Kindness Challenge Week 2: Self-Compassion

This week I’ve been engaged in growth exercises from two different sources that—at first—seem almost directly opposed to each other. The first assignment was to notice areas of my life where I have become resigned and justified to the “way it is”. Places where I have given up. Places where I have no hope. Places... Continue Reading →

May 24, 2017 1

Can You “Learn” Your Way to Health?

How Viewing Being Healthy as a Skill Can Transform Your Life In high school, I used to listen to the skinny girls in the bathroom complain about gaining a pound and how fat they were. I’d slink my extra-fifty pounds past them and wonder why they weren’t more grateful for their current state of health and... Continue Reading →

May 22, 2017 0

Discovering the Difference between Self-Love and Self-Indulgence

Kindness Challenge Week 1: Self-Love Sometimes in life, the Universe seems to bombard me with the same message over and over again. It has been like that this week. First, I stumbled upon Niki Meadows’ blog, The Richness of a Simple Life, and her 2017 Kindness Challenge. I’ve never participated in a social media challenge,... Continue Reading →

May 20, 2017 2

A New View of the Learning Curve

Quite some time ago, I found myself holding back tears of frustration and embarrassment as I failed to keep up in a Zumba class [Zumba, in case any of you don’t know, is the twenty-first century version of aerobics.] I wasn’t even trying to master what the rest of class was doing with their arms—I... Continue Reading →

May 13, 2017 0

Mr. Secretary, Please Don’t Roll Back the Healthy Lunch Program

I was in a school cafeteria recently, watching with dismay as kids threw fresh fruits and salads in the garbage. I asked one of the teachers I was working with about it, and she said that the school had been mandated to include healthy foods, but that most kids still weren’t eating those foods and... Continue Reading →

May 4, 2017 0