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Your body is already bikini ready. It’s your brain that isn’t.

August 8, 2016 by not your average mom 12 Comments

Last weekend when we went to Hershey Park, we spent the second half of the day at the water park. It was really hot, and it was packed. And I heard someone say, “There are women here who have no business wearing a bikini.” Whoa. I wasn’t wearing a bikini. I wasn’t even wearing a […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: beach, bikini, body, body acceptance, body confidence, teaching your kids body acceptance

Maybe a before and after picture isn’t the problem. Instead, maybe the problem is what you focus on in those pictures.

July 12, 2016 by not your average mom 3 Comments

mid·dle age noun  1. the period between early adulthood and old age, usually considered as the years from about 45 to 65 AT 46-years-old, I suppose you could say I’m middle-aged. Middle aged? What the fuck? How the hell did this happen? Falling  into the middle aged category always seemed so far away. When I […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: before and after, bikini, cigarettes, mental health, middle aged, perfection, shredded, tank top, weight loss

I live in the Land Of The Free, and that’s the way I’m going to parent.

July 4, 2016 by not your average mom 1 Comment

This morning I went for a run. And being the 4th of July, Independence Day, I was thinking about this holiday. I was thinking about how one of the greatest things about this country is that we have freedom. And then as I was running I started thinking about how, in this country where we have […]

Filed Under: Parenting Tagged With: 4th of July, attendance, bikini, cell phone, defensive, family, freedom, hiking, hot dog, independence day, neighbor, politician, school, suburban, teachers, ticks

I am so over the chase.

August 10, 2014 by not your average mom 4 Comments

This picture was taken ten years ago. I have been chasing this body for the past two years, using this picture as a goal. But why? That body had not given birth to children. That body hadn’t completed triathlons. That body hadn’t run half marathons. Or a marathon. That body might have looked good on […]

Filed Under: Sound Mind Sound Body, Your Daily Dose Tagged With: bikini, body image, thrill of the chase

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