Last week, I posted this video to my Facebook page, and it seemed to resonate with many of you. . . . Earlier this year, we asked women about their lifestyle – nearly half said they were feeling moderately or extremely stressed & shockingly 40% feel like they’re about to burn out. We weren’t surprised, we feel it too. From our everyday never-ending ‘to do’ lists to the pressure the…
It was April 19, 2007 when I waddled into my third checkup in less than a week. At just under 39 weeks pregnant, my blood pressure was creeping up, and they wanted to keep an eye on it. I looked into the mirror and hardly recognized my pudgy cheeks and swollen eyes. Glancing down at my feet spilling out of a pair of Crocs, I pressed a thumb into my…
I used to have horrible mom posture. My head entered the room before my body did. My butt was tucked under, and I was almost bent in half most of the time. Bad posture was literally a pain in the neck. And head, and back, and hips… Nothing I tried helped much. I just couldn’t figure out how to train my body to be tall and comfortable. Until Wendy. I think…
When we’re young, we see our future parental life through rose colored glasses and make statements like, “My child will never do that.” We wrinkle our noses at kids in pajamas with wild hair and messy faces at the grocery store. We sigh and roll our eyes at crying babies on airplanes. We naively believe in the family portrait painted in our mind of how our family will look and…
One morning, just after Leila turned one, I went to check on her. She had always been a good sleeper, but this particular morning she was snoozing way past her regular wake-up time. I picked her up and gently tried to nudge her awake. Her skin felt cool and clammy. Her hair soaked in sweat. Her breath strong and fruity. She woke up, rolled her eyes back into her head…
Last June I put up a post called “Dear Diastasis Recti, I’m so over you“. At the time, I was frustrated with my own weak core. A result of two little bundles of joy who had previously claimed residency in my tummy. I was determined to fix the gap between my muscles and planned to do the exercises necessary to do that. Little did I know that, a) there are…