Sometimes when it seems the world is crazy and, if you are prone to anxiety and worry, you can wonder WHAT to even do at this point. I hate the hopeless feeling of not being able to control anything, but there isn't a lot we can control. I watched "The Social Dilemma' with my daughter the other day ...
Why it isn’t okay to comment on someone’s body
Have you ever cut out pictures in magazines of someone's body that you really wanted, and pasted it to your refrigerator door? Or found a quote about being thin or starving yourself, or some other equal "willpower" type thing? Basically anything to stop you from wanting to eat and train you to want ...
3 things to think about this week!
(An excerpt from my weekly newsletter! You can sign up below!) I've been thinking of this new format for these newsletters I send out, where I take 3 things I either learned via podcasts, or what I have journaled about, and share with you! These are basically small bites to read and ponder and ...
How guilt steals away your soul
I've been thinking about guilt a lot lately. About how much we live with constant + crushing guilt and how it affects us emotionally. For as long as I can remember I have felt a need to make the people around me happy, and felt extreme guilt if I couldn't. I have always felt this burden, this ...
I’ll be really happy when….
I was thinking about happiness this week, and all the ways that we search for it and hold out on what we already have. We hold out because we are searching for that THING that will magically transport us into the life we think we want. This came to me in the shower this morning, I literally ...
An honest look at my fitness journey
For the past ten years or so I have had a really set workout plan. It started out at the local Y when my babies were little, and to be honest, I started there mostly for the free daycare and daily break. Slowly but surely I started seeing results and I began to feel really good in my skin. We ...
