Self Care and My Last Weekly Blog Post.. For Now.

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Self Care and My Last Weekly Blog Post.. For Now.

Self care doesn’t have to mean that you are a selfish human or that you don’t care about other people. In my opinion, it is so that you can be the best you. Because if you can honor your needs then you can show up fully in your life.. and that feels pretty amazing.

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Exercise is Allowed to be Fun

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Exercise is Allowed to be Fun

The fitness and diet industries have been spreading underlying messages of fear for a long time now. They have taught us to squeeze in workouts even when we are exhausted. They have taught us to push just a little bit harder even when your body is asking you to stop. They have taught us to count the calories burned, to accept the shaming language of your body needs to change, to look in the mirror and always strive for more improvements, to keep buying all of the things to help reach “x weight” which means that you will then be deemed worthy. To “punish” yourself for eating “too many calories..” because if you can just get to the gym all will be fine. To workout harder so you can “cancel” out the cake you were “not supposed” to enjoy the day before.  

It’s a no wonder we have such a weird negative, on and off again, relationship with exercise... But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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How Do You Talk ABOUT Yourself?

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How Do You Talk ABOUT Yourself?

A couple of weeks ago, I was at a conference with coworkers. While there I was meeting a lot of our partners and clients for the first time. Basically, I found myself trying to make and keep conversations constantly. A few days into the conference, I realized something about myself that I had never realized before - the way I talked about myself to others - especially around new folks. While I am constantly working on my inner self talk and the way I talk to me, I never really stopped to notice how I represented myself in a conversation. And that weekend, I learned that I tend to outwardly make fun of me.

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When I Went to Las Vegas and Didn’t Drink.

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When I Went to Las Vegas and Didn’t Drink.

Over the weekend, I got on a plane to Las Vegas for a work event. And I guess it just never lined up in the past but here I was at almost 27 years old, standing in front of The Strip for the very first time. A few years ago, I would have dove head first into the culture of Vegas- the lights, the party's, the drinks. But today, I felt nervous. I was walking into a weekend of conference events, late night networking, and lots of opportunities to drink... with the intention of staying completely sober.

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Your Reason To Exercise

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Your Reason To Exercise

When you hear the word exercise - what words/phrases/thoughts come to your brain right away?Does it look something like this: To burn all of the calories. A must every single day - can’t miss a workout. To keep weight off and to keep from putting weight on. To prove myself…. etc. So with those things aside let me ask you this: What is it about moving your body that you enjoy? What if we made decisions about our movement from enjoyment rather than the place of fear?

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Knee Deep In Domino's Pizza

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Knee Deep In Domino's Pizza

I think a lot of us find ourselves in this situation - we try to be superwoman and do all of the things and before we know it we find ourselves sprawled on the couch, knee deep in pizza from Dominos, 6 episodes into another season of the Amazing Race saying f*ck all of this today, please don’t talk to me (me last week). So what can we do to avoid this type of burnout? Not to say that it’s not okay to enjoy some pizza and alone time. But how do we keep ourselves from feeling like pulling our hair out every single day

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I Am Enough

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I Am Enough

The single concept that I alone choose my worthiness and self approval was one of the most drastic, ah hah, life changing realizations I have ever experienced. I’ve touched on this in the past but I wanted to make it a focus today because it is so important in our journey to discovering who we are and what truly makes us happy. And until we realize that we choose how we feel about ourselves, we will be forever be searching externally for some of the most important pieces of us, those pieces that we can only find within.  

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"Would I Speak To My Best Friend This Way?"

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"Would I Speak To My Best Friend This Way?"

I felt called to share this particular story not only because future posts will make a lot more sense but because I think negative body image is something so many of us struggle with - and I really want you to know you’re not alone in it and that there is a light at the end of the tunnel. We don’t have to talk to ourselves this way anymore.

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