Passions & Distractions

14 Days of Love: Day 14

This is it, guys! Happy Valentine's Day! Happy Galentine's Day! Happy Love Everyone Day! All rolled into one!

14 Days of Love Day 1

Self Care: Planning An At-Home Spa Day

This year, as I organized the themes for my planner, I determined that January would be the ideal time to start working on a couple of habits I found I was woefully lacking in: self love and self care. In case you are wondering how I differentiate between the two, I define self love as internal and self care as external. Although each overlaps and feeds the other, this seemed a clean way to help me focus.

This was not the only discovery I made about myself, though.

Healthy Helping Hand

Raise your hand if your New Year's resolutions including something like, "This is the year I get healthy!"

This is obviously not a bad goal, but it is hard to achieve in this format. Let's work together to set you up for success!

A Moment of Zen

A lot of Wednesday posts are about wellness for me. This is about the value of taking some time to do what you love, even if it hampers yu from doing something else you love.

A Pause Is Perfect

Just the briefest post to remind myself (and you) that sometimes it's ok to pause. Having deadlines and goals and ideas is great. But when it's not fun to hit the fun goals, just be cool with letting it go. Just because the candle flickers doesn't mean it has to go out.

Honey Ginger Carrots: Easy, Healthy, Tasty

 

I want to share one of my all-time favorite recipes: Honey-Ginger Carrots! These are great as a side dish any time of year, and really take almost no effort whatsoever to whip up!

Fitness Meets World Travel

As what must continue to come as no surprise to you, I am very competitive with myself. I always expect myself to be aiming toward the best I can be. One area where I constantly crave a change and a challenge is my fitness. I wanted to see if I could combine this with another need: to know as much as I can and be a true citizen of the world. I think I've hatched a plan!

Fun With My Fitness: Bingo

When it comes to fitness, I either seem to get really bored or really frustrated really easy. It seems there is never a happy medium for me. The program is repetitive and I get tired of mentally cracking the same jokes along with the trainer. Or the program is really hard and I have to make so many adaptions that I feel like I'm cheating or failing. How does one possibly combat this?

Getting Back On Track

I think we can all agree that over the past few months life has been worlds away from what we've been used to. While this has manifested itself in many ways, I have had the largest struggle with getting back on a schedule and keeping it. This isn't due to a lack of meetings, tasks to be accomplished, or bills to be paid. It's simply been the amorphousness of time. With a breakdown in regular routines to help differentiate the days, it's become all too easy to disregard the centering effects of a timeline and just launch into each day with an energy verging on reckless abandon.

I've realized I've been through this before though. During the difficult illnesses and passing of loved ones, I have felt this complete loss of self and center as I've tried to adjust to a life with a new hole in my heart. The difference is this time, the whole world is going through it.

It's time to break this cycle and here's how you can do it.