🦶 How Often Do You Think About Your Ankles?

🌿 Functional Fitness Friday Tip for first born, stress born parentified child raised in tense homes.

🌿 Functional Fitness Friday Tip

From a Certified Personal Trainer, Reiki Master & Root Cause Healer who teaches other trainers how to help clients with chronic dis-ease and leaky bodies lose unwanted weight from the root—without long, hard workouts and without food fears.

🧘‍♀️ Feet First: Your Foundation for Flow

When you're living with leaky muscle and 40+ other leaky barriers—from brain to toes—even gentle movement can feel like a mountain.
In the first year of recovery, traditional workouts can trigger DOMS (delayed onset muscle soreness) so intense, it feels like your body might expire before your spirit desires…because it can in the first year.

I had to learn how to work out, smarter not harder.
Gently with no stress on my body while preserving and gaining muscle.

That’s why we move differently. We honour the body’s signals. We choose flow over force. We build strength through softness.

💬 Affirmation

"Nothing is permanent—including how I feel." Let this truth guide your healing journey, especially on the hardest days.

💫 Root Message

Everything is connected. Healing isn’t just physical—it’s energetic, emotional, and spiritual. Reversing toxic lifestyle habits happens in every moment, through every choice—through the words we speak to ourselves and to others.

🌱 Ask yourself: Would I offer this to a baby or a tree I want to see grow strong?
If yes, it’s rooted in love. It’s a gift your future self will be grateful for—and one that makes your inner child feel safe right now.

🕯️ Mundane Moments Made Sacred

Because all we have is the moment we are in, here are everyday rituals to infuse with movement, mindfulness and magic:

• While washing your hands: Sway hips in a figure 8, breathe deeply, bless your hands

• While making tea or coffee: Rotate ankles, hum a healing mantra, infuse your drink with intention

• In the shower: Let water cleanse more than skin—sway gently, visualize energy release

• While making the bed: Stretch arms wide, fold corners with love, set intention for restful sleep

• Applying non toxic lotion, I only use castor oil:
  Massage in circles, speak affirmations to each body part

• Grocery shopping: Walk with awareness, rotate ankles while waiting in line, bless your food

• Sitting in traffic: Pump feet gently, sway hips if safe, practice breathwork

• Waiting for a page to load: Close eyes, rotate ankles, send love to your nervous system

🌞 Morning Ritual for Energy & Manifestation

• 🌀 Legs up in bed, ankle rotations in figure 8s (3 minutes)

• 🌙 Eyes closed, manifest in the hazy waking state

• ✨ Best times: apon waking and falling asleep, 11:11, 1:11

• 💗 End with loving-kindness for all beings—including yourself

• 🦶 A gentle wake-up for your feet, your sacred carriers

🪷 Stillness = Movement

Even when sitting or standing still:

• 🌀 Rotate ankles in a figure 8

• ⬆️⬇️ Pump feet up and down to stimulate lymphatic flow

• 🧘‍♀️ Supports detox, circulation and gentle energy release

🦷 While Brushing Teeth

• 💃 Sway hips in a figure 8

• 🧠 Builds neural flexibility and body awareness

• 🦷 Turns a mundane moment into a healing ritual

🐾 Dancing with Thumper

• 💃 Hold your furry love and sway in a figure 8

• 🫶 Let joy, connection and movement flow through your body

• 🐕 Healing is amplified when shared with love

🍽️ Mindful Dish washing Ritual

• 💃 Rotate hips in a figure 8 while standing

• 🎶 Hum your favourite tune to calm the vagus nerve

• 🖐️ Wash dishes with hands only—feel the water, the temperature, the textures

• 🙏 Give thanks for the nourishment that once filled those plates

🌬️ Restoring the Nervous System: A New Way of Being

When we’re healing from a lifetime of chronic stress and inflammation, when we’re calming the cytokine storms that have raged through our bodies, we do things differently.

We move with mindful intention. We choose slowness over urgency. We get things done—without rushing, without pushing, without collapsing into fight or flight.

Because for the parentified child now in midlife, healing means rewriting the script. No more survival mode. No more proving. Just presence. Just peace.

💭 Which of these rituals are you most excited to try—or already do in your own way? Share your favourite healing moment in the comments—I’d love to hear how you make the mundane sacred. 🌿🫶

🏡 Stay connected to learn more ways to heal and move at home—because this personal trainer won’t be stepping into a gym again. Gyms may build muscle, but they’re also some of the most mouldy spaces on the planet. We choose clean air, grounded feet and healing movement—right where life happens.

💌 Momma Lovey Dee These words are love notes for my son, Noah.
In case I’m not here, let them be my hands—still holding you.