Happy Thursday hotmomz! I felt compelled to hop on here and share some key things I've learned through my time with the lovely Casey Addison Shipp . I've been under her guidance since 2014/2015. I was a bikini competitor looking to understand the lifestyle and stop the yoyo and Learn how to balance and sustain. I failed in part of that for the first year or 2. Sometimes I took advantage of the convenience and didn't hold myself accountable to the learning portion and just did whatever she said. I got results but then I got frustrated because I felt like I wasn't getting what I signed up for fully, I didn't think I could sustain or know how to without Casey. Now looking at myself older I think well bitch, whose fault is that? It's mine, my own fear and my own lack of effort. You can lead a horse to water but you can't make em drink right? Well the reality is, I came off anti depressants(Lexapro for 4 years, my choice) after I'd gotten my body to that comfortable fit and maintainable sweet spot. My life was at an all time high and I thought I was ready to finally take the condom off lol. It was and is still an actual emotional roller coaster. I went dark and manifested my body weight to come back out of fear without even acknowledging wth I was doing. I thought I was doing EVERYTHING I knew how to avoid that. After all, I've competed for years and know how to sustain right? Hahaha. Well I'll never forget when Casey said, what if your version isn't actually EVERYTHING you could be doing? What if you need to dig deeper into something else(1).. because I respect this woman more than most I thought well fuck me. And from there chakra, therapy, Journaling, questioning traditional methods all came into my life. Most of that time and still I'll get triggered by things Casey may mention in her lives or posts. And often times she will say if this triggers you, find out why(2)... that is Gold... learn and take accountability for you, in all areas. Even when your ego is a dark obnoxious cloud telling you otherwise. I'm grateful for the path and journey she and everyone in this group has been through because I've truly learned SO much from it. That's the goal... to have a power group who gets it and gives tough love to better each other because we're fucking fabulous. If you're afraid of the investment, you're in the right place and take the leap. Another golden nugget Casey reminded me of was that money can ALWAYS be made. I said to her a couple years ago I was saving and limiting myself to open my own business and she said be YOUR best self to give others that(3).. I've never restricted myself on self care before that so why I thought I should start and take advice from other business people that aren't where I choose to be idk. My friend and I were talking budgets the other day and he said o cool where do you think you can cut back. Without hesitation I said I don't restrict myself I just make more money. (Or manifest it but that was too deep for his moment lol)
This was winded but felt necessary to share. Love and light and I hope this helps at least 1 of you

Call me sentimental but I seriously just wanted to take a minute to say Thank You Casey Addison Shipp. Thank you for continually following your passion to make the lives’ of others simply incredible. If you had given up when you faced obstacles, stopped believing in yourself, or let the devil on your shoulder tell you that you couldn’t succeed, we wouldn’t be here right now. We wouldn’t be living our best lives. I know to many, it is about being HOT AF and that’s ok too, but to me, it’s about that and loving the body I’m in, treating myself better, being the wife and mom I need to be, pushing myself to do incredible things in my business and overcoming whatever gets in my way. I love watching HotMomz change the lives of friends of mine! It just feels so good to... FEEL SO GOOD!
So... THANK YOU for doing what you do!