MICHAEL & KOURTNEY OWENS
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Self. Freaking. Love.

11/12/2020

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Throwback Thursday... to a few weeks ago, when I spent all the days at the beach and the pool. In a two-piece swimsuit. That showed my stomach.
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This time last year, you couldn’t have paid me to do this. My tummy hadn’t seen the sun in 13 years. I was a mom who had carried and birthed 7 babies in 10 years. I had been pregnant or breastfeeding or both for 13 years. I had barely begun the healing process after discovering my secondary hypothyroidism, via a non-functioning pituitary and mega adrenal fatigue.
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Here’s what shifted:
☝🏻 Self. Freaking. Love.
I had to love the body I had and HONOR IT for the work it had done.
✌🏻 ALL the self-care.
I learned how to listen to my body and stop eating foods that didn’t resonate with how God made me. I learned how to move my body as a celebration of what I can do. I learned how to detox, how to nourish, how to rest, and how to HEAL.
👌🏻 Duh! Oils & supplements!
Guys. I would love to say I drank a magic coffee drink or took a magic pill, then lost 75 pounds and bought a bikini. BIG OLE NOPE. I put good things IN my body. I put good things ON my body. I did that every, single day. I used products that put my body in a place to begin to heal itself. And it is! 🙌🏻
So here’s the deal. I’ve lost 45 pounds in the past year. I’m not at my goal. My tummy still looks like it’s been stretched out to fit a watermelon 7 times. I’m still working. BUT the WORK I HAVE DONE and continue to do is only about 10% about my actual weight and 90% about being HEALED & WHOLE... physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually. So, whether I’m at my goal or not, I’m showing up. I was “swimsuit ready” the second I picked out that polka dot swimsuit I loved and put it on my body; the second I laid on the beach in that swimsuit; the second I wore that swimsuit as I searched for sea snails with my 6 year old or splashed in the pool with my 4 year old.
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    Kourtney Owens

    I am a mommy of  SEVEN (yes 7) beautiful kids! They are amazing, wonderful, hilarious & the greatest babies I could ask for! I am married to my best friend & high school sweetheart, Michael. 

    In 2010 I began a blog as an outlet for my writing... and also to talk about how cute my kids were. I had no idea where it would take me. In 2012, after the birth of our 5th child, we began Wonderfully Made Birth. That same year, we received an Autism diagnosis for our 3rd child. A year later, in 2013, we joined doTERRA International as Wellness Advocates. The journey is not easy, but it is ours. Join me as I record our crazy life, inspire other mommas, & laugh along the way!

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