[UN]realistic expectations

I have a rant that has been brewing for some time now. And I know that I am certainly not the only one who has these thoughts and feelings, but I am not bound into any sort of contract or agreement that would limit my expression of these feelings  (ps. any sponsorship inquiries or publicity […]

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The Domino Effect

My good friend Matt, founder of Speak Your Silence, reached out to me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would be interested in writing a guest blog post in order to share my experience with speaking MY silence about being molested when I was younger. I couldn’t be more honored to be […]

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Lost in the NUM8ER5

It’s so interesting how much our mind comes into play when it comes to meeting our goals or how we measure our success.  We get so caught up in NUMBERS. In measuring our success with statistics, pounds, percentages. I think it’s completely ridiculous that I can be having a perfectly good day, feeling confident about […]

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Fuel your light while embracing your dark

I have always been a firm believer that people are brought into our lives when we need them most, sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always for a reason. There are times when we don’t understand what that reason is until we are able to look back on our experiences, and then there are times that […]

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Share your light

Throughout my blogging experience I have experienced good days, bad days, frustrated days, excited days, the list goes on and on. While chatting with a good friend on the phone last week, I voiced a concern that I had about my blog, “Why would anyone even care to read what I have to say??” Her […]

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wake up call

I woke up this morning on the wrong side of the bed. I didn’t want to spent my entire day studying, missed my family and friends back home, and felt as though my most recent gym efforts haven’t been paying off as I would like them to. I trudged into the kitchen to make some […]

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I ain’t no ‘hollaback’ girl!

Most of you have heard Gwen Stefani’s song “Hollaback Girl” at least a time or two, and the majority of you also probably use this song to remember how to spell the word ‘bananas’. But have you ever taken a second to really LISTEN to the catchy lyrics that fall so easily from your lips […]

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take your heart and start a blog

I have wanted to start a fitness related blog for quite some time now and I finally decided that it’s never the perfect time to do anything, so I will make right now the perfect time to start! I have used a journal to log my nutrition and workout plans a lot in the past, […]

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