I Do Three Things.

I have written many, many times about the importance of accepting ourselves as athletes, as runners, as triathletes. I have written over and over about the importance of not downplaying our accomplishments–no matter how big or how seemingly small.  To own the athletes we are.  To work hard to get better… but be thankful right where […]

Learning to Love Yourself with Dr. Kelly Brogan

I have noticed what mean people we can be–to ourselves. We treat strangers better than we treat ourselves. We speak kinder to our “frenemies” than we do to our reflections. Of course, we are all a work in progress and life is just hard sometimes. We are struggling to fix our brokenness, to move forward, […]

The Truth of “You Are What You Eat”

What we think and say to ourselves becomes our destiny—good or bad, right or wrong, weak or strong. In the same vein, I loathe the statement:  You are what you eat. Let me drag out my eating-disordered-chubby-kid-fat-adult-weight-struggling soap box and dust it off for this one. First, who said we are what we eat? Who was […]

The Sucky Rotation Schedule & The Suck Line

It’s baaaack!  I’m talking about this puppy again! A few years ago received an email from a reader, and it went something like this: I am racing my first 70.3 in a few months. I do most of my workouts when my family is asleep — this translates to 4:30am mornings. Even still, the long […]

A Freaking Long December

Today’s email went out, and I figured I would share here on the blog too, because it received such a huge response in my inbox. By the way, if you’d like to receive the below type of email to your inbox from me from time to time, don’t forget to subscribe (form is at the […]

5 Ways to Get a Grip When You’ve “Let Yourself Go”

I cringe and bristle when I hear this phrase: “Oh, but she has let herself go.” First of all, as someone who was an expert in letting myself go, I found it offensive that someone else also noticed that I was in the business of doing exactly that. Second of all, no one understands the battles, struggles […]

Olympic Weightlifter to Triathlete (Fast Twitch to Slow Twitch)

Someone emailed me and asked if I would write about how my former sport of Olympic weightlifting translated into me becoming an endurance athlete later in life. Simply put: No translation.  Lost in Translation.  Apples and Oranges. But that is not completely true. Many don’t know the whole story of my previous-life athletic feats (and non-feats). […]

Multi-Level Marketing for Life

As I drove home from Franklin, Tennessee last night, I felt compelled to call my triathlon coach, Gerry.  I was secretly hoping for his voicemail, because I felt like what I was going to tell him was super-awkward. So I got my wish. I had a realization as I was driving that he was one […]

Why We Can’t Fill Our Cracks

When I made the decision to quit  _______, I had reached the “up to here” point. I draw a long line to fill in the blank, because really, I have quit so many things at this point, you can fill in the blank. Binge Eating Legal Work Race Starts Writing a fiction book Writing another […]