The Healthy Life

I was at my PT appointment this morning when I randomly blurted out to a room full of middle-aged men, “GUYS.  I JUST realized the other day that I’ve been using CONDITIONER thinking that it was BODY LOTION.  Like, all over my body.  Including my face.” To which they were all practically peeing their pants laughing about. That response was half due to them thinking I was CRAZY for using lotion after the shower.  Not…

  There is more competitiveness under the roof of the Bergeron roof than I can even sometimes fathom. The other night, Ben tries to blindside me and comes running over to me with Maya saying, “BABE!  LEMME’ SEE YOUR PHONE!!!  YOU’RE NOT GONNA’ BELIEVE THIS!” Ben takes my phone and frantically navigates through to some screen that shows you exactly how many minutes and hours you’ve spent on all of the apps and screens on…

I had a great conversation this morning with one of my favorite friends on the planet, Ronda Rockett, that was sort of fueled by a Joe Rogan Experience podcast I’ve been listening to over the course of the last day or so.  It’s 2 hours and 20 minutes, which I love because I like settling into a conversation with a guest that I am in awe of: Chris Kresser. I am hugely fortunate to be…

Welp, there comes a point in time as a “blogger” that you actually have to commit more effort than posting pictures and captions on your blog and saddle up long enough to write something that your readers feel like is worthy enough to read. Now, I can’t promise I have anything “worth” reading, but I guess that’s the case on a daily basis anyway. What I can tell you is this: HB is starting the…

     This one goes out to the folks in the world that think CrossFit gyms are full of a bunch of self-absorbed exercise addicts that are so irresponsible with their own competitive nature that they’re willing to just go faster and harder until they ultimately get hurt. Including pregnant women, but that’s a whole separate rabbit hole that I’ll go down at some point down the road. I took my husband, Ben’s, class this…

If I could go to the dentist once a month, I would.  I LOVVVVVE going to the dentist.  Like, as much as I like power washing things.  In fact, if I could get a dental version of a power washer on Amazon, I think I would.  But, what I really want is one of those metal pick tools.  The problem is, I can’t get in there and see what they see from their angle. So,…

Jonah used to ask me all the time, “What’s the hardest part about being a parent?” I love that question, especially when it’s from your (then) 12 year old son.  It’s a loaded question because you feel like the “right” answer is, “Nothing.  I love being a parent.  Period.” But, in all honesty, there are a lot of hard things about being a parent. Some are good hard, and some are hard hard. With a…

I did it.  I actually caught Maya doing something not OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO AMAZINGLY PERFECT AND TOTALLY CRUSHING LIFE RIGHT NOW. Oh my gosh, you guys.  Maya Keenan-Gallagher may actually have 1 teeny, tiny human bone in her superhero body. We are all here sitting on my bed and in my bedroom talking about our day since we haven’t seen each other in a while, and Jonah gets all excited telling me…

Believe me.  I know.  If I were you, I’d think I was faking the severity of this “virus”, also. I know I have been really inconsistent with posting. I know I have not actually “written” a post in a week. And, I know that I have been fully taking advantage of the concept of photo posts…and, that my photos have not even been very interesting. But, the here’s the honest to God truth: My kids, who…

   I don’t know about anyone else, but I think I think too much. I’ve been reading and listening to so many mindset-happiness-positivity sources lately that I, honestly, don’t know where this little bit of wisdom came from…but, I know it didn’t originate in my own head so don’t go accusing me of plagiarism.  It’s not so much plagiarism as it is a lack of brain power that leaves me very limited memory to work…