Category: Social Topics

  • Cheer For Yourself

    Cheer For Yourself

    Only you can feel the weight of the bricks that you drag behind you through every mile, every task and every goal. You have to be the loudest one cheering because only you truly know how damn amazing you are.

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  • Conversations After Run Club

    Conversations After Run Club

    When the running endorphins are high is often when we have the best conversations. The time after run club is a great time to catch up with the friends that you literally couldn’t catch up with during the run.

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  • We Didn’t Get to Choose

    We Didn’t Get to Choose

    We didn’t get to choose the families we were born into.  We didn’t get to choose the neighborhoods we grew up in.  Most of the time we didn’t get to choose our friends.

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  • Trail and Long Run Therapy

    Trail and Long Run Therapy

    At one of our last races, someone held a sign that said “Therapy was an option too” and I laughed. I said, “Therapy made me cry too much!” but honestly, running makes me cry too.

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  • Value of Conversations

    There has been a lot of noise around training with free apps and tech, and while I will admit everything has a value and a use, (I used free apps before I became a coach), the value of 1:1 Coaching is unduplicatable.  One of the biggest values of 1:1 Coaching is the CONVERSATION that you

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  • What do Anime and Pride Month have in common?

    What do Anime and Pride Month have in common?

    Probably nothing, right? Wrong!  Yesterday, they reminded me that we live in such a small world and passion can be a great unifier. Let me explain. I forget how small of a world we live in when I’m engulfed in my own bubble, focusing everyday on building my business and taking care of my family.

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  • When Did I Stop Dancing?

    When Did I Stop Dancing?

    I remember being so confused with myself because I could not let go. I stuck to ‘safe’ moves, so afraid of looking silly, but then I had so much fun when someone else allowed herself to be silly and I followed her. I had lost touch with myself in ways I couldn’t even admit and…

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  • Lessons on the Run

    Lessons on the Run

    One of the best things about coaching for me is the conversations that come up while we workout. I learn something new from every workout just as my athletes do. Because I don’t have as much experience being coached, I use every opportunity as a learning experience for all of us. Just as when I

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  • You’re Not Alone

    You’re Not Alone

    You’re overwhelmed by the stress, pain and sadness all around us. You’ve lost sight of who you are and who you thought you would be by now. You’re losing momentum with your goals because life keeps throwing obstacles in your path and you’re afraid the finish line is further away than when you started. But…

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