You can love your body and still want to change it. Scroll through your Instagram newsfeed right now. How many captions are telling you to shrink and lose weight, get toned and build muscle, or on a totally other end of things, accept your flaws and your body how it is? We are constantly being told we aren’t enough and to either love your body as it is and accept that or be so extremely unhappy that a change must happen to achieve happiness.
Read MoreI recently finished reading the book, Mindset, by Carol Dweck. The only books I read these days involve fitness, business, and personal development. I can’t get my hands on enough non-fiction books that I can apply to my every day work and/or personal life. I had a feeling going into this read that it would be a tough one for me personally because it was going to test me and my sometimes stubborn ways. It did not disappoint!
Read MoreSeven years ago this month I began my fitness journey - a young 18 year old looking for a summer job. I had been active my entire life and played high performance field hockey but I never really thought about fitness as a career. I aspired to be a dentist growing up for many years. I guess I never considered fitness could be anything but a part time job or hobby until I actually began teaching.
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