Madalyn Ziongas

New blooms coming this fall 🌷

It’s multiple birth awareness week- so here’s my two bundles of joy and at many times bundles of tears 😂 this has been by far the most difficult season my life has ever seen. It’s been the most incredible and difficult assignment my body has ever been tasked with and it’s been the most stretched my sanity has gone and fullest my heart has gotten. This is an entirely different ballgame but one I don’t intend to lose. Happy To all the mom’s of multiples- you’re fu***ng amazing ❤️

First day back to hot yoga class. I was nervous as hell. Also excited to be back in my space. This is my HOME. My soul just always feels at home in my yoga practice. It’s the same feeling I felt when I first stepped on a mountain in Virginia and when I was having a random dinner one night with Thomas when I went to visit him 12 years ago- I knew I would marry him. Like I knew I was where I was meant to be on that mountain and in that yoga flow.
None of my yoga clothes fit me right now, I haven’t seen everyone in what seems like forever and I’m still healing my abdominals and a ton of other things that wrecked me this pregnancy. But I finally found my way home.
I walked in and everyone looked at me like.. where the hell have you been. Everyone was so kind. After the initial ok I’m back and moving forward I got on my mat and just found myself face to face with myself. I always choose the front row in front of the mirror. Idgaf, I like to see my work. It’s hard looking in the mirror and seeing someone totally different. Physically and mentally. And probably spiritually too. Setting aside my ego I promised myself I wouldn’t compare myself to others: just to the girl I was yesterday or five minutes ago. The music started, my flow started, and bammm tears. Lots of tears.
There is nothing like it. The energy of all these souls, the peace I find in moving my body this way, the uplift of the music, the words, the breath. It’s indescribable.
*I’m incredibly grateful for this moment*
This past year of pregnancy and post partum and going from the mom of one to THREE overnight has come with so many lessons.
1. Appreciate your body now- what it feels like, what it looks like, how it operates. It could change tomorrow.
2. You should only be in competition with yourself- the person you were yesterday, nobody else.
3. Your body is intelligent and it doesn’t like being fed your bu****it- metaphorically and literally.
4. It’s okay to have feelings even if they are not what others deem as ideal. It’s ok to mourn your life and body prior to kids and still be absolute in love with your life and children.
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While we were snapping a few cute pics in we ended up running into the most awesome group of photographers that snapped some great pics for us 😍 thanks and I loved them! If you are in the Charlotte area check out he is amazing and so kind!

See through the lens with a little bit of flower power and a lot a bit of love 🌻

Thankful for the friendly reminder today, that today just may be the good ol days. You never realize it until it’s too late so keep this one as a snap shot in your mind 📸saying goodbye to the Bradford store today. A gem with a special place in our family’s heart. End of many cycles and beginning of new.

I can’t explain the gratitude and love I felt walking into this baby shower. Absolutely overwhelmed. These girls put so much heart and love into yesterday that made me feel entirely wrapped up in love. I can’t believe I found you amazing women. You keep me strong, humbled, growing, happy, and clearly always laughing. I love you guys so much ❤️ thank you for making me feel so loved and just simply for your friendship ❤️

See ya later ocean ❤️ next time we come back we’ll have three kids 🤯 mind blown is an understatement because for so long we were certain that Emory was it. I love big families but honestly didn’t want to go through all that comes with it even though when I was younger I used to want 6 kids. Funny how things change when you realize what goes into raising PEOPLE 😂 but slowly I felt that sadness that Emory would be all alone and my courage kicked in and my love grew and my heart expanded and on New Years this past January the only thing I said I was going to do this year was “let love and life grow and go where it needs to go”- guess the universe saw an opportunity to pop two babes in there and now we are complete ❤️

🍉Heartburn hack🍉
Watermelon helps rebuild the hydrochloric acid in your stomach that you need to break down proteins, activate important digestive enzymes, and help keep bacterial overgrowth away. I always have heartburn when pregnant and as soon as I notice it coming on I grab watermelon and it completely subsides. So if you’re pregnant or just have heartburn, try this healthier option and see if it works for you 🍉

The journey of womanhood and motherhood is in so many ways elegant and beautiful and I feel like we step into this natural fluid grace at times, where we are so connected to our divine purpose and capabilities that we feel like absolutely nothing at all could separate us from this knowledge and feeling. That’s where I’m trying to stay. Of all the feelings I’m feeling about this time in my life and the challenges that it is or may present me, I’m working in overtime to not let the material world, the false narrative, steal what was divinely given to me. And by overtime I mean sitting and just knowing. I just want to be still~ and know. Without the complications of the mind and ego.

Woman are graceful, majestic, beautiful, wise, creatures, but don’t forget we are also powerful, mystical, vigorous, keen, and exceptionally discerning and clever creatures. The world needs more of what you have but be alert for the propaganda telling you otherwise.

You are the embodiment of the divine, a literal portal to the earth side, and you mirror the uniqueness of that essence. I know that’s how I feel in this moment at least and I hope you always do as well ❤️