Bev Escapades

Close the window that hurt you, no matter how beautiful the view is 💜✌🏽

Read that again, if you must 🥂

Do you sometimes just crave for a hug?🤍

Not the regular two seconds hug.
The warm sunset kinda hug.
The body crushing, ‘I see you’ kinda hug.
The type that leaves you feeling ten times lighter than your actual weight.
The type that fixes the cracks in your bones, the bruises in your heart.
The kind that whispers “it’s alright, I’m here, I understand and I’m not letting go”.

That kind of hug 💜

Happy birthday to the guy who makes my heart swell with pride every single day! 🫶🏽

From day one, I’ve watched you tackle life with a level of commitment and dedication that blows my mind. Your journey has been nothing short of inspiring, and I can’t help but feel this overwhelming sense of pride and joy for everything you’ve accomplished.

You set your sights on something, and boom – you go after it with everything you’ve got. It’s downright impressive, and I stand in awe of the person you’ve become.

So here’s to you, my love, on your birthday. 🥂 Here’s to the countless hours of hard work, the late nights, and the sacrifices you’ve made to get where you are. I’m not just proud of what you’ve achieved; I’m proud of the person you are – kind, determined, and downright amazing. 😻

As you blow out those candles, know that you’ve already lit up my world. May this year bring you even more opportunities to shine and achieve all the incredible things your heart desires. 💫

Happy birthday, my superstar! 🌟🎂
Love you long time ❤️❤️❤️

It’s the most beautiful time of the year! 🎄
Lights fill the street, spreading so much cheer! ✨

Merry Christmas from our fam to you and yours!! 💖🎄😍 Sending love, well wishes, good vibes and positivity your way 💓

I saw a girl by herself on the mountains.. staring into the horizon. And I thought to myself, “Looks like she needs a friend!” She then got up to leave and as she turned around, I realised… she was my best friend.

Truth be told, she did need a friend. But I was too busy seeking out strangers to help, thus ignoring my own needs and that of my family and friends who probably needed me too.

We all do things and behave in a certain way to fulfil a need or to fill a void. And on that quest to discover what that need or void was I constantly trying to fill and to understand myself better .. I began to ask myself “WHY??”

Stay tuned ⭐️

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Keep looking for magic. Everywhere!! ✨

In the light, in the dark, and every place in between. Most of all, look inside yourself 🫶🏽🫶🏽

That's where the real treasure is 💯

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Be good to yourself! 💞

Not pitying or indulgent, but well and truly good. Feel your emotions and validate them.
Acknowledge your limitations and be proud of what you manage to do in spite of them.

Allow yourself rest, but don't
quit. Take tiny actions that will make life better for you because you deserve that, don’t you?

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Wishing my heart the happiest birthday yet!! 🥳💕

Here’s to many more celebrations, laughs, trips and fun filled adventures ahead ♥️

Continue to share your passion for sport and fitness with the world and hopefully soon I’ll find my way there too 😅 till then Yin and Yang ☯️

Your entire life can change in a year.. you just got to love yourself enough to know you deserve more, be brave enough to demand more, and be disciplined enough to actually work for more! ✨

You don’t need to have it all figured out to take one step forward 🤗

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Happy New Year 🤗♥️🥂✨

Sending good vibes, warm hugs, hearty laughs and so much love to you all 🫶🏽

Each year brings about a sense of new goals, desires and more often than not an overwhelming feeling of not being able to do enough. So while it’s important to be kind to others, this year, try and be kinder to yourself.

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Merry Christmas to all you wonderful people out there. Wishing you love, peace, happiness and prosperity ✨

To those who are not in the festive mood this year, we hope you find the strength to come out of whatever you’re going through and we hope you find happiness again soon. 🫂

Stay blessed everyone 😇
- Bev & Chel

Are we Raising People Pleasers?

Have you been told that you are “good” when you did something your parents said without questioning them?
Suddenly it’s becoming a child’s job to ensure they don’t upset, disappoint or let down their parents or others around them. It feels as though they are responsible for how people around them react and feel. And if you think about.. no child has ever gotten more praise than for when they were being selfless and putting others before their own needs.

Teaching kids to love, respect, understand and appreciate others is important but teaching them where to draw the line is equally if not more important. Have you ever found yourself doing something you didn’t want to do coz you felt a loved one would be upset if you didn’t? Well that stems from a childhood mental block to please others and is actually quite common in a lot of adults.

So why do adults people please? One thought may be - “If I give up my boundaries, then I’m more likely to be loved and accepted” or “If I do so, I can avoid any sort of conflict” So what happens is that, the adult mind forms this sub-conscience association that tells you that by giving up what you need and by doing what others expect of you, walking on egg shells, basically being ”good”, you are more likely to be safe, survive and get your needs met. The mind actually goes through this interesting programming that tells you - “By giving up your sense of self, positive things will happen”

While this may have been something that worked for you as a child.. as an adult this will play an entirely different role. If we can’t show up for ourselves and carve out time for our own needs, then we’re less likely to get the job we want, less likely to go after the dreams we have, less likely to have our needs met if we don’t know what our needs are or know how to express them. And this will end up leaving us dissatisfied, frustrated, disconnected, emotionally drained and often even burned out.

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𝐇𝐚𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚 𝐃𝐚𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐏𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞

So many times you come across a lot of quotes, books and sayings about setting goals, being content, finding the meaning of life, following your passion etc. Sometimes I find all of it so overwhelming and even a bit confusing, like… I need to work hard to follow my passion to make my passion my career but also life is short so I need to make time for my loved ones and hobbies and somehow always try to live in the moment and be content where I am and not believe happiness can only be attained by achieving my next goal 🥵🥵🥵

Confusing right?

So why not find a purpose every single day rather than for life as a whole. This is a very broad statement I’m aware but finding meaning in everything you do, every single day is just a simpler way of getting through each day. We all feel overwhelmed with things - peer pressure, productivity pressure, family supporting pressure, anxiety, stress.. but let me tell you.. you’re not alone in this. Instead of building up the problems inside your head, why not break it down?

Got a lot of things to do? Write it down and prioritise. At the end of the day focus on how much you got done rather than what’s left coz your purpose was to get the ball rolling and not just stress about how much work you got to do.

Feeling burnt out at your current job? Do yourself a favour and take a break. You’d rather come back feeling rejuvenated and willing to work, than unhappy and miserable for days on end. Worst case, still don’t want to go back? Then quit and find a less demanding and more fulfilling job. Having a healthy mind and body is way better than earning a lot having sacrificed your health and well being.

Don’t let however anyone else’s life is going or what other people may say or do, trick you into believing that you’re not doing well enough nor going fast enough. Go at your own pace! The key to progress is having the courage to start before you’re ready and trusting yourself to figure it out along the way. Perfectionism slows down progress but procrastination kills it.

If you made it till here.. the rest is contd. in the comments 🤗

People Always Leave

So I recently got to thinking about people leaving and how it affects the ones left behind. People leaving could be due to multiple reasons - for a better future, friendship falling apart/break up or the most painful of all - death.

As a young girl, I remember watching One Tree Hill where Peyton draws a red signal stating “People Always Leave” and for some reason that has stuck with me. People do always leave in some way or the other but how we choose to deal with it, is what changes our outlook of life.

Time is a limited resource. Once spent, it’s gone forever. We can never get time back but we can be intentional with the time we have. We can protect our precious time by saving it for the activities and people that give us most joy. It’s all too easy to forget how important our family is to us. We get busy with our day to day lives but why not get busy with the people who matter most to us? Your family is priceless and while we can’t pick and choose them, we can always pick our friends and make them part of our families.

So pick up the phone and call your loved ones far away and tell them you miss them. Don’t let the break ups and broken friendships ruin your inner peace - wish them well and let them go! And as for the living… love them hard coz we don’t know if we’ll see a tomorrow and we don’t want to have any regrets or unfinished business.

Sending love, peace and good vibes to all you wonderful people out there 💛🕊🧘‍♀️

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𝖡𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒 𝗂𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗆𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍, 𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗍’𝗌 𝖾𝗇𝗈𝗎𝗀𝗁. 𝖤𝖺𝖼𝗁 𝗆𝗈𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝗂𝗌 𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝗐𝖾 𝗇𝖾𝖾𝖽, 𝗇𝗈𝗍 𝗆𝗈𝗋𝖾!

- 𝖬𝗈𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗋 𝖳𝖾𝗋𝖾𝗌𝖺

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#𝖺𝖻𝗎𝗇𝖽𝖺𝗇𝖼𝖾𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗌𝖾𝗍 #𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗂𝗍𝗂𝗏𝖾𝖺𝖿𝖿𝗂𝗋𝗆𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 #𝗀𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗍𝗎𝖽𝖾𝖺𝗍𝗍𝗂𝗍𝗎𝖽𝖾 #𝗆𝗒𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌 #𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗂𝗇𝖾𝗌𝗌𝗊𝗎𝗈𝗍𝖾 #𝗁𝗂𝗀𝗁𝗏𝗂𝖻𝖾𝗍𝗋𝗂𝖻𝖾 #𝗌𝖾𝗅𝖿𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 #𝗌𝗁𝖺𝖽𝗈𝗐𝗌 #𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗋𝗍𝗌𝗍𝗒𝗅𝖾 #𝗌𝗆𝗂𝗅𝖾𝗎𝗇𝗍𝗂𝗅𝗒𝗈𝗎𝖻𝖾𝗅𝗂𝖾𝗏𝖾𝗒𝗈𝗎𝖺𝗋𝖾𝗁𝖺𝗉𝗉𝗒 #𝗆𝗂𝗇𝖽𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗂𝗇𝗂𝗇𝗀 #𝗌𝗐𝖾𝖾𝗍𝗌𝗆𝗂𝗅𝖾 #𝗌𝗎𝗇𝗄𝗂𝗌𝗌𝖾𝖽 #𝖽𝖾𝗇𝗂𝗆𝗌𝗁𝗈𝗋𝗍𝗌

Absolutely loved the cocktails at 🥂

We arrived there with every intent to try out different cocktails and the guys over there were so helpful in ensuring our taste buds were craving more 🤤

When I’m Goa do as the Goans do! So feni cocktails All The Way 💯

Have you tried a feni cocktail before? Let me know what’s your preferred concoction in the comments.
Also do save this post so you remember where to go next time you’re in South Goa 💕

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Happy birthday to forever man 🥂💖🥰🥳♾

Every day I hope you know how loved, appreciated and amazing you are and especially today on your birthday, I want you to feel all that and more! Your birthday really is a special day to me. It’s the day the greatest gift and blessing I’d ever receive was brought into this world.

I’m thankful every day that you exist and for who you are, exactly the way you are - your serious face yet quirky hidden personality, your strict coach side but also the infamous “December Chelli”, your fearless protector side yet your I’m sick and need someone to take care of me - all of this and more is what makes you so admirable and perfect! To spend the rest of my life with you is one of my greatest dreams come true 💖

So here’s to you - the man you’ve become, the dreams you’ve accomplished and your beautiful journey ahead 🥰🥂🥳 Another year of laughing together, messing up together and making it together.

Happy birthday my rock! I love you 😘

Oh when can we go out and party like we used to??

Today got me all lost in memories of what used to be. Sometimes a walk down memory lane is exactly what you need to appreciate what you have and you’ve had. A reminder to never take things or people for granted.

You never think that the last time will be the last time. You always think there will be more. You think you have forever but you don’t. Someone out there is praying for the things you take for granted - that job, that house, that relationship.

There’s always, always, always something to be grateful for! Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. It’s time we appreciate each other more and spread the joy of living!

Peace and love to all you beautiful people out there ! ❤️

To our God given family, our chosen family and all our near and dear friends who are nothing less than our family… we love you all!

Thank you all for making our day so special, we couldn’t have done it without you.

For those who couldn’t make it, y’all were definitely missed at the wedding but thank you for being there for us nonetheless.

Cheers to a beautiful day with the best! 🥂 ❤️

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Happiest anniversary to my one and only ❤️❤️❤️

Can’t believe it’s been 3 years already 😅

Love you babe 😘

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After every dark night, there is a bright day. Be patient and trust the process. ✨

Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete.

Every year people make New Year’s resolutions that usually don’t last past the first quarter. This year make sure your resolutions are more realistic and sustainable. Instead of focusing on the things that have happened in the past and how to fix it… work on the things you can and will do better in the future.

You can spend hours, days, weeks or even months over-analysing and over-thinking a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve, should’ve happened… or you could leave the pieces on the floor and move on!

Easier said than done I know but sometimes needed to move on and bring the best out of yourself.

This picture was taken with my girls at the Nichnai pass during our Kashmir Great Lakes trek in Sept 2021 at an altitude of 13,500 ft high. One of my favourite memories of 2021 was being able to do this trek 🏔

Feeling grateful and blessed to have such wonderful opportunities to travel and being surrounded by the best people ❤️

Destination Wedding in Dubai 🇦🇪 with ace photographer 📸

We always get asked how we live such different lives - a mix of sports and weddings! 👰🏻⚽️🤵🏻Honestly, we take each day as it comes and consider ourselves blessed to have each other and make every moment we get together count ✨

While we may have gotten to spend Christmas Eve together, we will be spending Christmas apart but will meet again in 2 short weeks! 🌈

Merry Christmas to all you wonderful people out there. Wishing you love, peace, happiness and prosperity ✨

To those who are not in the festive mood this year, we hope you find the strength to come out of whatever you’re going through and we hope you find happiness again soon. 🫂

Stay blessed everyone 😇
- The Pintos

Be strong enough to stand alone, smart enough to know when you need help and brave enough to ask for it!

There’s light at the end of every tunnel. Some tunnels just happen to be longer than others. Have faith, in yourself and the goodness and kindness of others.

It’s okay to not be okay. It’s okay to ask for help and it’s definitely okay to get the help you require. When we are hurting, we end up hurting the people we care about the most.

To those in pain.. get the help you need. There is no shame in asking or seeking help. To those who see others in pain, offer a helping hand.
And no matter what you’re going through, try your best to always be kind to others coz you don’t know what they’re going through too.

Tagging accounts that you could reach out to if ever you need to talk to someone.
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Portrait shot by the great !!

Encapsulated in a dream!

So many times I find myself longing for the end of a journey, a sort of desire to reach my destination. But truth be told, arriving at one destination only means the beginning of a new journey.

Ever stop to enjoy the moment, bask in the glory of the beauty around you?? Life is so short, you blink and the moment is gone.

As we come to the end of another year, a lot has happened, a lot has changed. The people in our lives may have moved on but nevertheless these things make us resilient and we have come out stronger.

So take a moment to take it all in. Breathe! Enjoy the journey as much as you enjoy the destination. Learn through your experiences and help others along the way. At the end of the day, the people in your life make a whole lot of difference and make life worth living… so choose them wisely and more importantly- value them!

Okay enough gyan! Back to work 😎

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One life! Just one!
Then why aren’t we running like we are on fire towards are wildest dreams!?!?

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. Every morning we are presented with a choice - continue to sleep and enjoy your dreams or wake up and chase them!

The choice is yours! Choose wisely 💖

This pic was taken by at the private beach of providing an unrivalled sanctuary where you can swim, sunbathe and take surfing lessons 🏄🏽‍♀️

Don’t you just love places that make you realise how small you and you’re problems are?!?

The Kashmir Great Lakes trek made me feel safe, made me feel centred, made me feel balanced and I knew that’s right where I wanted to be.

Everyone wants to live on the top of the mountains, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing.

Honestly, it’s a mental game. I don’t think I was at my fittest at that point but I definitely had the will power to keep going. Couldn’t have done it without the motivation and encouragement of the wonderful people on this trek - .k.bansal and the awesome trek leader .roy from !!

Going on a trek gives you an adrenaline rush that makes you want to keep going. I look forward to my next trek - not sure where it will be but if you have recommendations then please do drop in a comment!!

Catching sunsets on helipads in Bengaluru 🌆

She was a sunset kind of girl and he was a sunrise kind of guy.
They lived on opposite ends of the day but together made up the whole sky 🌌

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Have you ever just stopped and taken a moment to self-reflect??

It's easy to get caught up in the busyness of life… The chaos of challenges, and even the comfort of routines that are less than what you really want to experience.

This is why it’s so powerful to take the time to pause, step back, zoom out and reflect about where you are, how you got here, and to look at the bigger picture of where you're headed.

Self-reflection empowers you to learn from your mistakes, grow through challenges, and consciously progress on the path leading towards where you really want to be.

I for one, am an over thinker. It takes very little for me to dwell and ponder on, what others may find minuscule or irrelevant. I think that’s also what keeps me so curious about what life has to offer and the urge to explore more and more.

A few months ago, I visited a small town called Mulki which is really close to Mangalore city. It’s just a 30-40 min drive, yet I had never been there despite being from Mangalore.

Grateful to have had the opportunity to visit and learn a bit of surfing during my stay there. I ain’t no pro, I was there just for two days 🙈 but it was truly a wonderful experience and returned home with some wonderful memories and a serious tan 😎

Thank you for convincing me to come out there and for capturing this tiring yet peaceful moment of mine.