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GYLF = Get Your Life Fulfilled. A community for vibrant, sensual, strong women thriving through midlife. Divorce. Narcissistic abuse. Reinvention. Identity.

Autonomy. Connection. Let’s talk. Let’s thrive.

10/14/2025

Reflection: Clarity and Connection

There’s a kind of strength that comes from seeing things as they are—without illusion, without resentment, just truth.

For years, I mistook control for partnership, busyness for power, and compliance for peace. Now I see that clarity isn’t comfortable, but it’s freedom.

I’m a work in progress—learning to rebuild trust, not in systems or titles, but in myself. The power to choose, to protect, to guide, to love with awareness.

Because when we begin to see clearly, we not only free ourselves… we free the generations watching us.

10/12/2025

🪶Gratitude Without the Gloss

“Today is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.”

Gratitude isn’t pretending everything’s perfect.

It’s grace in motion — the quiet strength to face what is and still give thanks.

To be grateful without gaslighting yourself means honoring all of it — the mess, the lessons, the light breaking through.
Be where your feet are.

Rejoice not because life is easy — but because you’re awake to it.

10/11/2025

💥 WHY BOOT CAMP?
Boot Camp isn’t punishment — it’s power training for life.
It’s where structure meets sweat, and community fuels confidence.
Every round builds strength, balance, and belief.
You’ll push past limits, laugh through the burn, and remember what your body’s capable of.
And if you’re over 50?
That’s your superpower. 💫
Because movement now doesn’t just keep you fit — it keeps you sharp, steady, and strong from the inside out.
No drill sergeant, just a crew that cheers you on.
Let’s move, breathe, and rise — together.
✨ Movement is freedom. Get it. Life fulfilled.

10/10/2025

✨ Reflection: Seeing My Blind Spots
A few days after my birthday, I’m realizing how much I thought I knew… and how much I’m still learning.

For years, I believed I had control. I was called “the boss,” but that title kept me distracted and reactive—away from what was really going on.

It’s taken time to see how often I blamed myself. The truth is, I didn’t know what I didn’t know. Awareness starts when we stop pretending we already see everything.

Now I’m doing the hard work of releasing the old programming—
the doubt, the fear, the victim energy that’s lived in my body for decades.

It’s not easy work. It’s confronting. It’s humbling. It hurts.
But every time I choose courage over comfort, I reclaim more of me.

If I sound like I’m bragging, know this: it’s survival, not ego. Strength isn’t perfection—it’s persistence.

We can be strong and soft, grieving and growing, uncertain and unstoppable.

✨ Reflection:
Where are you finding the courage to face what you didn’t see before?

10/08/2025

Today I celebrate my 59th birthday 🎉

Practice what you preach. 💪
The first thing I wanted to do was show up for me.

Pull-ups, squats, presses, and a 3:36 plank — because the real gift is strength, presence, and purpose. The results run deep — physically, mentally, spiritually.

To everyone walking this path with me — keep showing up for you.
Because your best life doesn’t happen by accident. It happens when you choose to live it.

Thank you for all the well wishes✨

10/06/2025

✨ Monday Musings ✨
For over three years, I’ve started my week teaching the 8:15 class — and every Monday, it reminds me of infinite possibilities and the power of gratitude.

In a world that feels divided, threatened, and disconnected, being in a room full of humans who show up — week after week — to breathe, move, and grow together is priceless.

Through Source Code Meditation and presence practice, I’ve learned how easy it is to drift away from my own humanity — to merge with my environment, to detach as a way of protection. But I’ve also learned that what we think protects us can actually hold us back.

When we silence ourselves out of fear — fear of retaliation, rejection, or conflict — we shrink. We allow ourselves to be treated as less than human.

Standing up for yourself isn’t rebellion. It’s remembrance. It’s the act of returning home to your being — to the truth that you deserve respect, dignity, and to be treated as a human being, not a pawn.

Come back to your body. Come back to your breath. Come back to your self-respect.

10/05/2025

“The Weight We Carry”

Sometimes it feels unrealistic not to carry it all at once — the responsibilities, the emotions, the expectations.
Putting some of it down can feel like weakness, a cop-out, or even unacceptable.
But here’s the truth: when you start believing that you matter, that your peace and well-being count too, it changes everything.

That belief doesn’t just heal you — it ripples outward. It shifts how we show up for our children, our communities, and the world. 🌎

You don’t have to carry it all perfectly.
You just have to care for yourself like you already care for everyone else.

💫 Get Your Life Fulfilled — because when you rise, we all rise.

10/01/2025

✨ Nearness is Strength ✨
I don’t drive the bike — I’ll be a passenger. And honestly, that’s what Psalm 73 reminded me of: I don’t have to steer every twist and turn.
There was a time I wondered if living a heart-centered life was worth it, especially when others seemed to win by cutting corners. But stepping back into God’s presence gave me perspective — the “ease” of the self-serving is temporary. God’s path is steady, even when it feels hard.
Like riding as a passenger, it’s about trust. Letting go of the need to control and allowing God to guide my path.
💎 Envy drains, but God sustains.
💎 Bitterness blinds, but His presence restores sight.
💎 True strength isn’t in the driver’s seat — it’s in trusting God, my forever shelter.
“How good it is to be near God.” — Psalm 73:28

PS: practicing my Canva skills too 😉

09/30/2025

✨ Know Your Worth ✨

When we aren’t taught how to:
• Stand up for ourselves
• Manage money wisely
• Recognize and release toxic behaviors (ours and others)

…we fall into the trap of repeating the same patterns, expecting different results. That’s when crazy-making begins.

This cycle can leave us feeling unworthy and hopeless—opening the door for others to take advantage, exploit, and use us. When retaliation, tit-for-tat, or silent withdrawal becomes the response, the dysfunction only deepens.

💡 The real question becomes:
How do you value yourself?

Owning your worth means stepping out of these cycles. It’s choosing clarity over chaos, boundaries over burnout, and truth over excuses.

You are worthy. You are enough. And when you know your worth, you stop giving discounts.

09/29/2025

✨ Monday Motivation – The Power of Practice ✨
When you show up with focus, you train more than your body—you rewire your brain. Each movement is an invitation to breathe deeper, push further, and discover what you’re capable of.
Even when it feels intense, staying cool and steady allows you to build strength without burning out. That’s the real power of practice: learning to do hard things with grace.
It’s not about being perfect. It’s about showing up, one rep, one breath, one practice at a time.
💫 Get It! Life Fulfilled.

09/28/2025

✨ GYLF Journal Entry – Sun-day, September 28 ✨

Today, I pause to give thanks to God. 🙏
I am conscious to let go of self-punishment. No longer will I carry the gnawing feeling that I’ve done something wrong or that I deserve to be punished for past mistakes.

Instead, I release shame and guilt into His hands. I know that God’s grace is greater than my past, and I choose to walk in that freedom. Every choice I made was part of my journey, guided—or misguided—by what I knew at the time. And still, I was never alone.

Today, I step forward lighter. I embrace compassion for myself, and I trust that God’s love covers me, renews me, and strengthens me. 🌿✨

💭 What are you ready to release into God’s hands so you can walk forward with grace?

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