The Fugitive Foursome

So today I am a real Super BADASS Mum!

I am not however an incarcerated wife (insert happy dance here).

Yes, it’s true. I happily gallivant around, openly, not just in the wee hours of the morning, not just alone. My children gallivant with me, the Fugitive Foursome.

Photo by Roy Reyna from Pexels

We are on the run, moving fast and feeling that surge of powerful adrenaline. Our serotonin levels are soaring to healthier heights and our bodies – they are smiling inside and out.

I know there are still many mountains to climb and that sometimes the foothills can trip you up, but I just keep on climbing.

The freedom of fun

This month, I challenged myself to do ‘active’ differently with my children, to slow down and not run at such a heavy pace. Free flowing and fun.

Fun sport was our quest: Saturday night disco bowling, foot golf, basketball shooting tournaments at various parks, taking turns making a challenging obstacle course, glow mini golf and more.

he activities were fun, we laughed, had so much fun, our serotonin soared as we actively engaged in making magic family memories.

Run, don’t look back. Be a Badass Mum. Gallivant openly.

Be free, take flight and soar. Laugh, love, live and truly smile, inside and out.

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Blogging GEMS program

This Blog is a part of the Blogging GEMS program, which supports domestic violence survivors to practise the self-care strategies of Gratitude, Exercise, Mindfulness, Support, and Service (GEMS). As they practise the strategies, they blog about it.you can read their survivor GEMS Blogs:

Gratitude Blogs:

• Rebuilding After Domestic Violence

• Letting Go of the Expectations of Practicing Gratitude

• Learning the Balance of Gratitude

• How Practicing Gratitude Changed My Life

• A Shout Out to My Ex

• Be Aware of Gratitude's Evil Twin

• Blessed, Thankful, Grateful

• Gratitude - Game Change, Brain Changer

Exercise Blogs

• Dare to find your fit

• The challenge

• My love-hate relationship with exercise

• The task

• How exercise heals

• I'm movin - I'm goov'n

• Exercise for selfcare on the healing journey after abuse

Mindfulness Meditation Blogs:

• Flexing Old Beliefs

• The Busyness of Life

• Meditation - The Calm after the Storm

• Connecting with Your Body can be Confronting

• Befriending trauma demons in my body

• Mindfulness Yoga for Self-care

• Running away from being still

Service Blogs

• Give a little

• Essential Worker

• Volunteer of the Year

• Serve to heal: How we help ourselves when we help others

• Being a Mum equals being a volunteer

• Built to serve

• The fertile ground of giving (coming soon)

Support Blogs

• Safety in Support

• My Pillars of Strength

• Listening to my inner strength

• A relationship worth repairing

Self-care plans

• You bloomin matter

• Self-care for your care

• A spoonful of self-care

• The challenge and reward of practising self-care