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 Progress update from this week :) coach has made some changes to the plan to up conditioning and I’m feeling good.
Really enjoying my prep and reminding myself each check in that I will step on stage when I’m ready and I’ll get ready so there’s nothing to stress about and to just enjoy the daily process which I really am. It can be easy to lose sight of that if we fixate too much on the end result we want. I am really excited to see what’s been built and being built but also really happy to be in such a state of peace with the process whereas in the beginning it was more challenging to “embrace”. It seems my body is recomping well too because even if weight changes aren’t dramatic or present my measurements have dropped and i feel & see changes, too. It’s pretty interesting to see how different every prep really can be and how much bodybuilding reminds me to be patient and have trust. Bodybuilding is one of the things that I get to do for me every day and it’s amazing how much we get to nourish our body and appreciate our body’s abilities through this sport. Plus this community is just incredible. As I prep for my 10th show I feel like a different athlete. I’m more “seasoned” and have a better understanding of needs, expectations, and changes. I still have a lot to learn and know that being an athlete is really a never ending commitment to learning opportunities for improvement. How is your progress going? Are you in prep or improvement season or taking time off? #BUILDMORETHANJUSTABODY @theshoefairy_ discount code: Celeste 🤗
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 How freeing it is to feel confident, beautiful, and worthy ❤️✨ with so much in life that can disrupt my peace or make me feel uncertainty, it’s empowering & relieving to have peace and certainty within myself.
#BUILDMORETHANJUSTABODY The power of community 🥰 moving to AZ has brought me closer to really amazing women! I’m so grateful for the relationships I’ve been developing here with strong, kind, ambitious, intelligent, and thoughtful women! I always wanted to have more bodybuilding friends or girls who “got it”. I was really nervous about making friends and connections or deepening existing ones but having the courage to put myself out there and making the effort has enriched my life. I may be “introverted” or struggle but I knew if I wanted to have more friends I had to be willing to make them! Luckily these women were all super proactive about connecting with me too! Social media, my business, the podcast, and bodybuilding has afforded me some of the best friendships! So grateful 🥰💓 just doing a “photo dump” of some of our fun times! Please, if you are in Arizona, I’d love to find time to meet :) I know there’s a few of you I have yet to see but if u want to connect, I don’t normally bite 😆
One year ago today I was one day out from my first national show @musclecontest USAs sending check ins to @teamedge1 😍🤩
It was an amazing experience and I cannot believe it has already been 12 months 🤯 Now we are one month into prep and still working each day to be better. I spent all improvement season eating and lifting and posing and this is what I continue to do, it just looks slightly different🤷🏻♀️ Next year I hope to do some regional shows before doing a national show. The goal is to do better, look better, present better, place better… 🤗 I am so grateful to have so much support around me in the pursuit of my goals. The bodybuilding community is so awesome!  Today is my 25th birthday! Thank you for the well wishes and thoughtful reachouts💓🥰
I am so grateful to be alive and living a life I worked hard to create. Looking back on the last 25 years, I feel extremely blessed and recognize the incredible love and support I’ve always had around me. I’m so happy to be able to pursue my passions and live a life of purpose. My intention for this next year of my life is to use my diligence, strength, and skill sets to make more of an impact, take on more opportunities, respect myself and my worth with more clear communication & boundaries, apply lessons I learn each day, and expect even more from myself. If each day we get better, then I can also raise the bar and standard for myself. And I’m sure with further reflection each day I’ll find more ways I can relish in each moment I’ve been gifted. I feel confident that this next year will bring me many more positive connections and lessons and reveal more truths about myself to heal or embrace or capitalize on. Nothing like feeling grateful, inspired, capable, and loved💜 Thank you for being part of my life and journey🥰  Today would’ve been your birthday. This is the first year you aren’t here to be celebrated. It doesn’t feel right to live life without you but I know that’s all you would’ve wanted. I thought about you every day when you were alive and I’ve yet to go a day without thinking about you since you left. I’d like to believe we had all the time we were meant to have together but I just can’t get myself to truly see it that way. While I can be grateful for the times we had, there was so much left for us to do and experience together. You are my moomlet forever and if there was ever a time in my life I would need you most it’s now, and even more so now because you’re not here to help me through this pain. I can still celebrate your life today. Your life as an amazing mother, incredible leader, beautiful singer, savvy business woman, and someone with the energy to light up an entire room, pull people out of darkness, get others into action, and leave an incredible mark. Your presence made a difference. What I wouldn’t do to have a “both sides” hug even once more. You’ll always be the mom who ran out the door for a hug, did kitchen dances, sneezed so loud that hearts skipped beats, sang with the sunshine, made rooms shake with your laugh, read with gusto, listened without judgment, and encouraged endlessly. Today I start my first day of internship, I would’ve called you for support and words of wisdom. If I dig into the archives of memories of our conversations I imagine you would’ve told me to give it all I’ve got and show them how amazing I am and to know that It’ll be just fine and it will all be worth it. Today is always going to be your day, I just wish I could be celebrating your life with you💜
 After this photoshoot in 2018, I drove to Krispy Kreme & bought 12 donuts that I didn’t even enjoy because I binged on them while driving home.
I was lucky I got home safe given how fixated I was on eating the donuts. After I got through tasting 3 of them I remember feeling so embarrassed & thought if I eat more then no one would know how many I ordered. I was so ashamed. I felt I failed myself. I had been prepping since 2017 & couldn’t control myself in that moment. I told myself it was my only chance because I had to keep diet super tight since I was working a booth at the Olympia the next weekend. I didn’t want to look “bad” there. This experience really woke me up though & was a really important shift in my life as an athlete, student, & business owner though… I realized that I stopped doing all the work I had done to improve my body image & food relationship through my prep that was NECESSARY for success post show. So I stepped it up for myself. That’s also when I started focusing more of my research assignments & projects in school on subjects revolving around elite athletes, disordered eating, body image, mindfulness, self-concept & other related issues with application to bodybuilders & physique sport athletes (since there’s not much on bodybuilders). I realized in this time, & through the conversations I was having on the 1st “season” of Confessions of a Bikini Pro Podcast, how needed the work I was doing in the personal development world would be in the bodybuilding world. So I launched my first bodybuilder focused program (the post-show personal development program) by sharing the exact strategies I was using to overcome post-show struggles. I felt this intense pull to put my energy into helping this industry. 2018 showed me, through my resurfaced pain, that my mission in helping people to #BUILDMORETHANJUSTABODY , was needed among body builders. Since then my programs have developed further & I’ve helped 100s of athletes, and non athletes, globally. You can learn more about how to work with me at www.celestial.fit. Thank you to my clients & members past & present for trusting me. It’s an honor!  Today is my dads birthday!
He’s the funniest, smartest, nicest, strongest, and all the other positive adjectives est Man. I am so lucky to have a father who has been present with me my entire life setting an example and encouraging me in everything I do. He has given me so much perspective and has taught me powerful life lessons all while we have tons of fun together. I have so many amazing memories with my dad from a young age to every day now. I cherish every memory and moment! I’m very lucky to have my dad in my life and to be able to lean on him for anything and everything. No words would ever do the man justice. But 3 letters can do a pretty good job, we call him many names but today he can fully and solely go by: MML (man, myth, legend)😎 Still exploring this amazing state I get to call home now!
With a week left before my internship starts, I really want to be intentional and continue adventuring even with prep and everything going on in life! This past weekend I went to Tuscon to visit @santanahhuffmanand had such a great time :) we did a nice sunset incline walk on Friday and then woke up to do an 8.5 miler called “bear canyon to seven falls” it was so beautiful! My favorite part was just laying on the rocks once we got up there and feeling totally connected to nature and grounded in spirit. I am super grateful for this past weekend and know there’s only more memories to be made! I’m also super grateful to have moved somewhere where I know other amazing, supportive, kind, ambitious women! It’s been really awesome for me to experience💙😊it.  I always knew I wanted to run a business. I believed making a living doing what I love & making an impact would provide me a life of happiness. I was right!🥰
I wouldn’t trade the years of building, education, doubt, trials & errors, setbacks, investments, clients, mistakes, worries about if anything was ever going to work, support seeking, droning on about all the biz dreams & ideas, development, tears, traveling, speaking, writing, research, mistakes, wins, learning to delegate, & good honest work for anything. I may not have known how everything would play out or how much would change from when I first started but if I knew then, what I know now, I wouldn’t have been prepared to take all of it on. I had to endure & embrace all the phases of pursuing my passion to really value & be prepared for each next step. When people talk about the entrepreneurial “spirit” I can definitely say it’s always lived in me. But if it weren’t for the support and encouragement of my family, I don’t know if I would’ve let it free or have been prepared to do everything required! It’s not “easy” by any means but I was prepared for this from a young age. I remember writing my first “contract” around 8 years old for my dad to sign as my first interior design client (my business was design by celeste & I asked for a website domain & website builder subscription for my bday as well as a camera so my dad could film videos of me & put on his YouTube & I went through a phase of wearing business clothes to grade school🥲) My dad always reminded me that if you’re going to offer services you must overdeliver. He pushes me to be better. My grandpa always said that a job worth doing is worth doing right. My mom encouraged me to follow my dreams & to keep learning, improving myself, & investing to be better. My sister would have long talks with me when I was down or upset and help me to stay focused on my goals. Her endless encouragement, validation, & belief in me kept me and keeps me going in tough times. I am grateful to do what I love but it wouldn’t be possible without the support of family, friends, & clients. ❤️😭 thank you for supporting the mission, #BUILDMORETHANJUSTABODY |
Celeste Rains-Turk
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