09/16/2026
Sometimes you don’t realize how much your life has changed until you see it in photographs.
Aurora was there before I ever had a studio.
She was there when I was pregnant with her, practicing yoga with my growing belly.
She was there when I completed my yoga teacher training during COVID, nursing her during Zoom classes and trying to teach while she cried in the background.
She was there when I started saying yes before I felt ready.
My first teaching job. Collaborations. Farmers market yoga. The opportunities I almost talked myself out of because I wondered whether I was qualified enough.
And somehow, those little yeses kept becoming the next thing.
Now she’s nearly seven.
She’s been in the studio while I painted walls, moved things around, and slowly built this place piece by piece.
Now she wanders through Mama, Move like she has a very important position on staff 😂 helping parents find things, checking on the kids, making her way around the room, and still climbing all over me whenever she gets the chance.
Looking at these photos, I keep thinking about how much we’ve both grown.
My strength has changed as she’s grown. I’ve had to adapt to a body that carried her, held her, chased her, lifted her, and kept up with her.
But strength, for me, has become so much more than what my body can do.
It’s adaptation. It’s letting life change you without becoming so rigid that you break. It’s saying yes before you feel ready. It’s taking the next step when you can’t see the whole staircase yet.
And sometimes it’s looking around and thinking, holy s**t. I can’t believe we’re really doing this.
This life wasn’t something I could always see from where I started.
I grew up in poverty. There were plenty of reasons to believe certain things weren’t meant for me.
But I kept taking the first step. Then another. And another.
Now I get to build a life around work I genuinely care about, while Aurora gets to watch me learn, change, stumble, try again, and create something that matters to me.
I spent so much of my life learning that hard things aren’t permanent.
Now I get to raise a little girl who gets to learn that by watching me live it. ❤️