Rebekah Ryburn

27/07/2023

Celebrating 4 years of our Noah today! (Even though his birthday was actually last Saturday…Daisy and I wanted to be here to celebrate him in person).
He is all things wonderful and we are so proud of him! 💛

25/06/2023

One year ago today we left our beautiful life in Italy to return to Australia.
To say I miss Italy is an understatement, but I can say that I’m thankful for the year that has been in Sydney and for being able to spend so much time with our family here.
Daisy and I return to Italy in just over a week and we are so SO excited.
Will be so nice to be there again and walk the streets that became our home.
Milan will always be a home for us!

Can’t believe it’s been 1 year 😱💛

10/06/2023

Our Daisy turned 6 today 💗
She has our whole hearts and really is as her school teacher calls her, sunshine☀️!

19/05/2023

Throwback to a date in the city with Daisy 💛
We caught the bus, had snacks, went to an art gallery and walked for a lot longer than I would’ve guessed she could handle 😅

On another note, previous to now, I’ve shared whatever health and fitness stuff I’ve been doing here on this page, but now I’ll be sharing that stuff only for those who are actually interested in it over at my business page - - this page will simply be sharing life and our family adventures… and maybe sometimes sharing the content I create for ‘in good health’.

Here ends the update that no one asked for 😅

😘

21/04/2023

Date day in the city 💛
Making the most of the last week of school holidays.

Much to Pete’s dismay 😅 my love language is quality time, so my cup is full!

ILYSM

14/04/2023

We went to our local Italian deli to get some prosciutto crudo today and they gave Daisy some to taste. She couldn’t have been a happier girl! Also, she’s recently been asking me to stop calling her a nickname that we use which is a short version of her name (Dais), but she said to me today that I can call her Margherita or Marghe because that’s the Italian version of her name! I melt and I love her 🥰😍

23/01/2023

Our big girl is set to start big school in two weeks 💛🥹
So, we’re trying to soak up all the special moments together before then.

Love her, she’s so ready to take on all that Kindergarten has for her (this will be her first year of primary school for those outside of AUS or even NSW 😅).

19/01/2023

18/01/2023

It can be really hard when you’re changing your habits (like starting to workout or eat healthier) to not undermine your own progress. Because more often than not; it’s not that you’re bored of working out or you don’t want to get up in the morning - it’s that you don’t believe that it’s who you really are. So, you gradually take steps to sabotage your progress and then only enforce to yourself what you believed.

You can change! But it starts with an identity adjustment, not just a new habit introduction. Work through the discomfort of becoming the new version of yourself (because it can be SUPER uncomfortable) and know that the more you focus on your new identity (I am someone who _______ ), the more your new habits will stick.

01/01/2023

I rang in 2023 with my favourite people on the planet.

Happy New Year to everyone 😘💛

31/12/2022

Try this exercise…

Decide how you want to be feeling or what you want to be doing at the end of 2023
Choose on the smallest possible step that you can take that you would be heading in the direction of that feeling or thing
Remind yourself that you are capable to figure out whatever it is you need to figure out - no matter what happens
Take the step
Continually repeat steps 2-4

HAPPY 2023!

15/12/2022

This was an ‘ah-ha’ moment I had with my psychologist this week. (I shared more of the story in the email I send out).

All this time, I’d been thinking I was being compassionate to myself, that I had given myself “too much” grace.

When actually, what I’d been doing was shaming myself into trying to change. However, all that shame did was shut me down and cause me to freeze, resulting in me doing nowhere near the amount I wanted (and feeling very bad about myself at the same time 😅).

Have you been shaming yourself?*

*one way you’ll know if this is you is if… you’ve wanted to do something for a long time but haven’t been able to start, because you’ve shut yourself down by the way you’re internally speaking to yourself.

Being compassionate to yourself (encouraging yourself), what’s ONE base level step you could take to start making change?