Rachel Semmens

This was hard. Truthfully, everything has been hard lately. For many people, we surf Instagram and follow all the people who have {what seems like} it all figured out.

The perfect mom.
The perfectly fit 30 year old
The ladies with the perfectly designed houses with the perfectly placed decor.
The women with the perfect hair, perfect smile perfected makeup application.
The people who seem to be all around perfect.

And we sit and wonder, why not me? What is it that I’m doing wrong?

Well let’s get real:

Recently, about a month and a half ago, our family had a curve ball thrown into our lives. Suddenly what felt stable, wasn’t. Now don’t worry everyone’s okay, but my day to day routine crumbled. Suddenly I felt overwhelmed, over tired, over worked and really I went into survival mode.

I have spent years building a business centered around how health and fitness breads positivity in your life. Literally, I preached “when in doubt workout!” And suddenly when life got a hard I bailed on myself.

So today I decided to be with myself and everyone else....

It’s✨okay✨to✨not✨always✨be✨okay.

Let’s take that a step further...

It’s okay to not be 𝑷𝒆𝒓𝒇𝒆𝒄𝒕

It is also okay to give yourself grace when needed. What isn’t okay, is staying down. It’s been a long month and a half but it’s time to pick myself up and get going!

Today, I spoke to how I plan to do that and give some tips on how you can too!

I urge anyone else who needs a pick-me-up or a little Nudge in the same direction to reach out.

Watch till the end, I promise you I mean what I say!

Thanks for the support for all those who have sent DMs checking in and the ones who have helped nudge me back to

Ughhhhhhhhhhh 🤦‍♀️ {insert biggest eye roll of life}.

So how many of us have been there?

How do I get back to how I looked before? Diet pill, hardcore 6 week boot camp, starvation, breastfeeding, marathon stroller walks... the list goes on!

But it’s the same for all of us!

As soon as the high of having just given birth to this amazingly beautiful new born baby goes away.... that’s when it happens!?!?!

That daunting realization of all the extra skin, empty space and pulled apart muscles & the stretch marks start to creep in?

WTF? Why does this happen?
How many of you have been asked by someone how long it took for your body to go back to “normal”? I mean I’m almost certain when I was pregnant I asked every mom this question myself?

The moment we can, we hop right back on the workout train and push ourselves to our limits just so we can fit back into some jeans?

I mean don’t get me wrong, I wanted my body to go back to “normal” as fast as humanly possible! I wanted to not feel gross or like my body wasn’t my own! I get it! But I wanted it so badly I didn’t show my body the love and appreciation it deserved!

So often this is the case...

Mommas!!!
We grew a 👏 freaking 👏 human👏

Let’s say that again.

You grew a tiny human inside your body!!! Your body literally did this amazing thing by moving all the things out of the way in order to make this miracle!

I saw this quote on someone else’s insta story and it got me thinking. Let me preface this with: exercise and eating healthy is great for you and there is nothing wrong with wanting to get back to feeling like yourself post babe! Trust me I was that women... but for me all I can think of is how sad it is that we don’t give our body the praise that’s so well deserved. Nor do we give ourselves the grace we deserve.

I have been lucky to have been given the opportunity to have 2 beautiful babes. It did not come easily and there were definitely struggles after, but every stretch mark, umbilical hernia repair or extra inch around my waistline was absolutely worth it!

Tag a momma who could use a gentle reminder of how amazing they are!