Before you go home today, do something unexpected, out of character, and kind for someone.
Savour that feeling, bottle it up, and take it home with you.
Start your day tomorrow swimming in that sensation and see what beautiful connections, moments, and feelings come your way 🪶
A new pet peeve is born for the fiercely independent feral female…
Having folks make a huge fuss when something heavy needs lifting. By fuss - falling over, getting in the way, and causing a scene to help the small human pick something up.
Chill… I squat 405lbs for reps… for fun.
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The divorce glow up, a phenomenon so common yet misunderstood.
Why did I glow up?
- I didn’t have to hide anymore
- I chose to be a better Mom
- No one made me feel worthless or “too much” anymore
I severed a tie that almost broke me to be reborn as who I was intended to be.
Show me yours ❤️
Excited to see some wear marks on my first pair of boxing gloves!
Three months in and loving it ❤️🥊
I’ve leaned up and gained so much muscle back. Feel steadier on my feet, faster, and in the best shape of my life 💪
Best kept secret, boxing community and coaches are amazing 🙏🏽
The most jacked lady at the gym came up to me and I was sure she wanted to know how many sets left on the squat rack.. Seriously, she’s incredible.
“You have amazing legs, seriously. You’re in great shape”
All I could say was “coming from you, that just made my year!”
Gym folks are the best 🙏🏽
Side banger! So happy this one is done and I get a beautiful reminder of taking my Mom on her first vacation last year.
I disappeared to focus on fitness and find a new routine that matches the strangest shift I’ve had in my life since choosing sobriety.
I went from nightowl to struggling morning person overnight. The hard work is paying off and I feel the strongest I’ve been since I was a competitive 15yo swimmer!
Tomorrow when you wake, think about someone who changed your life or influenced you in the best way possible.
Go about your day, find them, and tell them. You won’t believe how good it feels to simply let someone know they emanate an energy that’s left an imprint.
You may not get another chance 🪶
The land is directly connected to us. Like the land, trees, and water, we nourish one another. We protect one another and thrive with the beauty of symbiosis.
Each culture is unique to the land it comes from. Despite the difficulty to identify one sole definition, we can’t live without it.
In case anyone is looking, your precious “vintage knome” garden gnome is in Northern BC at an antique store.
Just follow the faint sound of the screaming souls it’s collected since 1897. They’re waiting for you…
Forget hand sanitizer… Anyone feel like a smudge with a pound of sage?
This is definitely the thing I miss the most. The sad reality is the invisible cost of all these social media platforms and sifting through fake information, tragedy, and essentially lies of a perfection creating unattainable dreams of lies that don’t exist. Living in the real world is a lost art!
I deactivated instagram and Facebook two months ago.
Pro: more peace, more life, less doom scrolling, more time at the gym and boxing 💪 🥊
Con: Less tattoos bc all my ink providing friends are on those platforms
Just can’t have your cake and eat it too, can we?!🤦🏽♀️
My kids began practice drills involving active shooter and person with a weapon entering their school 5yrs ago. I scoffed initially, why scare the kids?
Today the unthinkable, incomprehensible happened in a small northern neighbour community.
My heart and strength goes out to Tumbler Ridge 🖤
Grace and compassion. This is not a story, this is a tragedy that will ripple for generations 🙏🏻
Agreed! And more care for those teachers 🙏🏻
Education will save us all. Teachers are literally saving the world and paving the future for generations to come.
I spent the last week in a room with almost 400 Indigenous and ally educators. This is the wave that’s coming, they are the ones who will shape the world.
Not hate 🙏🏻 🪶
When was the last time you sat next to a window on a rainy day and sipped tea for a ridiculously long and peaceful amount of time?
🫖 🌧️
How many of us are comfortable sitting with our thoughts… letting them flow and fall out of our minds like the rain. Slow down, hear every drop 💧
My kids and I got into it about how many plants we have 🪴
Youngest started at a million because he had to water them.
Eldest went more conservative with 34.
I said 15 at most.
There are 31… but I neglect to see why this is an issue because I have three empty pots and repotting next weekend 🌱
An awesome class, still remember it 16yrs later! Got my first published article out of that final paper 📄 I wish ethics had a better prof back then…
Take the pictures, let yourself be in photos. Your life, body, and spirit are sacred.
10yrs ago I was 275lbs. I never let myself be in pictures. I regret it now because I don’t get to see her beyond this one.
Every version of you is a beautiful culmination and manifestation of your ancestors 🪶
Stealing this to welcome a trek down memory lane.
Five classes I took in college/university:
- Health psychology
- Biopsych
- Historiography
- Reincarnation and Rebirth
- Ethics
Been a hot minute since those days 📚 Three degrees later and still miss the classroom - as both student and prof!
Treated myself to pretty nails to cover up how short they are with boxing lately 🥊 and stoked to have a little post pump vein action 💪
Boxing with a new partner and my ego is boosted after she said she noticed how jacked I was at class last week. The. She proceeded to school me on the bag!
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The Jay Treaty will not guarantee protection or the right to cross the border in these scary times. Avoid travelling to the US. My heart goes out to Americans who are suffering and my Native American brothers and sisters. Stay safe 🙏🏽
I am peacefully and unapologetically entering a new era of my 40s…
Use a knitting neck light set to warm so I can sleep before 10:30 ❤️ 🧶
My community has a word for children that best translates to “Flower”
Children are the flowers of our culture, language, values, and directly connected to the lands that recognize our presence.
When a child under 6 speaks, the room goes silent, they have a direct connection to our ancestors 🌼
When you wake, have your coffee, and go about your day… look for the kind folks.
They have often seen rock bottom.
Those are your allies to align with. Your guides, angels, and protectors.
Don’t be fooled by the loud hateful ones that carry lies with no promise of tomorrow. Find the helpers 🙏🏻
As a kid on the nw coast we watched the birds for teachings. Pigeons, crows, ravens, starlings, eagles, robins, finches, chickadees, owls.
Raven trickery on the horizon, for good or bad.
Eagles - good luck and if they fly high, storm coming.
Owls - eyes open for a lesson or death coming.
I took a social media break for a year. My findings:
- I miss the 90s,
- SM is used to burn off excess energy,
- Folks don’t realize how transparent their hate is offering a window into their unfounded fears and anxieties preserved by wilful ignorance,
- I really miss the 90s
🤷♀️ I said what I said