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Restoration is a highly undervalued form of nutrition.
Self-care does not always look the same. In fact, honoring that is what allows you to sustain health.
Exercise is a stressor and dumping more stress on an already stressed system isn’t the best approach to wellness.
Flexing Your Courage Muscle
These things will be required to elevate your health and happiness. Are you committed to flexing your courage muscle this week?
Cultivating Courage
Courage most often doesn’t look like slaying dragons…often it looks like doing simple things…. like signing up for an art class.
Walking into 2021 on wobbly knees.
Still here. Walking into 2021 on wobbly knees. The end of 2020 & the start of 2021 pitched my family an onslaught of curveballs. My husband and I both got Covid and my beloved…
The power of planning
In the Healthiest Year Yet Challenge, we are diving into the power of planning. Why is planning so key to the change process? Because it allows you to…
Emotional Agility
One of my absolute favorite books on behavior change is Emotional Agility by Susan David (I have earmarked just a few pages…lol. In this book…
21 Tips to Rock Your Health in 2021
I have learned a few things about what it really takes to show up for yourself on the regular and over the course of the next 21-days I am going to share with you 21 tips to rock your health in 2021.
The capacity to recover easily and quickly.
Believe it or not, your body is incredibly designed and has built-in mechanisms to deal with small doses of stress (even intense stress) without negative side effects.
Welcome to the fat loss triad.
Promoting the physiological process of fat loss while preserving mental health is something far more complex and nuanced than following a simple energy in/energy out equation.
Celebrate your wins.
Promoting the physiological process of fat loss while preserving mental health is something far more complex and nuanced than following a simple energy in/energy out equation.
Being grateful IN all things.
Looking for the things to be grateful for WITHIN the difficult moments of life has been a game-changer for me. It keeps me present and reminds me I have a choice in looking up or down.
The health consequences of having a “self-trust” deficiency
Most people wouldn’t consider “self-trust” a nutritional deficiency, but I certainly do. And, this deficiency is creating a tremendous amount of dis-ease in women’s lives.
Getting Real About Weight Loss
Our culture LOVES to glorify weight loss as a measure of health, which is nuts if you think about it because… weight loss tells us nothing about the measures someone took to create that result.
The real reward is in the becoming.
If your journey looks anything like this picture STOP telling yourself that something has gone wrong. You are human. This is the way of it.
It’s possible to look awesome AND be a broken mess.
I think mental health education should be an integral part of ANY kind of program that qualifies professionals to help individuals improve their physical health. Because these are not separate conversations.
Are these behind the reason you’re not showing up for yourself?
Inconvenient truths behind 3 thoughts you might be thinking when it is time to show up for yourself…
The unexpected teachers of 2020.
I have had some incredible teachers over the course of my life but 2020 has delivered some of the best yet, and they came in the most unusual forms…
Are you listening or dictating to your body?
Dictating is NOT how healthy relationships grow and… well… health is a relationship… the most long-term, intimate relationship you will ever be in.
Look at the beliefs driving your actions.
My zone of genius is helping you make sure that the strategies you are using to try and create meaningful change actually make sense to the rest of your life.
Decision fatigue is a very real thing!
You may not like this truth but your brain does have a limited capacity to make decisions on any given day. When your brain is fatigued… it tries to conserve energy by choosing the path of least resistance. It wants to take the EASIEST route.
4 Reasons You Struggle To Be Consistent
If you want to end the START/STOP cycle of showing up for yourself so you can improve your health, bookmark this post. And if there is something here that confuses you, let’s break it down…
Cheers to ending the Monday morning “do over” madness.
You know what I am talking about. You decide you are finally ready to start taking better care of yourself (for real this time). So, you commit to working out 5 days a week (bootcamp style, of course)…
How 2020 reminds me of motherhood.
The only thing I can really compare the chaos of 2020 to is motherhood. The first year of motherhood was not a pretty transition for me. Nope, my transition into motherhood more closely resembled a class 5 hurricane.
What the diet industry doesn’t want you to learn…
To lead yourself in a powerful way you’ve got to learn how to trust yourself in a powerful way. In fact, I would argue that this is more powerful than most actual “superfoods” being sold to you.
It doesn’t matter why you think you can’t. You absolutely CAN.
This is not just health coaching—it’s a personalized road map to the prime of your life. It’s coaching that will make today feel like the best days of your life are ahead of you, no matter where you’re at right now.