4 ways to build resilience.

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The ability to bounce back is a crucial life-skill. I've written about grit. I've yammered about being brazen. Lately, however, the focus here has veered away from both those things and careened toward the concept of resilience. Nothing exemplifies the tween years more than unexpected friendship breakups, misunderstandings, and unrequited affections. Un. Un. Un. And, whether you're ... Continue Reading

6 Lessons Dr. Seuss Teaches About Healthy Living.

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I'm asked all the time about my tattoos. Everything from Won't you regret them when your skin sags? (Nah, I await colorful-droopage) to May I touch them?? (typically asked by the under-5 crowd, it's not really a query & I kinda the exuberant leg rubs). Since Texas is often shorts weather my leg sleeve is the most visible. As a result, it's the art I'm most frequently asked ... Continue Reading

Poverty Porn: is voluntourism wrong?

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Lately Ive considered what's next for me career-wise. I don't know anything will change, but I feel a void. A sense of something missing and needing to be added to what I currently do. I approach all things (work, play, life) as I approach healthy living: Whenever possible, I add to. I add in. I love what I do. I don't want to "take away" as that feels punitive. Yet the nagging ... Continue Reading

3 ways to survive ghosting by a friend.

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For years I've remarked how all of life is like dating. Friendship, job interviews, networking, actual dating, making mom friends--they all depend on similar interactions in order to succeed. Do more listening than talking, watch body language, engage, court, follow up, note nonverbal cues… It's really all the same. This is why it should have come as no surprise what I experienced last ... Continue Reading

4 ways slacklining parallels life.

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I blame this post on the fact I made a not-that-funny joke about teaching therapy-doodle-Charming to slackline. Afterward, in my inimitable way, I grew obsessed with the parallels between slacklining and life. I used to regale anyone who would listen with stories about what terrible balance I had. If you handed me a BOSU ball I'd mount, stand proudly aloft for a few seconds...then ... Continue Reading

I never felt stoppable.

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When I launched my second blog, MizFit, it was "enough" to merely possess a passion for healthy living. It was 2006. I was just back from Guatemala. Gnarls Barkley was all the rage. Skinny jeans juusssst starting to emerge on the Austin hipster scene. And The Biggest Loser television show was born. Readers embraced my message, but because of the new focus on tremendous weight-loss ... Continue Reading

A Take What You Need Valentines Day.

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What feels like a lifetime ago the Child and I lolloped through OAKtown taping signs up everywhere. We barely knew the city back then--let alone the many Oakland people we came to adore. In a way, with hindsight, we spread the love more for *ourselves* than for those who might discover it. In the same manner volunteering provides a helper's high the opportunity to image others gleaning ... Continue Reading

Rebooting vs Restarting.

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plugged in. I'm a tremendous believer in taking intermissions. I use them as a self-mandated, grown up timeout and they work for me. In the same manner breaks during theater offer us opportunity to sift through/ponder what we've seen, intermissions in life provide stopping of activity with intent to connect with ourselves. Lately, however, these mini-breaks haven't been enough. I've ... Continue Reading

Fitness Wearable OBSESSIONS.

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Once upon a time I shared the story of The Walking Princess. like this...but much different. I draped the tale in lighthearted prose, but underneath the levity it saddened and disturbed me. The story's short version is there once was a woman who walked our Austin neighborhood. She paced our 'hood all day, every day. Literally all day (not in the figurative sense the kids are using ... Continue Reading

Whats your drishti in the world?

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I'm pretty confident my child has grown tired of my telling her to pay attention. She, influenced by politics on the playground and being a girl, desperately wanted to see the first woman President elected this year. (I parent in a quirky fashion but I'm also a firm believer in choice. From religion to political figures I expose and leave it all up to her.) As a result, she wasn't ... Continue Reading

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