Hi there and welcome back to my blog! It's been a whirlwind of a time since my last post. Life's hectic pace meant I could only manage weekly video updates, but I'm thrilled to announce that I'm back to connect with you through my writing each week.

This year marks the beginning of an exhilarating adventure for me, and I'm eager to bring you along for every milestone. In 2024, I'm focusing on taking back my body, which has been overwhelmed by the challenging phase of peri-menopause, aging parents, a demanding day job, and a hectic family schedule.  Can you relate?

I'm determined and ready to regain control of me and my wellbeing - let's just say I've put "me" on the back-burner.  I've done exactly what I teach my clients not to do - but when you're in it, you. are. in. it.  And sometimes it's so murky, it's hard to see the way out.  But, I can see the light now. 

For most of my adult life, I've tried not to define my body by its size. However, recently,...

Right now, fear is everywhere - pandemics, riots, and protests.  Deep rooted fear. 

As human beings, our main purpose is to deliver our talents and gifts, as well as to express our inner-BEingness, to the world .  We're meant to shower the earth with creativity, new inventions and ideas, spontaneous goodness, resourcefulness, and love.  Fear hijacks this BEingness making it impossible to create at the high level we were intended.

Every great change has come from someone imagining something different, something better during times of chaos and uncertainty.  Nothing can ever change unless someone imagines the possibility in their mind first.   It's our thoughts that lead to inspiration, that lead to action, and that eventually lead to transformation.  

When we are stifled by fear, we can’t think straight, let alone imagine something better.   Our body gets consumed by chemicals created from the stress and anxiety.   Our...

Over the past two months, life has slowed and quickened, all at the same time.  I relate the slowness to simpleness.  Reminders of the way I grew up - lots of outside play, family dinners, movie nights, quiet time to read, boredom - (the kids, not me!).  There's no rushing around from activity to activity, which has been more than amazing.  I wonder if I'll ever want to go back.  

I feel myself getting anxious as I hear more cars on the road.  Life is slowly re-opening, and I sit on my porch wondering if I'm ready for re-entry.  Every single inch of me needed this quarantine.  Yes, there was fear.  Yes, it was hard.  But I feel healed when I didn't even know I needed healing.  

This morning I went for a run - headphones on, music pumping.  All of a sudden I felt nudged to take off my headphones and slow down.  I turned off the music and cooled down from my run.  I wasn’t sure where I was...

I've been procrastinating a lot with this blog post.  Lately, I just feel blah.  A lack of inspiration and a heavy uneasy feeling lies beneath the surface of everything I do.   

In the past I would ignore this feeling and just push through it, but not now. 

I've got tools now, many that I've taught to the BTC community.  These tools help me work through the uneasy so I live it, feel it, and then release it.  Acknowledge it, embrace it, then move through it.  I can't let it stay stuck in me, otherwise it will grow and turn into something really ugly. 

It's hard do the work.  Sometimes life hits us at a speed so fast and with an impact so hard, we're left feeling bewildered, fearful, and overwhelmed.  How do we get through without totally collapsing in a heap of tears on the bathroom floor?

Someone recently described to me that we are going through a time of metamorphosis and right now we are in the cocooning...

Recently I received a pretty harsh comment on my YouTube channel.  It’s interesting because, years ago, the reason why it took me so long to start a YouTube channel was because I worried about the negative comments .  Always a people pleaser, I was nervous about people not liking me. I was worried I wasn’t good enough.  

You name it, I was worried about it.

Not sure how I did it, but I started anyway.  I think my mission was much bigger than the fear.

I can remember all the negative comments throughout the past three years.  I can actually repeat them word for word. It’s amazing how the negative things can stick so closely to us, yet the positive?  They come and go…

Here’s the thing, the reason I’m writing about this particular comment from this week is because...are you ready????...it didn’t bother me!  I read the comment and quite honestly, was taken back by my inner dialog. I didn’t go down...

Have you ever noticed in Before and After pictures, the “before” person looks miserable and in the “after” they are all smiley and life is great. 

So let me see, if I can get myself to look like an "after" picture then I will be happy?

What hogwash.

For years I worked to achieve the after photo, striving to look perfect so I could finally start living the way I really wanted. 

You know how it goes "when I lose the weight I will"…

Always putting plans off for the future. 

Here’s the thing, there’s no such thing as BEFORE or AFTER.  There’s only NOW. 

I know, I know, you hear that all the time. Live in the Now.  But seriously, there’s no real destination.  It’s all a ride. A journey.  The wonderful “I am who I am right now at this moment” journey.

So my advice, "Enjoy the ride!" 

Take it in.  The nitty-gritty, the ups, and downs,  the jeans are tighter...

Tools; they get us through life.  The tools of life.

Left and right we can feel triggered emotionally.  Up and Down.  When I was younger, I would get consumed by the downs.  They would literally take me down where I didn't leave my bedroom - especially late in high school and through college. 

Since then I’ve taken control of my health, especially with what I put into my body.  Food is a source of stress for all of us and once I learned how different foods affect hormones, metabolism, and emotions, I quite literally changed my life.  (We talk about this in my Core Club.)

Beyond that, there’s the mental piece.  It’s such a complex place, that can feel out of control at times.

I always say, if you're feeling out of control emotionally, you've GOT to have a toolbelt of tools to access at all times to help you through, ESPECIALLY when times are tough.  The tools help build a strong foundation, plus they can be...