The Good Life

I may be naive, but I feel like a lot of us are at least making an effort at keeping an open mind and coming to terms with the idea that we don’t know it all. In fact, what I’m finding more with every year that passes is that I actually know less and less compared to each previous year. I think Ray Dalio would consider this “detaching from knowing”, or giving up the idea…

Let’s visit the topic of perspective, because I am becoming more and more sold on the fact that it’s one of the most important skill sets that I can invest my energy in. Yesterday, a friend of mine had a tough training day; she was well below her PR snatch weight, and 2 minutes behind her previous time in the benchmark workout at CFNE. I have been there so many times, too, and I remember…

My intention today, on my 43rd birthday, is to make use of my rapidly disappearing memory to try to dig up all of the moments, the people, the events, the good and the bad…that have delivered me to this place in my life. I know I have an endless number of things I need to work on, a tremendous amount of evolving left, and a lifetime left of trying to figure out what I don’t…

In an effort to avoid a life of hypocrisy, I’m going to put a personal story out there on the table that sheds more of a transparent light on me than I am comfortable with. But, those are the stories that we typically connect over, right? The ones when you admit that you and your partner are not, in fact, as happy every moment of every day as your Instagram feed makes it seem. Yes,…

Bode seemed super sad yesterday afternoon. When I asked him what was going on, he explained to me that his friend didn’t want to sit with him on the bus ride home from school. I’m not typically the type of parent that wants to go track down the kid and bribe him into making things right, or threaten to humiliate him in the cafeteria the next day. I know most of us wouldn’t actually do…

I have spent most of my life living by a score card. Measuring my output, progress, and even intake is what gave me comfort in being precise and consistent. It was never driven by a passion for mathematics so much as a stern commitment to be disciplined. And, while this mindset has served me very well in some ways, I have noticed something. I am intentionally diverging from that highly structured course, trusting that everything…

When Maya and Jonah were little, I was young and very insecure.  I was 22 when I got  pregnant with Maya and felt like I couldn’t be seen without my wedding ring in fear of people assuming I was a knocked up teenager. I was on a mission to prove that I could have a newborn and still make her entire summer wardrobe from scratch on my sewing machine. And, I refused to let my mother-in-law…

One of the many things I’ve taken away from my newfound meditation practice is this: slow everything down. Drive slower. React slower. Listen to slower music. Speak slower. Take more time to respond when asked a question. Take the route that may be longer, but brings you less stress. Don’t rush food prep. Don’t think ahead so much that you don’t notice what’s actually going on right in front of you. Walk around your day slower,…

Many of us have an appreciation for good, strong relationships. We know how much better life is when they’re in a good place, and we know how so many areas of our lives are affected when they’re not. We know how good it feels when the people we want to be close to (family, friends, etc.) want to spend time with us, reach out and open up to us when they are struggling with something,…

I’m the sort of person that lies awake at night dwelling over something I did wrong during the day, as if I’m the only one that’s ever __________ .  I take whatever the one thing is and make it out to be everything.  I convince myself that everyone noticed, everyone is talking about it, no one has ever done the same thing, no one has ever done WORSE, and I will forever known as the girl…