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Three Weeks of Yoga for Post-Baby Workout

I don’t know of a better thyroid-stimulating, metabolism-boosting workout than the type of Vinyasa-flow yoga I love.

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She discovered the joy of twisting up the swing and spinning and spinning like a helicopter. And I spent absolutely magical moments with her watching her joy and rejoicing that we were together. Then we went home and she pretended to take a nap while I caught a bunch of work stuff. When I beckoned her to come out of her room she had the biggest grin on her face and we played a sort of funny game of hide-and-seek for quite a while while I slowly washed dishes. It was a perfect day. This is all I want.

There's such a special bond between us. Anneka's my whole heart and soul and I love her so much that I just about can't stand it. It brightens my day whenever someone says how much we look like each other. I can't be happy when she's unhappy. We share a love for the one special guy that's her daddy. We both like chocolate and breakfast anytime of the day and Puffin Rock. We love to read book after book after book. We love to take walks. And we love to just snuggle on the couch. And we both like to make each other laugh really hard.

The biggest thing I’ve learned this year so far in my passion planner journey? Small changes are actually more effective than big ones. Why? Why would this be true? Because when you make a big change, the usual result is a lot of unexpected fallout. You know how Laura Ingalls Wilder’ Dad always said, “No big loss without some small gain?” Well, the opposite is true as well. There are no big gains without some small losses. I’m not trying to be a wet blanket. I’m just saying that when you make drastic changes in your life, you often experience many undesirable consequences, large and small, that you didn’t expect. These can be overwhelming and difficult to deal with. They can cause you to lose momentum and go backwards in other areas of your life you didn’t know you would have to lose ground in. On top of dealing with the negative consequences of big change, you also have to psychologically deal with regret. Self-sabotage, regret, discouragement, and even depression all set in. You might even decide the big change was a huge mistake, even if it brought you positive things. It’s just too big and too scary. We don’t really like change as survival-based, security-seeking humans. We innately fear change. So you might even give up and retract the big change. Now you have a LOT of change to deal with, and a LOT of fallout. When you make a small change, you escape all that. You escape self-sabotage. You escape unexpected consequences (because anything that comes up is relatively easy to deal with), and you escape self-doubt. It’s just a small thing. It’s just a little change. It’s just five minutes of working out. You’re just getting up ten minutes earlier, no biggie. You’re just taking five minutes off your lunch to write. You’re just swapping one meal for a healthier option. You got this. But oh, what a splendid outcome you find overtime. What a treasure. What a beautiful, gorgeous life you begin to build. #pashfam

These lovely boots and shirt are from @thredup. I love how "me" this shirt is. I love when I wear it that it's not going to be the same thing people who shop at the local Target and shopping mall are also going to buy. If I find something that is uniquely me, and it's expensive, the price tag makes it "not me" because I'm not a luxurious person. It doesn't make me happy and it feels like it's against my core values, somehow. To me authenticity is something inside of you that should shine even on a low budget, which is sometimes challenging. I've always admired my friends who are really good at thrifting. They seem to find the things that were unique to their style in a sea of second-hand clothes at the local consignment shops. I always struggled with this. It was sensory overload for me. The sizes, colors, and subtle smells overwhelmed me. Thredup solved all of that for me. I get to be artistic and budget-friendly. Plus I get to support a cause I believe in—#secondhandfirst reduces textile waste and helps keeps landfills emptier.

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