Using Pause 2020 to Edit Your Life

It isn’t very often when you get the opportunity in life to take a full stop. And nearly everyone else does, too. But here we are in 2020 and there is a collective pause. Regardless of your thoughts on the lull in the action, you get to decide how you’d like to use it. We…

Being Well in the Times We Are in

In the words of Ferris Bueller “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Life has indeed been moving pretty fast this week, especially. In the new normal that everyone is experiencing (except the spring breakers) the outside world is changing seemingly moment to…

Being Well in a 47-Hour Adventure

When Lowi mentioned that John and I did a 47-hour race over the weekend, it could be easy to ask yourself: how is that being well? It sounds more like being in hell. And while there were moments that were a bit hellish and more than a few that tested my resolve and patience a…

Pack Light

This week has provided stark opportunities for perspective. In the wake of personal circumstances as well as national concerns such as viruses, harsh devastation in Nashville, we are given moments to see life as it is and as it could be. When I say life as it is, I mean that while life doesn’t always…

Take a Leap

Here we’ve come, rather briskly and unceremoniously, to the end of another month in 2020. We are wrapping up our February of focusing on and creating building blocks that support Being Loving and Kind to ourselves and to others.  And while our month of specifically writing about this topic may be ending the practice itself…

Relinquishing the Armor

Wednesday morning I was posting the quote we shared on our blog and it proclaimed that self love is not selfish. And I had this brush, this whisper of inspiration and it went like this: We must go inside and honestly figure out how to love ourselves — right now, as we are. How else…