I've been getting caught up in my head A LOT lately, feeling like I'm failing and falling short as a leader. This season of life is challenging me to learn and grow, but some days it just feels so hard that I'm not even sure I can do it. When our team's leader/mentor/mama bear, Meg, announced a retreat in Utah at the end of August, I almost didn't go... partly because life was busy but partly because I'd been feeling so knocked around and just not in a good place and felt I wouldn't have much that was positive to contribute. You can see from the picture above how this story ends... I decided to go, and I'm so glad I did. Our journey to grow our family has been bringing on some extra intense
In life there are things we want that elude us the more we chase them... and I've learned that when that happens to me, it may be a sign that I'm not going about the "chase" in the right way. In my twenties, I never felt good about my body, and I thought confidence would come when I lost weight. Eventually I got tired of the cycle of depriving myself of food and punishing myself through exercise, and I stopped. It took a lot more work to unwind the cycle, but the pivotal moment was when I made the decision to change. I was able to break free from my addiction to criticizing my body—and believe me, that's exactly what it was, an addiction. I was so wrapped up in this destructive behavior that
Although I don't have kids myself, I have noticed that among my friends and clients, the time right after becoming a parent for the first time is a very tough time for self-care! Routines are being renegotiated with a new family member, and really one's entire life changes upon becoming a parent. When Randa contacted me last spring, she was ready to get back to taking better care of herself, both for her own sake and the sake of her husband and her daughter, who is now 2. Randa dove right into the 21 Day Fix and really seemed to take to the structure of it... She has barely missed a day in the last four months! When the Fix workouts were no longer as challenging, she moved on to 21 Day Fix E
Before I begin, a disclaimer: this is NOT our actual surrogate or our actual baby! We are nowhere near that far along in the process yet! This is a stock image intended to convey the topic of the article. Whew, now that I've gotten that off my chest... it's been a long time since my last update about our journey to start our family, and honestly, I've been holding off until there was anything new or significant to report. I was hoping for AWESOME news to share with you all, but unfortunately we will have to wait a little bit longer for that! What I can say is that we have moved on to a new chapter. Three years after complications from surgery caused permanent damage to my kidneys, my kidney
Mary and I have been working together for a year and a half now (these pictures are a year apart) and her story is the perfect example of how these programs work if you put in the work. She's also a great example of someone who took it one small step at a time instead of trying to do everything at once. She first started with Shakeology, then got into a nutrition program and workouts (if I recall, she RSVPed to a program I was offering not understanding what was involved, but then was willing to give it a try... I love that open-mindedness!) Since January 2016, she has been following the 21 Day Fix eating plan as well as the Fix and Fix Extreme workouts. What impresses me the most about Mary
