Health + Wellness

Summer is quickly approaching and with that comes more travel, more free time, more trips to the pool and the beach. In the past I have let myself become hyper focused on how I 1) look in shorts or...

What is hygge? Living a hygge (pronounced hoo-gah) lifestyle means that you enjoy the little things; you focus on creating a warm, cozy atmosphere. Hygge is candlelight nights with friends and family. It's nights around a fire with a good...

While the last 18 months have been especially difficult for parents, the burnout and mental load of being a parent has been overwhelming for a long time. For me, it becomes harder yet more important to protect my mental...

Every single day as a mother should be Mental Health Awareness Day in my book. Motherhood is a hard job with constantly evolving metrics of success, your direct reports constantly changing mood swings, needs, and effort levels, multiple offsite...

“Comparison is the thief of joy.” —Theodore Roosevelt To start off this piece, I have to drop some of my undergrad psychology knowledge on you, sorry!  So, in the 1950s, a psychologist named Leon Festinger was shaking up the field with some...

My chaturanga needs a lot of work, but I have enjoyed yoga in its various forms over the years. It keeps my muscles and joints moving and enables me to focus for an hour or so on nothing but...

As a yoga teacher, I should be the calmest person ever, right? That is a false assumption many people make about yoga teachers. For me, I came to yoga because I really needed tools to find calm for myself....

Let’s be real, our posture suffers when we have kids. First, there are changes during pregnancy: bigger belly, bigger breasts, and the spine shifts to sustain the changes. Then we have a baby: we're rounding forward, feeding, staring intently,...

Have you heard of this whole30? I didn't know it existed until a friend of mine came to a party talking about how she had just finished her whole30.  She said she lost fifteen pounds and felt amazing.  As she...

How To Talk About Periods I am not an expert by any stretch, but this is how I talked to my boys about periods. "Mom! Do you have blood coming out of your BUTT"?! My kids barge in on me when I'm...

March 16th of 2020 was the night before my 40th birthday. I squeezed a birthday dinner in with one of my girlfriends because we knew that the next day everything was going on complete lockdown due to the Coronavirus. I...

There is one simple way to improve both your pelvic floor health and your mental health and it is something you already do, every single day. Breathe! It is almost that simple. Breathing is one thing we do every...

Not too long ago, I came across a meme that said, “All these viral 'moms are losing their minds’ articles are great and all. But is anything changing? We have a spotlight on moms, and everyone seems to agree...

You know that morning routine saying, "the early bird catches the worm." But, what if you don't want the worm because you were attacked by worms as a child and now stick to bugs that are all around. Now, let's...