This is a rough time of year for swimming families. Most Championship meets for the winter swim season are in February and March, and that means that in the weeks leading up to those championships, there are a bunch of other swim meets for kids to swim in and hopefully get the qualifying times to […]
Self Care
Leveling Up And Meeting Yourself Where You Are
Have you heard the term leveling up? If you’ve ever played a video game, especially back in the seventies and eighties, you understand the significance of moving up to the next level. I don’t know how many hours of my childhood were spent trying to get to the next level of Space Invaders and Donkey […]
Going Outside In Winter Won’t Kill Your Kids. But Staying Inside Might.
We live in a time when kids are more overweight than ever, more disconnected than ever, more immobile than ever, and more depressed than ever. This problem isn’t coming from the public schools. It’s not the teachers’ fault, it’s not the school administration’s fault, and it’s not the board of ed’s fault. It’s not the […]
Keep, Stop, Start
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, […]
Safe Is Static. And Static Kind Of Sucks.
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 […]
Do You Have Good Sleep Hygiene?
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 — […]