The Strength Girl

𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬/𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬/𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬💐⁣
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•took new clients through their assessments🚶‍♀️⁣
•girl dinners🍽️⁣
•watched our niece at her dance recital🩰⁣
•date nights💕⁣
•these peach hop waters from Bench Brewing Company 🍑⁣
•our new lifters making their way through the learn to lift program🏋🏻‍♀️⁣
•another book read✅ ⁣
•some new branding items😍⁣
•these nails by Tasha Mo • Nail Artist • Brantford 💅🏻⁣
•celebrated my fiancé’s birthday🎉⁣
•Starbucks date w/ Britt // PHOTOGRAPHER 🍵⁣
•updated business cards🙌🏻⁣
•celebrated my aunts birthday with a meal out🍜⁣
•celebrated my cousin graduating high school🎓⁣
•self-care🙏🏻 ⁣
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Here’s to another full month! ⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐢𝐬…⁣
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At one time or another, I believed these things too.⁣
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And I’ve seen firsthand what this toxic messaging can make women believe about themselves- and how deeply it can stick.⁣
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It makes you believe that your worth is tied to a number. ⁣
That food has to be earned.⁣
That exercise is punishment.⁣
That the scale determines whether they’ve had a “good” or “bad” week.⁣
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And after years of growth and healing, I couldn’t disagree more. ⁣
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My goal has never been to help women become smaller at all costs.⁣
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It’s to help them become stronger.⁣
More confident.⁣
More resilient.⁣
And to build habits that actually improve their quality of life- not consume it.⁣
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Because health is about so much more than the number on the scale.⁣
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It’s about having the energy to play with your kids.⁣
Feeling confident walking into the gym.⁣
Building muscle that supports you for decades to come.⁣
Sleeping better.⁣
Feeling capable in your own body.⁣
Living a life that isn’t controlled by food or ruled by guilt.⁣
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Those are the things worth chasing.⁣
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Which hill would you add to the list? Lemme know👇🏻⁣
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𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐧 𝐈 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐤𝐢𝐩 𝐚𝐥𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐭.⁣
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Not because I didn’t want to go, but because I didn’t want to “cheat” on my diet.⁣
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I wore my discipline like a badge of honor. I thought being the person who never missed a workout, never ate the cake and never deviated from the plan was something to be proud of.⁣
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But that discipline came at a cost.⁣
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I missed birthdays.⁣
Celebrations.⁣
Family gatherings.⁣
Moments that can never be recreated.⁣
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All because I was so focused on controlling what I ate and avoiding anything that might throw me off track.⁣
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And honestly? It left me feeling disconnected- from the people I loved and from myself.⁣
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There is nothing healthy about feeling lonely and isolated while life is happening around you.⁣
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But hey, I was skinny!!!⁣
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And at the time, it felt like that was all that mattered.⁣
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Not anymore🙅🏻‍♀️.⁣
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Now, I live a healthy lifestyle so I can experience life to the fullest.⁣
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So I can be present for the moments that matter.⁣
So I can celebrate with loved ones, make memories and enjoy the experiences that make life meaningful.⁣
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Because health should add to your life- not take you away from it.⁣
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And that’s exactly what we do over here🙏🏻✨. ⁣
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𝐋𝐞𝐭’𝐬 𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐦 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐜𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡, 𝐍𝐢𝐤𝐤𝐢!⭐️⁣
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A message from Nikki👇🏻⁣
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“Hello, my name is Nikki Melligan. I am a Certified Personal Trainer (2002), Inside Flow Yoga Teacher (2024) & a Level 2 Restorative Yoga Teacher (2025). My passion as a Personal Trainer is working with clients to help nurture their belief in themselves and that they can do anything that they put their minds to no matter how big or small🙏🏻. ⁣
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After being an athlete for two decades and an avid Crossfitter for five years, my belief was that rest was unproductive and that I was being lazy by not doing anything. My days would be filled with more things than I had hours in the day for and I wouldn’t stop until 5 minutes before bedtime. I would then struggle to fall asleep at night as my body didn’t know what rest was or how to down regulate my nervous system. I would then wake up in the morning exhausted and start all over again. ⁣
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In 2020 I found Yoga/Meditation and everything in my life changed for me. I finally was able to have a wonderful nights sleep and my body finally experienced deep rest in a way that I never knew was possible🧘🏻‍♀️. ⁣
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With the knowledge and experience I embody from the fitness world and the Restorative Yoga world, I am now able to look at these two modalities with a more balanced approach. The common theme with both of these modalities is they create mental resiliency to face the daily challenges of the human experience.⁣
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I am very much looking forward to working with the Strength Squad and meeting the wonderful community that Mia has created. I’m a firm believer that you can always do more then you think you can and I will always remind everyone of that✨. ⁣
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See you soon☺️.”⁣
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You will see her coaching inside the Lifting Club as well as working with clients 1:1🙌🏻. ⁣
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