The Common Phrase “Along with Diet and Exercise” is WRONG

Yesterday morning I was on a hike with my neighbor (yes, 6 ft apart I promise) and we were discussing health issues she has been dealing with. She had to plan for a virtual appointment with a dietician and a doctor and we began talking about nutrition and health issues. At one point I said, …

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Help Someone Help Themselves

A post written a while ago but still depicts my passion today!! A night out with my two best friends for dinner. This is a habitual thing but tonight was a bit different. I had met with a business friend right before seeing my friends, and our talk about his work with people living with …

Quarantine Nation

Well, what a world we live in right now. Everyone is talking about this and I didn't want to be another person to ramble on about how serious, weird, drastic, scary, and uncertain these times are....but I'm gonna! haha I am not even sure where to start. Maybe with the 60 degree weather turned to …

Passion of Coaching

My client was talking to me about how much his weight loss has changed his life; raving about how much faster his karate kicks were and just how much stronger he felt in the gym. Smiling from ear to ear, eyes as big as the latest full moon glowing, shedding light around it, he was …

I Pressed On

Perspective. Tunnel Vision. Wide open view. You choose. Well, they say you choose. But do you...? They say "be positive," "it will pass," "just get over it," or anything else that makes you want to scream and rip someone's face off in the slight attempt to get someone to understand that if it were that …

Allow Anxiety

Regardless of if someone lives with an anxiety disorder or not, it doesn’t mean they can't and don’t benefit from skills and strategies of handling anxiety. It doesn't mean others don't suffer from anxious brains. It doesn't mean I cannot use what I have learned to help others. In fact, I always do!  This morning a friend said, …

On the other side of mental health

I remember starting therapy over 2 years ago for severe anxiety and depression, but more specifically with a life-altering diagnosis of OCD. As she reviewed the physiology of OCD and the treatment plan with me, I sat there and asked, shocked at the possibility, "So what do I do and what will I think about …

Gratitude

What are you grateful for? I have many things but there are a few things I always think of: My bed: for a rejuvenating place to rest my body and relax my mind The gym: a daily therapy and clearing of the mind. A way to feel strong, able, and alive! Always my place to …

If only…

How do you keep moving forward when you are not sure where you are going? How do you know if it is time to let go of something or trust yourself and ride out how you feel until something shifts? What's meant to be, will be.....do you believe that? I am having a hard time …

Rough Day

When you get bad news and can't talk to the one person you want to talk to...now that's a shitty feeling. Stress at work and then one piece of bad news and you are lost. Turning around in circles. Left. Right. Back. Forward. Forward yes. But how?