Few things are a humbling as getting sick. Whether you've been hit with the occasional cold or received a life changing diagnosis, getting sick has a way of humbling us at our core. Over the last week I've been in the midst of my own healing journey after coming in contact with a nasty virus. At the beginning of the week, I was my normal active self, enjoying a variety of spin classes, HIIT workouts, rock climbing and evening hikes. By the end of the week, I was in so much pa

Perfectionism can be a difficult thing to overcome. But for your mental and physical health, it's something to understand and realize. The realization is that nothing will ever be perfect and you have to let that theory go. When we focus on making things perfect, we are setting ourselves up to feel hurt. We build up such high expectations in our head and when the outcome is less than expected, we are let down. Even if we do a really good job, we still end up “reducing whateve

Being grateful is a beautiful thing. When we are grateful, we feel good! The best way to feel gratitude is to think about all that you are grateful for! And to me, there is no better way than to have a gratitude journal. A gratitude journal is a dedicated space to write down all that you are grateful for. This can include people, places, things, yourself! Anything that makes you feel gratitude. I find that the best time to write in a gratitude journal is first thing in the mo

We are often asked by women what tools are available to aid in transformation. Many women on this path choose to let go of old patterns and to instead live in more alignment, happiness and grace. It can be hard to change. So many of us learned to live in a way that was not in alignment with our higher self. Many of us were taught to deny our emotions and to be strong, some of us learned that showing anger was the way to get thints in life and some of us learned that being the

Self care... for some of us it's a myth. It's hard to have the time for self care when we feel like we need to get the kids to school, do the laundry, prep for dinner tonight and go to work. We live in a busy world and most of us are swirling around all day trying to keep up. We are often on the back burner in our lives, which is seemingly ironic but unfortunately true. The way self care first clicked for me was when a woman said to me, "When you take time for yourself, your