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FIT4MOM - Newsletter
- The MomCo Winter Garden
- Jan 20, 2024
- 3 min read
FIT4MOM West Orlando
Hi everyone! My name is Kelly and I am the owner and founder of FIT4MOM West Orlando! I am a mom to two amazing daughters, Victoria and Camille. I am originally from St. Louis, MO, moved to Tampa, FL in 2016, was introduced to FIT4MOM Tampa in 2019 after I had my first daughter and moved to Orlando in August 2021. When I learned there was no FIT4MOM here, I knew I wanted to build an amazing community of mamas here!
UPCOMING EVENTS
Let's take a break from being a mom & relax with Appetizers/desserts and take a dip in TJ's hot tub.
Please bring an Appetizer/Dessert to share (comment in the discussion section what you can bring if you are coming).
Also bring a swimsuit and towel.
Can't wait to relax, enjoy good food and company together.
We hope to see you there.
Thurs, Feb. 1 at 6:30pm - Meetup 10 @ Horizon West
Sometimes we get so busy taking care of others that we forget to think about our own well-being. Let’s talk about the most common stressors and solutions in the areas of emotional, physical, social and spiritual wellness. Bonnie Gray is a soul care coach and author who helps women detox from stress, worry and anxiety so they can find their spark of joy again. RSVP
Join us at Tori's house for Galentine's & our favorite things night. This event in so much fun!! We get to share goodies with each other and eat sweet treats and take home 3 of someones favorite things.
Please Bring 3 of your favorite items to participate in the swap: (examples are things like: mascara, lip balm, candle, snack, chocolate, hand scrub, make up, gadget, etc.) Bring them wrapped up in bags or wrap.
Each of your 3 items should value $5. So 3 $5 items you will bring and you will receive 3 different $5 items to take home.
Please sign up in the discussion section with your food/beverage you can bring to share that day also. See your sweet self there
Thurs, Feb. 15 at 6:30pm - Meetup 11 Combined @ Horizon West
Passion doesn’t let us settle. Understanding our identity, embracing our calling and practicing good rhythms are foundational themes that will help us not just settle for what IS in our marriage, but instead to work towards what could be. Gabe and Rebekah Lyons are authors and ministry leaders who have been married for 25 years and are raising four children. They share openly about their own marriage and encourage each of ours. RSVP
Let's go play with the kids at Lollipops indoor playground located inside the West Oaks Mall. They do require socks so don't forget to bring socks for you and your children. You can wear your own or they have some available for $2 each.
Parents are free, children are $12 for 2 hours of play.
We can't wait to have some fun together here!
The easiest way to find lollipops inside the mall is to park in the middle where the main entrance is on the right side of the mall walking in you should see the merry go round, food court, AMC theaters,etc. once you walk to the middle of the mall pass all of that. Take a left and walk down and you should see it on your left about 5 stores down.
Mon, Feb. 26 at 6:30pm - Meetup 10 @ Downtown
Sometimes we get so busy taking care of others that we forget to think about our own wellbeing. Let’s talk about the most common stressors and solutions in the areas of emotional, physical, social and spiritual wellness. Bonnie Gray is a soul care coach and author who helps women detox from stress, worry and anxiety so they can find their spark of joy again. RSVP
EXTRA INFO
Thank you for your desire to be a part of MOPS/MOMSNext Winter Garden (Soon to be TheMomCo)
! Here at MOPS, we gather and support moms. We believe in the simple but revolutionary idea that remarkable things happen when moms come together.
This is the year to make some moves. Say “Yes.”
Register HERE.
Please refer to our Google Sheet for your POD assignments and food rotation schedule. When it is your turn to provide food, please put what you will be bringing or if you will be chipping in money to help contribute. If for some reason you cannot make it to the meeting, please drop off your food to someone else in your POD.
See schedule HERE.
FIT4MOM - CONNECTION QUESTIONS
What kind of exercise do you enjoy? Are you a power exerciser or a gentle restorative mover?
How have you seen exercise positively impact your mood, emotions, and stress levels?
Share one reflection with your group regarding this workout experience (example: one challenging aspect, one enjoyable aspect).
What is one "take away" from this experience you hope to continue to explore or process?
DEVOTIONAL
Be Strong
As I stood with my daughter at the starting line of the 5K race, I reminded her of our running strategy: slow and steady. Yet as soon as the gun went off, she forgot our game plan and sprinted off like a cat with its tail on fire. When I finally caught up to her around the one-mile mark, she was spent. Barely moving forward, she begged to sit down or walk the rest. Sensing a life lesson in the making, I reminded her of our original agreement: we could jog slowly, but we wouldn’t walk. She scowled, but continued to plod along. Ten minutes later, with another mile still to go before the finish, her attitude took a turn for the worse. “I can’t go ANY further! This is too hard!” she howled as 80-year-old grandmas and moms pushing jogging strollers overflowing with kids passed us with ease.
“You CAN do this, and you WILL do this,” I reassured her. “Repeat after me: I am tough. I am strong. I can do this.”
“I am tough. I am strong. I can do this,” she repeated back to me.
We sang this simple cadence back and forth to each other until our feet crossed the finish line together a short time later. “I told you!” I cheered, “I knew you could do it.”
I knew those affirmations would carry her across the finish line because they’d worked countless times in the past for me when I found myself pushed to my physical, emotional or spiritual limit. For me, it’s in my darkest head spaces when I feel exhausted, weak or in pain. When I cry out, “I can’t DO THIS ANYMORE!” I hear God’s voice the loudest. Sometimes he speaks the hard truths that I won’t listen to until I’m too tired to cover my ears anymore. Sometimes he reminds me of seasons when, with his help, I overcame struggle or humbled myself enough to reach out to others. But most often, he plants the simple reminders in my heart he made to me. He knows me better than I know myself – so when he says that “I’m tough enough and strong enough, and I can do this with his help,” I should believe him.
God created us and knows us inside and out. In his mercy, in his word, in our hearts, in our bodies, and through our relationships, we have all the strength we need to rise up and embrace the tough, strong mothers we are. Each morning, as we get out of bed, thank God for another day to live and breathe and simply be. We can choose to hear his loving cadence singing in our ears, “You are tough. You are strong. You can do this!”
Surely you have instructed many, and you have strengthened weak hands. Your words have upheld him who was stumbling, and you have strengthened the feeble knees. Job 4:3-4
Questions:
What area in your life do you feel the weakest most often? (Physically? Emotionally? Spiritually?)
What is God encouraging you to do to strengthen that area of your life?
Stacey Morgan (staceymorgan2000.com)
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