“I just need to figure out how to stay consistent.” These are the words my husband said the other morning that may have altered the course of my year. A few weeks ago, as I was reflecting on 2019 and setting goals for 2020, one theme kept coming up for me and that was acceptance. I will talk more about this in a separate post, but it occurred to me that for the past six months or so I had been fighting a battle against my current situation and it was exhausting.

 I started Healthy Wife, Healthy Life last June because I wanted to share my experience with disordered eating and exercise obsession and how I finally found balance and help others do the same. Shortly after launching however I found out we were expecting Baby #2. Initially I was thrilled that I would have even more content to share, but this pregnancy proved to be a little different than my first throwing me way off my normal routine. In addition, my husband had taken two promotions at his job requiring frequent overnight travel, I accepted a new contract position, and I had my hands full raising a very strong-willed 3-year-old. All of this left me feeling frustrated, exhausted and if I am being honest resentful at times. I kept looking for a solution that would give me more time to work on my business and get back on track with working out and cooking healthy meals, but it just wasn’t there.

During the Christmas season, I was participating in an Advent program and one of the daily videos talked about how as humans we tend to overcomplicate things and become easily overwhelmed when often our biggest problems can be solved with really small solutions. That was it – it was like a lightbulb went off and I realized all the frustration and anger I had been experiencing could be solved with one small solution… acceptance! I simply needed to accept that I was in a difficult chapter of life and although things were hard, by focusing on gratitude, I could alter my reality. I mean I am pregnant with a healthy baby boy, my husband has a job that allows me to stay home with our kids, and I was able to secure a contract position that allows me to contribute financially to our family… How could I possibly feel resentful?

 All this acceptance however had me considering if I needed to accept that perhaps it wasn’t the right time to continue to try to run a social media/blogging business…  and then Jeff said the words “I just need to figure out how to stay consistent” and that was it – I knew what I had to do. I owed it to myself and all of you who have continued to follow and like my page to continue my mission of helping people understand that living a healthy lifestyle doesn’t have to be complicated. I have accepted this will be a slow transition back to regular posting with baby boy due in eight weeks, but I am thankful for all of you and if I can help one person find balance and  understand what it means to stay consistent then it will be worth it.