My Story
MY STORY
If you checked out my about me section, I gave you the run down. But I am so so so much more than those little bullet point lemme tell ya!
I am a confidence preaching self-love queen, but I am also a mom (of a kid & two cats), a wife, and a new Registered Nurse in the float pool of a trauma hospital. I live in beautiful Monterey, California where I was lucky enough to be born and raised. I try my best to live my life out of being intuitive. I recently switched over to intuitive eating & exercise (watch my YouTube video about why i quit macros here). I eat what I want when I feel like it, and I do the same thing when it comes to exercise. I do everything from lifting weights & HIIT cardio to hot yoga & running.
And while this is the life I currently live… I used to be an overweight, depressed, self-hating, fast food addicted girl that never exercised a day in her life.
If you were to go and look at my Instagram page (feel free to do so but come back and finish reading this!), you would likely see a young woman that is confident and full of self love. But what you don’t see is every step along the way that it took to get to that point.
I’ve had a lot of not so ideal circumstances in my life.
But with all of the things I faced, I did not let them break me. I was resilient.
I grew up with a functioning remarried alcoholic father, a mom I didn’t see very often, and a childhood that catered to my blossoming fast food addiction, loneliness and all the things in between.
I overcame self-harm at age 12, drug addiction at age 15, and the not so ideal teen pregnancy at age 17.
I had my daughter when I was just a child myself when I didn’t even know who I was.
Together me and my husband grew up and did the damn thing because it was the only option for us at that point. But it wasn’t easy, that’s for sure.
After having my daughter, Torrin, I continued to seek food for comfort and became so unhealthy in every way imaginable (physically, mentally, emotionally). When my father passed away from a heart attack, I had to kick it into high gear to take back my health. That brought on a whole new round of struggles.
I’ve done hours of cardio, tracked my food on My Fitness Pal, weight trained 6 days a week, weighed every ounce of my food, trained for powerlifting, and almost everything in between. But no matter how much weight I lost, or how strong I got, I wasn’t happy.
I had a reality check (more like an extreme depressive mental breakdown) during nursing school that made me realize I had to change my tune.
So I developed habits to embrace my body, become more positive, and to just be HAPPY.
And I am even more happy that you are here so I can share that all with you.
