If you are human, you’ve probably stepped into one of these cognitive traps at least once in your workout life. Unfortunately, if you don’t recognize the traps, you’ll miss out on the very best results for your efforts. Read on to explore how to get out of your own way in the gym, and of course, beyond the barbell.

For the unacquainted, Shadow Work is from Jungian psycholgoy. It’s aim is to assimilate the parts of the self one considers undesirable into the rest of the personality.

This post is an invitation to explore the exercises you most avoid—perhaps unconsciously, and an invocation to your very own body to attack those shadows so you can find the strength hidden in them. Read on to get stronger.

I want to share my excitement—nah, ENTHRALLMENT, with the Journey I am on. I invested three weeks ago in a Birthfit coaching course, to equip me with the knowledge and expertise to guide prenatal and postnatal women through and into their healthiest, most radiant, vibrant, happy, gracious, and fit pre- and post-pregnancy experience possible.

Why did I choose this path? I’ll take you all the way back to when I was 10 years old…

Menstruation is given a bad rap culturally, and as women — if we are not awake to it, we internalize that negativity.

Let’s not do that anymore.

May you honor your precious aura of containment and beauty, radiance, your womb of womanhood and creativity, your flow-state capital, and may you treat Her with tender love, compassion, and non-judgmental WHOLENESS.

Read on to learn how to flow with your beautiful flow, lady.

Growing up, everyone in my family had a unique relationship to carbohydrates. I witnessed my brothers’ journeys, and think they illustrate the way we all navigate our relationship to food. My hope is that through sharing two human’s paradoxical paths through a single macronutrient that met in the middle, you will walk away feeling secure in your food choices and that you are both in charge of and growing into the diet you need, constantly.

While there are no cheat codes in life, knowing the hormonal, physiological, psychological, emotional, and physical signatures of each of your cycle’s phases both intellectually and viscerally is as close as it comes to a cheat code to unlocking your best life and training.

Read on to empower yourself to train better in the precious cycles of your womanhood.

Do you ever take the easy way out, say ‘yes’ when your gut says ‘no,’ or give up on your biggest dreams for something more practical, socially acceptable, or “reasonable”?

If you are plagued by any of those conundrums, stay and learn. I will show you: a) you are not alone, b) the wild woman in you knows better and can do better, and c) I really hope you take this away, too — you don’t deserve the shiny object, you deserve the actual gold.

Thanks for taking this reading journey with me, sister.

The crossroads on the road of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions — where you can either bottle them up til you are red in the face, get diseased, and get massive road rage…or express, transform, transmute, and speak it into the Universe in some way, shape, form, speed, and package; this…this is where a creative is defined.

What you choose will either ignite or dim the creative in you.

Keep reading to learn my thoughts on ‘what it takes to be a creative.’