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@yes.itsess

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🥂 Mom of 4 managing Home | Life | Fitness… that’s it.
➿Proof the journey is squiggly, not linear😝
🗓️Encouraging you to start today!

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7.5 miles for breakfast this morning.

I hope we all start September strong.

This time of year always feels like a growing season to me. And with Summer is winding down and Q4 coming I feel like there’s this natural pull to lock in and finish the year well.

So yes, lock into the goals and into whatever you said mattered to you the most this year.

But also lock into YOU! Whatever keeps you grounded and the routines that help you come back to your center. The movement, prayer, therapy, quiet, boundaries, rest….whatever helps you stay connected to yourself while life gets louder.

Growth doesn’t require us to run ourselves into the ground.

Here’s to a September of showing up, growing well, and remembering to take care of the person doing all that growing.

And Happy Labor Day weekend—to everybody out here doing the work, in all the ways work shows up. 🤎 by @yes.itsess

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Easy Run - Convo Pace - Preworkout by @yes.itsess

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Sometimes we look around wondering why everybody else seems to be blooming while we feel stuck. Meanwhile… we’re the ones carrying the watering can. 😂

We pour into our kids and jobs, and relationships… Making sure everybody has what they need, encouraging them, and helping everybody grow. And while there’s nothing wrong with being someone who pours into people. You have to remember YOU LIVE HERE TOO!

Your goals need attention and your dreams need nurturing too.
Your life deserves some of that good water you keep giving everybody else.

So before you start wondering why the grass looks greener over there…make sure you’ve been watering yours. 🌱

Share this with someone who needs a little watering today.😉 by @yes.itsess

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I think one of the best things you can learn to do for yourself is stop giving everything your attention. Every opinion doesn’t need a response. Every misunderstanding doesn’t need to be cleared up. Every problem isn’t yours to solve. And everybody else’s life is really none of your business. 😂

At some point you have to decide that your peace, your purpose, and the person you’re becoming deserve more of your energy than all the random things you could be worried about.

Say your prayers. Mind your business. Take care of your people. Be good to people. Work on yourself. Tend to what’s actually aligned with where you’re trying to go, and let some shit happen without you. There will always be something you could stress about. The real skill is learning what actually deserves your energy. by @yes.itsess

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Your healthy-habits bestie is back with a friendly reminder for Episode 3 of START HERE 💛

This week: drink your water. That’s it. Take your water down!! 😂💧

The whole point of this series is to stop making the goals so damn big that we never actually build the habits to support it.

We’ve added more vegetables. 🥦
We’ve practiced simply showing up for ourselves. 🏃🏽‍♀️
Now we’re staying hydrated. 💧

Little by little, we’re building the foundation for the person we’re trying to become and the lifestyle we actually want to live. We don’t have to change everything today. We just need somewhere to start.

So… start here. 💛

See you for Episode 4. by @yes.itsess

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Quick PR morning ✌🏽the knees are still good 🤪 by @yes.itsess

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Women’s bodies are fucking amazing. Because what do you mean I went from THIS… to THIS… and somehow both versions of me were doing exactly what they needed to do?

I think we talk a lot about “losing the baby weight,” but postpartum can go in either direction.

For me, gaining weight was never really the struggle. Keeping it was. Between breastfeeding, sleepless nights, stress, and the sheer work of keeping tiny humans alive, I could get too small, too fast. And even when the weight eventually stayed, my body still didn’t quite feel like mine.

Four babies and two C-sections later, I have scars. Stretch marks. Skin around my stomach that will probably always tell the story of being stretched four different times.

And I friggin love my body.

Not because pregnancy left it untouched but because it didn’t.

I’ve spent the last year building strength, muscle, and (more importantly) a body I feel at home in again. And I think that’s the part of postpartum we should talk about more.

Your body doesn’t owe anyone a “bounce back.”
Sometimes the journey is just learning how to recognize yourself again.

So to the woman growing the baby, nursing the baby, chasing the toddler, staring at a body she doesn’t quite recognize yet, or slowly rebuilding herself years later:

Give her some grace.

She created space for an entire human being. She rearranged herself to make life, survived the aftermath, and somehow kept going while everyone else needed something from her.

Pregnancy. Birth. Postpartum. Motherhood.

We make that shit look GOOD.

But easy? Never.

Women’s bodies are amazing. 🤎 by @yes.itsess

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Nothing like a sweaty cool down dance session after a good run 😝 #letswintheday by @yes.itsess

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A little post-workout yap for Episode 2 of Start Here 😂

I’m sweaty, disheveled, and sitting in my car… but we said we were going to show up every week, so here we are. And that feels fitting for today’s message.Because I’m practicing what I’m preaching right alongside you.

The goal isn’t to suddenly become the person who does everything perfectly. It’s to start doing the small things consistently enough that they eventually become part of your lifestyle.

So if working out consistently is one of your goals, don’t overwhelm yourself trying to build the perfect routine.

Start smaller by moving your body every day. Then do it again tomorrow.

We’re building habits over here, not chasing perfection. 🤎

Build the lifestyle before you chase the goal.

#StartHere #ConsistencyOverPerfection #HealthyHabits #StartToday #WomensWellness by @yes.itsess

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When you realize life is just one big AMRAP session. Lucky for me that’s my favorite kind of workout 💪🏽.#wintheday by @yes.itsess

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Friendly Reminder 🔑

Most times I’m just preaching to myself.😝 by @yes.itsess

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