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A Letter from Abby

Abby Corriveau

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A Letter from Abby

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Shoulder exercises with a side of butternut squash kisses 😘 (p/c from one of my clients)
I went to see a therapist and had to bring my son because I had no childcare at the time. I needed help and didn’t want to cancel the session. I called and asked if it would be alright to bring my son and the receptionist said that it’d be ok and sounded sympathetic to my situation. When I showed up for my session I sat in the waiting room with my son. .
The therapist opened her door and the first thing she said was, “What is he doing here?” I explained my situation and that I had called. She sighed and said, “Just this once, then you need to figure it out.” .
This hurt and frustrated me. Here I was seeking help as a single mom and the therapist showed no empathy nor did she help me navigate options for childcare while in sessions. She just told me to figure it out.
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One of my missions as a coach is to hold space for mothers and caregivers who do not have accessibility to childcare and are TRYING to do something for themselves. I am here to help you overcome obstacles and to support you! Denying someone therapy because they have no childcare is not support and it’s not community. .
I am with you mamas. I feel you. And your babes are always welcome to join in our sessions! I have a dream of my own healing space and this will be an integral part of my mission. There will always be a safe space for you and your kiddos. ❤️ #supportmothers #moveyourdna #movetheirdna #movement #fitmoms #momlife #naturalmovement #sustainablemovement #womenempowerment #shoulderhealth #ribsdown

Giving back to Mother Earth is a practice that I haven’t been doing recently and I’ve felt the disconnect from her. .
This morning I went on a solo hike in the woods along a river to reconnect. I sat and listened. Silence and stillness have become powerful teachers for me. After soaking in her beauty and unconditional love, I gave back. I brought with me a special buckskin pouch made and used by the wife of a Native American, Red Bird, whom I met while living in NM and gifted me this pouch. Red Bird is the drum maker (you can see and support him and his families work at www.eagledrums.com) who made the drums many ask about that I have in my living room. He lives on the Cochiti Pueblo Reservation where he invited me and my son into his home. Inside the pouch (medicine bag) his wife had put in cornmeal. Cornmeal is a common gift used as an offering to Mother Earth. 🙏🏼 .
We take so much from Mother Earth. We demand so much and take her for granted in the process. Today I invite you to join me (even if you can’t get outside) to give thanks to her and to sit in stillness surrounded by the pure essence of her beauty and everything she provides us with. 🙏🏼🌟🌸 We are nature and nature is us. 🤗

#pachamama #motherearth #natureheals #gratitude #culturalappreciation #femininebadass

This weekend was brilliant. Goddesses from all over the world came together to celebrate our teacher @sierrabender and her new 4BodyFit Institute in Saint Petersburg. We danced, we connected and communed with Mother Earth, we shared our stories, our struggles, our celebrations. We cried. We laughed. We hugged, we sang in a circle of true inclusive sisterhood. We shared our medicine, we empowered each other to go home and continue to do the work and get to work. Because empowered women empower women. My heart is full of gratitude for this special group of women. 🙏🏼 I was able to be vulnerable and supported by these women, Great Spirit, and Mother Earth and now I feel so inspired. I feel inner calm. I floated in the ocean and purified my soul, weeping, and allowing Mother Earth to hold me as I surrendered in her ocean. SISTERHOOD. MOVEMENT. NATURE. ☀️❤️🙏🏼 This is my community and I am so freaking grateful. We are warriors, teachers, healers, mothers, doctors, therapists, creators, writers, lovers, givers, and all daughters of our great Mother Earth 🌍I love you. I see you. I hear you. I am you and you are me.i am because you are.
Thank you Sierra for your teachings, compassion and your big dream to help women step into their power. Go to her site (4bodyfitinstitute.com) to learn more about her work and our community of amazing womxn. 💛 #goddessup #dance #zumba #sisterhood #togetherwearestronger #empoweredwomen #femininebadasses

I am sorry. I am sorry for being that trainer in the past who would say things like, “If you want it bad enough, you’ll find a way.” Or, “Just wake up before the kids are up to workout.” No big deal 🤷‍♀️I call Bullshit! 🚫 And I want to apologize to all the women I worked with or those who read my older articles and blogs. I didn’t get it. I was living in my twenty something privileged lifestyle that allowed me to train whenever I wanted to, buy all the food, and have access to a gym (either that I owned or paid a membership to). I didn’t have a child and I certainly wasn’t a single working parent. .
Now I get it. I am WITH you. I am a working mom, recently divorced from the man I thought I’d spend forever with, and if I wasn’t working at a gym there would be no way for me to afford a membership. Even while working at a gym I have found it extremely difficult to find time to train. Today my son is with his dad so I carved out some time for me to do just that. But this is probably the first one in months and it was 30 minutes before training a client.
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Guilting or shaming anyone into working out isn’t cool nor is it productive. And only seeing it from my perspective isn’t helpful either. That is why I’ve been studying with @imdrtee about social justice and working on unpacking my bias with @leesareneehall self expressive writing prompt challenge. Please check out their work 💛
Between my personal shifts in my life and education I am hoping to help contribute and participate in a health and wellness community that is more inclusively accessible. .
Mothers, especially working moms who have financial responsibilities and a busy schedule, I am here to support you and help you find sustainable habits that will align with your personal values. No more bullshit. ❌ You are brave, courageous and badass!!!! #femininebadass #sustainablemovement #movementmatters #community #momlife #nomorebullshit #youmatter

I am so grateful for you, my sweet boy. You’ve been the constant bright light during the most challenging year of my life. ⭐️
Slowing down to breathe in what matters most in life; family, love, nature, community, gratitude, and prayer. Thank you baby for helping me to slow down and keep things in perspective. 💛

#grateful #bepresent #nofrenzy #noblackfriday #slowdown #love #femininebadass #momlife #happythanksgiving
Photo by @jason_cheney_photographic

Snowflakes kiss the tip of my nose❄️ The chill gets to my bones🌬

My heart is soft
My eyes sparkle with joy
My feet dampen from wet snow
My cheeks are rosy from playing in the snow with my son

My breath is warm

My mind is free

My hope is restored
I feel alive. I feel mortal. I feel grateful.
Mother Earth centers and restores the greatest beauty in humans. Our humanity. 🌍 We are nature and nature is us and together we are life.
#femininebadass #mindfulness #motherearth #snowday #winterwonderland #natureconnection #sustainablemovement

When he was born the first song I sang to him was “lean on me”. I don’t know what prompted me to sing that particular song when I first held him in my arms. I just remember the words flowing off my tongue and warming my lips while I stroked his big baby cheeks. I cried and cried and cried. I just remember so many feelings all of a sudden taking over my body.
Today reminded me of that day in the hospital. While he was exploring in the woods he struggled to lower down from a log he had cimbed (see last video and make sure sound is ON!). He says, “Save me!” And I helped him down after he had tried to figure it out himself. He is growing up so fast and I can tell he feels like he can go out into the world and Do and that he has a rock, a friend, a mother who will always be there to lean on. He believes in himself and he trusts me, and that’s exactly what I wanted him to feel when I held him. That he can trust me. ❤️ I hope to raise a boy who will feel adventurous and curious enough to spread his wings and fly while grounded enough to know that he is deeply loved. ❤️ #momlife #winteriscoming #justkiddingitsalreadyhere #femininebadass #modernmamas #nature #movetheirdna #raisethemup #groundthemwithlove

PS. Lochlan took this photo of me! 👌🏼 Not bad lol. He said, “Say SNOW!” ❄️❄️❄️❄️

When I competed in bikini competitions I practiced posing for hours and hours to prepare for the big stage. How you angled your body was important. You wanted to show curves. I took posing classes with pros and we’d wear 6” stilettos 👠 to help accentuate our shape. It was all about sticking your hips out as hard as you could. 👠
We were trained to push one hip over and straighten or bend the other leg. All while wearing heels that dump your pelvis forward. It was intentional dis-alignment for the sake of a desired look.
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Since competing, I’ve ingrained this habit and I see it in the way I hold my son and when I strike a pose for a photo.
Today my hips are extremely rotated, my left leg is longer than the other from extending it while posteriorly rotating my hip and I have a potential bulging L5 disc (low back disc) which is creating nerve compression and I feel it all the way down to my calf. .
In addition to my alignment getting all fu**ked up, the fitness industry and their unrealistic ideal body types conditioned me to think that my body has to be positioned a certain way in order to appear more desirable or feminine. And what is frustrating to me now is seeing more women and younger girls adopting these habits too. Please stop. You don’t need to modify your body a certain way to appear more attractive or desirable for other people’s beauty standards. That is BS. Pay attention the next time you take a photo. Do you adjust your body to appear leaner, curvier, etc? Do you put your hand on your hip so your arm looks leaner and shift your hip over like I do? It’s not a judgment. It’s an observation. And if you do, ask yourself why? And when did you start doing this?
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Your body will become efficient in inefficiencies. And the more repetitive the movement (even standing/posing) the more it will remember and store that movement. Move more parts of you, even when you are taking a photo or standing in line. .
This is one reason why I do the work I do today 💕 I want to help you align YourSelf and your body while transcending old stories and fitness norms.
#movementmatters #femininebadass #dontdothis #naturalmovement #momlife #bikinicompetitor #happyhips

It’s done!!! I just completed my requirements for my RES (restorative exercise specialist) certification with the brilliant Katy Bowman @nutritiousmovement 🙌🏽 This is huge and this is really good news for you badasses! ⭐️
I’ll share more deets with my offerings and work soon...for now I want to celebrate with all of you! Make sure you sign up for my free newsletter tonight because I will be releasing part 1 of my Happy Hips for the Modern Human early tomorrow morning! 😀 ⭐️
Follow your truth. Even if it doesn’t logically make any sense or is difficult. Follow it. Trust it. Believe it. And create. 🦋

#movementformodernhumans #sustainableandnourishedmovement #movementmatters #movemoreofyou #happyhipsrestored #restorativeexercise #movnat #femininebadasa #followyourtruth #happyhips #movementforthemodernhuman

I recently completed the @thegirlsgonestrong Pre & Postnatal coaching certification and shared my experience about their course on my blog + 3 actions I took right away! 🤰🏻🤰🏼🤰🏽🤱🏻🤱🤱🏽 Link in bio. .
I feel like it’s important that I continue to educate myself as much as I can if I want to continue to work with the public, specifically women. Learning more about Pregnant and Postpartum women is JUST the beginning but is so critical as a coach. Did you know that over 85% of women will become pregnant? I didn’t know that. I also didn’t know just how different every pregnancy and childbirth and parenting experience is different. Every. Single. One. And for sooooooo many reasons!!! 🤱🏽
🤰🏼 If you are a health professional and work with women I highly encourage you to learn more about pregnancy and postpartum health and wellness. You and your clients/patients will benefit greatly from it.
PS. Look at those feet! 😍👣❤️
#girlsgonestrong #womenshealth #preandpostnatalcoach #fitness #femininebadass #momlife #movementformodernmamas

I voted today. Tomorrow is a new day to keep doing the work. 👊🏼✌🏽 #VoteWithUs #vote #justice #humanity #blacklivesmatter #womensrightsarehumanrights #climatechange #ourchildren #indegeniousrights #autismawareness

#Femininebadass

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