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…
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…
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…
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…
So many personal trainers (and people who think they are) act like this fitness thing is SO easy. That anyone who doesn’t meet their definition of “in good shape” is lazy or undisciplined. “If I can do it, you can do it!” “It’s just calories in and calories out.” “You just don’t want it bad…
There are lots of different ways to track your fitness progress. Ones that go beyond the number on the scale or your clothing size. A few that come to mind are: learning new skills or improving your form. Getting stronger or faster. Improving your balance or endurance. Increasing mobility or flexibility. Figuring out how to…
Sometimes I feel like a misfit pregnant woman. I don’t really like being pregnant. Those monthly progress pictures where I show my bump and compare my baby to produce are NOT my thing. I won’t be doing a maternity photo shoot in a meadow. I’m secretly (openly) relieved that I got to have a virtual…