Life can be bumpy and there are distractions every where but in all the diversions it's always our choice to turn back, keep moving forward or make a new path. We took a summer white water rafting trip to Idaho. Our guide Maggie gave us a safety briefing before we got started. Told us what to look out for, how to position our bodies if we fell out of the raft and started floating across the rapid. So many instructions! Does anyone really listen? I was fairly confident no one was going to fall ...

Let's talk about what gets you out of bed in the morning and makes you feel alive. Research says we are motivated by 3 things. 1. Doing something out of pure love. 2. Fear of not doing the thing. 3. We feel obligated to do the thing. Are you sensing a theme here? Motivation requires a FEELING. We make decisions based both on feelings and reason. We use both our brain and gut feeling to drive us toward that next decision. Whether right or wrong, it seems that we are mostly motivated to avoid ...

It's time for a little mid-year motivation! It's July--how are your New Years resolutions coming? Success happens when we're intentional about our progress. If you never look, measure, make adjustments and move forward, you'll end up at the same place you were last year. Did you make a one-word vision board in January? Now is the time to re-evaluate those big goals you wrote down. What were you hoping to accomplish at the beginning of the year? It's not too late! Good Enough This last six ...

The gut has been called the second brain and for good reason. It metabolizes, produces, and regulates your hormones. The vagus nerve runs from your gut to your brain and these two send text messages back and forth all day every day. So it's important to keep your gut in tip top shape. Your gut bugs (virus, bacteria, yeast to name a few) live in a symbiotic relationship with us. As they help us digest and absorb nutrients to feed our cells, we feed them nutrient dense foods. The problem--our ...

Your habits and lifestyle say something about you. They tell you and the world what's important to you and where you put your priorities. What you eat, if you exercise, the places you shop, and where you spend you money creates a picture. Have you noticed that every new year the average person makes intentions to create better habits. Resolutions typically focus around health and relationships. Yet, three weeks into a new year, most have let those grand ideas fall by the wayside. Why? Deep ...

I've been in recovery mode the last two weeks after having surgery. A surgery related to the delivery of my youngest. My youngest is seventeen years old! It's been a long time since his traumatic birth experience and the surgeries endured afterward. Somehow having a new baby eases the pain recovery can bring. There's no baby this time; just pain. Are you like me? I hold the belief that whatever mom is feeling during pregnancy and birth your baby is also experiencing. It's no wonder that I have ...