Most of us, either completely dropped our workout routines in 2020 or finally had time to kick it up a notch. Stuck at home with our c children and kids we either focused more on our health (finally) or had zero time to do anything for ourselves. For me, I was one of the ones that lost significant momentum in my personal health. This year I have been focusing on getting back to it and thought I still am not up to five times a week of working my body I have built out one of t

A FREEING INSPIRATIONAL TECHNIQUE! The process I’m about to walk you through is very important to success and completion of any good thing. If you can get this, you will be amazed at what you can do and who you are! This is a formula that I walk all of my clients through in my Elite program. As a personal life coach I communicate a lot on and about a fit lifestyle. The importance of water, growth, healthy eating, sleep, posture, and proper mindsets are all heavily discussed.

Just a few short years ago I went through a massive personal crisis. I had given up my life career to take on another dream. Motherhood. I loved it. I had prayed for it. I was living it the absolute best way too. I mean, I knew my kids sleep schedules, I faithfully read to them, and created boundaries for proper development. I was loosing myself. But, as I said before, I loved it. After all, didn’t Christ say “to lose was to gain?” What I didn’t expect was to meet someone a f

Life can be so hard at times. Things can be thrown at you that you are unprepared for, and that knocks the wind right out of you. Things that despite your best efforts you have no control over. I have a saying personally about this. “We don’t get to write our stories. God does that. But it is what we do with our story that matters!” I know from experience that it is said every third sentence is negative in some way. And as I become more and more aware of it I am in awe with h

On one particular “girl nights” this past summer I played one of those question games where you get to know people better. Things like, “If you were a unicorn what would you do?” or “If we were all in a fire who would be best equipped to handle the exit strategy?” All of these questions were really funny but the answers made them even funnier! This little game however led my husband and I to use one of the questions in a very different capacity. As most of you know, we speak,

I don’t know about you but it is a breath of relief when summer rolls around.  No school, less traffic, weekends at the pool, 4th of July, summer vacations (BEACH), and long days of sunlight that extend evening socials.  Each season is unique and has something to offer but summer time… well… let’s just say I’m a little partial. The question for me and for you is, HOW ARE YOU GOING TO SPEND IT.  Intentional time is something that Kate and I talk about alot between us and with

Summer is only about 10 to 12 weeks here in the south. Before we can blink the lazy mornings and pool days turn into school shopping and cramming your reading list into the last two weeks before football season starts back up. So what should we be doing with this time? How do we maximize it with out it maximizing us? There have been many  a summer that I have gone back into fall with exhaustion and sunburn, wondering how I allowed my most precious and favorite time to be eate

Life can give us massive blows. We don’t get to write our stories. God does that. When I get down, it is usually because I am discouraged in what I can not see as good. I can’t see where God is going with the plot or even see the full story God is writing. And I find myself aching at my core. We can get so focused on what we don’t have, or don’t want, or can’t instantly make better that everything sinks. A few posts back we talked on having vision in your relationships. today

We are very neat people, both of us, and because of that we could be tidying and doing projects every second of every day. Failing miserably at connecting relationally we would be organized and task driven but then what is the point of that? I mean really? What is the point? The fact that my counters sparkle more than yours? How lame! I have missed the entire thing and become Martha in the story where Jesus comes to visit. The only problem is I have dragged my husband along w

The holiday’s can be so much fun!! They can also encompass too much of a good thing. I believe in moderation in almost all things. Too much sleep, your lazy. Too much sugar; you’re a glutton. Too much exercise; your obsessed. Too much of extended family; you loose relationships (Or secretly wish you could have “too much drink”). Too much of the holiday hoopla; You end up turning into The Grinch. Stress creates a flight or fight situation. Even good stress. Identifying the str

Rest is something I am not good at. Truth be told I don’t think anyone is great at it. Lots of people may argue that point with me. Saying they are great at throwing on the PJ’s and binge watching tv for days on in while eating Doritos. Some will tell me that they can sleep till 11 am on weekends to “catch up” on rest. Neither one of those is rest. It’s a bad self-induced rehab. It is trying to recover from a life wrecked by not resting well, tying to implement these tactics

This topic is something that many people have become very opinionated and strong on. I want to be clear. These are my thoughts and what has worked for me. For me the detoxifying life has become a term that is part of my lifestyle. Not a diet. For me I detox regularly from many things and not just food. I eliminate days off social media in my life. I detox from chores when I go on vacation. I detox from shopping besides the grocery store. Food is such a powerful regulator of o

Your Monday is so important!!  How you handle the start – can actually transform your entire life! How you choose to max out the first of your literal week gives you the drive, momentum, and purpose of where you’ll get to and where you want to go.  It creates the higher performing life that so many of us strive for. So often we as humans (and particularly Americans) choose to look at Monday as a drag. We look at the start of work, lists, schedules, school, homework, laundry a

We recently moved. I loved it. Well, actually I hated the moving part and the stepping further away from my friends part and the changing of bills part and I still have to change my address on my driver’s license. I loved a certain part of it. Purging. I am a professional purger. I get so happy clearing closets and making bookshelves look good. My sister-in-law once got upset at me for throwing things out before she could get a hold of some used baby toys I had. I am of the f

First let me just say that this “how to”  is a “me too” post. It’s a “How Too”. LOL. Today we are talking about compassion. I have had the beautiful privilege of recently walking out giving myself a break and having personal compassion! Life experience in this area has been truly one of the best things I can coach on! Let me set the stage for you: I have been playing catch up over the last couple of months. For some odd reason, I can’t ever get ahead of the laundry. Why? I h

As a lifestyle coach and someone who is passionate about positive change I hear about “High Performance” all the time! I use to love this phrase. Now I feel it is over used, watered down, and mis-interrupted. People can be a high performer and still be a bully. They can make massive career moves and success but not care at all about the charity being organized for joe’s family in crisis down the hall. They can run marathons but still be out of shape because they eat garbage a