Living Vibrantly

#StandTallandStrong

#STS Is about raising our heads, facing the day, with strength, with our shoulders back, ready, capable, willing and able. This motto has weaved its way throughout my life for the last 13 years. Inspired by an incident where I was doing everything opposite of these notions and words for years. I realized in this …

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Relaxation and Stress

Relaxation welcomes us into warm flowing fields of grassy meadows on mid-summer days. Stress seems to turn the lights off of summer in an instant. Like a winter wind storm plowing through our coastal vistas knocking over yet another power line for the zillionth time. These systems work similarily within our bodies. Known as the …

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Intentions OVER Expectations can blend into Miracles

Expectations lay hidden among the grass between our toes as we continue stepping towards our dreams and goals. Think with me for one moment as the soft, luscious, blades envelop our hard working ways. Breathe with me with this new air as the fresh scent of soil brings life to the creatures embedded deep below …

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How to do the hard things…

I started back up at 24 Hour Fitness just over a year ago. I was excited and enthused. It seemed like that was the direction Life wanted me to go. I spoke to my boss at that point and said I am IN this. Because I was. I was stoked to help start a brand …

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From On the Sidelines to In the Game

“You either walk inside your story and own it, or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.”     -Brené Brown Last week I had the pleasure of being featured in the Cannon Beach Gazette: “Everyday People – Cannon Beach local brings a love of fitness back home”. It’s been a loooong …

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Learning How to Adapt

Sometimes life goes according to plan. Ok, let’s rephrase that, life never goes according to plan. And when plans don’t pan out or some other unexpected thing happens our expectations can tend to shift into doubts. “I didn’t make it” or “This will never work” or “I’ll never figure it out” Voices of doubt can …

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Transforming Fear into Faith and then FLOW

When perspectives shift a light shines on our old fears, to show us, that maybe they were there to ignite our dreams, wishes, and desires. So we could wake up and live our lives with a zest of passion, a movement that can only be felt and propelled through our very own core.

Oh Can-a-da! (And then…)

We rolled into Canada straight off the heels of Highway 101 where our first moment of awe occurred at Ruby Beach, right during sunset, no map in hand. Then the next day we saw the crystal clear waters of Lake Crescent. Then we hopped the Black Ball Ferry named COHO in Port Angeles, WA to …

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VoiceCatcher: Rotten Eggs

Hi Friends! One of my creative non-fiction pieces titled Rotten Eggs has been selected to be featured in the Spring 2018 Issue for online literary magazine VoiceCatcher!   I spent several months working on the piece intermittently with my coach/editor and then went through several other rounds of revision with an assigned editor from VoiceCatcher. Pretty …

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