turns. I needed it in one way at first, then it changed over time, and I know now that I need it in a completely different way again.

Every workout, no matter how easy or hard, assured me that my body is still capable even though it’s changing. Every doctor, specialist, health professional I worked with this year confirmed that this consistency has worked in my favour in more ways than I know, and will continue to do so as I get older.

So, this isn’t just something I did for this year. This continues, year after year, until I hate it (ie never!) or can’t do it, or hear otherwise from a health professional.

As I wrote in the beginning of the year to myself, I may not be my healthiest but I’m still strong, and still want to be healthy.

Cheers to our health! 👍

🔄 • Help my heart desire you and your kingdom more than anything else this world has to offer.

For I know that your will and your plans are far greater than anything that I can imagine.

Help me to love you in action, not just in lip service or in thought. May my actions reflect my love for you in my obedience.

In Jesus’ name, amen. 🩷

I saw this and thought about something: I wanna go back into my journal and look at all the things I worried about, felt anxious about, stressed about, prayed for help for…and really reflect on how things turned out by the end of this year.

And I think I might write more of these things down going forward because it really does help, but even more, revisit and write down how things turned out.

Would you try this too?

🔄 • That list is loooooong 😵

Concept inspired by !

Merry Christmas!

🔄 • As Christmas Eve settles around us, let us rejoice in the miracle of Jesus’ birth — a gift wrapped not in ribbons, but in humility and love.

He came not only to save us, but to be with us.
He came to live the perfect life we could not live.
He came to bring hope for our hearts and peace for our souls.

And His arrival fulfills what God had promised long before:
“For to us a child is born, to us a son is given … his name shall be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.” (Isaiah 9:6, ESV).

Tonight we pause in gratitude for the Savior who came down so we could be lifted up.

May your heart sense the nearness of Immanuel tonight. ❤️

Praying for our knees! Our backs! 😆🫠

🔄 • have the heating pad ready (via garryjgray)

This wins the best analogy of my mind award this week.

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I love this. I’m still learning, still adjusting, but this is hugely helpful. Hopefully it is for you too.

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