Am I the enemy from within?? This is what I thought to myself on Halloween, when I had a chance to talk to the MAGA gear wearing grandparents at my son’s preschool. I had seen them at pickup a few times, decked out in Trump merch. To be honest, it made my heart race every…
Over the past few months, I have actively discouraged multiple people from signing up for my DIY strength training program. On many occasions, I have actually considered pulling it away from my offerings altogether. You might wonder why, considering that this time last year I was talking about it nonstop. But here’s what I want…
So life is a shitshow right now. Can we all just agree on that? Lately, I look around at the world around me like UGHHHHH. Today I’m thinking mostly about Afghanistan and Texas, but this changes daily. I feel like I need to do all of the things to make it better and also like…
The other day I got a message from a follower. She wanted me to explain why she worked out all the time but wasn’t getting any stronger. I started typing her a novel and then realized this: If I was gonna spend a bunch of time on a response to someone who isn’t a paying…
Navigating fitness without diet culture has been one of the greatest challenges of my both my professional and personal life. It’s also been one of the most rewarding and meaningful things I’ve ever done. Navigating fitness when you’ve just started to realize why diet culture is harmful is 10x harder. How do I even DO…
Do you find yourself setting fitness goals year after year and then never quite getting there? The really vague ones like: “Get stronger.” The kind of pointless ones like: “Do 500 crunches a day.” (Sorry not sorry but it’s true.) The ones that aren’t actually fitness goals, but aesthetic goals like: “Get toned arms.” And…
I don’t wanna “get my body back”. I wanna move FORWARD. And I wanna talk about why. Because of all the things people have said to me as a newly postpartum person, this has come up the most often. From my well-meaning friends: “You’ll bounce right back in no time because you’re so fit!” (So…
“If you haven’t actually read the book, you don’t get to have an opinion.” This is something that I say quite often, usually after running my mouth and sharing my unconventional philosophy on food, fitness, and body stuff. When I dare to say things like: “We weren’t all meant to be skinny.” “Diets don’t work.“…
What is diet culture and how is it harmful? I got this question from one of my dance students awhile back and it got me thinking. I often talk about “diet culture” and how much I hate it. At the same time I don’t think a lot of people truly understand what I mean when…
I’ve written multiple blog posts about motivation this year, and here I am I’m doing it again. Probably because 2020 has been such a shitshow dumpster fire and everyone seems to be in a funk about it. “I’ve been feeling so stressed lately about the state of the world and I know that working out…