Chelsey Banker

It’s no secret that I have struggled with gaining weight the last few years. When my daughter started hospice and her health was actively declining, so did mine. You can literally watch us both drop massive amounts of weight in a year span through photo’s. Her’s due to her health deteriorating and mine due to my mental health, lack of appetitie from depression, and lack of sleep and rest. Now living on the farm and since she has passed; I am eating and sleeping better but I am so active that I burn any calories I eat in a day and it leaves me always in a calorie deficit. So I keep gaining muscle and losing weight. I realize that to perform my best and be my healthiest for my family and my animals, I need to be proactive about it and I think I have finally found a solution. I hope this can help someone else. Here is to taking better care of ourselves in 2025 instead of only taking care of everyone else around us instead.

Not a day goes by that I dont look back and take a trip down memory lane. My hardest, most rewarding, and most beautiful chapter of my life was lived with her by my side. I had her at 18 years old, I was still a baby myself, and had lived my entire adult life with her. My happiest hello and hardest goodbye. My Emmri Lanea ♾️🦋 #specialneeds #specialneedsmom #differentlyabled #warrior #terminal #grief

Our life has always been anything but “normal”. My life, from the time I was 17 and became a mom to a severely disabled child has always been anything but “notmal”. I have grown to find peace, comfort, healing, and most importanly joy in the abnormal. I used to be so focused on trying to give my son the normal average life and childhood. So much so that I forgot how magical the abnormal can be. I am so proud of the amazing human he is and how emotionally intelligent and compassionate he is; and I like to think it is directly related to just how “not normal” his childhood and upbringing has been. It has given us super powers. Insight. Strength. Compassion. Humility. Appreciation. And in a world like we are living in today; those super powers are much needed. #healing #life #strength #joy #graditude #acceptance #superbowlsunday #halftimeshow #hiddenmessage #hiddentreasure