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Be Happy!

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Be Happy!

  

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I did it. I went to the doctor and dare I say I h I did it.

I went to the doctor and dare I say I had a great time?

My OB/Gyn has stopped taking patients and I have been hesitant to find a new doctor. Why? Because there are so many doctors that are fatphobic and your girl is sensitive. Why? Because I try really hard to take care of myself but I’m the person who puts everyone before me.

The kids need something? Done.
I get overwhelmed with life? I stop caring for me and just handle the basics.
Kids sick? They get taken care of. 
Husband sick? I take care of him.

But the second something comes up that interferes with me taking care of me, it takes priority and my health takes a back seat. And when you’re plus size, people assume you’re lazy, have no self-control, don’t move, etc. But then add having #hidradenitissuppurativa on top of that and I get discouraged.

Today I had my annual Pap smear that was x years overdue. The nurse was fantastic. The NP I saw was amazing. She’s the first practitioner I’ve seen that knows about HS. I walked out feeling like a person who deserves to be cared for instead of fighting to calm a budding panic attack.

They treated me well. And I appreciate that.

I hope that this encourages someone to make an appointment and treat themselves as the priority you are.

🫶🏾🫶🏾🫶🏾
I’m gifting myself the best INTERNAL version of I’m gifting myself the best INTERNAL version of me this year.

I’m hypercritical of myself and that leads me down roads that have me looking at myself in a different, not great light. But I’m putting my foot down this year. For my 40th birthday, I’m gifting myself unconditional self love. I wish it were as easy as a click but it’s not.

It’s going to take work and undoing a lot of unhealthy mindset habits. But if not now, then when?
Us in a nutshell… me doing something crazy while Us in a nutshell… me doing something crazy while my husband is completely unbothered by my shenanigans.

I love being my own #marriagegoals.

📸 @jnicoledidit & @iambhowell wedding
✨m o n d a y m o r n i n g v i b e s✨ My we ✨m o n d a y  m o r n i n g  v i b e s✨

My weekend was too short but it’s because I enjoyed it so much.

I didn’t think my marriage could get healthier or better then what it was but it does. My husband and I have been having deeper and harder conversations—well not really harder. But we’re really putting more work into some areas that need it like our mindsets surrounding money, how we contribute to our household and kids and more. It’s been SOOOOO good unraveling some of the damaging mindsets that we have around a lot. We’ve created this safe space that allows us to be open, vulnerable and honest around things that many marriages struggle with and I’m excited.

Saturday we talked all day and then I cut out a Valentines inspired quilt. Sunday we had a birthday party for one of BCs besties and we got to hang with our homies. I just wasn’t ready for those good times to end.

I’m still not feeling 100% but today I need to film a sew a long for my newest pattern drops and I’m pretty excited about that too. Two things that I cannot live without right now are my @rcherbals Sinus Clear and my @seed Probiotic.

How was everyone’s weekend???

👚 @messinabottle
Rise and shine loves. Time to start the day. 😘 Rise and shine loves. Time to start the day.

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Can I share something that’s hard for me to admi Can I share something that’s hard for me to admit?

The hardest part about being plus size is my kids.

They’ve never made me feel uncomfortable—so it’s not them necessarily. But kids are mean enough as it is and there are a lot of days I feel bad because I’ve given them something else to be teased about.

I think this is a part of plus-sized motherhood we feel, we brush under a rug and don’t speak about. But I was talking to my husband the other day about some hard stuff and this came up. We were raised in the “yo mama” generation which was all fun and games. But this generation is different. They can be so cruel—and it’s not just the kids.

Adults take pictures of people living in bigger bodies working out, eating, walking, minding their business and people love to show their fatphobia on these posts. When Mini proudly takes pictures of she and I or just me, I slightly cringe on the inside because I don’t want to be a reason the kids make fun of her.

But I do it anyway.

I do it for the little girl who is being made fun of because of their size.
I do it because I deserve to enjoy taking pictures with my womb fruit.
I do it because beauty comes in all shapes, sizes and forms.
I do it because I receive the messages that thank me for existing publicly and seemingly proudly as a beautiful person in a bigger body.
I do it because even though it can be uncomfortable, I want to.

Anyway… this is just another part of plus size life not many talk about. Be kind. Raise kind humans.

😘😘😘

👗 @messinabottle
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