Health + Wellness

Things are chaotic and up in the air and a lot of it is an anxiety driven nightmare, but I can't pretend that I'm not enjoying some things about being endlessly stuck in my house with my family.  Please...

When my friends who have never been to Flagstaff ask me what the people are like, or more specifically,  what my mom friends in Flagstaff are like, I tend to describe them as "hippie chic".  I think it's pretty...

I recently saw a meme online that read, “Breastfeeding for one year is approximately 1800 hours. A full-time job with 3 weeks of vacation is 1,960 hours. Just a fun fact.”  Since my pump measures the number of hours...

The onset of winter brings on a mixed bag of physical and emotional states: joy and stress, illness and elation, busyness and depression. Namely, it can trigger many cases of "Winter Blues." It's important to realize that everyone has their...

I don't have before and after photos to show, but big change is happening in the way I am thinking about my body, my workout, my reason for exercise, and to be honest, my life, these days. And, it's...

COVID-19 brought the world to its knees and changed our daily life in a matter of months. As I am writing this, the number of confirmed people infected in the United States with COVID-19 surpasses China where the disease...

First, I am still meditating, daily and it has made me more present but also made me have more fun! I wrote a bit about my journey at the 6-month mark, found here. This has been a wonderful new habit...

When I was pregnant with both of my kids, I felt pressure to have a “perfect” delivery. There's a whole market around this: doulas, birth centers, a plethora of books and videos…and Flagstaff, with its hipster vibe, is all...

Sometimes you find camaraderie, high fives and encouragement from complete strangers in the most unexpected places. Or at least when you hadn't really thought about that kind of support coming at you. For me, it was at the top...

If you haven’t heard of COVID-19 yet, because the only reason would be that you’re blissfully sitting on a private island somewhere in the world with no internet (ps – where was my invite?), the intent of this blog...

For most of my life, I'd say I didn't actually know what exercise was. My parents told me it was important, but I didn't really know what it looked like, how to start, or if anyone actually committed to...

I heard the voice as soon as I looked in the mirror this morning. It pointed out the bags under my eyes, critiqued my skin, and replayed the wrong thing I said in a conversation yesterday. It attacked the way...

  Most of us probably know someone who had, has, or died from breast cancer. That is because approximately 1 in 8 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer in their lifetime. While breast cancer risk does vary by...