Morning Rituals
Today has been one of those days when my new self took a bit of a vacation and my old self felt quite at home. I didn’t get to bed early enough, didn’t have a good breakfast, and didn’t do my yoga before I rushed like a mad woman out of the door. Very familiar [...]
Self-Neglect Anonymous
Hi, my name is Pamela… I’m a self-neglecter… Thinking about my mental-struggles over self-care today, I thought “I need a self-care buddy.” Forget a walking buddy or a diet buddy, I need someone to go to the core with me and tell me when I’m rationalizing away my own right to thrive. Then I started [...]
Goodbye Scale
Usually by this time in a diet and exercise goals effort, I would be discouraged by the results on my scale. Luckily, I haven’t gone near the thing for a long time and I don’t plan to. My best intentions to make wellness my primary goal and weight-loss a secondary result were always sabotaged by [...]
Celebratory Dance
I’m doing a little happy dance because I went for a 30-minute walk today! That’s a small accomplishment to some, but if you’ve been following along you know that it is another success moment I need to celebrate. Not only did I hit one of my goals, but my sore ankle seems to be healed [...]
Muscles of the Soul
Through my understated approach to fitness, I have discovered that I’m exercising a different kind of muscle. Muscles of the soul perhaps. I’m learning to trust myself and re-envisioning myself as someone who can succeed. Do you have one of those little voices that is so quick to criticize and let you know that failure [...]
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