“Sometimes social anxiety means you’re terrible at small talk and you don’t know how to be fake.”

~Mel Robbins

I love holiday parties, mostly;) I love getting together with friends and family. I love hosting and seeing everyone laugh and have a great time. But I despise large holiday partie...

Most of us think holiday weight gain is inevitable. We believe that to enjoy all the holiday foods, we have to accept this “fact.” The truth is we gain weight over the holiday season not because of the special treats we enjoy but rather the food we eat in the days between holiday celebrations. I pro...

The holiday season can be a mixed bag for most of us. Sure there are all the fun celebrations and parties, but there is also the family drama, loss of loved ones, and the public pressure to feel joyful. 

I trained at The Life Coach School and one of their philosophies is that life is 50:50. H...

Traditions can be wonderful and comforting and special. We also start collecting them like our kids collect Pokemon cards. We think we like them, we keep adding more of them, and at the end of the day, they are torn and scattered around the house, and no one is enjoying them.

I know you think th...

“Our job in this lifetime is not to shape ourselves into some ideal we imagine we ought to be, but to find out who we already are and become it.”

― Steven Pressfield

Are you tired of flying through the holiday season, feeling overwhelmed, overworked, and busy?

Do you want to have a holiday...

Why you hate meal planning and three reasons to love it.

I know everyone hates the meal plan. The one question I get most when I do healthy body coaching is, “When can I stop planning meals?” And I hear you. When I started my weight loss coaching journey, meal planning was the thing I resisted t...

There are so many weight loss myths that we believe but actually hold us back from achieving our natural, healthy weight. Here are three that sound true and what you can think or do instead. 

It’s all about the diet and the plan.

Most diets or food plans work if you stick to them. The reason they ...

I have dabbled with skiing since high school. I love the idea of being a skier and spending time outside in the winter. I also have an intense fear of heights and going fast down high things. Not a good combination! I gave up the sport until I met my husband. He loves to ski and wanted to teach our ...

I recently purchased an app called Grammarly. And let me tell you, it has been life-changing. You can install Grammarly as an extension on your browser, and it will edit your documents not only for grammar and spelling but also for tone and style. Grammarly will make recommendations  like, “this ...

What exactly happens during a coaching session?

The purpose of a coaching session is to examine a problematic aspect of your life, explore your thoughts, and use that information to create what you want. 

At The Life Coach School, where I trained, we used a framework called the “model.” The ...

Last week you created your vision for the new year. You really honed in on what you want and your mindset. But mindset alone is not going to get you to your goal. You need to take action. This week, I will show you how to create small, manageable steps that will get you to your goal. So take out ...