Body
Build a strong and vibrant body from the inside out. Your body is your foundation, the starting point of all your adventures. By honoring your body and making deliberate choices about exercise and nutrition you pave the way for greatness.
Body
Spice Up Your Cooking and Heat Up Your Body
Winter brings new beginnings, either ushered in by the new year or the blank slate that a fresh falling of snow provides. Just like how we turn up the heat on our thermostats during this time of year, we can also warm up our insides with flavorful spices. According to Ayurveda, the ancient sister science of [...]
(Really) Happy Meals
If necessity is the mother of invention, creativity may be its second child. At around the age of three, my youngest son started refusing most foods–sometimes refusing to eat altogether–until we thought we’d lose our minds with frustration. With two parents who appreciate well prepared, flavorful, and nutritious food, having a child who would eat [...]
Will Power: The Greatest Form of Self Sabotage to Weight Loss
If there is one thing you can do to stop spinning your wheels and begin to move yourself forward toward any goal, it is to do away with the concept of will power! Nowhere is this more true than in the area of weight loss. After years of supporting clients in achieving their weight loss [...]
Get Out the Door: Staying Motivated During Winter Training
The wind is howling outside, and the days have grown short. It’s dark when you first crawl from the warm cocoon of your bed, and it’s dark again before you’ve made it home from work and started supper. Because of this, winter is a time of hibernation, of slowing down and snuggling in, and it [...]
Why Exercise Makes Me a Better Mom
I’m tired. My body hurts from lifting my 2 ½-year old into her crib or onto the changing table, carrying bags of groceries in from the car, sitting on the floor too long building legos with my 5-year old, sitting in front of my computer working. I’m stressed. My mind is racing with all the things [...]
Have Training Plan, Will Travel: Motivate Your Running with a Destination Race
If you are looking for a boost in your fitness motivation, signing up for a running race can help you stick to a training plan and focus on a goal. Is that not enough to get you moving? As a means for further inspiration and to help you celebrate the accomplishment of reaching that goal, [...]
Mind
Tips from our Readers: How You Make Time to Be Creative
Don’t we all have so many brilliant ideas, flashes of creativity, and moments of inspiration that never actually turn into anything? We see something crafty or artistic in a magazine, and think, “I could do that!” We imagine a creative dessert we’d like to create in the kitchen, or notice something beautiful we’d like to [...]
What Turns You On?
“We ache to touch intimately what is real, to find the marriage of meaning and matter in our lives and in the world. We ache to feel and express the fire of being fully alive. When we cultivate and refuse to separate those essential expressions of a human soul – our spirituality, sexuality and creativity [...]
The Running Journal; A tool for nourishing the whole athlete.
Every step of my run tonight was like coming home to myself. I felt ideas start to creep back in, and the words that I thought lost forever began flowing again. With every stride, I felt my creative spirit returning. It was there. Running with me. Breathing in every mile as if it had been [...]
Writing Small Stones: How to Pay Attention in Three Simple Steps
“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.” ~Osho Paying attention is good for us. When we pay attention to the world around us, we feel more engaged with life. We really [...]
Finding Time to Read Every Single Day
Soccer practice, guitar lessons, dinner, homework. Then there’s work, exercise, time to talk to my husband. Every woman I know can relate to the never-ending list of responsibilities and duties that plague us on a daily basis. There are not enough hours in any day to do it all. And yet, regardless of how crazy [...]
Nest
3 All-Natural Winter Skin Care Recipes
As our daylight hours begin to dwindle and winter’s chill sweeps about us, we start to seek the indoors, bundle up in layers of wooly scarves and socks, warm ourselves by the fire, and keep our hands comfortable with a mug of hot tea. It’s a cozy time of year, but just one day of [...]
Cookbooks, a Whiteboard, and an iPhone: One Mom’s Tricks for Organized Meal Planning
I don’t know about you, but as a busy work-at-home mom of three, it seems like the kids are always hungry for dinner before I get a chance to start preparing a meal. I inevitably rush around the kitchen trying to come up with something healthy that won’t cause grumbling, only to end up staring [...]
Balancing Act: A Truly Practical Guide to Saving for Retirement and College
Life is full of difficult choices: French fries or side salad, a trip to the gym or an afternoon nap, a quiet night in or a night on the town, the list goes on and on. In our financial lives, we are faced with tough choices on a daily basis. Unfortunately, the complexity of some [...]
Birds Who Carry Rocks: Thoughts on Moving (Again)
America is a nation founded by pioneering people so dissatisfied with their home that they uprooted against all odds and imminent peril just to build a new one. Once they arrived, if they managed initial survival, they kept moving in all directions in search of optimal land, opportunity and acceptance. This American, yours truly, turned ten [...]
My Family Versus The Stuff: Simplifying with School-Aged Children
When my first child was born, I was a little shocked by the sheer volume of stuff that appeared in my apartment. Piles of clothes, toys, and endless baby gadgets. We didn’t have much money to spend, and I tried to keep things simple, but still The Stuff multiplied. As we added another child, and [...]
Connections
Let’s Raise a (Nature) Revolution in Our Kids
Fighting for a clean, healthy environment is my job. Literally. As a scientist for an environmental advocacy organization, I work to protect our endangered wildlife and wild lands on a daily basis. I find it challenging and rewarding, but it also means that I am acutely aware of the threats facing our world’s natural heritage [...]
Treat Yourself to a Learning Vacation and Make Friends to Last a Lifetime
As an artist, I’m always looking for classes to learn new techniques. I guess I’m what you would call a life-long learner. Presently, I’m concentrating my artistic efforts on making jewelry and paper arts. I’ve obtained my skills by reading technique books, taking classes at my local bead store, and experimenting with different materials. I [...]
We come. We go. We love.
It was a warm late-August afternoon when I sat down on the wooden front steps of my house to make the phone call. I had just come home from a long orientation at my brand-new teaching job, and I’d been watching the clock all day, knowing my parents should be returning from what may be [...]
The Gift of Homeschooling
As I watch my children shucking corn at a late 1800’s homestead underneath the vibrant blue Colorado sky, I smile inside at how blessed we are. After shucking the corn, we then walk over to hear a Navajo Indian share stories of her ancestors and learn of her craft-making skills that were her ancestor’s tools [...]
Get Your Marriage Mojo Back
Once upon a time my husband and I met, fell in love, and got engaged. Soon after the negative comments and predictions began. Time and time again people would see our affection or intimacy and say things like “Ooh, they’re newlyweds, just wait. The honeymoon will be over. Oh, that won’t last for long.” These [...]
Flight
12 Summers and 54 Summits to Self-Actualization
There are 54 peaks in Colorado that are over 14,000 feet in elevation. We call them 14ers. In the Northern Peaks of the state, there are the Northern and Southern Sawatch, the Elks, Ten Mile, the Mosquito and Front Range Mountains. In the Southern Peaks, stand Pikes Peak, the Sangre de Cristos, the Needle Mountains, [...]
Nicole Forester on What It Means to Live Deliberately
Nicole Forester is an actress, wife, and mother of two currently appearing on Starz in the Kelsey Grammer show BOSS. After 17 years as a successful actress living in Los Angeles and New York, including a Leading Actress Daytime Emmy nomination for her work on Guiding Light, Nicole returned home to the midwest. Moving to [...]
Living Your Soul’s Purpose
What nourishes you? I mean, really nourishes, deep down to the core of you. It isn’t the things we attain that feed us so completely, but instead the state of being we reach when our life resonates with what makes our hearts sing. Beyond the busyness of schedules and routines, family and social norms that [...]
Total Transformation: A Running and Weight-loss Journey
Even in the face of becoming winded climbing a few flights of stairs and passing kidney stones on an agonizingly regular basis, I, procrastinator extraordinaire, put my health off as something I would deal with later. I was about to broach 250 pounds which, on a 5’8” frame meant that I had left “overweight” behind [...]
Girl Develop It: Creating a Welcoming Space for Women in Technology
I am a member of a small but growing group. I am a woman in the technology field. Here is how I carved out a niche for myself in a male-dominated industry, and how I am helping other women do the same. Ten years ago, I was a college student taking a break from classes [...]
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