HELPING MOMS BECOME EMPOWERED IN NEW BOOK
Lisa Druxman wants moms to pick up her new book — she wants them to give themselves that gift.
Druxman, who lives in San Diego, founded Fit4Mom exercise program, which now has 300 franchises and helps new moms get back into shape after having a baby.
Classes include such things as a Stroller Strides, where you bring the baby in the stroller; you get a walking exercise class.
The Austin area has several Fit4Mom franchises, and last month, Druxman exercised with about 150 moms for a Stroller Strides Class at Zilker Park.
The reason Druxman wants moms to buy her new book, “The Empowered Mama: How to Reclaim Your Time and Yourself While Raising a Happy, Healthy Family,” is that when she meets moms from around the country, they all tell her the same thing:
They feel overwhelmed. Their life is out of balance. They can’t put one more thing on their plate.
They all want the secret to finding balance in their life between motherhood, career, time for their spouse, time for themselves.
And they want community and to know they are not alone. Motherhood, she says, is especially hard. “It’s very lonely and very isolating.”
We all know that we’re supposed to put the oxygen mask on first — to take care of ourselves so we can be there for our families — but “we don’t know how,” she says.
Druxman, whose children are 12 and 16, remembers why she started her business. She wanted to be a mom first and a business woman second. She wanted other women to be successful at having a business that could work around their “mom” schedule. That’s why she set up Fit4Moms to grow