We are almost into a new month! I am giving my fitness course and tribe members a one-minute habit challenge, and I thought I’d share it with you, too. One of the things we work on A LOT is developing very small manageable habits that are very easy to sustain. Once those very small habits […]
Self Care
A Self-Imposed Strike
I just woke up from a three hour nap. I haven’t taken a three hour nap on a Saturday in a very long time. A VERY LONG TIME. Part of that is due to our schedule. We have swim practice on Saturday mornings and baseball games and a lacrosse clinic on Saturday afternoons. Soon we […]
Can’t Vs. Won’t
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
You Can Do Hard Things
One of the reasons I am such a big proponent of exercise — aside from the obvious physical benefits and the mental health benefits and the example you are setting for your kids when it’s a regular part of your routine — is that you are pushed out of your physical comfort zone. And this […]
