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These hard times are when you are learning the lessons

November 26, 2022 by not your average mom 8 Comments

Yesterday was one of the most emotional days of my life. So much crying. So much discomfort. I sat in my car in the ShopRite parking lot last night and sobbed for about 30 minutes. It sucked. I don’t like crying. And I do it all the time. I have always been a crier. Just about […]

Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: divorce, divorce during the holidays, surviving divorce

This Week In Self-Care and Weight Loss, Episode 1: The Power of A Mindset Shift

March 10, 2022 by not your average mom 2 Comments

In January I joined a program at the Y called Lose to Win. It’s a 12 week weight loss/healthy living program, and there are some competitive aspects to it as well. You can “win” several different categories including total percentage of weight lost, most group fitness classes attended, most cardio minutes, most spin classes, most […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Self Care Tagged With: fitover50, healthyliving, mindsetshifts, swimmer, swimmom, weight loss, weight loss motivation, workout

You Are Never Alone In Your Suckiness

January 13, 2021 by not your average mom 2 Comments

I’ve been spending A LOT of time thinking about imperfection lately. Because what I’m learning as I work with more and more women is that well all have one thing in common. We all have something we suck at and we think we are the only ones like that. And by sucking I don’t necessarily […]

Filed Under: Mental Health Tagged With: confessions, guilt, shame, strengths, weaknesses

Taking Action Imperfectly

December 21, 2020 by not your average mom 1 Comment

If lack of motivation, lack of time or multiple failed attempts are holding you back from making changes in 2021, my FREE challenge will fix that. Register NOW! I’m trying something new. I have a goal of going live Monday through Friday on the NYAM FB page, just for a couple minutes each day.  I […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: empowerment podcasts, investing in yourself, podcasts, taking action

Seven Down, Ninety-Three To Go

November 16, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Last week I wrote this post about how I have developed some really horrible sleep habits over the last 15 years and how my sleep hygiene is terrible and how I am addicted to watching my iPad in bed in order to get to sleep and how this routine is preventing me from getting a […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Self Care, Sound Mind Sound Body Tagged With: developing new habits, sleep hygiene

50,000 Opportunities

November 16, 2020 by not your average mom Leave a Comment

Did you know we average like 50,000 thoughts a day? That’s more than 2000 thoughts an hour. And experts estimate that 70% of these thoughts are negative. That’s a lot of f*%$ing negative thoughts! The good thing about this is that you get to choose what thoughts you believe. Let’s say someone who has never […]

Filed Under: Lessons I've Learned, Mental Health

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