Category Body

Normally when we think of exercise we picture exertion. We think of runners or weight lifting, the face that says, “Oh my god, I’m going to die.” Or, “I hate this so much.”

But did you know that the extreme forms of exercise are not only unnecessary but are often detrimental?

I love to exercise. I love extreme exercise. I’m all for pushing my body to its limits and reaping the benefits of hardcover workouts.

However, as I grow, age and learn, I’m discovering that most humans are either underdoing it or overdoing it. And rarely is there an in-between.

While dealing with new hormonal weight gain, something beyond my control, I have discovered that I was tending to overdo things and it was having the opposite effects of what I wanted.

It was while doing this research that I disc...

Are you feeling pulled in a million different directions?

You wake up before you’re ready. The clock says a number that can’t possibly be right, and yet, it is. Time to get up again.

You feel like you just went to sleep and yet, it’s time to start a new day. You have no energy, yesterday drained everything out of you, you feel like you can barely stand up.

But . . . you do.

You get up, jump in the shower, for a split second the water revives you and you think, “I can do this.”

As you’re getting ready to go wherever you need to be, work, or dropping the kids off at school maybe, you try to eat some food but end up barely getting some coffee and grab your stuff for the day and dash out the door.

Dash out the door just to be sitting in a standstill of traffic that will probably ...