Flower child🌺🌸💐
This was a bath to remember to say the least :) It was beautiful on the outside for sure, but week 24 of pregnancy brought on mood swings and hormonal changes like I’ve never experienced in my entire life (just ask Alex🙈). The smallest, tiniest thing would set me off and send me into a world of irritability I couldn’t shake. Tears, angrier, sadness. It was all there in the middle of the most beautiful place on earth. Embarrassed, I’d try to hold it all in but knew those wild emotions had to be released. Some days are more graceful than others, and I’m still processing these changes both on the outside and on the inside plus what it means to be vulnerable physically and mentally right now. All of this to say...never not in awe of this beautiful life within me, kicking inside my belly as I type this💕 @fsborabora #babyk #borabora
Love at first flight💙
Almost all lodging @fsborabora is via overwater bungalow, and if you ask me...ya don’t come to the middle of the South Pacific to stay on land💦Waterlogged is the goal. Missing this paradise right about now. Can you spot me?! #borabora #frenchpolynesia
Unplugging was insanely refreshing. Just us inside the destination doing what we love. I’ve thought about my childhood a lot during this time and how grateful I am to have not grown up glued to a screen. When we were bored as kids, we either sat with ourselves or went outside to play. We didn’t grab for a phone at every idle moment. The privilege of a free mind is everything. That’s how I feel about this photo. Young-ish, wild and ✨free✨at @fsborabora, a place that’s always been on my bucket list. #borabora #frenchpolynesia #babymoon
When Alex proposed in February, we began planning a trip to French Polynesia for our honeymoon. We wanted a completely new destination that neither of us had visited before. As fate would have it, the honeymoon turned into a babymoon instead, all okayed by my doc👶🌙This was our final international trip (and only our second in all of 2020!) before we meet our new addition in early March! It was important to both of us to go and focus on each other...away from the news and social media. A lot can happen in 12 days, and we came back to a very different country than what we left. After 3 negative covid tests in a 10 day span, I’m beyond grateful to not only have had the chance to get away and unplug from social, but also to work. As you know, my career is rooted in travel so to be overseas with @fsborabora was a dream. Tapping back into the creative mindset that I’ve missed so much was rejuvenating in every sense of the word. What a privilege this was. To everyone in French Polynesia, thank you thank you thank you🙏 #babymoon #borabora
Hi again👋We just made it back from a blissful babymoon! A lot has change since we left 12 days ago. State mandates, colder weather, and so much more. In my 8+ years on this app, I’ve never taken a proper break. It is, after all, a large part of my job to post here...but it can hold you hostage if you let it. I’m proud to say I haven’t edited a single photo from the trip yet, so here’s a sunny maternity shot for the time being🥰
Signing off of everything felt like any detox does. During the first couple of days, the urges and the cravings were real because the sheer act of pressing that multicolored icon has become thoroughly intertwined with everything I do in life - from waking up in the morning to one last scroll before bed. As I hold my phone, my thumb always hovers perfectly over the icon, only millimeters away from mindlessness. The habit was so bad that I had to move the app to the very final page on my Homescreen the last week. Sad? Yep. But something tells me I’m not alone in this.
This week, I want to prolong that sense of freedom and gratitude. I would LOVE y’all to join me in this 5-day challenge to get gradually better *together* - all meant to be flexible with your life/schedule. Each day will build on the previous, and tomorrow we start by simply waking up a little earlier :) For the last 10 days, I woke up at 5am. Maybe not what you’d expect on a babymoon, but the benefits tho😍Much less stress with that extra time, a better sense of clarity, more “you” time, and my favorite of them all: Sunrise. I’m not saying it has to be anything drastic, just earlier :) See what happens when you do it and don’t reach for your phone right away. Save this post to reference the itinerary and use #LimitLesTogether on IG Stories so I can repost! I’ll be going live tomorrow on IG at 8am CST for a morning coffee date☕️See you there!
