Last week was a BIG week in my house. But before I dive in I want to remind you about something I mentioned last week.
Last week I shared a story about a client we are calling Nancy. Nancy had never experienced muscle soreness in her body so in addition to giving her stretches and exercises to help the bursitis in her hips, I taught her about how we build strength and WHY muscle soreness occurs and is a necessary component to building said strength.
Now, you may or may not know this, but we don’t want to push through soreness. You don’t want to ignore the feelings and signs of discomfort and limited range of motion and just keep plowing ahead. Because the soreness, the pain is a call to action (I talk more in depth about that in THIS PODCAST EPISODE).
Instead, when we feel sore we do light stretching, light mobility, walking, get things moving to lubricate the joints and alleviate the stiffness, and we stay well within our boundaries. We allow our bodies time to heal and repair. Because strength is built in the repair (more to come on this soon).
So, as I mentioned last week was a big one in our house. Cameron started daycare! He barely napped while there and it took a lot to figure out how much milk to send. I sent too much, I sent too little, we are figuring it all out! Needless to say, Cameron was WORN OUT at by the end of the week.
I feel a couple of things. And I feel them all 100% (yes, impossible AND 100% true).
I 100% LOVE knowing I have time for myself during the week. Time to work, time to move my body, time to do things one at a time, TIME for time. I love the freedom and the space to be with me!
I 100% hate being away from him. I feel like my arms have been cut off. I spend a lot of time wondering how much he’s eating and if I’m pumping the right amount at the right times. I’m worried his short naps at daycare will affect his nighttime sleeping (it hasn’t). I miss him.
Emotionally, I am sore AF. It is so hard to be away from my baby! It’s hard to be away from my baby when I don’t want to be away AND when I do! It’s all so hard.
And honestly I am sore from the whole transition to being a family of four! There has been so much change, so many transitions, not enough sleep, so many tantrums, so many tears…
So Jeremy and I decided for our 5 year wedding anniversary, which was also last week, to go to a spa. It was his last week of parental leave, our anniversary, Cameron’s first week of daycare, we needed a massage! And a sauna! And pools! All of it! THEN we went out to dinner! BY OURSELVES!
Friend, I ate a HOT meal at a somewhat reasonable pace and drank wine and cooked none of it and cleaned up none of it. Yesterday, was heaven,
We took the time while we had childcare for both boys to rest and recover. We slowed down, rested, laughed, lightened up, and most importantly, we came back stronger.
As always, I’ve got your back. I’ve got your front. And I’ve got your undercarriage.
Xo, Alissa