Health, Healing, Weight…
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Dear High School & College Athletes (and their parents),
Your strength training and nutrition are of utmost importance for both your physical and mental health not to mention your sports performance. It is the combination of these two things that lead to increased muscle, resilience, energy, and performance.
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Psychological Resilience in Female Athletes
Psychological resilience is an important construct that can enhance athletic performance and foster valuable life skills. That is the point of sports, correct, to foster life skills of hard work and resilience… By developing psychological resilience athletes learn to use positive adaptations to adversity and stressors in the athletic arena and ultimately develop personal growth.
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Nutrition Gone Wrong – Female Athlete Triad
a considerable proportion of female athletes will experience nutritional deficiencies at some point in their careers if we don’t start early and spread the word about real biological female nutrition. These nutritional deficiencies come through avoidable pathways like – inadvertent undereating, lack of knowledge, food insecurity, time constraints, restrictive eating habits, and eating disorders.
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Harness the Power of Your Cycle
As women, our bodies go through a beautiful and intricate dance every month known as the menstrual cycle. While this cycle can bring its fair share of discomfort, it also presents an opportunity for us to optimize our overall well-being by aligning our eating habits and workout routines with the hormonal shifts that occur during…
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Injury Prevention in Female Athletes
Have you or a friend/family member experienced a severe injury while playing the sport they love? Yeah, my daughter too. In the past 2-3 years the amount of conversations I have had with other athletes and athlete moms regarding injuries has substantially increased. Something has to be done for our female athletes to help prevent…
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Why Everyone Needs A Life/Health Coach
Why does everyone needs a health/life coach? Because there is a load of information out there telling you to take care of yourself, focus on number one, just be happy, do this fitness and diet plan and have the perfect body… But each one of these leaves us asking questions like: “If this diet is…
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Discover your Identity
It feels like someone has hit fast forward on life. I go to bed at night and wonder if I did anything of worth or value and what I’m missing. We all long to be part of something bigger, to know that our life matters and that we have purpose. Somehow, however, we end up…
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To The Women Feeling Defeated By the Mirror
I think my mirror at home must be a fun house mirror, a magical one that keeps changing it’s shape and in turn changing my body’s. Mirror images can often be distorted. It’s either our eyes or our minds that seem to make the focus all wrong. I finally understood the side mirror of my…
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How I was Freed from Eating Disorders
If I wasn’t thinking about how much I hated myself for what I ate, I was thinking about what I was going to eat next. In this blog I’ll share the moments of my life that I’m not so proud of and how I was able to be freed from the bondage of my weight,…
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Think Differently About Food – Challenge
Hello blog friends! I’m writing to invite you to my October challenge community to think about food differently. During the month of October, we’ll be doing a challenge to start thinking differently about food. Join this group to learn about the truths and lies surrounding the ‘diet’ trends, learn how to find your personal nutrition…
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Gut Health, Digestion and Stress
Over the last 10 years or so there has been a lot of research done on our microbiome and its impacts on chronic disease and obesity. Our microbiome is the accumulation of little microbes in our stomach, gut lining, mouth… that support our digestion and immune system and preventing infection. It is the gateway to…
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Level of Accuracy in Calorie Counting Requirement
Are you a calorie or macro counter? I have been for years – to an addictive level at times, even. It’s been proven that calorie counting provides little to no benefit in achieving weight loss. The reason is that the level of accuracy in tracking food needs to be nearly 98%. In as little as…
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Your Gaze Determines Your Health
Have you ever paid attention to how often you spend looking down? In my pursuit to find the secret to living as an anchored female, I’ve learned a lot about how my gaze determines my health, my energy, my love, and my life. As a recovering performance-based people pleaser I’ve noticed that all too often…
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Body Image War
We do not fight against our own flesh, shame, sress… we fight against the enemy trying to tell us we aren’t worthy – reject it!
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Heal your Body by Listening to your Inner Orchestra
My current journey and goal are to link weight struggles, self-worth, and wellness success to scripture. Our relationship with YAHWEH makes all the difference in lasting results for health and wellness. In doing research and schooling for Integrative nutrition, it’s remarkably easy to see how our body’s design is a strong reflection of how our…
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How Changing Coffee time Changed my Food Cravings, Energy, and Digestion
Does your daily routine start with rolling out of bed and pouring yourself a big delicious cup of coffee before even considering breakfast? That is what my daily routine consisted of. Wake up, pour my coffee, say my prayer for a good morning quiet time, and sip away as I entered into my morning bible…
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Nutrition is easy – So Why Does it seem so Complicated?
I’m taking a new and life-giving approach to how I spend my time and it starts on May 13th! Well, I’ve already begun pre-course requirements through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. In 1 year, I’ll take my bachelor’s degree in Health and Wellness and personal trainer experience to the next level by being a Certified…
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Low-Carb Diet | Things I’ve learned about weight and being a woman
So many diet options and so many success stories. It leaves me with the question of “where is my ‘success’ story?” Can you relate? Keto Diet – it’s everywhere right now. Carbs are bad and fat is good. I feel like something along these lines has happened before, Oh yeah, that’s because it has, in…
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Healing Anxiety Toward Food and Weight
Food and me – It’s one of my greatest anxieties. I’m not sure when my obsession with food began, but I do know that it is where I turn every time I’m tired, sad, happy, celebrating, bored, angry… yeah, so I pretty much turn to food 24/7. Today, I’m beginning a journey to renew my…
