You really hit on the complexity of our identity and the various roles we play as adult women, and mothers specifically. I applaud how you balance it all with a demanding full time job too! It’s hard when something like running that was such a big part of our lives and identity suddenly shifts for us in some way; whether physical barriers keep it from bringing us the joy it once did, or time constraints we now have, or just other life stuff…I’m mucking around trying to figure out where it fits now too. Why do I still do it? What is it offering me?
You really hit on the complexity of our identity and the various roles we play as adult women, and mothers specifically. I applaud how you balance it all with a demanding full time job too! It’s hard when something like running that was such a big part of our lives and identity suddenly shifts for us in some way; whether physical barriers keep it from bringing us the joy it once did, or time constraints we now have, or just other life stuff…I’m mucking around trying to figure out where it fits now too. Why do I still do it? What is it offering me?