Yesterday, I heard from my OBGYN that I was, indeed, post menopause.

Post. Menopause.

You could have pushed me over I was so surprised.

There is so much benefit to carrying things or lugging things. It strengthens you from head to toe. Carries train the lower and upper back, legs, and shoulders, while also hitting the deep stabilizing muscles of the core. Learn about functional movement and carrying in the first of a eight-part series.

If you are sitting more during this time. Here are 5 Ways to Sit Better with some ideas to help you sit well and some things to change or avoid.

Are you leaky? Do you leak your energy, your time, your self out because you’ve not set up boundaries? OR…do you allow for yuck to come IN because you’ve not set up your boundaries.

Skydiving was a HUGE part of my life for a long time.

I loved everything about it…

What you need….

My brother died...I test saying it out loud to my friend before I have to tell my children.

One of the best things I have learned from writer and guide Leesa Renee Hall is to unearth and look at your own lineage.

It’s summer - so how much water to drink?

Recently I spent time with someone who had strong opinions about what I 'should' be wearing...

Don't we all need to be wrapped in a soft shawl, knitted with loving hands, blessed, then wrapped around our shoulders with love and prayer?

After I started practicing and studying yoga I realized what a tremendous opportunity this all was to offer myself the gift of presence. Because if I was truly present in this one, precious moment I would KNOW if I closed the garage door. Right?

Part of improving chronic stress is to start to sense and feel it. Close your eyes and start to sense and feel.

Your gut health is tied to your stress, anxiety and depression. And your stress, anxiety and depression is tied to your gut health.

Learn the six steps to relaxation. You can use this 6 step relaxation process anytime, anywhere to reduce your stress level.

Your soma - body, mind and spirit - reacts beautifully to stress. The problem is, it doesn't hold up well when we don't come down from the stressor. It adapts for a time, but wasn't designed to handle it long-term.

There are physical effects of stress in the body that go along with fight or flight. In our multi-part series on stress during the holidays, learn first what happens to the body when stress starts.

Are you depressed? Anxious? Sitting with trauma? Living with chronic stress? Dear one - you aren't alone. And there are tools to help.

Sometimes, when I look back at the pictures from this summer, I get a little mmm... confused. I don't recognize that woman in the picture. And it's not just because I was 25 pounds lighter (I don't have a scale, so it could be more.) It's because the way she was in the world is SO different than the way I am in the world now.