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Exercising When You Don’t Want To

I think we all know the feeling. We know we should work out, but what we really want to do is relax on the couch. And sometimes… the couch wins. Motivation can be a tricky beast. Even when we know that exercising would be in our best interests, sometimes we need to give ourselves a little pep…

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Introspection

  Here’s a trending yet totally personal spiel: I consider myself to be reserved, introverted. My preferred place will always be somewhere quiet with tea lights or fairy lights, books or Netflix, coffee or tea. My preferred method of interacting with others will always be one or a few at a time –and a few,…

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Where is your “click”?

2018 has been the year I got my “click”! We all have things in our lives that we have struggled with for years, maybe repeating the same vicious cycles over and over again with patterns of failure becoming the norm. This has been my story in the area of my weight loss and living a…

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The Journey from I Can’t to I Do

When you’re doing something difficult over a long period of time, it’s almost instinctive to break it down into more manageable chunks. Running a race, for example, becomes not just a physical endurance feat, but a mathematical one… “Alright, so 26.2 miles—well that’s just a couple of half marathons; hard but not impossible. In fact…

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I Start with My Shoes…

The journey toward fitness and wellness can often seem a daunting task, but it is a journey and that happens one step at a time.  A wise person said, “It is the journey that forges us.” That step by step process shapes us into something strong, enduring, and successfully allows us to move ahead with…