Bethany Shipley – Wellness. Purpose. Abundance.

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Happy Birthday to my lover boy 😅 Xoxo you are m

Happy Birthday to my lover boy 😅 Xoxo you are my favorite!

Hittin the 3rd trimester this week and I am so exc

Hittin the 3rd trimester this week and I am so excited that we are in the homestretch emphasis on STRETCH. 🤣

My days are still spent trying to keep food down, but I’m so so thankful to say that I’ve not had a migraine since I started pd 80/20! I have had a few nights where I thought I felt one coming so I doubled up.

No more progesterone shots 💉since I started pd 80/20 - levels are naturally at 60 for the first time ever in my life. 😭😍👏🏻

Homebirth is on 👏🏻 and I’m about to start my mental training 🤣 Which basically means nightly meditation, watching births on YouTube, practicing breathing, etc.

I want to name her AVALON JOAN, Eli wants to name her Joan so we are still working on finding a name we both like.

💞 #thirdtrimester #27weekspregnant #dueinoctober #kansascitymom #kansascitymoms

Lennon cooking her eggs from the coop this morning

Lennon cooking her eggs from the coop this morning 😍😂 id say she were a farm girl if it weren’t for the outfit.

Today I got to interview my Grandma on my podcast

Today I got to interview my Grandma on my podcast and gosh if her spirit and story doesn’t leave you in tears, I’m not sure what to say. She is remarkable.

Look up “Bethany Shipley Show” on the apple podcast app and give it a listen 💞💞💞

Things my dad never thought he’d be doing: Sett

Things my dad never thought he’d be doing:
Setting up and taking photos of oil accessories in a messy playroom 🤣🤣🤣👏🏻👏🏻 I can not stop laughing.

My inbox is full of “RECIPE PLEASE”s after my

My inbox is full of “RECIPE PLEASE”s after my story the other day about making homemade salsa 🤪🤣🤤🤤🤤🤤

Which is exactly the message I dropped in @_paigesierra_ s inbox the first day I got a tomato!

Here you go: (rough estimates - makes about 2 quarts):
❤️About 10 big tomatoes
❤️2 big onions
❤️ 2 jalapeño peppers
❤️ 4 cloves of garlic (you could ALWAYS do more of this!)
❤️ 1 bunch of cilantro
❤️Juice of 1 lemon
❤️ Juice of 1 lime
❤️ Salt and pepper to taste

Then, prepare to have salsa for breakfast, lunch, and dinner because it’s. So. Good.

Food processor makes the texture 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻#kansascity #kansascitygarden #kansascitymom

The first time I met Eli, we were 14/15 years old

The first time I met Eli, we were 14/15 years old and “everyone” was going out to eat at a Chinese buffet after the game. He joined at the restaurant but I noticed he didn’t indulge in the FREE ICE CREAM machine. 🤯 I didn’t understand whyyyy. FREE ICE CREAM! As time went by and I got to know him, I learned that he was one of the most disciplined people I had ever met. He made rules for himself that he kept around food and other areas of life. I learned that he had lost ~75lbs the year before and he did it all by changing his diet. His relationship with food was so different than anyone else I had ever met. As the years went by and I saw his heart, I have never been more in love with him as it is one of the things that makes him HIM. not that he eats so strictly, but that he challenges himself in ways that most people never will. His character is so consistent. How he treats people, his work ethic in anything, his ability to listen and be empathetic.... all of it is so inspiring to me in a daily way.

I roll my eyes sometimes when he starts a new way of eating, or when he reads books on books about food and different thoughts around it, or when he brings his celery juice as his first intake when we take the kids for pancakes .. but deep down I am so so inspired and moved to growth by him.
💞💞💞💞

If you would have told me 3 months ago that I’d

If you would have told me 3 months ago that I’d be laying down in the grass taking pictures with my tomatoes I would have laughed at you and said “I CANT GROW ANYTHING”😂. But quarantine got me real good and I’m a 3 and YALL. I SET ALARMS ON MY PHONE TO WATER THESE BAD BOYS. If the garden continues, I’ll have hundreds more! I’m so grateful today 😭💞 the abundance is so real.

ALSO WE GOT OUR FIRST EGG FROM THE CHICKENS THIS MORNING!!!

#kansascity #gardening #tomatoplant #homegarden

What are summer nights if not for disc golf and un

What are summer nights if not for disc golf and uncles? #mosesjordanshipley #lennonjaneshipley

Any other #charcuterie board lovers out there who

Any other #charcuterie board lovers out there who pretends to have a sophisticated life every once in a while? 😂 heres my #momhack to have a sliver of the feeling without the time to put it together.

2 Truths + 1 Lie 😬🤔 Can you guess which one

2 Truths + 1 Lie 😬🤔

Can you guess which one is a lie?

1️⃣ once upon a time I tried to get on every single fun show I could. I submitted my photo with a burger I made and a few weeks later got a call - I was asked to come build a snack stadium for the @rachaelrayshow in celebration of the superbowl special but had to decline because I was in a good friends wedding.

2️⃣ Once upon a time I was walking on a beach boardwalk and I was reaching for a beautiful rock. I got my head caught in the slats of the deck and was stuck there for over an hour while police were called and eventually had to cut the board to get me out 🤣 The best part is while I was waiting, I enrolled the woman with Young Living oils who was standing there on the phone with the police and waited with me. To this day, we laugh about the fact that I was bent over with my head caught in a slat while I explained Essential Rewards. 😂🤣

3️⃣Once upon a time as a child I worked for 2 years in a recording studio singing a series of school songs for a homeschool curriculum. I drove 2 hours every day with my dad who produced it and did homeschool while my brothers recorded their pieces in the other room. Lunch was the best part.

My sweet #lennonjaneshipley 💞 I’m so thankful

My sweet #lennonjaneshipley 💞 I’m so thankful to be your mom. It feels surreal that everything I hoped to be in a woman could be in you in such a natural way. You were born into a season of craziness, your daddy was working a lot. I was working a lot. Moses wasn’t even 2 years old and you fit into our chaos with such ease. You slept 7 hours your first night home from the hospital and I knew you were what I needed in that season. 😂💞

It’s my ultimate honor to watch you grow and learn. I love seeing how you interact with your friends, how you fit right in to your class at school. How you care for anyone who is sick or hurting, without being heavily burdened. It’s a gift and I’m seeing it be born right in front of my eyes.
You make such a great big sister and I’m excited to see that play out again. I love everything about you sweet girl.

❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Happy 4th Birthday.

I was at Target getting supplies for Lennon’s bi

I was at Target getting supplies for Lennon’s birthday and a woman at the cash register looked at me and asked “WHEN is that baby due?” I said “October”. She said “I don’t believe that”...No way. You must be having twins.” I said, “no, just one”. To which she looked at my body and said emphatically “You are HUGE”.

I didn’t know what to say. I welled up with tears and instantly felt like crying. After the woman turned around to deal with her own register the lady at my register looked at me and said “oh my gosh I’m so so so sorry she just said that to you”.

I said “thanks so much.” And we connected about being pregnant and what people say.

Not only am I incredibly hormonal which makes me cry at the drop of a hat, I also already feel big and huge and unattractive and everything else that pregnancy can bring to women who have body image things they’re working through.

In this vulnerable state, it’s easy to see that woman as the offender. Like “she caused me that feeling of inadequacy” when the harsh reality of the situation is, I am the one who felt it. She was merely the stimulus to those feelings, the feelings come from and fester inside me.

I got to my car. I cried. I had a knee jerk reaction of “who the heck says something like that” for about 10 minutes and then I played the game “what more could this mean”.

What more could this mean?
Maybe she’s always wanted children but could never have any. Maybe she hasn’t ever understood how to connect with people and she always feels like she says the wrong thing, going into shame after every interaction. Maybe she was drawn to connect with me but didn’t know what to say. Maybe she __ (fill in the blank).

The game brings me back to a place of taking responsibility for my emotion and into a place of empathy for the other person.

These lessons are not fun, but they’re the real work my friends.

💞💞💞💞

Happy #24weekspregnant to me 🥳🥳 I may just

Happy #24weekspregnant to me 🥳🥳
I may just have to go to @tjmaxx and do some shopping 🛍 to celebrate

In late 2013 I found myself craving something to l

In late 2013 I found myself craving something to love. @scrubshipley and I were trying for a baby after a loss, and one day I impulsively got on habitat for humanity website and found the sweetest litter of black mutt puppies. I got out my calculator to see if we could afford one 🤣 and after crunching numbers for a solid half an hour I called Eli with my pitch!

I begged him. BEGGED him to let me get this dog.

When we got there, I knew this was ours. He was perfect for me. Cuddly, playful, obviously terrified, and we signed the papers and brought him home.

He kept me company for 2 years, every single day he was my little buddy. ❤️

I had never considered myself a dog person until Zeus ❤️ unfortunately Zeus passed away and I never had peace about getting another dog. (We use getting a dog as bribery for our kids for “when mommy hits royal crown diamond” 😂)

Although we don’t have a dog right now, I smile every time I remember Zeus and thank him for the role he played in my life. 💞💞

Do you have a dog who was or is your best little fur friend?

Once upon a time I got hooked on a little 2 oz aft

Once upon a time I got hooked on a little 2 oz afternoon shot that changed my life 🤣 #ningxia

https://youtu.be/93xtnyrF4xY

I admire the work of a beautiful social media feed

I admire the work of a beautiful social media feed, honestly I do. Not only do I admire it, I fantasize about it 😅. What it would be like to have a perfectly clean home, kids that didn’t insist on dressing themselves in Christmas clothes in July, etc. and for some people, that works. And I follow them. And I double tap. And I mean it. I’m so proud of them. For me, though, social media isn’t about that. For me, it’s about sharing past the mess that for me is a part of my life, and saying “hey, let’s have some fun”. It’s about me saying that life is made up of regular old Tuesday afternoons and mine are not cosmetically appealing sometimes. It’s about me tapping into the beauty that is mess and inviting my genius to poke through and share what’s on my heart in the midst of it. I can’t compete with curated and I’ve decided that if I tried, I’d be focused on the wrong thing for me.

I don’t know what I want to say most days on the gram. I don’t have a big elaborate plan for what I’m going to post and when. In fact, just tonight I was asking Eli for advice on how the heck I can connect with the people I want to connect with through this Avenue. How do I meet, give value, and show up for the people I am supposed to know.

I’m saying I don’t know what I’m doing but I’m learning. And I invite you in, messy kitchen and all. This is me. ❤️ imperfect. Growing. Welcoming.

Heart melt with a side of fries, please.

Heart melt with a side of fries, please.

BEFORE + AFTER : full savvy minerals face with all

BEFORE + AFTER : full savvy minerals face with all-natural, non toxic, full coverage, skin loving makeup ❤️💞

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 #beforeandafter #naturalmakeup

Want to hear something crazy? My kids have never

Want to hear something crazy?
My kids have never gone to the doctor for sickness.

Only:
1️⃣ swallowed penny +
1️⃣ broken leg

That doesn’t mean that we don’t have all the usual ickies that go around...

Heck, Mack has a snotty nose right now! 🤣

It’s just that I have some tools straight from plants that I use to support their immune systems, sleep routines, emotions, and anything else that might pop up.

If you’ve been watching me do this stuff and you’re curious to learn how I use oils on my kids, hop on our zoom call tonight. Pm/dm me for mtg Id

This class is for members in our yl group + anyone who doesn’t have oils yet ❤️❤️ I’m thinking we might break my zoom account if we opened it up to everyone 🤣😬

If you’re already in our team: I’m giving you a free “go back to bed” roller when you bring a friend tonight. ❤️ see details in our private Facebook group!

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