23/02/2020
IT'S TIME...
To reveal the reason why I have been MIA from Instagram the last few months...
Since I came home from Thailand in Nov I had not been myself, I was really down and thought it must be holiday blues, but the feeling lingered, it was different to what I had felt before with my anxiety and depression in the past, feelings that I really couldn't explain...tiredness like I had never experienced before, which I put down to the 4.30am alarm to start the 6am shift in work. I'd come home exhausted, get something to eat and just conk out on the couch for 2 hrs. Not only that, I had no motivation to train or eat as I normally would, I put on weight and concluded it was due to eating so much, and with Christmas the indulgence and lack of activity continued. Then in January when I couldn't get a hold on things I was really starting to beat myself up for being so 'lazy' (for want of a better word). I was not me anymore.
Then, 4 weeks ago I met up with two of my friends on a Fri night and as the night went on we kept coming back around to one possibility, so on the Sat morn I took a test and discovered that... I am pregnant! Swipe over the photos if you don't believe me 😅
Since finding out, it has been a whirlwind few weeks, not something I had planned but now that it's happening I couldn't be happier and I am soooooo excited to become a mother 🤱🏼
To all my family, friends, colleagues, clients I want to say the biggest THANK YOU for the support I have received. I have been overwhelmed by how kind everyone has been to me. Love is all any of us need, and the love I have experienced over the last few weeks has made me so grateful to be alive, so grateful to be having this experience and it has given me new hope for the future 🥰
Wherever you are, I hope you are well too, and if you are going through a hard time, know that this time will pass and there is love for YOU to experience, there is love for everyone 🤗 # # #
30/12/2019
Looking and feeling a bit smug because I actually did get a workout in today...Hooray!!!🙌🏻😏🏋🏼♀️
We need to do more of the things that make us feel good, and training makes me feel like I could take over the world! The feeling I get from lifting 'heavy' weights (it's all relative) is incredible. I might even train again tomorrow...who dis?!
Hope you have done at least one thing today that made you happy 🤗😋
29/12/2019
This is one of my favourite sayings...not sure why as it's a tad harsh but I remember my supervisor saying this to me in UL and it stuck with me. At the time I thought: "If I can get through this, I can get through anything!"
It's funny how our minds perceive challenges, some days everything can go wrong but you somehow deal with it without batting an eyelid, other days it only takes one tiny inconvenience to push you over the edge and crumble.
Our mindset and attitude are key to how we deal with life's challenges day by day.
Now I definitely haven't been going through "hell" (bit dramatic!) but I have been dealing with a lot of "stuff" lately and in order to "keep going" a few things had to change, one thing being that I took a step back from posting on or even looking at Instagram. It wasn't that the content I was looking at was making me anxious as it has done in the past, I simply just did not have the time. I got very busy very quickly in work (good complaint) and coming on here just wasn't a priority.
But here I am now with a post so maybe I'm getting on top off this work/life balance thing - let's see what the January rush thinks of that!🤣
Back for now anyway - and a massive thank you🙏 to everyone who messaged me privately to check that I was okay! I really appreciate it and I will definitely be paying that kindness forward in any way I can!
Happy Sunday folks! 🤗❤
07/11/2019
Well I've had worse Thursdays that's for sure! Spent the morning in and out of the rooftop pool, read my book ‐ a novel about couples buying and renovating holiday homes in Spain (my kind of escapism 🙌), listened to more of my current audiobook ‐ Lost Connections ‐ and like most audiobooks I listen to, I now want the hard copy 🤷🏼♀️😅
Gratitude levels extremely high today ‐ Thank You Universe! 🤗🙌
Happy Thursday y'all 😘
01/11/2019
This day last year I emailed .ohagan with the subject bar saying Thank you! 🙏🏻
I was grateful to her for a couple of things:
1) The way she lives her life prompted me to have a look at my own life and identify the things that were making me unhappy, and in doing that, among other things, I made the decision to change career.🙌🏻
2) When she launched her OH Fitness PT Course in Jan 2018, that gave me the kick up the arse I needed to take a chance on career path I had wanted to try out for most of my adult life.🤷🏼♀️
In that email, I also mentioned that if she was looking for any coaches to help with her OH Fitness Furnace that I would be very interested. That night she rang me from Bali and I've been working as an online coach for her ever since. 🏋🏼♀️
Opportunities don't just happen! You have to put yourself out there and make them happen! Now, I'm not saying you are going to create opportunities for yourself with every email you send, but I know one thing for sure - you definitely won't create that opportunity for yourself if you don't send that email. Take a chance on yourself and reach out to people. The worst that can happen is that they say no or they don't respond and you won't be any worse off. But maybe the opposite will happen and you will remember that email you sent for the rest of your life!
31/10/2019
Happy Halloween...🎃
Kalorie killa...⚰
13 stations
3 rounds
1) 20 on 20 off
2) 30 on 20 off
3) 40 on 30 off
And 5min punisher...
Members of beware 😈
30/10/2019
First day done and feeling great! 💪
3 classes done today!
Gymnastics and crossfit in and aerial yoga! 3 things I had never tried before 🤸🏼♀️
Big thanks to these three ladies for making me feel at ease trying something new!
I think I managed to avoid making a total tit of myself... 😅🙌
Buzzing for the week ahead!🙌
@ Chalong
21/10/2019
When we start something new a bit later in life, that doesn't mean we are automatically going going to be good at it just because we have life experience.
Anything new takes time to learn, so give yourself the time you need 🤗
09/10/2019
💛 GRATITUDE 💛
⬆️Another thing that helps protect my mental health - remembering all that I have to be grateful for! ⬆️
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There is always something to be grateful for!
Every day, be full of awareness of the beauty around you.
Be full of gratitude for friends and family, for the goodness you find in others, for your health and all you're capable of.
Be full of acceptance of yourself and others - without conditions or judging, knowing that differences and changes make life interesting.
Appreciate the gifts of laughter and fun in your life, and find contentment in knowing that you can always control your ability to look on the bright side. - Barbara Cage
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