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Karin Zeller

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Photo by Karin Zeller on December 17, 2025.

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Posted On: December 17th 2025, 10:29 pm

Feeling very happy and grateful to the lovely buyer in France who recently purchased a throw pillow from my Redbubble shop. I love this artwork on many of the products. Love my Redbubble shop. ❤️🌈🥰🙏😻

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10 months ago

artbyrochas

👏👏👏👏👏 very nice

Maisie really surprised me with the last two 😻

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There is a massive difference between treating fitness as a phase and treating it as a way of living.
When you see those of us in our 40s and beyond who are in incredible shape, you are looking at people who stopped making sacrifices a long time ago. Instead, we made a choice.
To the outside world, our lifestyle looks like a series of restrictions. No nights out, no junk food, no breaks. People think we possess superhuman willpower.
But from the inside, it requires almost no willpower at all.
Why? Because we made that choice which shifted our identity. We don’t crave junk food because it doesn’t agree with the body anymore. Instead, we eat what fuels us and makes us function well. There is no feeling of deprivation when your actions align perfectly with your values. For us, it isn’t a sacrifice; it is the ultimate form of self-respect.
Now, look at the other side of the coin.
A lot of people who look incredible at 25 will not maintain that look into their 40s.
At 25, youth provides a natural biological buffer. A fast metabolism and rapid recovery can easily compensate for a lot of lifestyle inconsistencies. The trap is that when staying in shape requires less effort, it’s easy to treat fitness as a temporary project rather than learning how to truly live this way.
But youth eventually expires. When that biological buffer fades and life gets complicated, a temporary project mindset completely collapses. You cannot outwork a changing biology without deep roots.
For us, fitness isn’t a project we run to when we have time—it is part of our daily life.

The last few heartfelt conversations I’ve had with people have left me thinking about how much uncertainty so many of us are carrying.

Behind familiar smiles are unfamiliar struggles. Behind “I’m good” are worries that keep people awake at night. So many people are silently trying to hold their lives together while wondering when things will finally get easier.

Yesterday, I came across several videos, one after another, of young people crying. Different faces and circumstances, but beneath their tears, I could sense they were all longing for the same thing: to be okay and know they’re going to be okay.

To be honest, I think that sometimes the hardest part of what we’re going through isn’t even the pain itself. It’s actually the uncertainty of not knowing how long it will last. We fear what comes next, and whether the life we’re hoping for is still going to manifest as we want it to.

I wish I could reach through the screen and gently remind every person who feels lost right now that their story is still unfolding. That this difficult chapter is not the whole book, and even when they cannot see a way forward, it doesn’t mean they won’t find one.

One practice that has carried me through some of my own darkest and most uncertain moments is prayer.

And it’s not always because prayer has changed my circumstances, but because it has often changed how I’ve been able to meet them. It has given me somewhere to place the weight of things I could no longer carry alone.

So today, I’d like to offer you a prayer. You don’t have to believe in anything to receive it. You don’t have to share my understanding of the divine. Just take whatever speaks to your heart, and leave whatever doesn’t.

And if life feels particularly heavy right now, I hope these words find the part of you that has been trying so hard to stay strong.

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Karin Zeller

@zeller_karin

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