Coach Kirstin

Holidays can be challenging.  I don't really have to tell anyone that.  You get family together celebrate.  Some people show up that you hoped wouldn't, others don't show that you wanted to.  Holidays are filled with memories.  Memories of celebrating with family that may not be around anymore.  Add all the cooking, travel and everything else and its just always so much fun.  Thanksgiving was a holiday I intentionally choose not to travel for.  Especially living in DC.  The place become a ghost town.  With Thanksgiving on a set day, travel become predictable and expensive.  So for the past 13 years of living here, I gladly spent the day with friends.  Until I started dating someone who would become my future husband.  Talk about adding a new level of stress to the holidays.  Hardest part is figuring out how to share the holidays.  You come up with some notional  schedule that neither side is truly happy abou...

I'm writing this post about 2 weeks before I plan on publishing it.  Why?  Because I am 10 weeks pregnant and we have not announced it yet.  Things are going well (knock on wood) but I am 36 so I am just being cautious before we tell the world.  But I am struggling with accepting my body as it is.  There are a couple of factors playing into this.  First, I had a scar treatment on the old (21 years) scar on my knee.  It was supposed to break up the scar tissue and make it better.  It didn't.  It opened up the old scar in multiple places.  After one round of antibiotics, a lot of cleaning, butterfly bandaids and not bending it, it is almost closed.  11 weeks later.  Second reason, I am beyond exhausted.  I read that you will be more tired the first trimester of your pregnancy but wow.  I am struggling just to make it through the work day.  Going to the gym almost seems impossible.  On a regular, I am taking a ...