• Chicago personal trainer, yoga & pilates instructor, and life coach.
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Dreaming Your Dreams, Or Living Them?

Dreams aren’t just meant to be dreamt; they’re meant to be lived! What are your dreams? What is one dream you have? Sometimes even articulating our dreams can be a challenge. But once we do, it’s very important to begin living them. If we don’t live our dreams, no one else will live them for [...]

Act Out of Love, Not Fear

Does fear hold you back? Do you not take risks because you are afraid of what might happen if you fail? Take a few minutes today and reflect on yesterday. How many times did you do something or not do something out of fear? You can even write these down if you’d like. Then, count [...]

Inside the Box

How often do we look back and say “Geez, I wish I had viewed this differently…” It’s not that we necessarily are regretting what we’ve done, but moreso we are a little surprised that we hadn’t taken a look at the whole picture. It’s like we are in our own little box and are unable [...]

Allowing Exercise to Regulate Healthy Eating

Many dieters switch from diet to diet in attempts of finding the solution that will solve their weight issues. Often times these diets are only involving food and dieters may not include exercise. However, instead of first putting so much focus on the foods we eat, what if we first put the emphasis on exercising, [...]

I’m STEPPING IT UP!

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Create Your Own Happiness

What are YOU doing to create your own happiness? So often we look to other people, and things, to bring us happiness, as if we think that magically happiness will find us. But why should we expect that we can sit back passively, waiting on someone or something to make us happy? Isn’t it more [...]

Defenselessness

How often do we feel the need to defend ourselves to others? How much time to we spend defending our actions and feelings to someone else? Defending yourself may be a conditioned response to a certain person, or you may only defend yourself because you are sensitive about certain things. Regardless of why you defend [...]

Grumpy Agent Becomes First Class Hugger

Over Thanksgiving I tried to get on an earlier flight at the airport – the agent at the gate was quite rude and complaining about his horrible day to passengers. He was very short with me and made me feel like I was a bother for trying to get on the earlier flight. Looking at [...]

Deciding to Keep Exercising

Once you’re working out, it may be easy to keep going. Or, you might hate every minute of it and make rationalizations for cutting your workout short. If you ever try to convince yourself to stop working out or to work out for 20 minutes instead of 40, think about this: What else would you [...]

Neck Break

Take a break in your day and slowly roll your neck down, around, up, and back around and down. Do this two times and then reverse directions. Don’t forget to breathe!