My reading in my yoga class on Saturday was about the importance of relationships and connection. I have been putting this into practice in my own life. This has been the summer of yes. Despite my love for teaching and interacting with others for my work, I am introverted and more often than not I find a [...]
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Day in the Life Friday
August 8, 2014 { 2 comments }Hello and happy Friday! Here’s a little day in the life for you. 4:55 a.m. – alarm goes off. I didn’t get in bed until midnight the night before due to the baseball game and then work stuff when I got home so that alarm came early. 5:30 a.m. – train my first client. I [...]
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Don’t Compare Your Inside to Someone Else’s Outside
July 21, 2014 { 44 comments }Hi. I hope Monday was kind to you. My day was good. I trained clients at 5:30 and 6:30 a.m. and then came home and took a little nap on the couch for 45 minutes. I got up around 8:30 and made a green smoothie and got to work on finishing up a the edits/feedback [...]
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Burger Night
July 8, 2014 { 18 comments }I think one of the most difficult things about blogging on a daily basis is actually not finding the time for it but rather doing it regardless of what’s going on in your life. Being human, most of you understand that things are constantly changing, ebbing and flowing. And in this current moment I am in [...]
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Day in the Life: A Holiday Week
July 3, 2014 { 8 comments }4:50 a.m. – alarm goes off. I didn’t fall asleep until midnight (with the help of a guided meditation) so this felt very early after three weeks straight of 5:30 a.m. clients and lack of quality sleep. 5:30 a.m. – gym to train a client who is in her third trimester and a close friend [...]
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Finding The Right Workout Balance: Lift, Run, Stretch
April 2, 2014 { 67 comments }One of the questions that I receive all the time is how to find the right workout balance between cardio, strength and mobility. I totally understand this question from both ends of the spectrum. Mindset #1 – “I do this one thing and it’s all I want to do!” I spent a good 6 years where [...]
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Scenes from the Purge
February 1, 2014 { 27 comments }Let me sum up my Saturday in one photo. I have been putting off a massive purge for months and it’s finally happening this weekend. My guest bedroom has been one of those, “keep the door closed and pretend like it’s not a disaster in there” kind of situations that was really hanging over me. [...]
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The Walls Come Crumbling Down
January 13, 2014 { 37 comments }Last weekend was…emotionally heavy. The studio where I teach started their fourth teacher training on Friday night. I participated in the very first training the studio offered three years ago and have now been teaching yoga for three years. I wrote a post about my experience in teacher training. Every year when a new yoga [...]
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My Look Back at 2013 + Your Favorite Posts
December 31, 2013 { 17 comments }The blog world runneth over with “Best of 2013” recap posts today and here I am to add to the fun. I would like to start out by saying that overall 2013 was a good year for me. It wasn’t without its struggles (probably one of my personal favorite posts from the year) but one [...]
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Approximation
December 23, 2013 { 15 comments }One of my yoga teachers is always telling us to “approximate the pose” to the best of our abilities. How you do a pose might not look like the yogi practicing next to you, a photo in Yoga Journal or the way Krishnamacharya would do it but it’s the right way for you and your [...]
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Five Things I’m Doing To Age Gracefully & Healthfully
December 6, 2013 { 20 comments }Let’s have an honest conversation about aging and growing old. I think it’s easy to have tunnel vision when it comes this topic. We have the tendency to limit aging to focus more on the next phase in our life instead of the overall big picture. So for us growing older means hitting common social [...]
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Happy In The Here And Now
November 9, 2013 { 10 comments }http://oascentral.blogher.org/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/ReviewBadge/OID5498_Folgers_Best_Part_ReviewBadges_015/@x13I was out on a girl’s night recently and as we circled around the table catching up we laughed that every single one of us answered with some sort of variation of, “I’ve been so busy. Work is crazy. Life is complicated. Will things ever be simple?” The resounding answer was NO! Things will never be [...]
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Be Your Own Hero
October 19, 2013 { 14 comments }http://oascentral.blogher.org/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/ReviewBadge/OID5498_Folgers_Best_Part_ReviewBadges_015/@x13I have a quick exercise for you. – Make a list of five things you love about yourself. – Make a separate list of five things you wish you could change about yourself, insecurities you harbor, negative self-talk that runs on a repeat reel, etc. Which one was easier to write? If you’re like me [...]
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Decide What To Be And Go Be It, Round 2
September 23, 2013 { 49 comments }Two years ago today I announced that I was leaving my advertising job to pursue a career in fitness.The past two years have taken me from making training, teaching and blogging my living to accepting a full-time position as the general manager of Metro Fitness Club and Metro CrossFit. Each step of this journey has [...]
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The Evolution of Two Blogs & One Girl
September 9, 2013 { 84 comments }I got my start as a blogger five years ago when I launched my food and recipe blog, Bakin’ and Eggs, and shared my dad’s chili recipe. I started Bakin’ and Eggs because I was constantly getting asked by friends and co-workers, “What should I make for dinner?,” “Do you have a recipe for…?”How do [...]
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A Response & Regular Stuff
August 28, 2013 { 15 comments }Good morning. I so appreciate all of your insightful and kind comments on yesterday’s post. I guess what I want to say in return is that I have been through an incredible amount of change in my professional and personal life over the past two years. Literally everything has changed. I have experienced a broad [...]
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Introvert or Extrovert?
August 21, 2013 { 26 comments }The last few weeks I have seen two different articles circulating Facebook about introverts and extroverts. There’s the Huffinton Post’s “23 Signs You’re Secretly An Introvert” and BuzzFeed’s “25 Frustrating Things About Being an Extrovert.” I found both to be entertaining and they made me think. The signs you’re an introvert definitely resonated with me [...]
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What I’m Reading + The Best Summer Lunch
July 29, 2013 { 33 comments }Hi there. I’m back in Charlotte where it seems that things are exactly as I left them. I had to get away because I missed my parents and also because I needed a step back. I find that I have to get out of my day-to-day reality sometimes to gain clarity on the big picture. [...]
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You Never Know
July 9, 2013 { 37 comments }I have been in a really contemplative place lately. I don’t know how better to describe it but I’m in major evaluation mode. I’m okay. I’m just thinking about a lot of things and working on a lot of things. This is a good thing. I taught a yoga class this morning and during my [...]
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On Swirling and Expanding
July 2, 2013 { 16 comments }Type, delete. Type, delete. This is how so many of my posts start. “Hey guys, Happy Tuesday!” is NOT working for me today. Blogging is difficult sometimes because there is this whole life thing going on behind the scenes of what I show you every day. And mine has a tendency of late to look [...]
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Sustainability
June 23, 2013 { 15 comments }I’m back in Charlotte but only for a few days before I take off on my next adventure. Details to come on that later this week but I should have lots of good stuff to share with you from my upcoming travels. The past few weeks have been really crazy and stressful on both personally [...]
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Stop saying I don’t know.
June 9, 2013 { 34 comments }Weekend in photos… I had to work on Saturday morning but it was pretty awesome. 1) Metro CrossFit was rocking and we had a great group for our morning classes with lots of new faces. 2) These sweet puppies were there overseeing the WOD! No really, every time people ran out of the doors to [...]
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On Stopping The Storytelling
June 4, 2013 { 23 comments }Last Sunday I talked to my yoga class about storytelling. Not the kind of sweet stories you tell children but the stories you make up in your head that cause you fear, anxiety, questioning and doubt. This is something I have struggled with for a long time. I completely freak myself out about things and [...]
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30 to 30
May 16, 2013 { 37 comments }One month from today I will turn 30. I have mixed emotions about this. It’s not being 30 that freaks me out…it’s more all of the evaluation that comes with entering a new decade of your life that freaks me out. The true struggle is letting go of the picture of what I thought my [...]
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You Are Okay
April 11, 2013 { 69 comments }The last couple of years have been really up and down for me on a personal and professional level. There have been moments where I’ve wondered how I could possibly be in any more pain and I even uttered the words “I’m dying” on more occasions than I care to admit. I believe that the [...]
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Eating Healthy And Homemade When You Are Busy
April 2, 2013 { 32 comments }It’s no secret that I work a lot. One of the questions that I have been asked countless times over the years is how I have the energy and creativity to make homemade meals when I’m working long days and late hours. The first thing I always say is that it’s like therapy for me. [...]
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On Renewal and Softening
March 31, 2013 { 10 comments }I hope everyone has enjoyed Easter. I had the honor of teaching yoga on this special beautiful Spring morning. Regardless of your belief system, I think that Easter and Spring encourage and welcome renewal and rebirth. I read the following passage to my yoga students at the start of practice today. German writer Johann Wolfgang [...]
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Taking the Bitter with the Sweet
March 19, 2013 { 32 comments }I was talking to my sweet grandmother a few weeks ago and telling her all the things that I had going on. There might have been a bit of whining involved and I loved it when she totally called me out and said, “you have to take the bitter with the sweet.” So for the [...]
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Living The Dream
January 27, 2013 { 18 comments }I had a really awesome weekend with many highlights. – Teaching two packed yoga classes to the amazing yogis at Y2 Yoga. They flowed, they sweated, they learned a new mantra, worked on a new deep upper backbend (more on the mantra and backbend tomorrow for yoga Monday!) and listened to this motivational speech about [...]
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One Word
January 2, 2013 { 37 comments }This week I have been asking my yoga students and blog readers (via Facebook) to think of ONE word that describes how the want to feel in 2013. The responses have been phenomenal and so thought provoking. I am the first to admit that it’s not really easy to pinpoint one perfect word. It’s kind [...]
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Free Your Mind
December 26, 2012 { 14 comments }I am feeling low on energy today. I don’t know if it’s a “holiday hangover,” the gray day or maybe I’m coming down with something (please God no…) but I am lethargic and blah. I am sure that a workout would energize me and get me moving but I am not sure how likely that [...]
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The Simple Stuff
December 17, 2012 { 33 comments }This morning I practiced yoga, taught yoga and grabbed coffee from Starbucks. As I was driving into work I thought about how much peace these little everyday things bring me. Rolling out my yoga mat. Sun salutations. Leading a class through practice. Morning coffee. Then I got to my desk and read Caitlin’s post about [...]
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A Better Way
December 15, 2012 { 18 comments }Good morning. I am a bit lost with myself right now. Part of me wants to hop in the car and head to Asheville for the day to hang out, eat and take a yoga workshop (the carrot cake from French Broad is reason enough to make the drive…no, really) but the logical side of [...]
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On Showing Up
December 12, 2012 { 30 comments }I am currently under a blanket with ice on my hip. It’s really inflamed right now. It was feeling pretty okay despite the running I did last weekend until I decided to do a CrossFit workout yesterday consisting of box jumps, running and kettlebell swings. The last time I did a CF workout with a [...]
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Can’t Do It All
November 11, 2012 { 37 comments }I went into the weekend knowing that it was full of work and social commitments along with a list of things I wanted to get done around the house. Around 3 p.m. on Saturday I came to the realization that there was no way that I could do everything that I committed to doing and rather [...]
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A Resetting Of Sorts
October 9, 2012 { 56 comments }I’m currently in route back to Charlotte where a mammoth week of work that will end in my weekend CrossFit Level 1 Course waits for me when I touch down. But I’m pleased to say that I’m approaching it with less anxiety and stress and more confidence and contentment. This trip has been both nice [...]
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Avoidance
September 17, 2012 { 27 comments }Happy Monday! I’m going to start the week on an honest and confessional note. One of my biggest personal weaknesses is avoidance. When I don’t want to deal with something, I ignore it…for days, weeks, months or even years. It’s not something that I’m proud of but it is something that I am ready to [...]
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Bigger Than My Body
August 14, 2012 { 61 comments }Last week I was talking with someone about how I have been feeling recently and trying to describe where I am from an emotional standpoint. I am guilty of putting the pressure on myself that everything has to look neat, pretty and put together. But life is not always neat or pretty and there are [...]
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Taking Steps, Making Progress
August 1, 2012 { 41 comments }Much thanks for all of the music suggestions. I’ve already started listening to The Lumineers radio on Pandora. Can’t wait to check out some of the artists and download some of the songs you recommended! I love it when we can all information share like this. Just yesterday I finally orderd a new blow dryer based on [...]
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The Little Things
July 22, 2012 { 71 comments }Sometimes life can feel a little overwhelming. It seems that when things are good, they’re so good. You’re happy, work is good, everyone around you is happy, blessings and opportunity abound. At the other end of the spectrum, there are those times when you literally ask yourself if one more thing could possibly go wrong. [...]
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Changes With The Solstice
June 21, 2012 { 47 comments }Today was the summer solstice, the longest day of the year and the mark of the changing season from spring to summer. Growing up in the south, late May always felt like the start of the summer because school was out and the temperatures were usually well into the 90s. It’s a little strange to [...]
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Finding Balance And Getting Organized
April 10, 2012 { 10 comments }Happy Tuesday everyone! I’m currently slammed with work and experiencing major caffeine withdrawal thanks to giving up coffee for the week so I thought it best to let someone else write today’s post! ;) I’m thrilled to have Miriam from Bellaspire contributing to Peanut Butter Runner. Miriam and I connected through a mutual acquaintance almost [...]
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Figuring It Out
March 9, 2012 { 37 comments }Happy Friday! I actually can’t believe that it is Friday. This was my first full week being at Metro and it flew by. I feel so lucky to be here and definitely know that it was the right decision for me to take this job. Everyone has been so welcoming and I’m so excited about [...]
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What you don’t see…
December 13, 2011 { 40 comments }My weeks start off so busy and then kind of taper off. I like it that way. It’s nice to be really productive at the beginning of the week and reduce the intensity as it goes on. Mondays and Tuesdays are usually my very busiest days of the week (remember my “Day in the Life” [...]
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Wednesday Workout and Wine
December 7, 2011 { 14 comments }And I’m back to a night update. Some of you have commented that you’ve missed seeing my updates when you check the blog in the morning. I know my blogging has been a little sporadic lately but like I mentioned in my December Updates post, I’m trying to figure out a balance that works for [...]
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December Updates
December 6, 2011 { 34 comments }Good news! Ever since the launch of the new blog design, I haven’t been able to respond to your comments. For some reason the response was showing up in the backend but not on the post. My blog guru fixed the issue last night so I will be responding to you again! It’s been killing [...]
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On Saturday I…
November 19, 2011 { 16 comments }On Saturday… I practiced yoga for 90 minutes. I watched my sister in law pick out her wedding dress. I drank a (strong) bloody mary in the middle of the day. I ate. A lot. I cried. A little. A lot. How was your Saturday?
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Fridays Are For Frites
November 12, 2011 { 5 comments }I am really enjoying my new schedule although it has been a bit of an adjustment. Instead of knowing that I’m going to be working between the hours of 8:30 and 5, I now find myself busy and free at random times and on random days. Thursdays are slow, Sundays are busy. I try to [...]
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(De)Clutter
November 7, 2011 { 24 comments }I am the first to admit that a big fault of mine is allowing myself to get all wrapped up in the day-to-day while pushing less interesting tasks to the side. I am terrible about staying on top of things that just don’t interest me. I will put them off and procrastinate like a champion. [...]
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Reactions
October 27, 2011 { 22 comments }Lately, I have been focusing on having more control over the way that I react…to good news, bad news, frustrating situations, interactions with other people, etc. It’s easy to quickly react to events, situations and people without pausing to evaluate. And the pause is critical. It can provide a better view of the situation at [...]