08/25/2025
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The power of a sweet tribe… 💪🏼💗
On the right is Debbie, she has become a precious friend and a way-more-than-an-assistant that helps me keep SNIG’s wheels moving. Next is Tammye, she is our strength trainer that has been helping Debbie with her own strength training for about 3 years now. And on the left is Jen, she is a friend of Debbie’s that started joining us about a year ago.
Debbie would talk to me about some of her sessions with Tammye. I was interested but I’ve never been much of an athletic type so was a little 🤔🤔🤔 for a while. Well, after we lost mom to a stroke, I went through plenty of grieving/healing stages.. one of them was thinking about if Alex ever had to go through the same thing that I went through with mom. Mom was never really the athletic type either. She kept herself moving but excersize wasn’t really her jam. I wasn’t far off from that. Alex has always been a huge supporter of working out. Well, between her nudges and Debbie’s nudges, I finally gave it a try and went to one of Tammye’s classes with her one day about 2 years ago. It was hard but it felt good. I went to another.. and then another.. and then eventually worked up to a couple days a week pretty consistently. My back hurts less, my knee hurts less, and I feel stronger and more confident. Tammye pushes, I grumble, I do it, I grumble more, she keeps pushing, I keep doing it… repeat. Some days are harder than others. But I keep going. I keep showing up. It’s because of this precious little tribe.💗Most of us have all gone through some hard stuff in the time we’ve been going to Tammye. Most of us have lost a parent in the time we’ve been doing this.. and there is some sort of comfort in knowing we aren’t going through it alone. We talk about it some, it’s a safe space.. and then other days, we just cut up and laugh a lot. It’s an unexpected tribe in another season of life that I’m so incredibly grateful for, for so many different reasons. I find myself with a few new (and few old) precious tribes in this “next season” of life and am just so incredibly grateful for all of them...💗