“You’ve got to find balance. Work life balance.” How many times have we heard this over and over again? How many times have we tried to obtain this only to be left disappointed as we never truly end up finding it? I hate to break the news but it doesn’t exist. There is no possible way we can truly give evenly to our work and our life at the same time.
Read MoreInterpretation is everything. A situation is never stressful, hurtful, positive, or negative until we interpret it in that way. I remember sitting in my Stress and Coping course in university and hearing this statement by Hans Selye for the first time and it all coming together. “It’s not stress that kills us, it is our reaction to it.” So true!
Read MoreAlthough I have been working for about seven years in the fitness industry, I have only officially been running my own business for roughly one year. It is by no means my full time income as I am contracted at the studios I currently teach at but I am trying to best see how I fit into the Toronto fitness scene. Over the past few weeks I have felt really discouraged about where I see myself. It isn’t so much of me comparing myself to others as it is thinking of where I envisioned myself being and having a harder time achieving it than I anticipated.
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