It’s a brand new year, and with the start of the new year comes the start of a lot of new habits, new goals, and your new year resolutions. I am all for starting new journeys, focussing on new goals to achieve, and working towards positive changes for my health and the health of those […]
Dropping The Weight of Insecurity: A Resilient 2017
“Self Love” seems to be one of the most popular buzz term out there these days. The rise and popularity of the Body Positive movement has most certainly laid the foundation for a much better framework for loving yourself, inside and out, just the way you are. I dig it. I resonate with that notion […]
Crossing over Bridges : Laying a Healthy Foundation for 2017
Ok ok ok! It isn’t quite Christmas yet, but I am already excited for this new year to kick off! Last week I spent a majority of my own time wrapping up my own new writing pieces and working ahead on the new VIP monthly coaching program to launch next week! Taking the time to […]
Pressing Through Difficulty
Yesterday I had a discussion with one of my friends in the obstacle racing community. She had told me that she entered into the sport to deal with a very serious problems stemming from her suffering with PTSD. While I do not know the entire details of the traumatic events that lead to such suffering, […]
Around and Around the Hamster Wheel: Ending Dietary Confusion
I want to lose 15 pounds. I am ready to change my eating habits so I can better my health. Eating healthy can be hard. Food is expensive. What will my friends think when I say I can’t go out anymore? Can I go out anymore? What if I fail and don’t reach my […]
The Season for Strength
A friend of mine recently told me that change can be a very frightening thing if we don’t have support to walk through the changes in the seasons of our lives. Having worked with hundreds of clients all over the globe, I got to thinking about change, and the changes I have seen both in […]
The Serenity and Strength Retreat- Become Who You Know You Are
There are three important questions that you must ask yourself in order to become successful in anything that you do. Who are you? What do you want? Where do you want to go? Just a few months ago, I found myself in a state of mind that left me lost, overwhelmed, and utterly confused as […]
Beaten Into Submission: External Vs Internal Negativity, and How to Break Through it All
How’s that for a mouthful of a title? What a week last week was in the life of the avid strength athlete! Yours truly travelled across the states to spend time at the Women’s Fitness Summit, and had some time to talk shop on the Motivation and Muscle Podcast with Eric Fiorillo. While I would […]
Your Greatest Priority
Lately, I have been thinking about obstacles, or perhaps I should say re-thinking them. I am not sure if this has something to do with the fact that I signed up for both Battlefrog Pittsburgh and the wild Spartan Sprint this year, or because I recently received a memo from a friend about her own […]
Take Action and Cherish The Day TODAY!
I found myself sitting in the pews of Saint Peter’s Parish on the North Shore of Pittsburgh. It has been a long time since I had found myself in a Church, and I blame that mostly on the complete upheaval and restructuring of my own business. Life is so much better now that all that […]