I never really shared too much about Marie Forleo’s book experience. There is something she said that I wanted to share with you. She talked about the difference between using the word can’t and won’t. We use the word can’t all the time. I can’t get up that early to workout. I can’t run. I […]
Sound Mind Sound Body
Three Things I Learned This Morning
Last week I wrote this post proposing that women shift their thinking around Mom’s Nights Out. Meeting regularly with women to talk and vent and just hang out without kids around is one form of self-care. I challenged women to plan a weekly meeting with other women that involved another form of self-care. Exercise. Today […]
A Very Important Lesson For My Daughter
Number 5 has always been a good sleeper. She learned to sleep on her own when she was a baby — we never had to make her cry it out. One day around five months old, she slept through the night. And that was it. There was a phase when she was two or three […]
The Marie Forleo Experience
On Monday night I went into New York City to see Marie Forleo speak. If you read Friday’s post, you know this was way out of my comfort zone for a whole bunch of reasons. One of those reasons is that while I’ve been to the city many times (it’s only an hour away from […]
I’m tired so here are some shitty pictures.
I am on Day 11 of a self-issued September challenge where I have set the goal of writing 30 posts in 30 days. I have been sitting here at the pool while my kids swim for almost 2 hours now and I have succeeded in doing pretty much absolutely nothing. The past 2 nights have […]
The Mom’s Night (or Morning or Day) Out Challenge
I used to really look forward to a good Mom’s Night Out. And I’d usually get totally hammered at them. It was fun in the moment, but the next day seriously sucked. And the older I got, the longer it would take me to recover from them. Then I decided to stop drinking (26 months […]
