Always evolving, Never Average
Every Sunday is self-reflection day for me. And I’ve also started implementing this practice with all my NYAFC clients. But in order to really think about how the past week has been going for all of us, I have started employing the Keep, Start, Stop approach to this practice. It’s also called the Stop, Keep, …Read More
How many of you vowed to declutter your house and get your sh*t organized on January 1st, only to find yourself too overwhelmed to begin? Or you had one bad day and a temporary derailment turned into a permanent one? How many of you have watched that Marie Kondo show on Netflix and say to …Read More
In my fitness course, I have a closed Facebook group. Every day I encourage my badass clients to post in the group. I don’t have any scientific data, but I would wager a bazillion dollars that the women who post, comment and interact on a consistent basis have more success than the women who rarely …Read More
If you’ve been around here for a while you know I had a little brother who died when he was three years old. I was sixteen at the time, and a junior in high school. My brother’s name was Christopher, and he was diagnosed with leukemia at about eighteen months old, had chemo and radiation …Read More
There is no doubt that meal prep is a great way to save time and money and create healthy options for you and your family that you can heat up quickly on busy week nights or just grab and eat. But if you’ve never done it before, it can seem overwhelming. Especially if you venture …Read More
The first time I heard the term “sleep hygiene” was about 20 years ago. I was sitting in a therapist’s office after having been released from Silver Hill, a psychiatric hospital in New Canaan, Connecticut where I had been for a week. I had just been diagnosed with major depressive disorder — major depression — …Read More
In my experience, we are at the point where many people completely fall off the wagon as far as resolutions are concerned. I’m not a fan of resolutions — because they rarely result in true change — but I am a fan of evolution. I believe in always trying to be a better mother, a …Read More
Sometimes your kids annoy each other on purpose and do shit over and over and over again and it’s infuriating because you know you have taught them right from wrong and they behave at school and are respectful to other adults and your friends will drive them home from practice or something and tell you …Read More
I offered my first e-course about five years ago. I called it Not Your Average Fitness Course, and I had just come off of a big weight loss competition at my gym and I was a little bit out of control and A LOT unrealistic with my expectations. Back then, I did not know what …Read More
If you missed Part I of The Getting Your Sh*t Together Blog Series, you can read that here. Okay. Now onto Part II. Making yourself a priority means taking care of yourself. Taking care of yourself doesn’t mean going away for the weekend because you are hours away from a nervous breakdown. Think about, for …Read More
