Author Archive | Kat Young
An Open Letter to My Mom – My Grateful Heartache of Missing You
How do I begin to write something that weighs so heavy on my heart, knowing you won’t ever get the chance to read it? I guess…I’ll do it to help me. To help someone else. Mom, I’ve been wondering a lot lately, were you scared? When you became a mom? What a silly question, I know. […]
My Go-To Tips for Minimizing the Effects of Seasonal Depression
Honestly, I can’t even tell you how many years I went through this cycle of being OH SO excited for the craziness of the holidays, and then feeling the crash of it all coming to an end every January and wondering why the heck I felt so…BLAH. Anybody with me on this? That thing that many […]
Not One Size Fits All: the Reality of Postpartum Fitness
I remember the excitement I had about becoming pregnant with my daughter. Aside from all the obvious reasons for feeling stoked about being pregnant and getting the chance to be a mom, I was so ready for a “fun” pregnancy – a FIT one at that. I started it out in the best shape of […]
A Better World Starts at Home with Three C’s and One F
I’m sitting here writing this while my toddler crawls all over the upper half of my body. Quite literally, on my face and hanging tight to my neck, and every so often tries to show me that she, too, knows how to type on my keyboard. Right here, right now I’m realizing that this could […]
You’ve Got This, Mama : You’re Doing Better Than You Think!
The Set-Up So… it happened. Out of the blue one morning, I woke up and right before my eyes, I had become.. THAT mom. Okay… it actually probably started on day 1 of mom life, but still. I was just now coming to terms with it. That I had become the mom I swore I would never be. […]
