Today marks the 2nd week of CFNE being closed to avoid the spread of COVID-19, and I am still being surprised at the many phases we’ve gone through so far. All of these phases have been so unique, too. Some as a parent of young children, some of older ones. Some as parents with Ben, and some as a parent as a stay-at-home mother. Some as an owner of a small business, some as a…
If you’ve read my blog for a while now, you know that Jonah is THE middle child in our family. Nobody gets interrupted more than him, called the wrong family member’s names more than him, or told I’m running 20 minutes late to pick him up more than him. Yes, there are four children in our family (not including Kat), but because there is a 9 year difference between the two older kids and the…
Most mornings during the week, Kat and I have breakfast together at home after our own individual training sessions and before we both move onto our next thing in the day. It’s the time when we dig into one another and really check in with one another. It almost feels like a little daily therapy session. As I’m making my coffee, I ask Kat how she’s doing. She looks off into the distance and says…
I had a moment today when I was listening to someone talking to Bode and Harley Love. The person was saying goodbye to Bode and said, “Make sure you keep playing chess.” Then, Harley Love stepped up to say goodbye, and they said, “And, you just stay beautiful.” And, it dawned on me that those are the sorts of comments that drive our kids’ visions and goals and expectations of themselves. Bode is heading out…
“For every event in life,” the Dalai Lama said, “there are many different angles. When you look at the same event from a wider perspective, your sense of worry and anxiety reduces and you have greater joy.” A cold, rainy day can be viewed as miserable and depressing. Or, it can be a perfect opportunity to catch up on laundry, a great book next to a fire, or day to slow everything down and find…
Setting unrealistic expectations sets us up for disappointment. And, there are few things more unrealistic than expecting the people in our lives that are closest to us to be our everything. One person can’t, and shouldn’t, be the best listener we know, the wisest one that we go to first with all life challenges, the smartest one that we learn the most from, the best person for fashion and beauty advice, the one that makes…
Many of us are very good with being intentional about things like our workouts, our nutrition, and even our recovery. We go into a sprint interval workout knowing exactly, down to the second, where we want our splits to be. We start our day knowing exactly how many grams of macronutrients we will eat by bedtime. And, we go to sleep at a predetermined time because we know that our watch will give us feedback…