After coming out of a thick depression, I find myself wondering the answer to this question: how do you begin again? Because the truth is this: I know that I wasn’t showing up as myself for a good majority of this year. I was not living up to my full potential. I spent a good…
Yes, hi, I am looking for motivation, have you seen her? Let me know when you do. Motivation is a sneaky sucker. She comes and goes when she pleases and doesn’t have the decency to let a woman know whenever she is coming or going. You never know how long she will stick around for. …
Let’s just get right to it: this health journey you are on is not always easy. It is mentally demanding at times. It can make you feel a whole roller coaster of emotions sometimes all in the course of one day. Happy, sad, angry, frustrated, joyful, proud – the list goes on. What your emotions…
It was a Saturday in the summer. I was meeting one of my favorite clients for lunch. I lifted earlier in the morning and only had a protein shake before meeting her because I didn’t want to spoil my appetite. We met at a cute little place in Charlotte and did what women do best,…
Building a morning routine is an imperative part of owning your womanhood. Maybe you already have a small routine or maybe you don’t really get into the whole structured morning ritual thing. No matter what, the repeat patterns that you do every day become your morning routine, so you might as well embrace it. Take…
Depending on your daily schedule, the coveted alone time that so many of us are searching for can sometimes be difficult to come by. Whether you have a demanding work schedule, juggle multiple jobs, have relationships to maintain, have children to care and provide for, the list goes on, but time in your day does…
Can you imagine what life would be like if the time you spent hating your body and the way you looked was time spent celebrating, embracing and loving your body? What would that look like? How would you feel differently right now? Bad body image days are kind of just a way of life, sometimes…
Whether you are just getting started or are feeling stuck in your weight loss journey there is always something that you can do to improve your overall experience. The reality is that weight loss is simple. It comes down to the matter of being in a calorie deficit, which means that the amount of calories…
I didn’t really expect or plan on writing about this, as I know it is a sensitive subject but there are so many men and women who struggle with their relationship with food and might not even realize it. Recently, as I was reading through some old journal entries, I realized just how much I…
First things first, a diet is not a bad thing. Our culture and society have demonized that word, but the reality is that it simply refers to your eating pattern and habits. So quite literally everyone is on a diet. We all follow one. Yours might be different from mine, but at the end of…
