This week I want to talk to you about change and what gets in the way. In my work I help people in making changes every day, and in my life I am always changing and growing. One thing I know about my change, and the change my clients go through, is that meaningful change takes time and there will be times where you are uncomfortable. Typically when people start to feel the uncomfortable feelings of change they back down and go back to their old ways. This is because they are bumping up against what gets in their way and it feels uncomfortable. And believe it or not, the discomfort of the old ways that they are trying to change suddenly feel more comfortable than the unfamiliar, unknown of the change. What I remind my clients, and myself when I am in the process of change, is to relax Continue Reading →

Hello again and welcome to Part II of Attune for Success.  I want to share with you today some tips on how to tune into what your body is telling you and how to learn your bodies unique language. After I wrote last weeks blog, Attune for Success Part I, I thought to myself that there may be some of you out there thinking that if you listen to your body, it would tell you that it is tired all the time or that it wants to sit on the couch and watch TV or just give into its hedonistic desires. Listening to your body is a combination of listening to what it is saying and translating that into what it is really trying to tell you.  It’s important to not take each bit of information at face value but to look at the information, get quiet, check in with Continue Reading →

This is an actual picture of the sign that is at the end of my running loop behind my home in Templeton.  I have walked and run this loop many times. Mostly with my sweet boy Moukie. Each day that I workout I ask myself what feels right? Do I want to go for a walk, a run, hike, Tabata intervals, yoga/stretch or maybe its a rest day?? I have become pretty good at tuning into what I need that day to best support what my body needs, but it has taken time to learn how to listen. So what does this sign have to do with all of this? Well, as I finish my loop, the road starts to make a slight increase in grade.  It’s like the final push in the workout, not much of a hill, but just enough to make you want to stop on a Continue Reading →