#191 Kelsie Brown

Kelsey, I wanna go back a little bit, um, to what you were saying about just, um, shedding kind of that former self.

Mm-hmm.

Um, was it kind of like an identity loss at that time where you were like, "I, I was so into fitness.

Now don't even have an interest in it"? And...

Very much so.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

A- and I think about that often too, actually.

Um, it, it brings me peace to know that if something happened to me where I could no longer do this work, like, I could still find peace and joy in these other things.

'Cause for during that time, I kinda learned how to do that.

And obviously I'm finding joy and fulfillment from my children, right? That was, like, the big thing at that time that I would pour my energy and everything into.

Obviously, that's why I was in that situation, was I had my kids, and then my whole life started revolving around them, um, which in that season of early motherhood, that's, um, kind of just n- how it happens, right? Um, and, and I don't necessarily think that that's a healthy, sustainable way to live.

Um, at this point I feel like I have a lot more of myself.

I feel like I am who I am, and I have, my kids have more independence, and I'm like, I feel like I'm thriving much more in my motherhood now than I was in those early days and years when I was 100% ... pouring into just motherhood, and that was-

Mm-hmm

... kind of all I had, and I really lost myself.

I was very, um, it was a mentally really challenging season for me.

Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

I can ima- I mean, um, I, I've heard these stories before, but with like, for someone who sees you, meets you, it's very easy to, I think, jump to conclusions and think that you've, you know, you've always been in great shape, and you've always-

Yeah

... been into fitness, and it's never been hard for you, et cetera.

And so-

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