I want to take a break in this chaos of moving to write how much fitness has changed my life. And no this isn’t just going to be about the fact that I partnered with Bodi and their programs. This is going to be about how getting into fitness changed my identity as a mother. […]
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This is a relevant topic this week as Travis and I made our decision to be done with kids more permanent. Before this week, I had spent a lot of time asking other people in real life and on Instagram, (and google) how they knew they were done having kids. I often wondered “Will I
Let’s talk about what it is like to start a family in grad school. Or honestly just to have kids while in grad school in general. I feel like parents pursing a PhD get a bad rap- and I have met a few mothers that give it that bad rap. But let’s get into it.
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Okay time to get a little bit into how I juggle it all. I admit, having a baby while finishing a PhD and moving across the country is not great timing. It is crazy and I felt pretty crazy at times during it. Let’s go back to January. I started working on my dissertation in
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Another Move One of my Soldiers once said to me “I’m uncomfortable when people thank me for my service because I don’t do anything to deserve it”. I thought about this and said “you make sacrifices every single day just be being in the military.” And it’s true. We don’t all fight in a war
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Why a Blog? Okay so clearly I want to change. The goal is to find balance, slow down, live purposefully and enjoy life. So why start a blog? Why add another thing to my already overflowing plate. Well I spent several months of the past year writing a dissertation. This thing was a beast at
Pre-Kids You may be wondering how I got to this point. As I mentioned in my first post, I’ve always been a ‘Type A’ kind of kid. I was always a perfectionist. I grew up in a small town in Connecticut that was definitely rural. We had a property that backed right up to the
Welcome! Hello! If you are here, you may be wondering who I am. These first three blog posts will walk you through who I am, how I got to this point, and where this blog is going. My name is Jessy. I am a wife, a mother, a veterinarian, a pharmacologist, a Soldier and a