Hello my friends. We are overdue a catch up. It’s a cold, rainy Sunday so the perfect time to sit down and share what’s been going on in my corner of the world. The short answer is…A LOT! ON THE WORK FRONT On the work front, January in the fitness industry is no joke and [...]
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Life Lately: All The Fall Things
November 1, 2025 { 3 comments }November 1! HOW!? I know it’s so cliche to say but I feel like we were literally just wrapping up summer pool days and starting school. Fall has flown by and I can’t believe we’re already taking down Halloween decorations and thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas. Despite it passing in a flash – we’ve had [...]
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Life Lately with Lots of Zoey Updates
May 17, 2025 { 12 comments }Hi friends. Life has been full lately in beautiful, hard and mundane ways. I just finished a long run and am posted up on the couch (one of my favorite weekend combos is long run + couch & tv time) so let’s catch up. MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND Let’s backtrack to Mother’s Day weekend because a lot [...]
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Life Lately: Zoey, All The Sports, Running Updates, CAKE!!!
March 7, 2025 { 2 comments }Hi friends. Happy Friday. I got home from Florida, wrote my recap post, blinked and somehow it’s 11 days later. Life has been full in both wonderful and stressful ways. I’m writing this post from the air – I’m en route to a weekend skiing adventure in Utah. After a three-hour delay in Charlotte for [...]
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Life Lately: Kicking Off 2025
January 11, 2025 { 4 comments }Hello my long lost friends. The beginning of 2025 has been such a whirlwind (in mostly great ways!) that I have been absent from this space. As you can imagine, January is a busy month in my line of work and I’ve been logging lots of hours in the gym and yoga studio training clients, [...]
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Five Days In Florida + Early Thanksgiving
November 8, 2024 { 10 comments }What a long, wild week it’s been. I am a little on the emotionally wrung out side. I hope you’re able to take a big exhale on this Friday and make some space for self-care, family time, friends, movement, baking, nature (whatever you need!!) this weekend. I was chatting with my yoga class yesterday about [...]
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Life Lately: Visiting Pittsburgh, 22 Mile Long Run, Pumpkin Decor and More!
October 22, 2024 { 5 comments }Hi and hello! There is so much to catch up on from the last couple of weeks. 48 HOURS IN PITTSBURGH Last weekend I traveled to Pittsburgh to visit my friend Lina. We met in yoga teacher training back in 2011 and became fast friends. She moved to Brussels, Belgium (and I was able to [...]
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Joy Is Here Too
October 8, 2024 { 4 comments }Hi friends – the last 10 days in North Carolina have been hard and sad as our state has navigated the aftermath of Hurricane Helene. It’s been heartbreaking to watch our Western North Carolina neighbors face truly unimaginable devastation and loss. It’s also been disheartening to witness the amount of divisive political rhetoric that is [...]
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Please Help Western North Carolina + How To Help
September 30, 2024 { 6 comments }What a wild, crazy and heartbreaking few days it’s been in North Carolina. Hurricane Helene brought high winds, heavy rains and record historic floods to our state. While we are mostly okay in Charlotte with the exception of downed trees and multi-day power outages, our neighbors to the west did not fare well at all. [...]
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My 2024 Health + Wellness Journey
September 5, 2024 { 31 comments }There has been a lot going on behind the scenes from a personal health and wellness perspective in 2024 and I’m equal parts excited and nervous to share in this post. Your kindness in sharing thoughts and feedback would be really appreciated. I think the common way of doing things is to announce health goals [...]
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Currently (July 2024)
July 29, 2024 { 5 comments }It’s a new week and I’m kicking it off with a “Currently” style blog post. I’m giving you a little bit of everything in this post from the podcast series that I can’t get enough of to school uniforms to my thoughts on the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders docu-series to how I’ve been hydrating and more! [...]
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Life Lately: Fallen Trees, Finn’s 6th Birthday + Mother’s Day
May 20, 2024 { 1 comment }Well friends. While once a week post frequency isn’t out of the norm for me these days, I certainly didn’t mean to drop off the grid for 12 days. When you last heard from me my mom was due to arrive in Charlotte that day to stay with us for a week and things got [...]
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Life Lately: Standing in Love
February 23, 2024 { 3 comments }Cue the Elton John song, “I’m Still Standing.” It was A WEEK but here I am at the end of it and still standing. Onto the next one! One of the beautiful things about life is that we get to choose what we focus on and even in the midst of stress and hard things, there [...]
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Currently (December 2022 Holiday Edition)
December 17, 2022 { 7 comments }I feel like I have lots of little things to share with you guys so it popped into my mind to do a “Currently”-style blog post with a little bit of a holiday twist. My last Currently was back in May and these are always fun posts to write and read. CURRENTLY READING I just [...]
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Day By Day
June 27, 2022 { 10 comments }I don’t really have the words to write a compelling introduction to this post at the moment. Instead, I’m going to let the photos and the experiences from a well-spent weekend with my sweet boy create the narrative. I will give you this reading that I shared with my yoga class this morning as I [...]
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Sickness, Health and Loss
June 14, 2022 { 26 comments }It’s been a week since you last heard from me. My last post was all about how my week was off to a great start and what I bought at Trader Joe’s and here I am seven days later living a week that has had a markedly different start. Last Wednesday I started having flu-like [...]
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A Good Start to the Week + What I Bought at Trader Joe’s
June 7, 2022 { 15 comments }Hello my friends! My week is off to a great start and I hope that yours is too. In this post I’m going to catch you up on the last few days and also share what I bought at Trader Joe’s a few days ago. LIFE LATELY I picked Finn up from his dad at [...]
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This Feels Hard Because It Is Hard + Abundant Blessings
May 27, 2022 { 6 comments }It’s Friday night and I am cozied up on my grandmother’s couch with HGTV on in the background. I can’t think of anywhere else I’d rather be after the events of this week. Mema and Finn are both sleeping and I’m settling in to write this post. It was a hard week. It was a [...]
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Currently (May 2022)
May 6, 2022 { 33 comments }TGIF beautiful people. What a week it was. I felt so brain dead today that I sat at my computer all afternoon and just couldn’t find the inspiration or the words to write a blog post (even though I have a list a mile long of things I want to write about) so I did [...]
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Life Lately: Winding Down 2021 and Welcoming the New Year
January 4, 2022 { 25 comments }Happy first week of 2022. I hope your new year is off to a good start. I very much appreciate the heartfelt and supportive comments on my last post. I have read every single one of them and will be revisiting each and responding throughout this week. I was pretty wiped out when we arrived [...]
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Life Lately: Family Focused
October 5, 2021 { 56 comments }Hi there friends. I hope your week is off to a good start. Finn and I have relocated for the week! We flew down to Florida yesterday to spend the week with my grandmother. We haven’t been here to visit since late June (we’ve had several trips not work out for various reasons) and my [...]
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How Are You?
August 17, 2021 { 14 comments }The days feel heavy right now. On a literal level, it’s hot, humid and I can’t go outside without getting a mosquito bite (the mosquito thing is mostly a joke but if they love you like they love me, you get it!). On a mental level, it’s a lot to absorb everything going on in [...]
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Currently (July 2021)
July 28, 2021 { 14 comments }As I start this blog post I have two promises for you. There will be mention of or links to the Nordstrom sale. Cross my heart. No Olympic or Simone Biles talk outside of that I FULLY support that she is prioritizing her mental health. Social media trends and news cycles can be overwhelming at [...]
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Three Good Things
April 2, 2021 { 11 comments }Happy Easter weekend friends. I am sitting in bed writing this post with a house full of kiddos and a heart full of joy. REUNITED AND IT’S THE BEST EVER Finn and I drove to pick up my nieces this evening so that they can spend Easter weekend and the first part of their spring break [...]
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6 Ways To Stay Active & Socially Distanced + Getting Your Gear at Sierra
January 29, 2021 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by Sierra and ShopStyle. It’s hard to believe that we are nearly one year into living this masked and socially distanced life. While overall I feel fortunate in many ways to be safe at home, healthy and employed, the changes in friendships and regular routines have really started to wear on [...]
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Take The Leap
January 16, 2021 { 11 comments }Hello. Life is full at the moment but I feel equal parts very happy and very stressed. I am writing this post from bed in my hotel room in Kingsport, Tennessee. I’m here kicking off the first weekend of our third 200-hour yoga teacher training at VIDA Hot Yoga. It’s hard to believe that we [...]
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Tuesday Tea Talk: Working From Home + Taking A Pass On 2021 Goals
December 29, 2020 { 10 comments }Hello and I hope that this final week of 2020 is restful and easeful for you. I just made a cup of ginger tea and sat down to do some work. I found myself opening the browser tab to my blog and wanting to write some words. HOME OFFICE I’ll start by sharing that I [...]
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A Grateful Heart
November 26, 2020 { 5 comments }Happy Thanksgiving to those who are celebrating the holiday today. I know that many of you are missing family and traditional celebrations as we all work to navigate this unprecedented time in life. My family made the difficult decision to not see each other for Thanksgiving this year. While I know it was the right [...]
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This Week Was A Week
November 6, 2020 { 86 comments }It’s Friday. We made it to the end of this completely insane week. I haven’t posted because honestly, I didn’t feel like writing or creating this week. Most of my energy went towards digesting election week and keeping myself straight and grounded for my little family. I don’t think I can say it any better [...]
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All The Fall Things
October 24, 2020 { 4 comments }Happy Saturday. My morning has included sleeping in, two cups of coffee, the farmers market and brunch. A very solid start to a beautiful fall day. The scone that you see here is a cheddar rosemary that I got at the farmers market and it’s safe to say that it was the star of the [...]
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Slowly Settling + Quickly Shifting
September 9, 2020 { 7 comments }Good morning and happy Wednesday friends! Finn is always with his dad on Wednesdays so it’s a day that I try to hunker down and get a lot of work done as well as schedule appointments and other things. I’m knocking out some computer work this morning to be followed by class planning and filming [...]
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Currently (August 2020)
August 20, 2020 { 55 comments }Hi and happy Thursday! I am borrowing today’s post theme from two of my favorite Chrarlotte-area blogger friends. Julie and Brittany have both shared “Currently” posts lately. I love reading them and I thought it would be a nice way to add a little variety. Currently reading: This is actually what I just finished reading. [...]
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Settling In + Settling Down
August 10, 2020 { 13 comments }Hi there. What a whirlwind the last couple of weeks have been. Buying a home and moving have been overwhelmingly positive and exciting things but also very stressful. There are so many moving parts and pieces. Most of the time I feel like I’m standing in the middle of it all wondering what to do [...]
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Seven Good Things
June 30, 2020 { 9 comments }I appreciate the comments that you guys shared on my last post. Reading through them felt like a big hug. There were some vulnerable and honest shares and great suggestions around social media limits. Thank you. While I am all about acknowledging and naming your feelings and meeting yourself where you are, I also believe [...]
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Moving Forward Meaningfully
June 8, 2020 { 4 comments }I did not post the black square on Instagram and I didn’t announce that I was muting myself. Those things felt forced and unauthentic for me. It was a personal decision and comes with no judgment to those who participated in these actions. While I did not set out to intentionally mute myself, I just [...]
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Imperfection + Action
June 3, 2020 { 17 comments }Hi. How is your heart? I want to start this post by saying that any emotion that you are feeling is valid and to acknowledge that the reality of the present moment is heavy and hard. I have been actively engaging in and posting about the Black Lives Matter movement on my social media feeds [...]
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4 Gates of Speech + Mother’s Day
May 12, 2020 { 16 comments }Over the weekend I completed another online module for my 300-hour yoga teacher training at Asheville Yoga Center. This one was Yoga, Chakras and Consciousness with Michael Johnson and I found it to be educational and enjoyable. Personally, I really resonate with Michael’s style of teaching. He is CRAZY smart and knowledgable in a way [...]
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Positive Ways To Deal
April 16, 2020 { 8 comments }Good morning. What an up and down week it’s been. Remember that graphic I shared a couple of weeks ago? I am really living this right now. THE EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER OF CORONAVIRUS (Graphic is from @now.or.noodles on Instagram and drawn by Hannah Reeves.) One of the most unsettling things about all of this is the [...]
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Cheer
April 8, 2020 { 16 comments }Hi there. Tonight’s background entertainment is Cheer on Netflix. Did you know that I cheered competitively in high school? I also gave it a go for one semester of college but bailed on that pretty quickly. I’m grateful for the experience because it was a big goal realized, but I also have zero regrets about [...]
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Plus Two
April 5, 2020 { 7 comments }It’s Sunday night at 8:30p and I’m finally sitting down on the couch to relax with my feet up watching Gilmore Girls. I am so tired even though I haven’t left my house other than to go to the grocery store or pick up Finn in over 10 days. It seems that a stop to [...]
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How to Workout & Flow with Me + Life Lately
March 31, 2020 { 15 comments }The last few weeks have been surreal and a whirlwind as I’ve absorbed the news of coronavirus and worked to figure out what the new normal looks like. All of that was such a distraction that I thought that I was fine as I worked diligently to refocus my efforts and energy and make sense [...]
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Yoga for Better Sleep: 5 Simple Yoga Poses to Practice Before Bed
March 24, 2020 { 2 comments }This post is sponsored by CVS Pharmacy. This post topic is one that I feel so passionately about, especially given my status as a toddler mom coupled with daylight savings and all the things going on in the world right now. SLEEP! Never in my life have I valued and prioritized sleep in my life [...]
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Benji’s Adoption Story
March 3, 2020 { 37 comments }Yes, you read that title right! We have a new family member! I am so thrilled to introduce you to BENJI! He’s a 7 month old goldendoodle and I rescued him from the Triad Golden Retriever Rescue last Saturday. Two weeks ago I never dreamed that I’d have another puppy, much less a goldendoodle…it’s been [...]
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Slogging
February 27, 2020 { 3 comments }Good morning. I got up early to have some time to write a blog post before I head out to work. On Thursday mornings I teach a double header of hot yoga and strength and then train a client after. But…the creative juices just aren’t flowing for this post. This week has been a bit [...]
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On Love
February 14, 2020 { 20 comments }Happy Valentine’s Day friends. Pardon the not so great photo but my day started in the best way with snuggles of the toddler and golden retriever kind. Finn has been waking up at 6:15-6:30a lately so I’ve been bringing him into bed with me to cuddle for 15-20 minutes before we head downstairs to start [...]
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My 10 Year Fitness, Health and Wellness Goals
January 31, 2020 { 6 comments }This is a sponsored post. However, all thoughts and opinions are my own. The transition into a new decade is one that has felt significant for me. When I reflect back on the last 10 years of my life, I kind of wonder how I’m still standing. While I am (mostly) kidding with that last [...]
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Solstice + Goldens + Finn’s First Haircut
December 21, 2019 { 2 comments }Today is the Winter Solstice which brings the shortest day and longest night of the year. It brings opportunity to honor both light and dark. I spent this morning outside on a trail run, celebrating light and connecting with nature. I visited Ann Springs Close Greenway for the first time and did five trail miles. [...]
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That is beauty. That is inner peace. That is self-love.
December 11, 2019 { 23 comments }I spent last weekend in Kingsport, Tennessee leading the sixth weekend of our 200-hour yoga teacher training program at VIDA Hot Yoga. I think I have shared with you guys in a previous post that this is my first all-female training group. While I’m always amazed by how each teacher training group has its own [...]
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Peaks and Valleys
November 27, 2019 { 16 comments }Happy Thanksgiving lovely friends. Life is full of peaks and valleys but one thing that has become abundantly clear to me since becoming a mom is how powerful gratitude is in accessing happiness, joy and love no matter if I’m high on a peak or low in a valley. This little guy has brought me [...]
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A Whole New World
August 17, 2019 { 13 comments }Warning: this is a very mom/baby-focused post. Come back in a day or two for lots of recent eats if the mom stuff isn’t your thing. :) Being a mom has surprised me in countless ways but one of the most significant is how much I joy I feel watching Finn see and experience life [...]
