Ahh.. a new year. There is just something about a brand new year that fills me with hope. My brain buzzes with resolutions, goals, and possibilities.
If your Facebook feed looks like mine than your friends and families are posting 2016 reflections and 2017 resolutions. Also, the sponsored adds are promising you a skinnier model like figure in only 3 short weeks. I just love those adds (She says with extreme sarcasm). All of which just adds to the anticipation and expectation of a new year.
I haven't quite decided if resolutions are the devils work or not. I make them every year and as the long days of winter drag on they fall away. By February (sometimes March) I feel defeated. The negative self talk begins, and I am left in a worse place than I was before.
Well!! This is year is different, I know no one has ever said that before, 2016 was a transition year for me. I gained a second adult child, I completed my masters, I lost a brother, I threw out my scale, I joined the body positivity movement, and I started seeing a counselor. I'm also pretty sure I became a feminist and a democrat but we will talk more about that later.
One of these events alone would have just been life but added together, in one single year, oh boy! 2016 was a roller coater.
The outcome of all these change has yet to be understood. However, as a firm believer in... Start today and move forward... I have decided (with a weee little prompting) to bring this blog back to life.
Sure... some housekeeping needs to occur. Not everything here is exactly where, "its got to be perfect" Krissi would like. BUT that's life and if I wait for perfect well I will just spend a lot of time waiting.
So here is what you can expect... or in Yoga speak here are my intentions for this blog/vlog (Vlog? I will get to that in a later post). I'm going to share my journey through the past few years.
I'm not sharing because I had a perfect, no winds, look at how awesome I dealt with all of this journey. Nope! I'm going to share in hopes that maybe I can learn a little more about myself and just maybe help a person or two going through their own life transitions.
I plan on sharing my experiences going back to work, while simultaneous raising four teenagers, while being a wife to a railroader. I will share my journey navigating the powerful body shaming messages of our cultures. I also plan on sharing the magnitude of coping with it all as I continue to transition from mommy to mom to... (well let's hope the grandma thing is still a few years away). Other topics will include aging, religion, tongue bitting, and more.
This blog isn't for everyone but if you are tired of feeling like you're not enough, or if you are wishing for perfection to start living, or if you are just a mom trying to survive a house full of teen people... just maybe you will like what I have to say.
If your Facebook feed looks like mine than your friends and families are posting 2016 reflections and 2017 resolutions. Also, the sponsored adds are promising you a skinnier model like figure in only 3 short weeks. I just love those adds (She says with extreme sarcasm). All of which just adds to the anticipation and expectation of a new year.
I haven't quite decided if resolutions are the devils work or not. I make them every year and as the long days of winter drag on they fall away. By February (sometimes March) I feel defeated. The negative self talk begins, and I am left in a worse place than I was before.
Well!! This is year is different, I know no one has ever said that before, 2016 was a transition year for me. I gained a second adult child, I completed my masters, I lost a brother, I threw out my scale, I joined the body positivity movement, and I started seeing a counselor. I'm also pretty sure I became a feminist and a democrat but we will talk more about that later.
One of these events alone would have just been life but added together, in one single year, oh boy! 2016 was a roller coater.
The outcome of all these change has yet to be understood. However, as a firm believer in... Start today and move forward... I have decided (with a weee little prompting) to bring this blog back to life.
Sure... some housekeeping needs to occur. Not everything here is exactly where, "its got to be perfect" Krissi would like. BUT that's life and if I wait for perfect well I will just spend a lot of time waiting.
So here is what you can expect... or in Yoga speak here are my intentions for this blog/vlog (Vlog? I will get to that in a later post). I'm going to share my journey through the past few years.
I'm not sharing because I had a perfect, no winds, look at how awesome I dealt with all of this journey. Nope! I'm going to share in hopes that maybe I can learn a little more about myself and just maybe help a person or two going through their own life transitions.
I plan on sharing my experiences going back to work, while simultaneous raising four teenagers, while being a wife to a railroader. I will share my journey navigating the powerful body shaming messages of our cultures. I also plan on sharing the magnitude of coping with it all as I continue to transition from mommy to mom to... (well let's hope the grandma thing is still a few years away). Other topics will include aging, religion, tongue bitting, and more.
This blog isn't for everyone but if you are tired of feeling like you're not enough, or if you are wishing for perfection to start living, or if you are just a mom trying to survive a house full of teen people... just maybe you will like what I have to say.
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