Its A New Season!

Hello World!

Anybody out there?….Well friends, I’m back. As some of you know I took about an 8 month sabbatical away from social media, blogging and the like. During this time, I have been growing my beautiful baby boy Zion who is due in t-minus 3 weeks! I took this time away to really do some heart growing, unplugged life in which I contemplated a lot of things…the main thing… being a Mother, what that means to me, how I want to be as a wife, how I want to bring this baby into the world and a myriad of other amazing heart revelations. It’s like I journeyed into the wild for 8 months with God and myself and said…”you have all of my attention, speak to me about this life I am bringing into the world and this life changing event for me as a soul.” To me, becoming a Mother is a very big deal and I felt the best way for me to experience the fullness of being pregnant, thinking about how my husband and I wanted to raise our family, do life, etc. was for me to completely unplug and dive into my real world 100%. I totally recommend unplugging and engaging with the life and loves around you, even if it is only for a season.

For me it was a time of re-evaluating my priorities, resting, doing what I wanted which includes not doing some things, being brave and stepping away from building my blog for a season. I wanted to make sure that I was a true source of what I believe…living well. Which meant slowing things down and making things really simple so I could feel, experience, adjust and prepare my soul for the new one to come. To enter my next season of life, I needed to take time to do that with all that I am. To prepare my heart, emotions, body and to journey into the unknowns. To address any fears so that I can live unhindered for my child and my husband and live well for myself 100%. So I can be 100% in my child’s birth…and in my birth as a Mama. For me, that looked like stepping away from what I am building and to step into my growth that was waiting for me. I was fortunate enough to be able to “give up” and to “dive in”. My husband is my biggest support. Always saying, do whatever you want. Thank God for him and for the season of my own time I will never have again. The new season I am embarking on requires 100% selflessness. 100% someone relying on you at all times. This season is magical and I wanted to truly meditate on it. I wanted to take the last season of just me or just me and my husband and truly nest, cocoon, love deeply, do what we wanted, be away like a honeymoon and turn it all off. We did that. We will now enter this new season as Parents. And I am so ready, invigorated and full to not only pour myself out for my child and my family, but to be back into my work. To figure it out as I go. My toilet may never be unoccupied without a child next to me again. But I will learn to balance and it’ll be fun documenting it all on the way. I know there are many people out there juggling a lot or feeling torn between two worlds. It’s not easy. But you are kick butt. You inspire me. This new season….its wonderful, it’s real, it’s a season that will unfold into more children, more responsibility, more dreams and business ventures and thus more seasons and more sacrifice and more selflessness and will change me forever. To step away from anything, you must be brave and do what wisdom and your heart call for at all times. Take that risk, take the job, fail, succeed, give up, do what you know is right. In the season of my life, cocooning away from my work was risky, wild but so worth it. I am not defined by anything I do or don’t do. I am defined by who I am, just me. And so are you. My goal is always to speak truth, inspire you and to live authentic. That to me is living well. It is about balance, realness, inspiration and doing whatever you are meant to do…know matter what anyone thinks. Be brave. Be it all if you want, as long is it is you. The most inspiring human being is the one that is 100% themselves. That means they embrace all the beauty, gifts, callings and grace on their lives and also embracing the process, rawness, new seasons, growth and what their heart is saying at any given time. Never be a slave, always be a master of your life and to do that you must listen to your heart and wisdom, it is guiding you. 8 months ago I chose to be a master of my life and say….pause…so I could go through a growing season to prepare me for my destiny…being me with the new role as a mother. You will always be you. My goal is always be who I was created to be, no matter what hat I wear that day, hour or moment. I hope you choose that to.

Spencer and I will have a goal to try to stay as unplugged as possible, while balancing the age of social media in which my job, passions and inspiration to you all flow. Learning this will be a balancing act. I will continue to bring you content daily and weekly, but I will also make sure I am doing this as non invasive to my child and our life as possible i.e when my baby sleeps, naps etc. so that I don’t raise my child watching me on the phone or in the throws of business/work. This is something my husband and I feel strongly about, but we have also found that completely giving up my goals and dreams isn’t living my best life either. So, we will work on balance, on how to be present and how to be digital and how to run our business endeavors. My family and children will always come first, and my hope is yours do to.

That was a rabbit trail that I hope encouraged someone. This new season in my life is going to be filled with exciting things. One of them being spit up, unwashed hair, and post partum. The other, navigating my way through that, learning my son, and hopefully doing a lot more traveling! I hope to continue to inspire you to live your best life in every area, and I hope you continue to follow my journey as a woman pursuing to live well in every area and learn along the way. There will be the usual health, wellness, recipe, fitness, style posts along with my new journey… pregnancy, post partum (follow me on my journey to getting my body back), watch the mishaps and joys of a a new mama, baby and mama style inspo (because let’s face it and rumor has it…a good outfit may just save the day from absolutely loosing your beans…or at least a little lipstick to go with my milk soaked tank top), recipes for not only you but baby and really whatever inspires me to inspire you! I hope to have fun with you sharing my lifestyle, items I love, what works for me and everything in between. I hope to bring you not only beautiful images (why else do we scroll through anyone’s insta?…jk but kinda), but also real, raw, life moments (why else do we read anyone’s insta?…jk but kinda). There will be times of beauty and times of rawness (I don’t like the word ugly ) Balance is a life well lived. Living well means process not perfection. Living well doesn’t mean having it all together. It means each day you wake up and purpose to get on your path and do at least 1 thing towards your emotional, physical, relational, spiritual and mental well being that is for the better….and sometimes that looks like getting a shower in..or taking a nap…folding all the laundry in one sitting. Other days that means getting that business deal, kicking butt at your work out, being able to say …”Wow…i’ve nailed some discipline in my life”, cooking a bomb diggity meal, dressing up for your person looking sexy as ever and having the most amazing night…whatever it looks like and however you live….live well.