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Stretching Past Your Comfort Zone: Do the Splits

Last updated on January 22nd, 2019 at 02:09 pm Are you stretching past your comfort zone with your fitness dreams? I’m talking about that moment when you are about to go past your bubble of safety. It feels a little scary and alarms start to go off in your brain telling you to “Stop! Go back!”. For some newly minted…
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Yellow Crocus

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Guard Your Dreams: a Lesson From the Garden

Last updated on January 22nd, 2019 at 02:09 pmThe unrelenting winter weather has dominated the news for weeks. What’s interesting, but barely mentioned by most forecasters is that here in the Pacific Northwest, we’ve experienced quite the opposite. In my 50-years, I’ve never had crocus, those first signs of spring, completely bloom out and dry up by the end of…
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When Motivational Speaking Gets Scary

Last updated on January 22nd, 2019 at 02:09 pm   It’s not just public speaking that frightens us Just being a motivational speaker is a scary job. We all get it. Getting up and speaking in front of a group ranks up there on the top of the fear charts.  So as speakers, we learn to conquer that fear. Well…….
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Finding Happiness Through Synchronicity and Magic

Last updated on January 22nd, 2019 at 02:09 pm Imagine: You declare out loud that you are a happy, passionate and well-traveled Goddess, and just days later a friend calls to invite you to travel to India, all expenses paid, and then to Africa to help build a school in Ghana, which is a dream come true for you. Another friend calls…
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Fitness Challenge: Check Your Functional Range of Motion

Last updated on January 22nd, 2019 at 02:09 pm Bones creaking, muscles aching, and that’s just getting out of bed in the morning. Your fitness dreamer is no exception. Even I need to be able to get those muscles moving comfortably every day. So here’s the question: Do we really need to stretch? Stretching is the thing we will do…
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