My Teacher

Week three since my diagnosis, and I feel like I’m on a train moving at warp speed.  There are so many decisions to make, so much uncertainty, and I just want to DO THIS like I do everything else.  I want to check it off, close the book and move on.  I have a feeling […]

From Diagnosis to Survivor

Week two… It has only been one week since I learned I have breast cancer. And it’s been a lifetime.   Immediately following the dreaded doctors visit, I jumped on a plane with my middle son Bode, and we headed off to Fort Worth Texas for the NCAA Gymnastics National Championships.  We spent time surrounded […]

Do Nothing…

“Among the great things which are found among us, the existence of Nothing is the greatest.” ~Leonardo DaVinci Everywhere I turn lately, I run into Nothing. And because I keep running into it, I believe it’s a lesson that life is trying to teach me.  Do Nothing.  Come from Nothing.  Get empty to get full. […]

Today…Choose.

Today…Choose. In preparation for reading this blog post, I’d like to ask you to think of something in your life that requires you making a choice. Maybe something you’ve been struggling with. Got it? OK. Hold that thought.   I’m coming into a brand-new realization about the power I have to choose what I want […]

Fat is Not a Feeling

    I’m so over ‘fat talk’.  I work in the fitness industry, and for 30+ years, I have been listening to women berate themselves for what they perceive to be too much fat.  Seriously.  It doesn’t matter if she is a size 18 or a size 2.  It’s the norm for a woman to […]

Give It A Name

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.~James A. Baldwin Have you been gardening?  I’ve been digging…deep.  Pulling out weeds, turning the soil, planting flowers. Not in my yard, as much as in my heart.  I just returned from an 8-Day yoga training (more like a […]

Let Your Life Speak

 I just finished one of the most inspirational, motivational, educational, and soul searchingly draining weekends of my life. My mentor, and all-time-favorite yoga teacher Seane Corn was in town for a weekend of training.

Fifty Things I Know at 50

This is a big year for me.  I hit the halfway mark on this amazing journey on June 3.  Well, not really the halfway mark.  At age 13, my Grandparents took me to the East Coast to celebrate our Nation’s Bi-Centennial.

Vision Camp PDF Download

The average person’s New Years Resolutions fizzle by the first week of February. So together with 200 of my online and real-life friends,  we created a New Life Resolution 30-day program.  Vision Camp will help you create a new vision statement, one that will get you out of bed every morning excited to take the […]

IDEA World 2013…Be The Inspiration!

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“Just Be You.  Don’t try to be anyone else.  Be authentic, and share what it is that only YOU can share.  Be present. Do what you came to this earth to do.” I’m coming home from a week of sensory overload.  For six days I’ve been surrounded by loud music, bright colors, people with more […]