faith. family. fitness.

I’ve been thinking a lot about purpose... About how much I used to LONG for it. And, about how I wouldn’t have ever found mine unless I surrendered. 🙏🏼 >> Put your HANDS UP. 🙌🏼 When you follow the whispers calling you to MORE, telling you that you were MADE to live a BRAVE life... you might be confused by the shape of the path. 🤔 A few too many left turns & you might be afraid you’ve been lost forever.... but really, you might just be lost FOR: GOOD. Every single step &

It ABSOLUTELY blows my mind the way things have turned out... BLOWS. MY. FREAKING. MIND. 💥 Did you know that I wouldn’t have met Nick (my first and late husband) if he hadn’t fallen off a ladder at work?? Did you know that I wouldn’t know Jay (this handsome fella right here) if it wasn’t for knowing Nick? And before you go assuming all kinds of crazy things about how the two of us got together... You have to know something... it’s not even CLOSE to what you would start to gu

I woke up today in a TOTAL FUNK! 👎🏼 I got my workout done and I felt BETTER afterward, but still not like my regular happy self. My two babes I’ve lost to miscarriage were on my mind this morning & the thought of Nick caring for them with our Papa in Heaven didn’t bring me as much peace as usual. 😢 Because ALL THE NOISE the world keeps making about how BAD it really is can keep a woman down. Then I realized something... after our trip to L.A. a week ago, I hadn’t gotten ba

Baby is doing GREAT!! 👶🏼 Still a perfect heartbeat 💓, kicking all the time like a crazy ninja 👊🏼, & responds to Daddy & Big Sister’s sweet voices!! 🤰The doctor says she’s measuring AHEAD, is heads down... & I’ve definitely noticed that baby has dropped. 🤗 Eeeee! Mom is ROCKIN & ROLLIN! 💕 Still slaying my workouts with my Brave babes Virtual Fit Club five to six days a week 💪🏼, eating right 🌱, & eating my cravings which are currently: lots of pineapples 🍍AND vegan

I wasn't looking for someone to complete me; I was already WHOLE... & stubbornly so. But, when you walked into my life, you triggered something like an avalanche... All the misconceptions I held about what love after loss might be like were swiftly swept away. I'm still the girl you stumbled upon two and a half years ago. I'm still independent as heck, more in love with my Creator than any guy I've ever met, & hell-bent on being my best self. Yup, I'm still TOTALLY that girl.

1. MY MOM is getting MARRIED!! 💍 2. Baby Brave is almost here (family of four, here we come)!! 3. I'm working with an editor on my book!! (with deadlines) 📖 4. A BRAND NEW Training for Made for Brave Coaches launches TODAY!! 5. Annnd.... We have a NEW Brave Babes Virtual Fit Tribe opening Monday!! 💁‍♀️ Y'all, if that wasn't enough... this week, we have TONS of stuff to do with the house, all sorts of activities with Austyn's school, things we need to COMPLETE before baby m

Talents & gifts are DYNAMIC. Opportunities are dynamic. NOT static. If you don’t think you are talented enough, USE your talent up & watch it become more. If you don’t think you have enough opportunity, TAKE every single one that opens to you & watch more doors open. If you think your life is too small, that you are too small, then live your “small” life FULLY & watch it get BIGGER. I NEVER thought my life would amount to MORE. So I used the LITTLE I had all up & watched as,

😭"I WONT BE ABLE TO AFFORD THAT!!!" Nick and I were laying on the couch we'd moved into a corner of our Master Bedroom. He couldn't sleep in the bed anymore, the pain was too much. We were talking about Austyn's life. Having an unbearably hard conversation that we needed to get out of the way, just in case the doctors were actually right. Just in case he wouldn't be able to help me raise her... I had asked him to tell me what kind of life he wanted his daughter to live and o

The ME four years ago would be drinking wine and bawling into a pint of ice cream on the couch basically every night. 😬 #truth But, after a solid year of THAT... I made a firm decision. I had to at least TRY to get out of my depression, TRY to take back my health & ATTEMPT to get off the couch. 🙊 And I was SCARED AS HECK. My husband had died a year earlier. He was 27. I was a SINGLE MOM (solo parenting) a BUSY almost 2-year-old at 26 years old. I had an auto immune disease

IF NOT.... My temper runs hot, my patience is short, & my resolve wears thin. 😳 👆🏼 All of those things 👆🏼 happen when I’m Not taking care of ME. I will ADMIT it: I’m NOT a good mom, a good wife, or even a good HUMAN BEING when I’m not taking care of myself. 🙅🏼‍♀️ I used to think that the BUSIER I was, the less I should do frivolous things. But, I SOON learned the FOLLY in that thinking. 😬 I’ve learned that if I’m not FULL & FULFILLED, it WILL show up in my work, in my