I randomly came across your page & this post and resonated SO much with this. While I’m not a mom yet, the job struggles and lack of writing lately and all the other jumbled thoughts are so there. While this isn’t a recent post anymore, thank you for writing this, as it motivates me to just *share* for the sake of consistency and growth, even if it’s not “perfect” or tied up in a bow like I’d like it to be. 🤍
This resonates with me too...I've been on a health journey the past year trying to get my body in balance after baby #2 and the start of perimenopause (at age 38!). It took a while to figure things out but I'm in a much better place. I'm not sure of your age but it's possible you're getting into a period of more turbulent hormones which can happen many years before menopause. Getting on bioidentical estrogen and progesterone have totally turned my life around. I'm also working on diet and gut health, blood sugar and cholesterol. So much! But it does compound in the positive direction once you figure out what your body needs. Best of luck to you as you move through this difficult time <3
I feel like this is exactly what I have sitting unfinished in multiple drafts trying to process this tension with writing online. It’s weird but feels like my writing creativity and drive just dried up. Like it used to flow out of me and now the rarely happens. And it’s sad because writing is how I have always processed things, but I also can’t quite pinpoint the root cause either. But I’m glad to have a friend in you who gets it ❤️
And thanks for the personal behind the scenes updates! I can relate to wanting to make diet changes but still falling back into emotional sugar eating 😞
Did you read my prayer journal this morning? Your comment is very close to everything I wrote there 😅 Yes I have like five drafts that are saved but went no where. I feel dried up but maybe this is a season of listening for me not speaking. What do I have to say? Everything in my life is shifting and it’s all God. He knows what I don’t know.
That's so true. I think for me, becoming a mom shifted my identity so much and it's like I'm a new person and I still haven't fully processed it enough to be pouring out. But I definitely need to be better about embracing this and listening instead of pressuring myself to go back to creating more!
Chanel, this was a lovely read for me this morning. Thank you. I hear what you say about the sharing of our vulnerability online, and really value your honesty about PCOS and the impact mental and physical health have on one another.
Thank you so much. I would like to write more on the topic of mental and physical health tying together but right now I have all the archives open if you want to scroll back to November. I had a big guest series on mental health.
I randomly came across your page & this post and resonated SO much with this. While I’m not a mom yet, the job struggles and lack of writing lately and all the other jumbled thoughts are so there. While this isn’t a recent post anymore, thank you for writing this, as it motivates me to just *share* for the sake of consistency and growth, even if it’s not “perfect” or tied up in a bow like I’d like it to be. 🤍
Thank you for letting me know this resonated. I always feel less alone when someone comments something like this and I’m glad you feel seen!
This resonates with me too...I've been on a health journey the past year trying to get my body in balance after baby #2 and the start of perimenopause (at age 38!). It took a while to figure things out but I'm in a much better place. I'm not sure of your age but it's possible you're getting into a period of more turbulent hormones which can happen many years before menopause. Getting on bioidentical estrogen and progesterone have totally turned my life around. I'm also working on diet and gut health, blood sugar and cholesterol. So much! But it does compound in the positive direction once you figure out what your body needs. Best of luck to you as you move through this difficult time <3
30 years and two years after baby
I feel like this is exactly what I have sitting unfinished in multiple drafts trying to process this tension with writing online. It’s weird but feels like my writing creativity and drive just dried up. Like it used to flow out of me and now the rarely happens. And it’s sad because writing is how I have always processed things, but I also can’t quite pinpoint the root cause either. But I’m glad to have a friend in you who gets it ❤️
And thanks for the personal behind the scenes updates! I can relate to wanting to make diet changes but still falling back into emotional sugar eating 😞
Did you read my prayer journal this morning? Your comment is very close to everything I wrote there 😅 Yes I have like five drafts that are saved but went no where. I feel dried up but maybe this is a season of listening for me not speaking. What do I have to say? Everything in my life is shifting and it’s all God. He knows what I don’t know.
That's so true. I think for me, becoming a mom shifted my identity so much and it's like I'm a new person and I still haven't fully processed it enough to be pouring out. But I definitely need to be better about embracing this and listening instead of pressuring myself to go back to creating more!
I still think we will coauthor something one day. But when that day is and what for I do not know.
Motherhood is very strange. You think it won’t change you but it is an expansion of everything in you, yet the world sees it as a reduction.
Yes, I feel like we're in such similar seasons and i'm curious to see where we end up and how we grow through this!
Chanel, this was a lovely read for me this morning. Thank you. I hear what you say about the sharing of our vulnerability online, and really value your honesty about PCOS and the impact mental and physical health have on one another.
Thank you so much. I would like to write more on the topic of mental and physical health tying together but right now I have all the archives open if you want to scroll back to November. I had a big guest series on mental health.
I will do just that!
Regarding tidiness, I know I have trouble writing if I can’t come up with a beginning, a middle and an end.