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5 Things I Wish Everyone Knew about Mental Health, Fitness & Nutrition
The ongoing battle; the beauty beyond the scratches and burns, the fact that it’s going to be okay, but okay might look different than you every imagined. This post simplifies so much of some of my previous posts and hopefully opens up the conversation for people to dialogue about how all of this correlates together.…
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Forever Taking Pictures of Your Food – Happy 3 Years Babe!
Today Jon and I turn 3. Something about 3 shifts my perspective. This year was the best one yet, however it came with a little dose of everything laughter, excitement, exhilaration, but also pain, growth, and surrender. Most importantly though, love. It sounds gushy and it kind of is, but we had to fight through…
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Gaining Mileage, How A+B Does Not Always Equal C, and the Importance of Recovery
Gaining mileage : Pain + Strength + Recovery My background is not in running. Running half and full marathons wasn’t a norm for me, until I started working at Big Peach I didn’t even know there was such thing as a Cross Country Spike. It wasn’t until 5 years ago that I dove in and…
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The Process of Healing and the Beauty of The 61 Exchange
Making a beeline off the stage towards a quiet room to take a few breaths, then back into the auditorium pressing my face into Jon’s chest and letting myself weep… They never said vulnerability was comfortable and they never said you wouldn’t have every feeling under the sun once you brought darkness into light, but…
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The World Needs More Parks
Isolation. The enemy lives there. He yearns for you to meet him there, to be anxious with your own thoughts, to fear the outside and the attacks it may bring. On the brink of training for my first pro race and a few speaking engagements he whispers those lies into my head that I’m better…
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A Thought in the Life.. A Peek Into a Day of Thoughts for Those with an Unhealthy Relationship with Food & Fitness
*trigger warning It’s a daily battle with the very thing that keeps us alive: FOOD. The way we take care of our bodies isn’t rational any longer and a paralyzing fear and anxiety takes grip. Much of the following is probably hard to hear and grasp for those that face different battles, yet I think…
Fueling Her Forward 