In Sickness and in Health, A new Mama's Trek back to Life

I?m on a mission to get stronger, add more lean muscle and help as many people across the country as I can improve their own health and fitness everyday. For me, in order for this to happen, I?ve got to be physically and mentally fit. My body and my mind have to be in the right place in order for me to be the best wife, best mom, best family member, best friend, best fitness ?inspirator? and quite frankly the best person I can be.

It?s been quite a trek this past year with the overflowing joy of our new baby boy being born, now 10 months old. Our ?Stewart Colton? was a lifelong dream come true, everything we wanted and more. Along with his birth came post labor complications that left me with 4 months of little physical activity and then a surgery this past January that left me with 12 more weeks of a prescribed ?immobility sentence? aside from lifting my son (which, even then had to be negotiated).

There were some very tough days when I would just stare at the walls, hold my son and wonder if I was ever going to recover fully and be able to literally ?jump? back into life again. As trivial as it may seem given the breadth of the situation, one of my worst thoughts of all, that brings tears to my eyes right now, were the moments when I really thought I would never run again. For some of you out there, you might think that this would be great as you don?t like or ever ?want? to run, but you do it anyway or even not. For someone like me who has been running ?for the love of running? my whole life, this was pure devastation and a sense of the demise of my soul.

Time continued to march on, fate stepped in and my husband stepped up. He convinced me that I would get better. He gave me hope when I had no hope left. My husband, the cynic, the self described naysayer, stepped up to the plate and batted what I believe to be the greatest ?homerun? of his life. Because of him, because he was so resolute in his belief in me, I kept hope alive, stayed patient, gradually crawled, gradually walked faster and on a glorious day on March 8th, I ran. I posted on Facebook the next day ?Yesterday, for the first time, since the birth of my son in August, I got medical clearance to run. It was like the Doctor gave me my breath back, my solace and my wings. And to date, it was the best mile run of my life. It wasn?t for time. It wasn?t for a training log. It wasn?t in a race. It was for pure joy. It was for pure love. It was for being in a great moment stride after stride. The next time you run my friends, I wish you this joy, this love and this moment. Sometimes we don?t choose running, running chooses us.?

Oftentimes we get to where we are going because we have the help of those who love us most and the love and support of those who care. It?s a beautiful thing to be able to step back a few minutes in life to appreciate those moments and to truly say ?thank you? to those who help lift us up, especially when we we feel we can?t lift ourselves. I?m still not even sure my husband knows how grateful I feel for his doing this or that he was the very instrument that got me to where I am now, but I will ask him to read this post or perhaps I?ll read it aloud to him (as he tends to not read all the emails I send him;)

I have so many others to thank; my early ?mom group? who listened to my stories, my son who was and continues to be an extraordinarily good, happy, content baby, my ?bonus? daughter who always asked if I needed help or asked how I was feeling and actually ?waited? for me to answer, my mom who came back out to California from Georgia to help wait on me hand and foot and help us take care of Colton, my dad and brother who were always just a phone call away, my in-laws, my best friends and cousins and family who called, my neighbors that brought food and baby formula, letters & cards sent by loved ones, all who visited and brought gifts, food and encouragement, and my clients ? who waited patiently for my return and my 30-Day challengers who made me realize that now more than ever, I have an important message to share. I thank you all from the bottom and top of my heart.

I am FINALLY feeling great, getting stronger than I have ever been and ready to give back my lessons to those of you who need and want to find that strength, that determination and that belief that no matter what, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING YOU PUT YOUR MIND INTO DOING, and of course accept a little help along the way.

Who knows, I may soon be coming after you?if I haven?t already?

My best to you,

Angie

Source: http://angiestewart-gokafitness.com/1859/in-sickness-and-in-health-a-new-mamas-trek-back-to-life/

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