Sweat Once A Day! I am an avid fitness freak and I want to share my passion with everyone! Personal It's about acceptance. Live beyond your wildest dreams.
Accepting yourself, accepting others, loving yourself and loving those around you, beyond the societal standards. Fitness is more than a physical practice, it is an evolution of self, emotional, mind, body connection that occurs when you give your body the tools it needs to live on such a level. When we reach beyond the expectations society has created, we learn to live and love the life we create
for who we are as individuals. Not just physically but more importantly, emotionally. Getting tangled in the web of comparisons, we end up destroying ourselves on a deeper level, creating hurdles that weren't initially there, which have been built with our own consent. Thus preventing ourselves from becoming our best selves, reaching our greatest potential without distraction. The problem is, is when we compare ourselves to others, we forget that they are more then likely doing the same, and not necessarily in a negative way, but perhaps they look up to you or have found inspiration through you, or aspire to do even a fraction of the things you have through your own journey. So knock it off, LOVE yourself, be proud and live and BE yourself. Let the 'titles' and the labels fall away. For those are just additional, and unnecessary boundaries we are creating for ourselves, which will eventually need to be climbed over, hopped over, broken down to move and grow beyond. These limits which we have set for ourselves, both intentionally and unintentionally, are only that... limits. So with love, and practice, we learn to get out of our own way. Do something huge, something you have always wanted to, taking fear with you, but only allowing it to be the necessary grounding throughout the process. Nothing is too big. So quit building obstacles. Trust yourself. Be Yourself. Do something for yourself that is beyond the box you have created and are currently living within. Stop thinking about it. Just do it. Yoga has brought me to this place in my life where I have met people, interacted with people, both old and new, who have reintroduced the idea of letting me be me, and accepting all that that entails, both the good and the bad, without judgement. Yoga has become my primary love affair, and to express and share all that it has brought to my life with others is a relatively new obsession. I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) in 2010, it has brought many challenges to my life as both a fitness instructor and just on a daily basis through my regular life. However It is through THOSE challenges, which have led me to be better than I thought I could be. OK I'm only human. I have a lot of slip ups, I have a temper and there are times where I want to just sleep and sulk. But then I get up, dust it off and be better than yesterday, try to be or do something I haven't done before. Life is like yoga, it is practice. Every day is an opportunity to be better, to do better, to inspire, to grow. My goal is to spread it like wildfire and for it to do just that- for it to grow beyond us as just individuals, but to create a sense of community and 'togetherness' but taking the individuals and becoming one. "The whole is greater, than the sum of it's parts."- Aristotle.
'Yoga is for every. body.'- Laura. "Yoga will get you, to where you need to be got." - Stuart
Yoga is love. Make it happen. Just think how amazing the world would be if we all lived with the intention of being our best selves and treating everyone else just as such.
03/29/2018
Well this only took me just over 3 weeks to write.
It's long, but I tried to give a short summary at the top so you can skip the nitty gritty. I mostly write these so I will have something to recall later on in life. I can't believe how long we have had him in our world. What was life before him? Love
How Wonderful life is...
Baby Paxton Kent. 6:23PM 6.38 Pounds. 37 weeks and 5 days. Every time I look at this face, the song that comes to mind has been "Your Song" by Elton John- just the Moulin Rouge version, because I like it. ;)&n
01/26/2018
8 month bump blog.
He's head down and Mostly I just wanted to post so you could all see he got his dads lips and my cheeks. haha!
I love my boys! OXOX
Week 32! Happy 8 months little bump!
32 weeks marks the beginning of Month 8. That seems surreal, we are getting so close to actually meeting this little munchkin and I"m not going to lie, the shift in ... life... is starting to make me a little nervous; Will I be a good mom? Can I actually do this? Am I going to love this? A
12/14/2017
and I’m over clothes all together. I can’t tell if his location forces me to want to throw up or the waistband. 6.5 months and growing. 98 days until baby. Like 2 weeks until wedding. And he’s the size of a *t and a
12/12/2017
OOPSY little late! 25 week bumpdate.
We got to see little nugget and the third trimester is here. please love me as much as i want to love you, please love me as much as I want to love you.
A throwback to last April .. a blast from the past. or a Blog from the past. My oh my. how things have changed.
Right side of the Bed
A throwback to last April when life was a pain. Literally. But Gratitude manages to make it all worth while. I would change LITERALLY nothing. Maybe my bank account balance, but otherwise, Nothing.
12/02/2017
Yoga. 🙏🏼🙌🏼❤️💯
11/27/2017
My goal was to have my new website live by the end of Thanksgiving weekend, so here we are- at the end of the weekend!! There’s a lot of change and a lot of things in need of completing, but here’s the beginning and if you need a web designer. I have one 😍🙏🏼📿 thanks , Ky! Love you! Happy day!
Get it together.
Get it together Here’s a great story. I have heard from multiple people: “you just seem to have it all together.” Bi***es please. I got married when I was 22, I was divorced at 31, I don’t have a job that pays me great money, I don’t have a job at all. I am constantly struggling with my own self bec
11/17/2017
Happy week 22! 5 and a half months seems a little ridiculous, the biggest news is that I can finally feel this little dude and Andrew got to feel him for the first time last night. He is sitting. SO. LOW. I can't believe he exists.
lucky number 22- #MyNumber
The opposing car had lost control in the slushy mess of a road and Mom had seen it coming. She had tried to turn toward the ditch so I wouldn’t get hit. It was a head on collision. We were hit so hard the hood was pushed through the windshield- remember I mentioned It was a station wagon so the hood...
10/25/2017
Tomorrow will be 19 weeks. what what what? Almost all of my blogs are up to date, but here is an update from week 15 when we let Little Lincoln in on the fact that we were making him a baby brother. This was one for the books, so I wrote it down. ;)
Week 15: Lincoln and Leo
Last night we had the pleasure of letting our current little man in on the secret that he was going to be a big bro. Mind you little man is an only child, an only grandchild, and lover to boot. HOWEVER, little is also 5.5 years old, so we were a little unsure how the reveal was going to go.
10/19/2017
Because my pregnancy is considered to be high risk... we got to find out what little babe is like 6 weeks earlier than most. I didn't sleep much the night before. ANYWAY!
Today is week 18, we are half way-(ish)! I'm trying so hard to get all of these up! But here is the latest and greatest from week 13!
Any guesses? Babe is hiding its face because we definitely thought wrong. ;). I"m sorry baby!
Studmuffin or Cupcake? Gender Reveal:: Week 13
I hit week 12, 1 day and just like everyone said; my nausea vanished. It turned in to crazy headaches, but I’m happy to trade. Naps are non negotiable, but HOORAY FOR FEELING HUMAN!
10/12/2017
We are at week 17 here! And I finally have an actual bump! I'm playing catchup so here is the update from week 9 /// 8 is also up, but I won't bore you by posting them all on here ;) thanks for reading along. yay! http://riseandenergize.com/week-9/
I've been writing updates weekly since 5.5 weeks along just to make sure I captured everything good and crappy. So now that it's public, I am making it all public. So it'll be up, And I'm going to do what I can to get them all uploaded within the next couple of weeks. ;)
It's more for me to remember all of this, but for you too incase you want to know.
Love love love and gratitude.
Bumpdate: Week 7- August 5.
This week was only half terrible with morning/afternoon/evening sickness sprinkled with a day and a half of solid, “I Feel ok!” Last night Sar and I went out to dinner to my favorite restaurant, all I wanted was everything and after getting through a normal day, probably way-too-shy-of-1000-calories...
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