A Sunday Morning Prayer for Feeling Good

Hi Friend,

Happy Sunday. I’m writing this morning with a full heart. My Sam turns 5 tomorrow, and as I think about her growing up, and her little brother starting 3K, I just can’t believe how fast time is passing. It feels like just yesterday I was a year into launching my own business, having left a soul-killing corporate job that was safe and comfortable and provided a regular paycheck for my family. But I knew I was called for more. And I know you are, too.

In the past week alone, I've onboarded new clients, including a couple who have joined the nutrition challenge. I've been doing so much with my Bump to Baby community and am so excited to be offering a free community class every first Sunday of the month! I'm also now friends with the Authentic Birth Center's community event every first Wednesday of the month. As I've talked to all these women, I've been so, so aware of a bigger struggle that we all face.

There is so much left behind in women’s health. We’re onboarding women with eating disorders or a history of them, women with Hashimotos, women with PCOS, and women who just want their kids to be proud of them and struggle because they want to eat chips and candy with their grandkids. Women need help.

We're not being told everything about our symptoms, and we're definitely not being told how to control or manage them through nutrition and exercise. Not that it's anyone's fault, but exercise and nutrition have shown time and time again to be effective in managing, preventing, and sometimes even completely reversing a lot of the things that affect women.

And in the postpartum community, the lack of information is even more apparent. Statistically, many women can't even make it to their one six-week appointment, and for those who do, they're often told they're "good-to-go" without any information about how to truly recover or "return to normal"—even though their entire normal is now different than it ever was.

So we're lost. We're left searching on our own for what to do to get pregnant, or lose weight, or manage perimenopause or menopause symptoms. We’re left wondering if potatoes are making us fat, or how we can lose weight and still eat cake at our kids' birthday parties. We’re left with bloat and gut issues from trying to eat perfectly, which just stresses us out and makes us more tired—and the cycle starts all over again. We need sustainable, real solutions. We need habits, actions, and processes that work with our real lives and don’t require us to do everything and be everything. We just want to feel good in our bodies and be healthy.

The solution isn't on Google. If it were, you would have already found it and be doing it. But knowing and doing are two different things. Coaching, accountability, and a community that is cheering for you feels good and gets results. And you deserve to feel good.

I want better for you. I want you to feel proud of yourself and to navigate your diagnoses with confidence. I want you to feel clear and still go out to eat sometimes and be social and have a community. I want you to feel good about not refusing something that your neighbor baked you because you're afraid it's bad for you.

The 12-Week Performance Nutrition Challenge starts September 20th. Let’s find sustainable solutions. Let's make the kitchen the heart of the home, let's work out and be strong, and let’s set good examples for our kids and everyone around us. Let’s be proud of ourselves and our choices and know that we're doing everything we can to prevent future diagnoses and chronic disease.

Let's love ourselves, our families, and make a better world.

And just in case you need a place to start, I'd love if you reached out and we found something that works for you and what you need and want.

Maybe this email is more of a Sunday morning prayer than a newsletter, but let’s do good, and feel good, and be good.

With strength and purpose,

Laura