Most of my clients come to me with some version of: “I’ve been so busy taking care of other people, my kids at home, my parents, my patients at work…that I forgot to take care of myself!” It can feel very uncomfortable to start doing things for yourself after years of caring for others, but it can be done.

For me it can be really tough to feel what we’ve been told are “negative emotions.” It’s been an ongoing practice to learn to feel emotions like sadness and anger in my body and then let them go. But the healing during this process has allowed me to feel greater “positive emotions” like peace, certainty, joy, elation, and contentment. And it was because of my son that I learned how to do this in the first place.

Many of our thoughts are old and habitual, and many of these thoughts were placed into our brains long ago in childhood. But do they help us feel good in our brain and body today? This post walks you through a simple process to break the spiral and replace old thoughts with ones that serve you.

The hospital environment often triggers our fight or flight nervous system, adding stress to our bodies. It’s imperative to balance the time spent in stressed states with time spent in calming states.

I wasn’t actually doing much with all the knowledge about health I’d gained. There were many days where I felt overwhelmed with the amount of information available. Information overload led to paralysis in actually taking action toward getting healthy. That’s where a Coaching program came in to help me get started.

Treats show up in the staff break room all the time. Make a decision before you go to work if you are going to have a treat today, or not. Deciding beforehand is key.

You can’t think your way out of chronic stress if your body still feels unsafe. Nurses and moms spend years moving from one stressful moment to the next without ever completing the stress cycle. Here’s why your nervous system stays stuck in survival mode - and how to finally release the stress to begin feeling better.

I stopped working out over a decade after years of being a competitive swimmer at the Division I level. I finally found my way to Pure Barre Studios. After finishing 100 classes, here are some lessons learned on motivation, thoughts, and visions of strength as I age.

Feeling better and getting healthy doesn’t have to be this giant, time consuming project. You are a working momma with things to do. But we can start to feel better by letting go of “health is hard,” and focus on taking one step at a time.