When I was 2 I snuck into the kitchen and ate an entire bottle chewable vitamins full of iron. My mother smelt the iron on my breath and rushed me to the hospital to have my stomach pumped. I have heard this story approximately one thousand times in the last 29 years.  I vividly remember…

Motivation is crap. So many times in my own life I’ve eaten junk food and I’ve made excuses not to exercise or move my body because I was simply not motivated to. I told myself 100000x “I’ll start tomorrow” hoping I would wake up with some magical motivation that would solve all of my problems…

I have a serious issue when it comes to procrastination, I’m sure a lot of people can relate. I have gotten in trouble in jobs before because sometimes I would procrastinate on a project for an embarrassing amount of time. I procrastinated on projects, breaking up with shitty boyfriends, and most unfortunately of all- I…

She sat alone on the bathroom floor emotionally naked and afraid, there was nothing left in her and the tears had turned into dry heaving. Another check-in on the scale turned into an obsessed teenager curled in front of the toilet with a spoon in her mouth trying to get last nights dinner out of…

Let me start by saying that if you put me in a room full of kale salad or lava cake; it is not a sure bet that I’d pick the kale salad. Oh sure, I’d love to sit here and tell you that I’m an evolved health coach and I’m #teamkale all the way, but…

We all have been there, you go to sleep at night with fresh ambition for the morning and tell yourself that you will finally get up onetime and exercise or make a healthy breakfast/get to work on time. Whatever your bad habit is tomorrow holds all of the answers and you promise yourself that this…

Do you remember when you were a kid and you got so caught up playing that you tried to hold your bladder and ended up having an accident? Oh no wait, yesterday-that was yesterday. Ah yes! At the haggard age of 31-after growing and pushing a human out of my body,  I have less bladder…

Happy New Years resolution time!!! Is it just me or have they become a cliche in our culture?? We joke that by January 3rd we’ve “fallen off the wagon” and are back to our old habits; so, we might as well get comfortable in our sweatpants and try again next year. Well how far has this…

This Monday night was a doozy, as I sat on the living room floor  petting my dog for  comfort,  trying to focus on how soft his fur was and how happy he looked as his tail wagged on the floor- I usually find a sense of solace in these moments. However, on this particular rainy night-…

I’ve noticed when talking about “self-care” people’s eyes glaze over. It’s like when my parents told me as a teenager to make sure I did my homework before going out with my friends. (cue eye roll) I was not going to do that. Do you know why I should have made it a priority to get…