Play: Why Your Kids’ Mental Health Needs it (guest post).

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Want a daily dose of good health for your kids? Send them outside to play! As child and youth psychiatrist, every day I treat young people with stress, low motivation, anxiety, and depression. One prescription for all my patients (kids and parents) is to go play in the great outdoors. For humans and animals, free-play is directly linked to the development of the brain’s prefrontal ... Continue Reading

Importance of Self-Care: why others first isn’t always best (post response).

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Please welcome Valerie and her response to my recent post If MAMA aint healthy aint NOBODY healthy! Over the course of 20 years of marriage and mama-hood, I’ve learned a lot about self-care. As a young wife/mother I wasn’t exactly the self-care queen. I taught my daughter Chiquita (no, that’s not her real name – who names her kid after a banana? It’s her nickname; we speak a lot of ... Continue Reading

Setting Goals for a CHANGE (guest post).

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Back in 2005 my husband and I sold everything and moved from the Main Line of Philadelphia to the Caribbean island country of Turks and Caicos. We had been through some tough years and really needed a change. And we certainly got one! We had what was outwardly a fabulous life. I owned and ran an award-winning Pilates studio, doing teacher training and lots of workshops. We had purchased a ... Continue Reading

My struggle with the racing ego (guest post).

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Reading Carla’s recent post about taking her ego out of her race brought two thoughts to my mind. First—Carla is a wise woman. But we all knew that. Second—ego has not been my friend in racing over the years. I started out in triathlon and running races over 16 years ago. I had a pretty good start, too, which set me up with all kinds of aspirations for my racing future. Who knew what I ... Continue Reading

Brazen is in the Eyes of the Beholder (guest post).

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This guest post is at my request. Emmaclaire relayed the story to me and I *asked* her to come here and share. I ask, should you have a moment, you share your best conquering weight room *fears* in the comments below.  Thank you!   When I read Carla’s post about being brazen, it didn’t have negative connotations to me as it did some readers. Rather, I thought it a great descriptor of ... Continue Reading

Counting Your Burdens as Blessings (guest post).

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Burdens. We've all got them. Maybe it's money. Maybe it's a health issue. Maybe it's a toxic relationship. Whatever it is, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the negatives plaguing your life when surrounded by all the happiness and abundance and positivity you can see in other people's lives on social media.   Everyone wants to be happy, and seems to be in an endless ... Continue Reading

The HARDEST thing is getting out the door (guest post).

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SPRING has SPRUNG in Oakland. For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere the days are starting to get longer and warmer but at an infuriatingly slow rate.   The rush of New Year’s resolutioners has subsided and the vast majority have now fallen by the wayside. There is more space in the gym, but you might be finding that motivation is dwindling.  The necessity to train in the morning in ... Continue Reading

Each choice is a step toward feeling well (guest post).

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When you’re tired, drink coffee. When you have a headache, take Advil. When you have acid reflux, swallow Prilosec. When you can’t sleep, try melatonin. Eczema? Cortisone cream. Easy. Fast. Done. But there is a fundamental problem here. Treating symptoms instead of causes is like plugging holes in your bucket of water with chewing gum while you keep shooting it with your BB gun. We ... Continue Reading

Finding voice.

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No one told me how much I would change when I became a mother. I don't mean the obvious changes - in my body from pregnancy and giving birth, in our family as we added one new member and then a second, or in my perspective and capacity to love as my heart swelled to new heights. Becoming a mother helped me become clearer as to who I am as a person - my own identity. Growing up, I was ... Continue Reading

Forget LEAN-IN how about CHANGE-IN (guest post)?

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As a busy mom, do you feel like you juggle a bazillion tasks before lunchtime? Then, it feels like every day is filled with managing your family’s schedule while somehow getting stuff done. With all of this activity, you would think it is easy to change. I used to think that I could handle change. Until I lost my job after 10 years of work. It devastated me. After all, it’s one thing to ... Continue Reading

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