My 2017 mindful resolutions.

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over the years my goals have taken many forms. Creating last year's Mindful Summer Bucket List was life altering. Feelings of summertime frenzy vanished as it allowed us to focus on savoring experiences over checking list-items off. We lived Summer '16 with a sense of urgency (as always), yet unlike other years without a feeling of panic/time moving too swiftly. With the gift of this ... Continue Reading

4 ways to make transitions less terrifying.

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Change is unavoidable. Some seek it. Most tolerate it (and would avoid if we could). Others are so terrified by it we choose to remain stuck in unhappy circumstances (aka the pain we know) to avoid transitions to new ones (the pain we don't). Change is beyond our control. The manner in which we approach transition to change is not. Even during situations where shifts feel scary we ... Continue Reading

4 steps to intuitive living.

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intuitive living is sometimes street-yoga. Ive blogged for a million years & penned a bazillion posts. Even with all my prolific'nessment (<---technical term) and rebranding there are two posts I'm most frequently asked about: intuitive eating and intuitive exercising. Readers are consistently curious about the steps I took to relinquish control and learn to trust myself. Yes I ... Continue Reading

I dont see color.

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This post has languished in drafts for a while. I'd work on it, the words wouldn't flow or feel timely, I'd save the snippet I'd crafted hoping eventually I'd feel a sense of urgency to complete it. I'd resurrect the draft when well-meaning friends remarked they don't think of the Child as adopted because they don't see color. I'd tweak some sentences when I'd recall the very recent past ... Continue Reading

Choosing CAREfrontation over confrontation.

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two grownups out on the conference circuit. A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to speak at the Texas Conference for Women. (Total life-goal bucket-list moment, but that's a different post for another day.) As I'd expected the women I met were inspiring, community-builders. As I'd hoped Amal Clooney was an unbelievable speaker whose experiences helping women enslaved by ISIS left me ... Continue Reading

What do you want to be thanked for?

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ahhh motherhood. a thankless job? We, the royal-human-race we, talk a lot about gratitude. Finding it, sharing it, showing it, making time every damn day to write it down so we don't miss experiencing it. I'm all about that. As a parent I believe it's pivotal to practice not preach the act of being thankful for what we have. As a human I know gratitude is crucial for my health as its ... Continue Reading

5 Ways to Beat Back Energy Vampires.

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Are you a tad tired as I am? Has Halloween into Thanksgiving straight into the rest o'the holiday season got you feeling d*amn depleted? I've gots solutions for us. Five to be specific. Click my friend's fangs to find them all out! ... Continue Reading

3 ways to boost emotional metabolism.

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Years ago, during yet other foray into creating a yoga practice, I had an instructor who was smitten with the idea of emotional metabolism. Many of us are here to increase our metabolic rate, she'd tell us at start of class. And yet, the more important metabolism, the emotional metabolism, should be what we're really seeking to elevate. Each time she'd say these words I'd file them under ... Continue Reading

Get into character for a healthy Halloween.

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a pretty pink piece of this year's costume. It's almost Halloween and articles abound focusing on ways to have a healthy one. Suggestions for satiety. Prompts for passing on candy. Tips for tossing sweets in favor of pre-cut raw veggies. Traditional tips which work, but are *not* how we roll up in herre. We believe, with a few exceptions, all things in moderation rock. We think it's ... Continue Reading

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