Wellness

I am the matriarch of the Weisser Women and consider it a privilege to be walking my journey with my daughters as we share our deep-rooted wisdom for growing families with you. This week we are sharing our stories of health-physical, mental and emotional wellness with you as we introduce our “Wellness Wisdom” campaign.

Forever Young has always been one of my life mottos. I never appreciated being told how “young” I looked when I was in my 20s and 30s…In 1978, I was privileged to be working for the Fellowship Foundation, which entailed being a hostess for a table of International people at the National Prayer Breakfast. When a lovely woman at my table asked me what junior high school I attended, I was dumbfounded and in quite the quandary. If I told her I was married and had recently graduated from college she would be totally embarrassed but how could I answer her without insulting her? And I was the hostess at her table so I could not avoid answering her since I would be interacting with her the entire morning… Fast forward to the present time and I am honored and thrilled anytime anyone thinks I am WAY younger than my age.

Since I spend quite a bit of time with my 4 daughters and 7 grandchildren, they keep me on my toes. I don’t ever want to miss anything going on in their lives because I can’t keep up. I am a naturally energetic person by nature but when I became a Gammie and added multiple trips each month down to Southern California to help with the grandkids, I vowed to myself that I would be committed to personal health and wellness forever. I have always been a healthy eater, being exposed to nutritious food …

Hi, I’m Bethany. I am the third Growing Weisser daughter, second youngest. I have been married for three years to my wonderful husband Mike. We live in Northern California and love being in the beautiful outdoors whatever way we can. I love being active. I would bounce from one activity to the next every day if I could. I love being outside, even in the dead hot of summer. We currently play co-ed soccer and I try to keep up with his tennis skills. I also enjoy running, working out, playing softball, playing yard games, basically competing in whatever possible, whether it is against just my husband or other people. I am a competitor, but I just enjoy playing and having fun too. We love being a part of our church and the vision to be in our community and be a light to make a difference. We are a part of building joy filled communities that have greater purpose and deeper relationships. Our church has the vision to be in a continuous ongoing spiritual transformation that we are all on-a journey to grow with Jesus.

I love filling my life to the fullest. I feel like there is so much life to live, so many people to meet, so many relationships to invest in, so many things to do.  I want it all. But I struggle with saying yes to way too many things. I want to have a little bit of everything.  At one point in my life, I could manage this. I could run from one thing to the next, filling up my days. But about a year ago, I hit a wall. I started not feeling purposeful in what I was doing. I was busy, but bored. I wasn’t getting the same energy and drive out …

I recently have had the opportunity to continue my desire for a healthy, fit lifestyle with some new, amazing nutritious products! I would love to share my story with you…Would that be okay?

In the last few years, I have had some big adjustments. I graduated college, finishing my 17-year softball career. I moved back home to figure out what I wanted to do with my life. I got engaged and planned my DIY, tight budget wedding. I got married to the love of my life and a month later, we moved to the Caribbean. We spent our first two years of marriage there as he fulfilled his dream of becoming a doctor. We moved back to the United States to find out that we had been placed in California for his third year rotations…and all the details in between.

I loved getting to support and be apart of my husband’s journey to achieve his goal. I loved being back in California. I loved being close to family and my nieces and nephews. I loved being a wife. But, I was not fulfilled and I felt very lost in where my life was supposed to go next.

I was constantly waking up tired, I was sick more than I ever had been and I did not have energy to fulfill my to-do list each day. I struggled with finding my identity after college (other than being a med student wife), especially after being an “athlete” for my entire life. Exercise was still a huge priority in my life but, without the camaraderie of doing it with a team, I found it difficult to find the fun in it and was sore all the time. Lastly, I was overwhelmed, consumed, and felt very trapped by the debt that we were accruing …