Tag Archive | confidence
Gratitude Gems: A Whole List of Things
Welcome to Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! Here I’ve missed two Mondays in a row, and that’s just unacceptable. It’s not that I haven’t been grateful, but I’ve just been too busy and/or lazy to make note of it here! So in classic catch-up style, […]
Body Image: A Lite* Rant
*Lite rants contain less than 30% of the intensity of regular, full-blown rants. I’ve been thinking a lot about body image over the last few months. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about how comfortable I am in my own skin these days, perhaps for the first time in my life, and so it follows that I’ve […]
October Fitness Challenge: Back in the Pool
I’m slowly resigning myself to the fact that I really just don’t know if I’m a water person. And maybe that’s okay. I’m back taking swimming lessons again, but this time they are much longer than a month. I started at the end of September and I go until mid-November. That’s a lot of […]
I Should Have Been A Rock Star
When I was little I used to dream of being in a band. I’d be the unusual combination of drummer and lead singer, killing both like it was no big thing, and we’d be famous, obviously. I’m not sure I ever really believed this would happen, but I can’t deny that it was always in […]
Family Friendly Running
I have a love/hate relationship with running… for years I’ve had this feeling that I’m supposed to be a runner. After all it’s the most natural form of exercise… we certainly weren’t meant to float our legs out sideways like on ellipticals, were we? Love: Freedom! You’re literally running away from things… dogs, cars, escaped babies, […]
Gratitude Gems: Feeling Pretty
Welcome to my new weekly gratitude feature, Gratitude Gems, where I show a little appreciation for the good things in my life! Starting this feature today, of all Mondays, seems particularly poignant. Today was the quintessential Monday for me… I woke up on the wrong side of the bed and I was achy all over, […]
There Goes My Year
A year ago I finally took a chance and I started a blog!! A blog, people, a blog! I’m a blogger. What?!? This was one of the goals I made for myself on my 30th birthday – I love to write and I needed an outlet and I decided the whole world was just waiting […]
Accident-al Reflections
Life can change instantaneously, and the ripples created can spread as far as the eye can see. One second I have a car and a dog, and the next I have neither. That day was terrifying, excruciating, and life-changing, and recovery over the last 10 months has been difficult. But I have recovered. Shortly after […]
The Insane Squat Experiment
I once had this goal to do 1,000 squats in one day. I even did a squat challenge a couple times to work up to it slowly, and get my muscles in gear. Then I got bored. Squats are boring, guys. Up and down and squeeze the butt and sit back on the heels and […]
