I Am Proud of Myself
I am proud of me
As I close out 2024 my heart is full and I am grinning from ear to ear.
As someone in the health and fitness industry, it’s totally common to share regular pics/videos of yourself. But for me I haven’t really felt it over the last couple of years. I have popped out from time to time, but nothing compared to the years of gym lifting and yoga images I used to share.
A Mentor of mine advised that people want to see you. We are all voyeurs at heart and want to see other people doing their thing. She suggested that I collect all the artifacts from my health and fitness career and put a bio on my website. I hadn’t done that because I just felt like it was cringy. But the exercise of collecting my experience into one place, sent me down memory lane and taking a good hard look at what i’ve done over the past 12 years and I realized how proud I am of myself! Link here - https://www.oriara.com/about-cassandra (still a work in progress)
And I realized that I have thousands of pics and hours of videos from over a decade because I have shared my entire journey with you. You have seen my evolution from day 1. I have consistently shared my excitement over learning new things about my body from bodybuilding, being a certified trainer, to teaching yoga, to competing martial arts, to studying nutrition and supplements and now meditation and journaling. You can actually scroll back to 2012 and see it all for yourself.
At first I felt a bit embarrassed about having been all over the place in this industry. But what I now see is my give no fucks, cup running over, passion for all things wellness on full display. LOL…I clearly wasn’t embarrassed at the time, because I have shared lavishly from the bottom of my heart. And all done alongside my 20+ year career as an HR Executive and single mother for many years. So, when I say that I get it….I mean I really get it.
Now I enter 2025 with well documented experience under my belt that I still feel called to share. I continue to learn more about how to use this experience in service to women who want to get started, feel lost, got sidetracked, fear failure and/or desire continuing to understand how to care for their body. This year helped me realize that my years of experience packaged together is the definition of self-care. For more than a decade I have shared my evolving self-care routine as a busy single mom. And now as a 45 year old happily married mother of 2 healthy, brilliant teens and feels f*cking amazing in her skin, I can say with my full chest that it works. I’ve always known having it all was possible and it turns out that it starts with good health.
I am excited about everything I have to offer through Ori Ara this year and look forward to more of you joining me on this journey. And know that my offerings aren’t just about you. Ori Ara is my way of inviting you on my personal journey of self-care. I take my own medicine daily and recognize the abundance I have to share.
Thank you all for witnessing me (a little or a lot) over the past 12 years.
I am blessed,
Cassandra Juniphant