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Your Permission Slip to Stop Carrying the Burdens of the World on Your Back Less than 24 hours after he'd broken up with me, my college...

How to Know When it's Time to Call in Reinforcements You’ve set the goal. You know your why . You’re tracking your actions  like a boss....

Are you tracking your progress, your actions, both, or neither? So you gave your goals a whiff and they’re fresh.  (If you have no idea...

The following article will appear in the upcoming April 4, 2025, edition of the Estes Park news . You can view virtual editions here . My...

(Or at least roll my eyes so hard it gives me a headache) You ever eat so much of something that tasted so good you couldn't stop eating...

The following appeared in the March 7, 2025, edition of Estes Park News as my monthly "Elevated Living" column (see page 18). If you’ve...

This past Sunday, a friend asked me if I was free at a time I would normally be curled up with a piece of bubblegum fiction in my reading...

Unconventional Wisdom for Goal Success We're already a week in to 2025.  How's it going for you? Did you set an intention for this year?...

Three weeks ago I committed to a complaint fast. Several of you messaged me to say you were joining along. And now, here we are, August...

These 3 sayings are holding you back from the life you truly desire. Stop saying them if you want to reclaim your power, heal from past...

I've been in the muck lately. Deep in the muck. Simultaneously I am witnessing the falling away of multiple seminal relationships. People...

This is the story of when I wrote nothing at all and weighed the most of my life. When I was my heaviest not just physically but also...

Ever feel like you're trapped in a never-ending game of "Should I or Shouldn't I?" with yourself? Blame it on your (totally normal &...

At 56 total, I read more books in 2023 than any other year since I started tracking. I read almost as many personal development books as...

At mile 18, I hit a wall. It was my first (and so far only) marathon, my calves were cramping so bad I wanted to cry, and I didn't know...

What's the point of achieving your goals if you're miserable in the process? A big part of my job as your mindset & movement coach is to...

Traditional goal-setting methods don't work for me. At one point this year I was reading 14 books. I was bouncing around between the 3...

you don't always reach them. Last weekend I led the ladies in my last group coaching series of 2023 on a misogi. What is a misogi? It's a...

Last week while on a hike with a friend, she said to me, "My gift to myself this year is to not gain weight over the holidays. In fact,...

Are you part of the 80% who never even set goals? As a self-described goal-getter myself, I was shocked to learn that 80% of people never...