Katie Moore

Life is quite the adventure lately.

Trip to cincy for wedding festivities 🫶🎉
Danced our booties off!

Trip to FL to be met with an impending hurricane 🌀🫠
Gonna make the most of it! 💪🙃

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The sunflower festival yesterday was great after a rough mental health day on Saturday. So so beautiful, and the kids had fun!

Reminder: feel your feelings. Give yourself so much love and grace. I don't always remember to, but I'm worth it, and so are you 🌻💚

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the first picture is from today, and the second is from 7 years ago - just one week after giving birth to my older son.

In that second picture, I was so proud that I had "bounced back" so quickly. I was excited to show people that you don't have to gain a bunch of weight during pregnancy. I even posted about it on my Instagram (personal page, and it's been archived).

But I wasn't healthy.

I was orthorexic, isolated, and highly anxious about doing anything that deviated from my "healthy" routine of activity and eating habits. It's basically all I thought about besides Elijah's eating and sleeping schedule and the way-less-than-needed amount of breastmilk I was producing. I was a mess.

Today, I'm healthy, happy, and strong.

I still have some food anxiety that I'm overcoming, but I'm leaps and bounds ahead of where I was then. I have deep relationships and can go with the flow with relative ease. I can go out to eat and find healthy options without obsessing. I can sit still without worrying about how it will affect my weight. I breastfed that baby until he was 4 and now breastfeed my second, who is 2.5. I do different workouts or sometimes none at all and still feel good about my fitness.

On top of those things, I have a regular menstrual cycle for the first time in my life without birth control. I rarely get sick when I used to get everything that was going around. And I am happy with my weight even if it fluctuates or I weigh as much as or more than I did before I started prioritizing my health. My depression that I've had since childhood is gone, and my mom rage is at bay.

This didn't change overnight, there wasn't one thing that made everything better, and it took a lot of work and trial and error.

If you're struggling with anything that I was, I'd love to help you. I'd love to save you time and effort by helping find rhythms that work for you - to get you back to feeling yourself.

comment 💚 and I'll reach out to connect

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Six months ago today, I moved from Cincinnati, OH to Roanoke, VA for my husband's dream job. I loved my new home, neighborhood, gym, exploring the area with my sons, and I even started making friends right away. But I was lonely and craving deeper connection - that's the only reason I could think of as to why I started having su1c1dal thoughts. I've been dealing with depre$$ion since my parents got divorced when I was seven, but I thought I had it under control through my healthy lifestyle and the healing work I've been doing. 

That's when I finally said yes to a friend who'd been sharing about USDA organic C🐝D and how it had helped her wean completely off m3ds. Antidepre$$ants didn't help me enough to consider using them again after I quit them 15 years ago, despite many periods of suffering since then. (*not a recommendation to quit your m3ds)

Within two weeks of starting C🐝D, those intrusive thoughts left 🙌 within four weeks, I felt like myself - something I've experienced only for short periods since I was seven. Now I feel like myself most of the time - it's like a veil was lifted.

Right around that time, I became very aware that deep issues within my marriage that had been present for years were still weighing heavily on me. My husband was aware of this and of what I was going through. However, a conflict brought those issues to a head, and I no longer believed I could ever feel emotionally safe in the marriage. After a couple of weeks of contemplation, I chose to leave my 14.5 year relationship. Another veil was lifted.

Life is difficult and heavy still, but I feel different - better than I ever have. I have more hope for my future than I ever have, despite having only rough ideas of what it will look like. I'm finally confident that I can and will not just be okay but thrive.

I don't know what you're going through, but I know most of us are suffering in some way. If I can help ease that, please let me.

Want to talk healthy lifestyle? C🐝D? Healing? Share relationship stories? Talk about our kids? Just have someone to talk to who will listen? 

Drop a 💚 below or shoot me a DM 🫶

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while I loveeeee time with my kids, a kid-free weekend can be such a gift ✨️

I finally got my tattoo that I've wanted since the end of June!!!!

the same day, I also got caught in the rain, but even that was wonderful because my sweet neighbors loaned me a cat umbrella 😻

yesterday, I got to hike for the first time since Father's day - it is truly my happy place and also the space I feel the most safe to reflect and feel things fully. (You'll see my big smile and my healing tears)

I also got lots of mushroom pictures!!! 🍄 they're just one of my favorite things lately!

I'm so refreshed and ready for the week and the wild energy in the air propelling us into greatness!!

how was your weekend? are you excited for the week ahead?! I'd love to connect 💜🤗

I know I’m right where I’m meant to be. I have a wonderful community, I have a wellness routine that supports my whole health, and I’m just so grateful!

If you’re looking to uplift yourself and your wellness routine, comment 🌱 below, and I’ll share my routine with you!