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The Fundamentals of Weight Loss
People assume I’ve always been a naturally thin person. They have no idea that I struggled with my weight for years. I went from diet to diet looking for the perfect one for me. I ran 5 miles a day, 6 days a week in an attempt to run off the weight. NO LUCK! I’d lose some weight but then I’d always gain it all back (plus some). I was tired of the diet roller-coaster. I was tired of having to starve myself, count calories, weight my food, and the massive overeating that happened anytime I just couldn’t hold on anymore. I was trying to make weight loss harder than…
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10 Ways to Be the Best Version of Yourself! (Part 1)
If you’d rather listen to this than read this GO HERE! My goal as a coach is to help as many moms as I can to become their best self. I’m chosing to call this best self “A Joyful You”. The word Joyful to me doesn’t just mean happy, it means flourishing and thriving with an overall sense of well-being and true inner peace. A Joyful You is someone who is committed to being alive and to using their strengths in service to something bigger than themselves. My overall objective is to help you reach your Optimal self. The world Optimal comes from the Latin world Optimus which means…
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How to Have Your Own Back
I just finished teaching a class for the Life Coach School and I thought you might like it too. It was all on How to Have Your Own Back, So You Can Achieve Anything. If you have a goal you’re trying to accomplish, like losing weight, you need to learn how to have your own back so you won’t give up and quit when the ups and downs come – cause you know they’re going to come! Here are 3 Steps to Having Your Own Back: PAY ATTENTION TO YOUR INNER TALK – Having your own back has everything to do with your relationship with yourself. Any relationship including the…
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Self-Doubt
What if I told you self-doubt around losing weight is normal and it isn’t a problem? Say What?! Self-doubt is a feeling we feel because of a thought we’re thinking about doing something new or hard. Our brain likes to tell us, “I don’t know if I can do this.” Because we’ve never done it before we have no past evidence to go off of. Self-doubt isn’t wrong. It’s a normal part of being a human. We all experience self-doubt. A lot of women use it to quit on or to stay stuck! They let their past weight loss attempts dictate their future. “I’ve never been able to lose…
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4 Phases of Change
The 4 Phases of Change As I’ve been working with clients, I’ve noticed that no matter what different goals each of my clients are working on, they all go through these 4 phases of change. It’s really helpful to know about these phases and which phase you’re currently in because it will help you get through each of them and get the result you want. The four phases are: 1. Our Current Normal 2. The Excited Phase 3. The Misery Phase 4. The new normal Phase number one is OUR CURRENT NORMAL. This is where we are before we set a goal or start working or a habit. We’re…
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Failing Forward
One of the biggest things that holds us back from reaching our goals is a fear of failure. Failure for a lot of us really is a big scary fear. So today I want to talk about failure – more specifically how it’s a necessary part of success. I also want to talk about how we can use the concept of failing forward to achieve our goals. To start out with, let’s examine the word FAILURE. Google defines failure as: the omission of expected or required action. This doesn’t seem like a big deal right. It’s just something that didn’t turn out the way we expected it to. This happens…
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Wise Consumption
We live in an incredible time when our access to information is limitless. We have easy access to books, and podcasts, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube, online courses, webinars, Google, and the World Wide Web. We can consume all day long! There is nothing wrong with consuming and learning, But we need to make sure we’re doing something with the information. If you’re only consuming, and not applying what you’re learning, you’re not really growing. Don’t just consume- Do something with it! Apply it to your life. Use it to better your life, to create something, whether that’s a craft, a prettier home, a better mother, a better spouse, or…
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Growing Into Our Best Selves Through Goal Setting
It’s the beginning of a new school year, which is the perfect time to set or recommit to your goals. I see it as kind of like another new year. It’s a clean slate, and a fresh start. During this time of year, I like to take the opportunity to regroup, reset, and refocus myself on my goals. I really believe that the way to grow is by setting goals. Goals that stretch us and take us out of our comfort zone. Goals that evolve us into the best version of ourselves. So today I want to talk about goal setting, and particularly How to set goals so that they…
