Well, the end of this week has found Finn and I in Florida with my family but what a heartbreaking week it has been to watch Hurricane Ian devastate parts of Florida and also cause widespread flooding in the Carolinas. We were all on edge as we tracked Ian’s path and breathed a sigh of [...]
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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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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: 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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Week In The Life Without My Sidekick
June 11, 2021 { 2 comments }Hi everyone. We’ve made it to Friday. This has been a really weird and crazy week for me. First, Finn’s been gone since last Saturday on vacation at the beach with his dad. I tried to FaceTime him one day but literally got 30 seconds of his attention before he ran away to play. While [...]
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MDW 2021
May 31, 2021 { 12 comments }Hello. My Memorial Day Weekend was pretty low-key and close to home…like most of my holidays over the last few years if I’m not in Florida with my family. I did get to spend some wonderful quality time with Finn and my friends which is something that I’m very grateful for. Overall, I was feeling [...]
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A Week In The Life – May 2021
May 6, 2021 { 7 comments }Whew, y’all! It’s been one of those weeks where everything has been a little “extra” and many logistically challenging things have been happening at the same time. I made it through, made the best of it and I’m now on the way to New Orleans…which I’ll share more details about at the end of this [...]
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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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The Right Things Will Always Connect
February 14, 2021 { 5 comments }Today is Valentine’s Day and it though it wasn’t a traditional Valentine’s Day, it was a special and good day. I spent this weekend back at VIDA Hot Yoga leading weekend three of our 200-hour yoga teacher training. My day at 7:30a teaching led Ashtanga primary series to my teacher trainees. Teaching Ashtanga is SO [...]
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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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5 Tips for Balancing Running, Strength Training and Yoga In Your Weekly Workout Schedule
January 13, 2021 { 54 comments }One question that I have received consistently over the 10+ years that I’ve been blogging and posting on social media is how to balance running, strength training and yoga in a weekly workout schedule. Just yesterday, I received this question on Instagram… “How would you recommend balancing a schedule of yoga, running and strength? How [...]
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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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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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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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A Week In The Life
June 19, 2020 { 16 comments }Hi guys. How was your week? I would give mine a solid okay. Not bad, but not amazing. Plenty to be grateful for…including a beautiful son, another year older, sweet pups, my best friends, my loving family and work that pushes me to learn and grow every single day. Rather than a “Day in the [...]
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This Is Us
June 14, 2020 { 24 comments }Hello and I hope this finds you enjoying your weekend. I’ve been hanging out with Finn and the pups, staying close to home and spending as much time outside as possible. We are having the best weather – low 80s and low humidity. I’m trying to soak it up before a week of rain heads [...]
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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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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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Bright Sunshiny Days
May 7, 2020 { 10 comments }Hi and how’s the week treating you? Every day I am so grateful for the mild, low humidity and sunshine-drenched spring that we are having. I feel like so often in the south we go from 60 to 90 degrees in 2.5 seconds during spring so this has been a treat. I know that talking [...]
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Another Week
April 24, 2020 { 5 comments }And so another week of life in a global pandemic comes to an end. We received news yesterday that our governor is extending stay at home orders until May 8 and news today that schools will be closed for the remainder of the year. I was not surprised to read either announcement. How are you [...]
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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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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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Weekend (YOGA) Update
December 28, 2019 { 3 comments }This post title is in reference to Saturday Night Live’s “Weekend Update” segment…but back when Tina Fey and Amy Poehler co-anchored. They were the first-ever all-female anchor team and I thought the two of them played off of each other beautifully and hysterically. Gosh, I used to really enjoy SNL and my all-time favorite segments [...]
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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 [...]
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Not Our New Normal
August 5, 2019 { 21 comments }From a happy Friday to a heavy Monday…here we are in the wake of not just one mass shooting but TWO in the the course of just 13 hours. What a heartbreaking weekend and what hard news to digest. I spent my weekend in the bubble that is yoga teacher training. It’s hard to put [...]
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Own the Day + Own Your Attitude
June 17, 2019 { 11 comments }This post is sponsored by Alive! Multivitamins, but the opinions are my own. Morning routines are generating a lot of buzz lately. They make it seem like anyone who is “successful” gets up long before sunrise, works out, meditates, journals, eat breakfasts and tackles half of their day’s tasks before 7a. Well, what if you’re [...]
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Finn’s First Year
May 19, 2019 { 13 comments }Finn’s first birthday was yesterday. I’m working through a lot of feelings about our journey through the first year and trying to decide how to best share it, or if I maybe want to write something personal and private to hold onto or share at a later date if it feels right. I mostly feel [...]
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Constantly Seeking Flow
May 15, 2019 { 41 comments }It seems that I have found myself back in the space of overcommitted. It’s an easy place for me to get to because I love my work, being challenged and staying busy. I have a tendency to say “yes, yes, yes”…until I want to scream “NO!” Throwing a baby into the mix has brought it [...]
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21 Day Positive + Present Challenge
May 14, 2019 { 17 comments }This post is sponsored by Novant Health but the opinions and the 21 Day Positive + Present Challenge are my own. I was on a run with Finn and Zoey a few weeks ago and listened to a Super Soul Conversations podcast with Shawn Achor. The episode was titled “The Life Altering Power of a Positive [...]
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From Darkness to Light
April 21, 2019 { 9 comments }I hope that you all enjoyed a lovely Easter weekend. I think the best way to start this post is by sharing what I wrote on Instagram tonight. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Jen | Peanut Butter Runner (@jen_pbrunner) on Apr 21, 2019 at 6:19pm PDT //www.instagram.com/embed.js “Last year [...]
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Week in Review + New Strength Classes + Lessons from Dan Harris
April 5, 2019 { 6 comments }Hi friends! Happiest of Fridays. After two weeks with a lot of travel, I am looking forward to a chill weekend in Charlotte with my little guy. I don’t know what has gotten into me but I spent this morning on an organizational tear. I have a feeling I’m going to be doing a lot [...]
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Day in the Life at 8 Months
January 22, 2019 { 13 comments }It’s been a hot second since I wrote a day in the life post. I didn’t even plan one for today but once I was snuggling with Finn on the couch at the end of the day, I realized it was a perfect day to capture! 5:30 a.m. – Finn wakes up and wants to [...]
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18 Days into 2019 + 8 Months Old
January 18, 2019 { 7 comments }TGIF! I’m sitting here at the end of the week like whoa. I’ve crammed a lot into these first 18 days of 2019 with two weekends in Tennessee to wrap up teacher training and returning to a regular teaching schedule in Charlotte. I just tallied them all up and I’ve taught 18 classes so far [...]
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Climbing Out of the Hole
January 7, 2019 { 20 comments }I’ve mentioned it in almost every post I’ve written in the last couple of weeks but I am entering into 2019 feeling full of hope, healing, inspiration and courage. 2018 was the best and worst year of my life. I only wish I could truly share with you the extreme of highs and lows that [...]
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Florida + Family + The New Year
January 2, 2019 { 7 comments }After a 2018 that was all over the map, I had the absolute best end of the year and beginning of the new one. I woke up on this first day of 2019 feeling full of hope, energy, creativity, possibility and love. For the first time in a year, I arrived back in Charlotte tonight [...]
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Instead I Held You
December 13, 2018 { 49 comments }Good morning. My eyes popped open at 5:30 a.m. and I couldn’t will myself back to sleep. I got up and made a pot of French press instead. It’s been months since I made coffee in the French press and I’m reminded how amazing it is! If you’re looking for a gift for the coffee [...]
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6 Ways Being A Mom Has Changed Me In The First 6 Months
December 1, 2018 { 30 comments }I apologize for the disappearing act the last few days but I needed to take a step back. One of the things that I have learned in my years of blogging and creating is that if it’s not flowing, don’t force it. I’ve been wanting to write a post about six months of motherhood but [...]
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We all get lucky in turn.
July 17, 2018 { 49 comments }Last weekend I was so fortunate to have the opportunity to book a super last-minute flight to spend a few days with my family. I had only been back in Charlotte for just shy of two weeks but really needed the support of my family. I am grateful that American Airlines Super Saver mile redemption [...]