After almost two months of full baseball ⚾️ and soccer 🥅 this momma is kind of free!!! Happy to be back to my happy place in my backyard with the most beautiful human beings!!! I’m baaaaack!!!

I was uncertain if I wanted to do this challenge, but you my friends inspired me to do it. I don’t know how many challenges I have done with this beautiful family 7 or 8 too many…
My goal was to do at least 30 workouts but I ended completing 43, feeling proud and accomplished, certainly does not look like my first boards that had all the marks and hearts, this one is humble and it shows other side of Lizamary and for that I’m thankful!!!

Hello dear family:

I was slightly absent for about a month of my M/Body Routine just because life it’s been busy. Between Baseball travel/rec, soccer rec/travel playoff, championship games,tryouts for the upcoming season in fall and dance for my two minis it’s been a rollercoaster!!!

On May I was ready to start again and my youngest got sick for a week, 4 days later this momma got sick (Mother’s Day weekend) 3 days later my oldest Antonella got sick the same week she had dress rehearsals and 2 recitals back to back the same day my youngest Nelson Antonio got a stomach bug virus that last for 4 days, my husband was out of town so I had to deal with everything that week. But I survived and last week was the last week of school so it was a crazy month. Oh boy it was hard, but I kept my cool and I am so proud of myself.

Instead of get angry about the situation I was grateful because we were able give them sports experiences and they are excelling and are outstanding players, grateful because my daughter loves dance as much as I am and I can see her grow in such beautiful art. Grateful because even though we were sick we were able to recover pretty soon and we didn’t ended up in the hospital.

Grateful because I have this amazing community, that I know I can count of them…I was absent in the chats this whole month (now you know why) but every night you guys are in my thoughts and a little prayer for you goes to heaven you all are so important to me.

I’ll celebrate my M/Body 3 year anniversary this month (spent two months doing Marnie YouTube’s videos before my subscription and catched her on her free Saturdays live on IG back in March 2020). So hopefully you can see more of me and my Antonella girl, doing the workout with me.

Love you so much!!!

Hi beautiful family!!! I’m Lizamary some of you know me some of you don’t, for those that don’t know me I’m from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 living life in Florida!!! I have a beautiful family 2 kids a girl Antonella and a boy Nelson Antonio. If you have been here for a minute you might heard Antonella’s name in some of the LIVES. She wants to take Danni’s job lol.

This is my challenge number 6 or 7 not sure but I’m a member of M/Body since June 2000. Like many of you I discovered Marnie in one of the video of POPSUGAR and instant love. I did those videos like 50 times before I joined the tribe at the time that I join it was like 4or5 videos that the platform had, but I was so happy.

My kids love Marnie and Danni and my husband love them too, we are fans…lol

I take very serious all the challenges that M/Body does, but this one was tough, hard and raw, not because of the workout, one of the reasons was exhaustation as simple as that!!

This one was an email that I sent to Marnie.

(Hello my girls!!!

Like Marnie says “it’s been a minute” since my sweat sesh selfies, or post about my workouts on IG. I have been doing the workouts as my best of my abilities. I’m doing 30 or 45 minutes workouts just because that’s what at this moment fits in my life. This challenge, my number 6th it hit me different in many ways. Juggling between my work, home, being a momma, a wife, friend, extracurricular activities, getting ready for this coming season; I’m feeling overwhelmed and don’t know how to manage so many things at the same time.

I’m feeling empty, (not supposed to feel that way) or am I allow to feel this way?

I’m meditating, writing in my journal and I’m reading motivational books. Nothing at this point is helping. Sometimes I feel that I was in my best during the pandemic (even tough I almost ended up in a psychiatric hospital lol) until I found you.

Just to let you know that I’m doing all my challenge activities and show on the mat even though I cry for 20 or 45 minutes trying to hide those tears from my babies or in my best days I complete the workout!!

I’m a little ashamed writing this because I’m the one who loves to cheer and motivate all my M/BODY global family!!!

Only Beáta and Monique are the only ones who know how I’m feeling because the reach out to me. These girls are gem. This family is everything.

Thank you for taking your time to read this!! Love you so much!!!)

Well I received the most beautiful message from Marnie and that message gave peace and joy.

(Sweetest Girl,

Thank you for writing such a vulnerable, honest and powerful email. Once again you are showing up heart first and I admire you so damn much! The fact that you are feeling empty and able to express it is important. YES! Of course you are always allowed to feel anything, Emotions give us important information and we get to choose how to use it. You chose to connect and grow from it, and that is one of the million reasons you're so amazing.

It sounds like you might be dealing with burnout/exhaustion. I don't know how you couldn't be with all you're carrying! Please be gentle with yourself. Keep doing the self-care activities, reading books that inspire you, writing in your journal and moving your body. Don't feel like this has to take all your time either. You only need to do even 5 mins of each, but do it daily.

When you get to the mat, give yourself permission to spend that time the way you feel you need to on that given day. If you do at least 5 mins of a class, consider it a victory. Let the workouts remind you of your strength or even just to tune into yourself. If the tears come, let them flow. Salt water heals all. You are evolving and healing and that growth takes time (it happens millimeters not miles like we say). Just keep connecting with people who remind you to keep dreaming and who lift you up!

This challenge probably feels different because you're ready to be challenged in these new ways. I am so proud of you for all you've done to get here and where you're going. You have so many people who are right here for you. I'm so grateful for you and love you so much!

Please keep reaching out to all of us. We want to be here for you like you're always there for us!

Love, Marnie xo)

I’m sharing this with you because is important to know that we are not alone. That we need some times to lean on someone. (which for me is hard)

That we are not less or weak if we ask for help!!! Even super heroes need to rest so do we!!!

Love you my beautiful fam!!!

Hello my beautiful M/Body family.

Thank you for all the support messages and DM's that I have been receiving from you, asking me about my family in Puerto Rico.

If you don't know, now you know that, I'm a proud Puerto Rican living in Florida, for 15 years.

All my family including my mom live in that beautiful island that once again was beaten by Hurricane Fiona. Unfortunately they are reliving what happened 5 years ago with Hurricane Maria.

Physically my family is fine, emotionally I don't think they are okay, but one of the things about us, about Puerto Rico is that it doesn't matter how hard life treats us, we are going to say “estamos bien” (we are fine). They are okay, no power yet… but okay, they have food, water, fans, tv, ice, they have a generator so that’s good. Nothing happened to my mother's house. The hurricane covered the south area where my husband's family live.

That area is very affected with lost of flooded damages!!

I know that this page or community is for talking about wellness but not just wanted to share with you.

Thank you for reading it.

Sending so much love!!!

My momma (I miss her so much, I’ll see her during summer) and my Island Puerto Rico.

I can do everything!!! Probably with some flaws and not at the same time, but I can do everything!!

Be careful when Marnie says “low impact” that doesn’t mean is going to be a ride on a carousel. It means you’ll feel the burn and ended up with a kick on your ass by her. That’s all…thank you!!! Gotta love Marnie!!

Supporting my family from my desk!!!