Chronic Radiance

Welcome to the Chronically Empowered Mom new home!

Bychronicradiance January 5, 2023February 26, 2025

A few months ago, I set up my own blog online affer many.years. A place to call my own. A place to start my own community. I created it as a trial run on WordPress.org. Over time, I realized that there were ads popping up all over the place. It was like I was catering…

Parenting & Family

If you can’t eat the gingerbread house, destroy it with a sledgehammer!

Bychronicradiance January 2, 2023February 26, 2025

In my previous post, If you can’t eat the gingerbread house, eat the cake,” my son was pretty upset when he couldn’t eat the gingerbread house, so I just let him make a cake and decorate it so that he could eat. I did not realize that he was also upset to not be able…

Self-Care & Wellness

New Year, New Workout Routine and Goal Planning

Bychronicradiance January 1, 2023February 6, 2025

For 2023, I wanted to mix things up and change up my fitness routine. You know that I already work out every day and it’s for a minimum of two hours. That’s just a way that I can keep myself mobile and walking right. When I miss a day, I definitely don’t walk as well….

Fitness Empowered

Physical Fitness – my 9th virtue to add to my Self-Improvement Plan

Bychronicradiance December 29, 2022February 26, 2025

I am naming physical fitness as my 9tth virtue to strengthen and improve upon. There is always room for improvement to improve as a person, why not the way I approach exercise to improve my overall physical strength, endurance (both cardio and muscular endurance), cardiovascular health, muscle development, fat loss and appearance. As a personal…

Fitness Empowered

Hopping on the Smith Machine – Hands-free!

Bychronicradiance December 28, 2022February 26, 2025

Before I go into why working at a Smith machine is so important to me, do you know what a Smith z machine is? A quick summary from Wikipedia is: The Smith machine is a weight machine used for weight training. It consists of a barbell that is fixed within steel rails allowing only vertical…

Blog | Fitness Empowered

A gym rat’s dream is the day after Christmas!

Bychronicradiance December 27, 2022February 26, 2025

So today I encountered what was a gym rats dream, a quite empty gym. I would say truthfully they were about as many people as were fingers on one hand. As the time progressed to 7 o’clock, which is the two hour mark after I get to the gym at five, there were maybe 10…

Fitness Empowered

My secret plan when the gym is closed on Christmas

Bychronicradiance December 26, 2022February 26, 2025

Merry Christmas. The gym is closed for a day. What’s a girl to do when early am is the only way and everyone is still asleep? Have a backup plan ready, that’s what. Morning meditation has become a ritual for me at my dining room table, but right next to me in the kitchen (we…

Self-Care & Wellness

I’m having a blowout on self care day 2!

Bychronicradiance December 23, 2022February 26, 2025

For Day 2 of self-care week, I had an appointment at my local salon with my stylist, Karla. I just wanted a blowout on the day before we would. get together with family on Christmas Eve. The wash is always enjoyable as I don’t have to lift my shoulders up in the showed to wash…

Self-Care & Wellness

Self-Care Day 1 – First Makeup Buy since the Pandemic

Bychronicradiance December 22, 2022February 26, 2025

I don’t wear a lot of makeup. Most of the time before 4 am when I roll out of bed to put on my gym clothes to head to the gym, makeup is the furthest thing from my mind. I brush my teeth and head to my main bathroom where my mascara is. Because I…

Blog | Daily Musings

New Website Up and Running as planned. Goal reached!

Bychronicradiance December 21, 2022February 26, 2025

I have been blogging since August. It has been important to me to document my journey and also to get the thoughts out of my mind that try to call their way out. It gives me a way to be creative and also to think in the big picture.I knew that at some point I…