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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POST HOLIDAY BEAST MODE: [ON] off

Just because you indulged a little bit this holiday DOES NOT mean that you should throw away your efforts to get healthy! You might feel like your progress has been lost, but that is all in your head. Now is the BEST time to get back into your routine, get a good sweat going, and […]

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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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BootyWORK (awesome leg/booty workout)

In need of a new leg workout? Here ya go! Prelift: BodyRush by ForceFactor Intra-workout: Xtend by Scivation I started out by squatting HEAVY on the smith machine. I did a warm up with no weight to get my blood flowing, and then did 3 sets of 12, increasing my weight each time. PUSH YOURSELF […]

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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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