by Tina Hnatiuk | Jan 31, 2022 | Managing Stress
Last night I came out of Magnus’s room after bedtime and said to my husband, “I’m going to bed.” He was laying across the couch on his phone. He sat up and looked at me funny and said, “It’s 7:30.” “I know. I’m going to bed to watch something that makes me cry.” The...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Jan 10, 2022 | Living With Purpose, Managing Stress, Self-Love Practices
I was bent over leaning my hands on my thighs panting. I looked at Matt my eyes pleading, and said, “This is so hard.” Matt and his wife Robyn and the owners and trainers at the CrossFit gym I teach yoga at. Lately, I’ve also been coming to his 6:30am group classes a...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Nov 8, 2021 | Motherhood, Uncategorized
Yesterday my son looked at my painted hot pink toes and said, “Mom, tomorrow I want to paint my fingernails. AND toenails. I want my fingers to be blue, yellow, blue, yellow, blue.” He said while touching each fingernail. Then changing his mind, touched each one...
by Tina Hnatiuk | Oct 15, 2021 | Motherhood
Rant warning. I think a lot about being a mom, and the state of motherhood, because I’m right in the middle of it. Although it started as a slow simmer, now it’s pissing me off into a roiling boil. I am getting more and more disgusted by what I call the: Mommy-martyr....
by Tina Hnatiuk | Jun 11, 2021 | Self-Love Practices
“I read something yesterday that spoke to me, like a lot,” she said while we were running along the lakeside path in the early morning sunshine. “Oh, yeah? What was that?” I asked. The sky was brilliant blue and the water like glass this morning. The trees are...
