Happy International Women's Day! To be female is a unique privilege, power, and challenge all in one. Ladies, take some time today to recognize your unique strength, resilience, discipline, determination, beauty, intelligence, and self-worth. Men, take some time to recognize your mother, sister, daughter, wife, girlfriend, etc. in all that she does. While I am …
Tag: Self-Acceptance
Motivation vs. Discipline
There are days you may wake up and everything seems easy. You get up when your alarm goes off, pack lunches for the kids and yourself, actually eat breakfast, pack a gym bag for a lunch-time Spin class, make dinner, do homework... you do all the things and you feel motivated doing it. Then there …
A Confession
All I wanted was to be a mom. To have a family. A few years ago, when I lived in Brooklyn, I thought I had a family - we talked about growing our family, we were house hunting, I was saving money for a down payment. It was a driving force for me in all …
Dear Girl
Dear girl, Remember that you are so much more than any number on a scale or pants size - do not let a number dictate your sense of value and worth - you are so much more than that, and, the sooner you learn this, the more you will begin to enjoy life, truly enjoy …
A Place of Vulnerability
It took me over a year until I felt like I could even consider talking to a counselor about what had happened, about the level of betrayal I felt when I found out that the person I was with, whom I had trusted wholly in life and in love had, essentially, been living a secret …
Progress Is Not Perfection
Growing up, I had a very hard time with being too hard on myself and struggling with perfectionism. I was the kid who would cry if I missed a note in a piano recital and the kid who was disappointed and angry at myself when I realized that it was physically impossible to drop time …
Lose the Guilt
Guilt for eating something "bad." Guilt for sleeping in when you really need extra sleep. Guilt for cancelling evening plans because you are exhausted and a solo date with your DVR sounds like the perfect mental health boost. Mom guilt. Guilt for taking vacation when you have too many deadlines. Guilt for spending money on …
Running in the Sun 