Thankful for another opportunity to love, thankful for another opportunity to live, thankful for another opportunity to celebrate birthdays, anniversaries, and milestones, thankful for another opportunity to become who God has purposed for me to be.

Love your body at every stage. There is the notion that if you are trying to work on yourself to be better, then you must not like who you are now. But two things can exist at the same time. You can love yourself and your body and yet challenge it to be a version of what you see. Let’s look at it this way, you can love your significant other but that doesn’t mean there are no changes and improvements you want to see in them as they progress in the relationship. This is the same for your body.

There are days when I sit and wonder who is this girl

I used to be that girl who never prioritized rest

I used to be that girl who didn’t know how to be still

The girl who considered the art of continuously being busy a lifestyle.

I liked occupying my time with things, every minute planned

After having a baby, you look at the belly and wonder will this bulge ever go away? I know this seems impossible but the short answer to this is yes, there are ways you can do this. There are a series of programs I will recommend that I have come across and some tried that I think will really help you.

When we are unsure we can ask God for confirmation because we are in a relationship with him and so there is nothing wrong with that. On the other hand, it is also true that his needing so many confirmations were from a place of unbelief which he had reason to be skeptical. All that being said, one thing that stands out to me from all this is how God meets us where we are. We don’t have to try to be someone else. He loves us as we are, values us as we are, and cares for us as we are, he can use us where we are and meets us as we are.

I have decided to share more on my journey with DR and my healing process in an effort to be a resource to other mothers who have been through the same thing. I am not an expert in the field but what I share are things I have tried myself and found helpful in closing the abdominal separation. I hope my journey inspires you. Remember, you are strong, you are resilient and you are beautiful. All the best mama’s we’re all in this together.

I will share a few more blog posts about Diastasis Recti and my journey towards healing. DR is something many mothers have but have resigned to living with because everyone says it’s just a mom pooch. I wish there was more awareness about this; I wish someone told me about it early so I could have started treating it the right way. I can’t count how many mothers I have spoken to after childbirth that say they have never heard anything about it.

You see the thing is in life the lens and filters we have in place is how we view and interact with the world around us. We see through our experiences, our pains, our triumphs, our upbringing, our biases, our ideologies, our successes, and failures. It is through these things we view life and choose how we will treat others and how we will approach the situations in our lives. The problem with not using God as our

we are not islands on our own and relationships matter to God. I truly believe that there is a purpose for every person we are connected to, some people are just passing acquaintances, some others become life time friends, but regardless of the closeness or lack of, there is a purpose. This motivates me to want

I was having an interesting conversation with my 5-year-old Yadael today. We stepped out for a quick drive to pick up something and we were out for less than 5 minutes. Although it was the fall season, it was a cold day. As we walked back into the house after the quick drive, she said repeatedly “it’s really really cold” as she wrapped her arms around herself in a tight hug trying to wish away the shivers.