Dear Transforming Mama

Dear transforming mama --

If I may be honest, I felt a little down that I would no longer be able to participate in transformation tuesday like I used to. I absolutely love the power of a side by side. It shows the small progress when other forms of measurement don’t. It’s the visual that I always needed to reassure me to keep going. It was a peak in the rear view mirror of where I was to where I am now. And let me just say this, sometimes it was a wakeup call too — that I wasn’t making the progress I wanted due to my choices!

But then I got thinking, why can’t I still participate? My body may not be shrinking but it is TRANSFORMING! 

So here we go, 6 months in between these two photos, about 11 lbs heavier and a 17w5d baby cooking in my belly! Rather than focus on the physical, I want to share the mental part that you don’t see between these two pics. 

• anxiety of carrying a baby
• having a subchorionic bleed 
• fear of losing my baby
• not being able to exercise
• all day sickness
• carb-loading to feel somewhat normal
• fast weight gain

… to the transformation of feeling …

• hopeful this baby will make it
• no more active bleeding
• modified exercise
• all day sickness gone
• back to somewhat normal diet
• embracing the growing belly

When people post transformation pictures on social media, you don’t see the hardest part of someone’s journey -- the mental struggle they most typically face day in and day out. The mind is very powerful. In fact, it’s the determining factor of whether you will stay the course or give up. When you focus on mindset (what I practice and teach to my clients), you learn that giving up is NOT an option. You will have ups and downs. We must grow through them. But we never give up. And that’s what makes us successful. Not a number. We are so much more than that! 

★ if you're feeling down about your journey, reflect on the small changes you've Accept where you are RIGHT NOW and then make a commitment that you're going to move to the place that makes you happiest. If you need some extra love and support - cause no one should go after this alone - join our sisterhood here. 

Until next time, focus on the important things in life and know that perfection does not exist. We are all born to be perfectly imperfect in our own little way. ❤︎