Being Fit and Blogging About It = Fitblogging

After almost dying and now living with a beatup body, being healthy – body, mind and spirit – is important to me. I take time to be still and to meditate. I try to live intentionally in each moment. Over the past few years, I’ve changed my diet to almost all plant-based whole foods. I run, bike, kayak and do yoga. I also blog and this year I’ve been doing more posts about being healthy … body, mind and spirit.

Which means I’m fitblogging.

Don’t you love how language keeps changing and new words are invented to express what we’re doing? And when I’m doing something … I like to be involved in communities that do the same. And thanks to twitter, there’s many groups to be found.

One group is …

Fitblogger is a website to meet other healthy living bloggers, support each other and get information from other fitness bloggers. Today I have a guest post on Fitblogger. It’s a short piece about my journey after a perfect Kodak morning was followed by an accident that changed my world.

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Also, on the wonderful world of twitter, I connected with others that are into fitblogging. Through the non-stop Katy Widrick, I first heard about …

A conference for bloggers interested in fitness, wellness, good food and a healthy lifestyle. Two days of education, networking, friendship and fun.

 

Going to a conference was not in my budget right now … but thanks to Attune Foods I am going. They had a contest to send one person to Fitbloggin’ and I won! So I’m off to Baltimore this weekend for a few days. I’ll meet the generous folks from Attune and many other online friends, run the Fitbloggin’ 5K and enjoy two days of seminars and workshops about being fit and blogging and all that jazz.

If you are going to be at Fitbloggin’ … I hope we get a chance to meet.

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This Friday is the 7th anniversary of the chapter of my life I wish I could have skipped. May 20th is always an odd day for me. I’m reflective about what the day means. I’m thankful that I’ve recovered as well as I did … but I’m also edgy and irritable around this time.

This used to bother me … making me feel like I haven’t processed everything well enough. But I’ve learned and a friend Janelle, who has been through a personal trauma and now has an education in trauma counseling, confirms that our bodies remember trauma and we can’t help but be affected by it each year.

So the past few years, I’ve given myself space to do something on May 20th that honors the day and myself. So the timing of this conference is perfect … I plan to get up to see the sunrise to have time to be still. Then I’ll run a 5k, grateful for how well my body has recovered. The rest of the day I’ll attend seminars and learn … being thankful that the doctors’ early fears about brain damage aren’t true. (though my sons tell me I’ve had brain damage, they just haven’t told me yet)

Taking time to be still, to be aware and to reflect will help me navigate this anniversary in a healthy way.

Have you experienced a trauma … whether to your body, mind and/or spirit? How does the anniversary time affect you?