Tag: #wellness
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Trusting and Taking Care of Your Body In the Midst of Messy
Can you say stretched? Stretched into tears, stretched into more. The more is challenging, but the more is beautiful. Saturday night was plain hard. Lying on my bed staring at the ceiling wondering “why?”. Why was the physical pain mounting as if the mental recovery and training wasn’t enough? After my box jumping injury from…
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Today I Feel Insignificant…
At 5:40 am like clockwork my feet hit the floor after one round of snooze, my watch goes on, my hair gets pulled back with no less than four bobby pins in place, I throw on my shorts and tank, grab my pre-run apple and head towards the track. Except not today. Today there was…
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Fall Trail Running and Why It’s Breathtaking in More Than One Way
To my right is the faint sound of the river a hundred yards away, and all around is the whispering of the leaves talking to each other and the squirrels scurrying to bury their nuts as the cold weather will eventually encompass the beauty that surrounds you with each step. It is so poetic, but…
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Can You Love Yourself Today & the Enneagram
My day normally starts out with a glass of water and an apple and peanut butter, along with making sure Jon and the dogs are moving, but then I’m usually left to my own thoughts and routine. That’s where the day can go one of two ways: focusing on beauty or brokenness.
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Whole Hearted Wellness: Beyond Fitness, Nutrition, and Mental Health
Wellness is a blanket word, it totally is, but it’s still going to get used today. And maybe you are sitting there thinking – wellness is extremely overwhelming because it’s “all the things”, and that’s just the truth – and yes it totally can, but I think there can be freedom in looking at the…
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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.…