Strength+Grace for every season

If you aren’t feeling like you got the chance to perfectly and neatly wrap up 2024 with a lovely little bow… 🎀 … me either! 😆

Despite what social media and the fitness industry may have you believe, the holiday season, including the New Year, need not be the end-all-be-all of all your hopes, dreams, and intentions when it comes to health and wellbeing!

So, if you’re still wrapping up the holidays, a vacation, time with family and friends, or just haven’t gotten around to all of the goal-setting and resolution-making a new year seems to compel so many to engage in, that’s actually fine!

Maybe it even means you’re taking some much-needed time to reflect on the past and think critically about what you might realistically hope to do in the future.

Perhaps it means that for once, you’re giving yourself counterintuitive (& counter-cultural!) permission to get off the perpetual hamster wheel cycle of “not-enoughness”, knowing that attempting to be perfect from the strike of midnight onwards only perpetuates an unsustainable cycle of inevitably getting stressed or falling behind and feeling disappointed or defeated (again).

So in the spirit of acknowledging wherever you may be, and allowing for curiosity of who you might become, I’ll wrap up 2024 with a quick summary of the last 6 days of the fitmas challenge!

This challenge was in no way perfect. I fit it in while we were planning and hosting a viewing and funeral for a loved one, living out of a hotel. Everything was all over the place for about 10 days (food, routine, sleep), and while I knew I didn’t have a lot of time to devote to working out, I also knew that some regular movement would be an anchor to manage my stress levels and help me practice self-care to show up better for those around me.

So that’s just what I did. A treadmill walk here, a jog there, a peloton ride (hotel gym score!) on occasion, and these simple 5-10 min fitmas movements! ✅ 🎄

How can you anchor yourself in 2025?⚓️ 🤔