Last week, I talked about my efforts to get in more steps. Thanks to my Fitbit, I’m well aware that I’m getting far fewer steps in than I used to. Can I still blame the pandemic? That was when the slowdown really happened. We were all sitting on our butts WAY more than usual. Even […] Read more…
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Lessons I’ve Learned from Yoga
The downward dog is my nemesis. That might be what’s kept me coming back to yoga. I never considered myself a yogi – far from it. Still, once I started, I felt like I just had to get better at it. I always avoided it because I didn’t see myself as flexible. I always drifted […] Read more…
Fitness Life Hacks That Work
There are some goals I’ve been setting around here. That’s nothing new. I’m the queen of having a goal. I always feel the need to have something to work toward. One of my goals had been working on staying committed to my fitness. I had fallen off in a big way since having kids. Getting […] Read more…
Apparently self care isn’t just spa treatments
It’s been a few years now where people can’t stop talking about self care. I am certainly in that group of people. While I think we all know that it is not always about having a spa day or some extravagant thing. It’s really the simple, daily things that make the biggest difference. If I’m […] Read more…
Why Exercise? (even if you hate it)
Are you a yogi? I have to say for the longest time, I didn’t like yoga – at all. I found it kind of boring and I didn’t feel like it worked for me because I feel like I’m the exact opposite of flexible. I also didn’t see it as exercise. Recently, I decided to […] Read more…
My Fitness Journey Started with French Fries
When I was about eighteen, I went to the doctor for a normal physical. She did blood work and went over it with me. Normal stuff, right? Then she brought up her concern for my cholesterol. She was surprised at how high it was, especially for someone my age. She implored me to get it […] Read more…
Lessons my kids learn watching me exercise
Looking back, I don’t know when I first jumped onto the exercise bandwagon. I wasn’t super active in college. I barely used the gym there. It was after graduation that I really started to get interested in working out. I joined a gym and haven’t looked back since. I’m a work in progress physically, but […] Read more…
How to Find Joy When The World is a Dumpster fire
Can we all agree that the world is overwhelmingly heavy right now? Between the dual pandemics (coronavirus + racism) in our midst, life looks different. It’s been especially hard to catch my breath. Still, I have to look for moments of respite and try to find joy. It’s how I hold on. I can’t just […] Read more…
On trying yoga while trying not to break…
I almost feel like this is a journal entry. Over a month into this quarantine and I think I’m just starting to break a bit. I am overall surprised with how OK I am with being inside – ALL THE TIME. Still, the carefulness and overthinking that goes into this life is A LOT. Aside […] Read more…
Staying Sane in Quarantine
At this point, I think we all know that staying home is the way to go while we try to flatten the curve in this coronavirus pandemic. So far, my family has been in the house for about two weeks. My kids were initially supposed to be out of school until April 6. We just […] Read more…
