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Gaby Azahar

@gaby_azahar

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What a privilege to be tired from living deeply✨
Content Creator🤳🏽
Founder @dontaskmypacerunclub
Owner @steady_socials & @afterglowmakeup_

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Sometimes you gotta remind your anxiety that you actually can do hard things❤️‍🩹

#contentcreator #mentalhealth #runningera #ottawaraceweekend #bravegang by @gaby_azahar

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5 months ago

10/10 recommend making time for hobbies that bring you joy and make your inner child/teenager happy🥹👌🏽

Choreo by the one and only @jujulvtu
@moovottawa taken in Ottawa, Ontario by @gaby_azahar

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3 days ago

Is it really a vacation without @shein_ca 🤷🏽‍♀️😂

T-10 days 🏝️☀️

#contentcreator #selflove #sheincurve by @gaby_azahar

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4 days ago

Proof that I’m alive and well, but also proof that two feelings can coexist. 🤍

I can be proud of how far I’ve come and still feel exhausted by everything it took to get here. I can love what I do and still feel burnt out. I can be grateful for where I am while knowing something needs to change.

Because burnout isn’t always just about work. Sometimes it’s the weight of life, healing from things you don’t always talk about, and years of feeling like you constantly have to do more to prove you’re worthy.

And breaking that cycle isn’t easy, especially when it’s all you’ve ever known.

If anything, this season has been a reminder to find joy outside of the things that define so much of our lives. Outside of work, relationships, friendships and the roles we play for others.

To find your own little pockets of joy. The kind that don’t need to be productive, shared or explained. The kind that are simply yours❤️‍🩹

#contentcreator #mentalhealth #selflove by @gaby_azahar

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9 days ago

Y si la vieras bailando 💃🏽Lento, es un espectáculo✨ by @gaby_azahar

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14 days ago

“When do they fight?” 😂🏒🥅 taken in Canadian Tire Centre by @gaby_azahar

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22 days ago

When I started Don’t Ask My Pace, I honestly had no idea what it would become😭🖤💖

I just knew I wanted to create the kind of running space I wished I had found when I was starting out. A place where you could show up without worrying about being too slow, getting left behind, or feeling like you had to prove that you belonged.

And somehow, here we are 5 months later!! 🥹

A group of people with completely different paces, different running backgrounds, different goals, all showing up and moving together.

It’s become a community. And I’m so, so grateful for every person who has helped make it what it is. 🫶🏽

Next week will be our last run of the season, mostly because we’re running out of daylight by 6pm and I’m not trying to have us navigating the trail in the dark 😂🌅

And don’t worry, this isn’t goodbye! We’ll be back for season 2 👌🏽

Shoutout to @katherinehuff for the content for this reel👌🏽👌🏽 taken in Chelsea, Quebec by @gaby_azahar

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25 days ago

“Bella, where the hell have you been, loca?” by @gaby_azahar

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a month ago

September is Suicide Prevention Month, and this year has made me realize everything I would have missed…

In 2023, I was severely depressed, and most people had no idea. I was still working, showing up, laughing, and highly functional on the outside while struggling deeply on the inside.

Healing isn’t easy. Sitting in the discomfort is hard. It sucks, and it hurts. The amount of times I sat on my bathroom floor, hoping and praying to make it stop, the panic attacks, the anxiety, and the pressure to keep functioning like I was completely fine were things that just kept piling onto the reasons why I shouldn’t stay…

But I went to therapy (still do, 3 years with Alana 🤍). When I felt my loneliest, it was like my best friend knew I needed a “hey, checking up on you.” I joined a new gym, and it became my reason to wake up every morning.

I also continued to cry. And cry. And sit on my bathroom floor and feel whatever I needed to feel.

I started showing up for myself and for what I needed. On the days that felt impossible, I would cry, journal, walk my dog, repeat. I found small reasons to keep choosing life.

I did the work. (& still am doing the work, because all the past versions of me deserve it.)

Depression is much more present than we realize. So check in on your people. Let someone in. Talk about it. You don’t have to carry it alone.

Take your time🤍

#mentalhealth #suicidepreventionmonth by @gaby_azahar

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a month ago

8 girls vs 1 makeup artist 🫡✨

20 year old Gaby learning to do makeup never imagine she’d be here 9 years later🥹

Hair: @courtneynoel.hair
Cover picture: teahlizeephoto for @isabellebuckleyphotography

#ottawamakeup #ottawaweddingvendor #makeupartistottawa taken in Stonefields Estate by @gaby_azahar

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2 months ago

After two weeks of nonstop work and 6 weddings in 10 days, my therapist was not impressed when I told her I still don’t schedule “downtime” or “do nothing” time into my life😂👀

Something we’ve been talking about since we started working together… 3 years ago🥹✨

When your brain has been in fight-or-flight for so long, slowing down can feel very uncomfortable. Something as simple as taking an hour to colour can feel like you should be doing something else, answering an email, checking something off your list, working toward the next goal.

But maybe that’s exactly why we need it.

For a long time, I’ve connected my worth to how productive I am, how successful I am, and how quickly I can reach the next goal & it’s very mentally exhausting!

Especially as an entrepreneur, it can feel like there’s always something else you could be doing.

So this is your reminder, and honestly, mine too:

You are allowed to have time in your day that serves absolutely no purpose other than making you feel good.

You don’t have to be productive every minute.
You don’t have to earn your rest.
You don’t have to wait until you’re completely burnt out to slow down.

Sometimes colouring for an hour is exactly what your brain needs. 💜

And “doing nothing” deserves a place on our to-do lists, too🫡✨

#contentcreator #mentalhealth by @gaby_azahar

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2 months ago

Still here, still running & still content creating 🫡✨

#contentcreator #runningera #beginnerrunner #contentcreatorlife by @gaby_azahar

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2 months ago