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09/18/2026

I tried something new last night.

I joined a journaling club hosted by Coach Carrie 🎧 Plucky Not Perfect podcast host , and apparently we were wasting no time getting out of our comfort zones because our first exercise started with writing with our non-dominant hand. 😂

Thankfully, as you can see, I came prepared with enough writing instruments to handle pretty much any creative emergency.

This was my first time journaling with prompts in a group, and I really didn’t know what to expect.

I loved it.

There was something really cool about being in a space where everyone was free to think the way they think, process things in their own way, share if they wanted to, and listen to how other people worked through the same prompts.

No judgement. No trying to fix anyone. No “right” answer.

Just real people talking about real things.

And hearing someone else’s thoughts sometimes made me look at my own from a completely different angle.

I loved the experience enough that I went out and picked up The Book of Alchemy, which is where the prompts we were working with came from.

Apparently I’m doing this now. 😂💜

I talk a lot about strength and taking care of ourselves, but that doesn’t always happen with weights in our hands.

Sometimes it’s giving ourselves enough space to figure out what’s actually going on in our heads.

Very cool experience, great connections, and definitely something I want to keep exploring.

Great job, Carrie. 💜 Thank you for creating such a safe space, guiding us through it and bringing a group of real people together to talk about real things.

Do you journal? And if you do, are you a prompts person or a “just start writing and see what comes out” person?

09/16/2026

Being medically cleared and actually feeling ready are two very different things.

I think we skip over that gap far too often.

You finish treatment, get through surgery, have the follow-up appointment and eventually hear some version of, “You can return to normal activity.”

Great.

But… how?

What if you’ve lost strength? You’re exhausted? You’re scared of hurting yourself? Your body works differently now?

What if you technically can exercise, but you have absolutely no idea what that should look like anymore?

Medical clearance matters. Of course it does. But clearance tells us that a medical restriction has changed. It doesn’t automatically rebuild the physical capacity or confidence that may have been lost along the way.

There’s a whole space between recovering medically and actually feeling capable in your body again.

I’ve lived in that space more than once, and I think we need to talk about it a lot more.

If you’ve been through surgery, illness or a long period away from movement, what did “cleared” actually feel like for you?

Did you feel ready? 💜

09/13/2026

This is what I built strength for. 💜

Not so nothing hard would ever happen, but so I could keep showing up when it did.

Over and over again, movement has been one of the things that helps me find my footing. Sometimes that’s training. Sometimes it’s walking. Sometimes it’s putting my headphones on, turning up the music and moving because I need to get out of my own head for a while.

Sometimes it’s slowing everything down and breathing.

And sometimes it’s a BAM day, when doing something small is enough to remind me that I’m still here and I’m still taking care of myself.

None of these things make the hard stuff disappear. They help me cope with it. They give me somewhere to put the fear, frustration and uncertainty and help me feel connected to my body instead of at war with it.

Every time life knocks me sideways, I have things I know how to return to. Movement, music, breath, the people I love and, eventually, myself.

I used to think strength was mostly about what my body could do. I understand it very differently now.

Strength is also having ways to find yourself again and knowing how to return. 💜

09/11/2026

25 years.

Remembering the lives lost, the families forever changed, and everyone who ran toward danger to help others.

Never forget. 💜

09/09/2026

This was my workout today.

Not exactly setting the fitness world on fire over here 😆

A little movement. A little rehab. Enough to remind my body that we’re still doing this.

This is what I call my BAM. My Bare Ass Minimum.

It’s the smallest realistic thing I can do on a day when my capacity just isn’t there.

Sometimes that’s 10 minutes. Sometimes it’s a walk, one exercise or getting my physio done. And sometimes I have plenty in the tank and I train hard.

BAM isn’t about convincing myself that 10 minutes is the same as a full workout. It’s not.

It’s about getting out of the all-or-nothing cycle that tells us if we can’t do the whole thing, there’s no point doing anything.

Life has given me a LOT of opportunities to test that theory.

Illness. Surgeries. Recovery. Fatigue. And currently, another body plot twist I definitely didn’t order.

I can’t always control how much capacity I have.

But I can decide what I do with the capacity I have today.

That has completely changed what consistency means to me.

I don’t need to be perfect at showing up. I need to keep learning how to return.

Today was a BAM day.

What’s your BAM when a full workout just isn’t happening? 💜

09/08/2026

I don’t want to get back to who I used to be.

And that took me a while to understand.

For a long time, “getting back to normal” or “getting back to the old me” sounded like hope. But my brain doesn’t process it that way anymore.

It feels like denial of everything I’ve been through. Like I’m somehow supposed to undo the surgeries, the cancer, the ostomy, the hernias, the hospital stays and all the ways my body and my life have changed.

I can’t.

And chasing a version of me that existed before all of this actually makes me feel more trapped. Like something was taken from me and the only way to win is to somehow get it back.

I’d rather build forward.

That gives me hope because I can’t control the uncontrollable. I can’t control what happened to me and I certainly can’t guarantee there won’t be more hard things ahead.

But I can absolutely have a say in what I build from it.

I can build strength and capacity. I can learn this body instead of constantly comparing it to the one I had before. I can build a life that works with who I am now and where I want to go next.

That doesn’t mean pretending the hard things didn’t happen. They happened. They changed me.

They just don’t get to make every decision about what happens next.

I’m not rebuilding the old me.

I’m building forward. 💜

09/07/2026

The FINAL Move for a Cause class of the season is happening Sunday, September 20! 💜

For our last session, we’re moving in support of Ostomy Canada Society —a cause that is incredibly close to my heart.

Join us for an all-level strength and mobility class designed to help you move better, feel stronger and be part of something meaningful.

📅 Sunday, September 20
⏰ 9:00 AM
📍 Groundwork Athletics
736 Granville Street, Vancouver
💜 $30 minimum donation

Come move with us and help make our final class count!

DM me for the link to reserve your spot.

Can’t attend but still want to support Ostomy Canada? DM me for the donation link. Every contribution matters. 💜

StrengthForEveryone CommunityInMotion

09/05/2026

There were definitely worse views to have from a hospital room. 💜

But after spending three days looking out at this one, I have a little healthcare rant.

I don’t rant often, but when I do… 😂 And this probably isn’t the rant you think it is.

I’m 6.5 weeks post-op from a parastomal hernia repair and just spent three days in hospital with a complete bowel obstruction thanks to what I’ve affectionately named my “peek-a-boo hernia.” 🙄

But this post isn’t really about the hernia.

I ended up in a downtown Vancouver ER with significant pain and nausea. I handle pain pretty well, but this was a solid 8/10.

I spent about five hours sitting in a chair waiting for the CT that confirmed my bowel was completely obstructed. Until then, I couldn’t receive anything for the pain or nausea.

If you’ve never tried sitting in a chair with a bowel obstruction, I don’t recommend it. My husband’s hand probably wouldn’t either after five hours of me squeezing it. Poor guy. 😂

Once the CT confirmed what was happening, everything moved FAST. Medication within minutes, a bed about 20 minutes later, and fully admitted shortly after.

And the care I received for the next three days was genuinely great.

That’s where my rant comes in.

The healthcare workers weren’t the problem.

I watched staff constantly moving, caring for an ER full of sick, scared and hurting people. There simply weren’t enough of them.

And while doing all of this, they were wearing panic buttons for their own safety.

That really stuck with me.

I can be angry about sitting for five hours with a complete bowel obstruction without pain or nausea medication and still know where that anger belongs.

Not with the people working their asses off trying to care for everyone.

With a system that has allowed this to become normal.

Our healthcare workers are understaffed, underpaid and seriously underappreciated.

Patients deserve better. And so do the people taking care of us. 💜

To the team who took care of me, thank you. I saw you, and I appreciate you.

08/31/2026

Tomorrow, I get a piece of my life back.

After six weeks away recovering from surgery, I’m returning to the gym to train my clients.

I have missed it more than I can say.

The people. The conversations. The laughs. Watching someone realize they can do something they weren’t sure was possible.

This time away has reminded me how much I love this work—and how grateful I am for a body that continues to adapt, even when recovery doesn’t follow the timeline I would have chosen.

Tomorrow is also the official launch of Back to Basics.

The timing feels pretty perfect.

I won’t be returning to the gym as the same person who left six weeks ago. I’ll be meeting my body where it is now and building from there.

That’s what I want for the people joining Back to Basics too.

Not pressure to get back to who you were.

A chance to discover what you can build from where you are now.

I’m excited. I’m grateful.

And I cannot wait to see my clients tomorrow. 💜

If you’re ready to begin too, DM “BASICS.”

08/25/2026

Your September nutrition plan does not need to begin with throwing everything in your kitchen away.

Inside Back to Basics, nutrition is about building habits that support your training, energy and real life.

We look at things like:

• protein and balanced meals
• hydration
• meal structure
• planning for busy days
• small changes that actually make sense for YOU

No detox.

No good-food/bad-food list.

No requirement to eat like a fitness influencer with unlimited time and seventeen matching meal-prep containers.

Strength and nutrition work better when they support your life instead of taking it over.

Back to Basics launches September 1.

DM “BASICS” for details. 💜

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