Over the last several months I’ve been receiving lots of questions regarding whether I used the Fascia Blaster to heal my diastasis recti, and if I recommend it as a tool to fix the condition. Ashley Black Guru has been promoting on social media how her tool, the Fascia Blaster, can be used to fix…
You are what you think you are
The world may plant alternative facts and tell you it’s truth, but you are the master of your perception.
Less Wonder Woman more wondering woman
I’ve always related more to Olive Oyl than I did to Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman had it together. She knew who she was, what she wanted and how to get it. Olive Oyl was a bit of a hot mess. She was cowardly, weak, whiny, and was always getting herself into bad situations which needed someone else to rescue her. She was pretty helpless.
The Power of Brokenness
A series of blogs for the broken… There was a time I thought a miscarriage was the worst thing that could happen to me. I prayed it would never happen because I couldn’t imagine how I would ever be able to deal with something like that. I knew it would break me. Then last year,…
Facebook and fairy tales
Social media: It’s a lot like a family picture. The final product I shared with all my friends was of a happy, smiling family. No struggles, just this perfect little snapshot of life. But that was one picture. And it took us a while to get there. We have a lot more of these…
This Is Not Health…But I Look Good!
They asked me what my excuse was. They told me they had kids, a 6 pack and no excuses. They challenge me to be accountable for the way I looked. They told me I didn’t look healthy enough. “So what does it take to have a 6 pack?” I asked myself.
The Demise of Health in the Fitness Industry
There’s a dangerous movement happening in the fitness industry that is starting to take health away from fitness. Fitness has become the pursuit of solely physical goals and health is determined by one’s ability to fit into a predetermined mould. Images of what is healthy often depict extreme body types, that while may represent a…
Why Don’t You Just Have Surgery?
Why don’t you just have surgery on your hernia? Why don’t you just have surgery to fix your diastasis recti? These are questions I’ve been asked more than once. My answer is two-fold: Firstly, I have had surgery on my hernia. I was born with an umbilical hernia (apparently 20 – 30% of children of…
More than a Hot Body
As women we receive a lot of subliminal messaging that our value and worth is based on our physical appearance. You can be educated, well-spoken, and dignified but in the end you also have to be “pretty enough”. You are not your body, and I want you to stop defining yourself by your body. Do you know why Lions are kept behind cages at zoos? Because they are powerful. You are a lioness.
