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Have you ever heard of spoon theory? If not, the premise behind it is that each person starts each day with a certain amount of spoons that represent the energy, effort or mental and physical capacity to do things. If you are ill or did not sleep well, you may have less spoons on that day or it may take more spoons than normal to complete a task. For some people, especially people who experience difficulties with mental or physical health, or experiencing burn out, fatigue or

Starting is hard. And not always for the reason that you think. Starting is hard because it is really easy to start too hard, to feel humbled by the effort, to pay for that first attempt for days, to hurt yourself or make your mind and your body hate the idea of trying again. The key to starting and adding sustainable movement into your life is to find an appropriate pace and intensity to start with. Yes, you want to be working hard enough to challenge yourself but it shoul

During the times that a lot of us feel inclined to start new things, we want to build a "new life", a "new body" or a "new me". But I want to encourage a different rhetoric. Instead of chasing a “new you” or a “new body” I want to chase a different mindset. Same body, same me, but I want to learn new skills and have new feelings about the body that I was born with. I want to feel more comfortable in my skin and feel stronger and safer in the movements that I choose everyday.

I have been walking a lot lately. Not normally something that I prioritize. Not normally something that I bother with unless to go for a hike. It takes a lot of time to go a measurable distance, even if you walk quickly like I do. I feel like I don’t have time, I’d usually rather lift heavy things for an hour. But lately it feels like heavy things are so much heavier than usual. I haven’t been taking the time I need to rest my mind and my body. I finished the big things, I go