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Resocialize Your Media Challenge

Resocialize Your Media Challenge

Posted on: June 6th, 2017 by Amelia

Do you sometimes feel like your social media is a vacuum? Do you feel like you’re pouring your heart out trying to connect with people, but nobody responds? The changes to the algorithms on Facebook and Instagram mean that fewer people than ever are seeing your posts, and you likely have fewer likes and less […]

Postpartum Fitness

Getting My Post-Baby Body Back

Posted on: June 6th, 2017 by Amelia

Fit4Mom Body Back Session Diaries: The Beginning When I was pregnant, I made myself a promise that I would get myself into better shape after having a baby then I’d ever been before. I said this partly to comfort myself as I ate half a pint of Ben & Jerry’s every night for 3 months […]

Florida SUP Yoga Teacher Training #AtlantisMermaids

Florida SUP Yoga Teacher Training #AtlantisMermaids

Posted on: June 6th, 2017 by Amelia

Well, we just wrapped another incredible week of SUP Yoga magic. Over the past four years, I have had a roller coaster ride of experiences with hosting events in the state of Florida. Florida, with it’s warm water and beautiful beaches, also is renowned for it’s unpredictable weather – case in point, it’s the lightning […]

Colorado SUP Yoga & River Adventure Retreat

Posted on: May 16th, 2017 by Amelia

Colorado SUP Yoga & River Adventure Retreat August 17 – 20, 2017 Grand Lake, Colorado Join the Stoked Yogi Tribe for a long weekend at the headwaters of the Colorado River for a SUP retreat that centers the mind and challenges the body. On the calm water of Grand Lake, find peace through meditation, balance […]

How to Heal Your Vagina After Childbirth

How to Heal Your Vagina After Childbirth

Posted on: February 8th, 2017 by Amelia

Yo mamas! I’m writing a blog post about vaginas. That is super weird, but hey, we gotta talk about this stuff with our sisters, right? I am (at time of writing) four months postpartum and just now feeling like everything down there is back to normal… for the most part. There’s still a little question […]

Postpartum

10 Things No One Told You About Postpartum

Posted on: January 26th, 2017 by Amelia

After delivering a baby, most women feel a big sigh of relief, and overwhelming gratitude – both for the presence of their child, and the fact that they are no longer pregnant. Hooray! The first few days float by in a blissful haze of feel good hormones, leftover adrenaline, and baby gazing. And then reality […]

breastfeeding newborn baby

Welcome to the World, Tanner Travis: A Birth Story

Posted on: December 5th, 2016 by Amelia

It’s been two months since my sweet son Tanner came into the world, and I am finally finding time to sit and write his birth story. I hope it will encourage and empower women who are expecting a baby. I feel like there is a lot of fear mongering in our society around birth, and […]

pregnant woman looking at belly

The Pregnant Recluse: Third Trimester Antisocial Tendencies

Posted on: September 26th, 2016 by Amelia

38 weeks and 4 days. Last week, I had to check myself out of social media because I was simply overwhelmed, overstimulated, and oversensitive to everything on my apps – particularly Facebook and Instagram. Though the majority of my pregnancy has left me feeling somewhat antisocial, these last few weeks I literally have no desire […]

10 Weird Pregnancy Symptoms No One Ever Told You About

10 Weird Pregnancy Symptoms No One Ever Told You About

Posted on: August 21st, 2016 by Amelia

In case you didn’t get our pregnancy announcement, here’s a news flash for you: I am pregnant! Thirty three weeks pregnant, to be exact, and getting rounder every day. My normal sassy walk has morphed into a sultry waddle, and that’s not the only change taking place in my body and mind. Let me be […]

How to Make a Text Image Mask in PicMonkey

How to Make a Text Image Mask in PicMonkey

Posted on: August 18th, 2016 by Amelia

Recently I was working on some site updates for my friend Shannen over at Gypsea Yogi and we wanted to create a fun new header for her blog without breaking the bank. She wanted something that felt beachy and vibrant, but still looked clean and announced to readers what site they were visiting. Shan was feeling […]