Figuring Out Life, One Mile (and Meal) at a Time
One of the goals I have for myself every year, it seems, is to write more. I feel like I start the year off strong with so many ideas of what I might want to write about. Sometimes I'll write multiple blogs at the same time and save them for later, other times I try… Continue reading I got a rock.
My word for 2023 is "Self-Investment". Okay, fine, it's really two words that I'm pretending is just one work because there's a hyphen in it. Investing in myself is the priority for 2023. That doesn't mean being selfish or being lonely. It means nourishing the parts of my life that matter the most to me.… Continue reading 23 Goals for Self-Investment in 2023
That was the title of the meditation for January 5th. I didn’t read the meditation that day, of course, but reading it later one line really resonated with me: “Your next step, the answer to the question you’ve been mulling about - the direction for the next stage of your growth, what you need to… Continue reading Let Life Reveal Itself To You
I spent the last few days of 2022 reflecting on the year and thinking about what I wanted out of 2023. As I mentioned in a previous blog post, I found an article through a Google search about 23 Goals to Set in 2023: Goal Ideas for Self-Investment. That term - self-investment - really stuck… Continue reading My Word for 2023: Self-Investment
When you are offered a lot of choices all at once, do you feel overwhelmed? I do, and I think that's why I have and continue to struggle with creating a meal plan to follow. Even though I am a registered dietitian and spent years of my life learning about meal planning, it still feels… Continue reading Small Changes Add Up
My whole running world changed in 2020. I ran my last in person race right before the start of the COVID-10 pandemic. I didn't run an in-person race again until Crim 2021. In between all of that, I did a lot of virtual races and my own personal challenges, and I also faced a lot… Continue reading My 2022 Running Year in Review
It is that week between Christmas and New Year's Day, when time doesn't make any sense and you're not exactly sure what day it is. I simultaneously can't believe that 2022 is almost over while also feeling like this was one of the longest years of my life. I'm blaming this feeling on the pandemic.… Continue reading Does anybody really know what time it is?
The short & sweet version of this race recap: I participated in "The Wonder" Challenge (1 mile and 5k on Saturday, international half marathon on Sunday) at the 2022 Detroit Free Press Marathon races this weekend with my friend Katelyn. My hubby came along for the journey and was an amazing race photographer and cheerleader,… Continue reading Race Recap: 2022 Detroit Free Press Marathon Races
The last couple of years have been challenging, to say the least. I can't think of many people who can look back on 2020 to now and say, "Oh yeah, no hard times at all, definitely all good." Besides a global pandemic that completely uprooted most of our lives, many folks, me included, had other… Continue reading A New Baseline
I have not written a blog in over 3 months. The reason for that is a combination of different things. I've been very busy, which I'll get into more in the rest of this entry. I also have not felt super inspired. That could be related to how busy I have been, how tired I… Continue reading Every New Beginning Comes from Some Other Beginning’s End
2020 was a really difficult year. There were floods and windstorms. My husband and dad both spent way too much time in the hospital. Oh yeah, and there was a global pandemic that completely flipped our lives upside down. I went from being a super social person that spent a lot of time with friends… Continue reading National Best Friends Day
The first Mother’s Day without my mom wasn’t as difficult as I thought it would be. The universe really tried to mess me up by having it fall exactly one month after my mom died. I spent most of the day hanging out with my sister, who is also a mom, shopping and having food… Continue reading The Second Motherless Mother’s Day
At some point my life has become full of "before and after". The first one that I remember was before I ever got an eye infection that would alter my vision permanently, and after. The next was before mom was diagnosed with breast cancer, and after. The most prominent for, well, everyone, is probably before… Continue reading What a Year It Has Been…
A few weeks ago, I had the opportunity to have a conversation with Christopher and Allison, two fellow mental health running warriors, on Christopher's Podcast 40,000 Steps Radio. Christopher and I connected on Instagram when we were both selected to be 2022 Ambassadors for Still I Run - "a community of runners and mental health… Continue reading The Dichotomy in the Dietitian Community
Last year I came up with an idea to cook through an entire cookbook over the course of the year. Unfortunately, I never came up with a plan to tackle this big goal, nor was I inspired at all to use any particular cookbook to make it happen. This year I shared that I wanted… Continue reading 146 Recipes in 365 Days
