Health and Wellness

It’s officially fall and that means we’ve officially entered the best time of year for running! Don’t get me wrong, summer is nice and all, but when it’s 80+ degrees out with 1,000% humidity, running outside is pretty miserable. You can only take so many layers off without it getting weird – AND you’re still […]

I talk about the importance of exercise in a lot of my blog posts, and how many of us come up with excuse upon excuse not to fit in a workout at least a few times a week. One excuse I’ve heard: I don’t have a gym membership, and I don’t have workout equipment at

As many of you know, May is Mental Health Awareness Month, and I feel it would be a shame not to talk about it again this year. I’ve talked about my own experiences with mental health plenty of times since I’ve started this blog, but it’s an important topic, and one that I think is

I have a little feel-good, fun story for you this week. Twice a week I get up at 4:30am to run with a couple friends in the wee hours of the morning. It’s peaceful and the traffic usually isn’t bad – only a handful of times have we run into any “excitement” on our runs.

After three weeks off of running, it was nice to get back out there this week. And even though I was still walking every day during the break, I was a little worried it would be tough getting back into the swing of things. My muscles were a little sore, but overall, it felt really

Who else is TIRED of these constant sub-zero temps? I usually don’t mind the cold too much, but this is ridiculous! The air hurts my face when I’m outside and it nearly knocks the wind out of my lungs too. My poor dog is getting stir crazy from not being able to be outside as

I took Thursday and Friday this week as PTO days since I still had some to use before the end of the year. It was my second long weekend in a row with Thanksgiving being last weekend and it has been really nice. Last week I was able to have four and a half days

I want to talk a little bit this week about self-discipline – especially when it comes to exercise.  People tell me frequently that I’m crazy for working out as much as I do, or that I wake up before the sun several days a week to make sure I get said workout in. Like I

Good to be back! I took a bit of a longer hiatus than expected, but I wanted to make sure I talked about Mental Health Awareness while it’s still technically May. If you weren’t already aware, the month of May is recognized as Mental Health Awareness month. Mental health is an important topic to cover,