The holidays are a time when you reflect — on holidays past, the year past, those you have known, and even who you once were. For many, the holidays are very much about memories and traditions formed in childhood. Our memories make up the story of our life that exists in our mind. These memories can give us comfort, direction, inspiration, and hope.
Tag: Venus Fitness
Motherhood- adjusting to the New Me
No matter how many people tried to warn me nothing prepared me for Motherhood.
Once I stopped expecting motherhood to feel warm and fuzzy all the time life got much easier. Its helped to give myself permission to feel frustrated, angry, and tired sometimes. It doesn’t make me a bad parent, its just normal.
Here are ten things that I am trying to keep in mind as I adjust to my new role- Mother.
Postnatal Exercise Do’s & Don’ts
With 8 months of postnatal exercise and recovery behind me here is my list of Do’s and Don’ts .If you have something to add, or a different experience I would love to hear from you.
Cooking with Berry Nourished
I have been trying some recipes from one my my favorite cooking blogs: Berry Nourished. For those of you not familiar with this blog, Carolyn Berry is a local Registered Dietitian. Her articles have been featured in the Vancouver Gastropost, and Huffington Post BC. Carolyn has talked about healthy snacking on CBC News, and teaches a cooking workshop at Thompson Community Center, called Wealth of Healthy Cooking. Adrian and I had the pleasure of attending one of these workshops in February.
I met Carolyn teaching spin class….and like many people in my life 😉 ( how I met Adrian) a friendship blossomed. I highly recommend checking out her blog, and giving some of her recipes a try. Below are a couple I recently tried with success.
Postnatal Fitness- The Jogging Stroller
With months of Pelvic Floor conditioning behind me and my little guy getting bigger, this month I hit the pavement with my jogging stroller. I was fortunate enough to be given an InStep Fixed Wheel Jogger which I am happy with so far. I knew using a jogging stroller would be hard but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be. Part of the struggle might have had something to do with the year that has passed since my last outdoor run. 😉 My runs to date are more for sanity than speed, read on for my observations and suggestions.