12/11/2025
Exploring some new traditions. ✨✨✨
My baby girl received a beautiful, handmade advent calendar that is filled with trinkets, books, pieces of clothing and toys. Each pocket, we open daily and give the content of it a meaning, a purpose or a memory.
Inspired by this daily ritual, i decided to sit with my own gifts. The inner ones, however. You know… (the youzh ) where I am, where I came from, what I’ve learnt and what I’m grateful for. 😌
Here is DAY 1.
8months postpartum
As a pregnant mover in her 40s, spiritual seeker and a yoga studio owner, the algorithms went full force on my socials. They moulded my confused, prenatal brain as I was grasping to the brief shadows of my old identity and trying desperately to celebrate the new. Great idea, I thought. The social media offered success, belonging and self worth through a number of charts, expected milestones (both for baby and me), super mom business etc…sigh.
I could go on forever about the privilege, hypocrisy and damage of it all, but that’s not what we’re here for 🙂.
I wanted to say, dear body, I love you. You move, feel and look very differently than you did before pregnancy. As. You. Should. You are incredible. I will do my best to catch my negative self talk, and stop trying to erase the fact that you produced the greatest source of happiness and growth I will ever know. No more bouncing back. We are leaping forward. And boy, am I excited for this.
If you got this far, thank you.
If you’re going through shifts in your life, I see you.
Big love,
Hana