In mid-2021, after several years of major life transitions, heartbreaks, a heavy workload, and a global pandemic thrown in just for good measure, I found myself experiencing a high level of stress, apathy, and what I would later learn was burn out. I lacked the tools to deal with what I was feeling — which […]
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… and other life lessons from my friend and mentor, Tara Tiedemann I remember when Tara started talking to me about the Blue Zones. Through her company, Viva Adventures, she had begun running trips up in Costa Rica’s Blue Zone, on the Nicoya Peninsula. While I would not read Dan Buettner’s famous book until years
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For context: I wrote this a few years ago as a reflection about my own experience with an integrative wellness coach. I hadn’t opened my “coaching notes” for a few years, yet it is so interesting to find writings from the past, and to reflect on the progress that I have made both tangibly (and
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Or maybe, to positively reframe, “your health is your responsibility” as “taking care of myself is my unique privilege.” If you’re like me, you may now or in the past have thought of your health as out of your control — that you were in the passenger seat to any of the following: your body itself,
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