SamanthaLynn Wellness

05/16/2022

This is 2! This kiddo brings the light everywhere he goes. Curious and clever, he most definitely keeps us on our toes. Loving anything with wheels but especially lawn mowers, Levi never misses a lawn mower!

We are grateful that Levi's second year has been filled with community... Indoors even! We are so grateful to be surrounded by folks who love Levi like he's their own. Our social butterfly is happiest when he is with his people and his introverted parents are doing their best to keep up 😉 Levi you bring us more joy than words can express and remind us to notice the simple things, like airplanes in the sky and little bugs on the ground - whether they are in fact bees or maybe actually ants, your awe and wonder is grounding for us all! How lucky are we? ❤️
Thank you to for capturing this sweet moment at our market today. ❤️

12/02/2021

I will be teaching three classes this winter and would love to see you there - registration opens on the 8th! Check out the activity guide for program descriptions.

Join me for:

Interval Training - pg. 19
Girls' are Powerful - pg. 17
Family Movement - pg. 17

The City of Waterloo ActiveWaterloo Guide (formerly the Program & Activities Guide) promotes leisure, arts, cultural and athletic opportunities offered by the city, region, community organizations and local businesses to make Waterloo a great place to live and work.

05/19/2020

Happy due date day Levi! This morning I was reminded I had an appointment for a stretch and sweep that in the bustle of welcoming new life I had forgotten to delete from my calendar. You joined us early in the morning on May 15th exactly how we hoped, home and surrounded by love and support from our fabulous midwife and absolute blessing of a doula . Labour, although the hardest thing I have ever done was also empowering and body affirming in every way; the ultimate trust builder and healer of old narratives I was still holding onto about my body's worth and value. This was possible because of the loving hands that guided us through the wild ride of birth with consistent reminders that we all were safe and extra hands to squeeze. Welcome to the world Levi Coulter Cook Germann, we are so glad you're here ♥️

05/11/2020

"What kinds of relationships am I cultivating? Am I cultivating relationships with people that would love me and celebrate me and cheer for me if I put on a significant amount of weight, if I became disabled and was in a chair, if I'm already in a chair and became more disabled and was on a permanent ventilator? Am I cultivating relationships with people where as my body ages they're going to see that as this beautiful gift of wisening into my years, are we able to share real, big challenging questions with each other and to play and laugh or is it always about what we are or aren't eating, about our bodies and if my body were to change or someone else's body were to change would they no longer be apart of our circle?" - Dawn Serra (episode #239 - Food Psych Podcast)

04/17/2020

We ❤️female centred movie casts! We’re screening oceans 8 using zoom (participants will use the chat box only to communicate). No access to Netflix is required!

Send us an email/message to register and we will send you instructions on how to join the fun. Cis and trans girls, non-binary and two spirit youth ages 12-17 all welcome!

04/11/2020

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self-abandonment can be defined as the act of rejecting, suppressing or ignoring parts of ourselves. it’s about dismissing our needs and desires. it’s about attempting to avoid existential human questions around death, life, meaning, emptiness, etc. I like to think of it as a move away from self. from being intimate with the complexities of all of who we are.

we abandon ourselves because we were not taught how to be with ourselves. instead, we were modeled/taught/reflected by our caretakers and society that some of our needs and feelings are not ok. as a result, we didn’t learn the tools and skills to make our internal world not just tolerable but understandable.

being in this limbo quarantine state has made me become more aware of all the ways I leave myself. whether it’s through addictive patterns, numbing techniques, consumerism, reactivity… there are so many ways I am terrified of being intimate with all of my messy parts.

as my dear friend writes, “what happens when we realize that all our consumption was simply our effort to avoid an emptiness that we now have to feel?” so now I find myself asking… does this {insert activity or behavior} bring me closer to myself or further away?

and I try to be gentle with what I find. being human is complex because of course we are allowed to leave ourselves. sometimes it’s the only thing we know how to do when staying feels intolerable. but then what?

maybe… healing self-abandonment is not about punishing ourselves when we leave, but learning how to be gentle with ourselves on the return journey. maybe it’s about cultivating a soft place to land when we do return. maybe it’s about integrating all of our parts so that we slowly no longer need to leave in the first place.

04/09/2020

34 and a bit weeks and we are growing! Also this is my favorite section of our house so this is really just an excuse to show it off 😂 shoutout to and .ink for their artwork that makes me smile daily. ♥️