Rise & Align Challenge: I am so excited to join my M/BODY Global Fam in another challenge! During the school year (I work in a school) and with my child’s current extracurricular schedule, I have been averaging 2 classes/week (but daily classes over winter break when I was off work felt fabulous). My goal for this challenge is 4 classes/week, and if I get 5 classes in a week I’m calling it a Badass Bonus.

I’ve successfully been able to strive for 60 workouts in 60 days in the past and even 5+/week in another former M/BODY Challenge, but I am aligning with my self-knowledge and understanding pushing for that will create stress in the process for me at this time. I want to focus on maintaining hydration, sleep, and follow the inward nature of winter so I can be ready for the energetic swing of spring without it feeling so jarring. I’ll be celebrating my 4th Marnieversary (Palentine’s class!) during this Challenge, and in these almost four years I’ve left an unhealthy marriage, been separated and divorced, and I made a friend who I intended to be just a special friend (and was sharing all about that FWB early on during a M/BODY girls weekend!). He has joined us for three Planksgiving classes and has gone from special friend to boyfriend to fiancé. Todd and I got engaged under the full moon on the 2nd of the month (Molly M’s bday)! It will be a long engagement as we are both parents and I promised my child during that awful separation a few years ago he will ALWAYS have a safe and peaceful home with me. While Todd has blended well into that, I am not ready to merge households. He has understood and respected my child will always be my top priority; we may wait a few years, or many years, but knowing we’re both fully invested in our partnership is special. I love how I can anchor into M/BODY during all of the highs and lows of life.

Due to my work schedule and busy family weekends I wasn’t able to catch a Live class to share this fun update until the start of our Challenge. Thank you for all of the kind words in that class! Cheers to everyone setting personalized goals for themselves this Challenge, and cheers to those who are catching classes when they can if a Challenge does not align with their needs this time around. Thank you Marnie, Katelyn, and M/BODY Team for creating this!