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Find a healthy dose of motivation, inspiration and education.
Looking for ways to fuel the motivational fire?
A few days, weeks, or months pass, and, well…you know the drill… the spark that ignited our action starts to flicker out and resistance starts to rear her ugly head.
We start descending the slippery slope of compromise and negotiation because we often fail to feed the motivational fire.
So, here we go…
4 Ways to Improve Your Energy Beyond Sleep w/ Mary Miller Brooks
Mary is a master at many things, but one of her specialties is helping women to solve their fatigue issues (and, given the past year, who could NOT use help with that??!!).
Respecting Your Willpower Muscle
If you want to change behavior in ANY arena, you have to respect that willpower (like time and energy) is a limited resource.
What have you made a habit out of negotiating lately?
Ever made a habit out of negotiating things you say are important to you?
Yeah. Me too.
Moving my body on the regular has always been really important to me. It is literally a vital nutrient to my mental health.
How noise cancelling headphones saved me.
I normalized the noise in my life until something gave me the opportunity to silence it. And now I crave the quiet more than ever.
Exploring the reasons why we eat.
Last night in my Rumble & Rise community we did a deep dive session on all the reasons we eat because… let’s face it… we eat for a LOT of reasons aside from nourishment and survival.
My secret mission.
Sometimes doing nothing is a potent something:) Last week I went on a secret mission. The mission’s name…
The very reason you will struggle to take action today.
Whatever happened this weekend, please stop telling yourself that you have to “start over” today.
Mondays are notorious for this language and it is making your journey harder not easier.
Tips on HOW to stay motivated.
So often we embark on a change process because we get a hit of motivation so strong we feel compelled to take action… for a while.
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.
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.