Let’s take a walk and chat about how investing in yourself is so worth the time and effort.
I threw myself into motherhood and gave it my all.
For YEARS.
I don’t regret it, and much of it was necessary because I had a high needs baby and practiced attachment parenting, which I’m so thankful for.
But the mistake I think some of us make is pouring so much into kids that we don’t think we don’t have anything left for us.
The math doesn’t work out. When you lay down at the end of the night and look at all you did, it doesn’t seem like there’s a way you could have fit anything else in.
Wake up early? Work out? Eat a solid meal? Take a walk?
Impossible.
But making small investments in yourself is a way to make good things multiply. Suddenly you have more time. More energy. More love to give.
Here’s what I looked like on my 38th birthday at a beautiful winery in West Texas in the 100 degree heat. I’m wearing my trusty black leggings, a size XXL tank top from Target that barely covered my belly, and Target slides that could comfortably fit my swollen feet.
A decade of intense mothering put me last on the list of people to take care of. I am smiling, but dying inside. It would take another full year before I started to change my life.
A year later, we had moved and I started doing small things to invest in myself. I got my first Stitch Fix box and couldn’t believe what a difference wearing clothes that fit made! I loved these shorts so much!!!
I hadn’t lost even one pound at this point, but I was taking care of myself and I was truly happy in my body again. I was also becoming the mother and wife I had lost for a few years.
I’m taking this walk the day after our celebration of Holi, an Indian festival of colors and spring. My husband and I spent time in India before kids while he worked there, and it was so special to share a part of our history with our kids and friends and neighbors.
These kinds of days with my family filled with so much joy and adventure are the ones that I am so thankful for- the reason for getting healthy and losing 125lbs. All of the small investments in myself led me to here.
Who knows where I’ll end up next?
A few links to things I mentioned on this episode:
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