How I Found Freedom in Fitness Again

I didn’t wake up one day to find myself suddenly free. It’s not like that.

This isn’t a before-and-after story. It’s a during story, the kind you rarely see on social media because it’s not polished or finished.

For a long time, I hated fitness. I hated the pressure, the comparisons, and the idea that I had to earn my worth through sweat and discipline. Even when I was leading Chubby Chicks Fitness years ago and helping other women move their bodies, I was still fighting my own. I taught joy in movement because I needed to remember what that felt like for myself.

Then life happened: kids, stress, survival mode, and years of putting everyone else first. Somewhere in all of that, I lost the part of me that moved for me. I stopped walking, stopped showing up for my body, and stopped believing that freedom in fitness was even possible.

Lately, I’ve been finding my way back, not through diets or deadlines but through something quieter. Through walks by the water. Through the days I move just to clear my head, not to shrink my body. Through listening when my body says rest and not treating that as failure.

“Freedom doesn’t always feel like fireworks. Sometimes it’s just breathing without guilt.”

I’m not there yet. I still have days when I fall back into old patterns like overeating, ignoring my body, or feeling disconnected from myself. But I’m starting to see that maybe freedom isn’t a finish line. Maybe it’s the space between all the noise where you finally decide that you get to write your own rules.

That’s what I’m rebuilding with CCFit. It’s not about chasing the version of me I used to be. It’s about becoming someone who can live inside her body without shame. Someone who moves because it feels good, not because it’s required.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re starting over again and again, I want you to know you’re not alone. This space was built for us, the women who are done with forcing it and ready to find a rhythm that actually fits real life.

Come walk with me. Join the FireStarter Community, where we’re redefining what fitness and freedom look like together.