Tired of Elliptical? Try a Gameful Approach
Does your exercise routine sound like this? 30 min elliptical one day – maybe throw some weights around or do some machines another day – walk the dog. This routine gets booooringgggg and many of my clients come to me feeling flat, tired and totally uninspired. If you aren’t getting enough physical activity in […]
How to Achieve Work/Life Balance
The first blog in this series was an overview of work/life balance and what it means . Now we will dive deeper in on How to Achieve Work/Life Balance. 1 – Make time to connect with others. #Relationships There is a Ted Talk 75 year study on happiness and those people who were happier were […]
Meaning of Authentic Community
Think of people in 3 rings. In the middle is you, your partner, parents, siblings, & people you talk to daily. The outside is our social media network and anyone you’ve ever known. The middle ring (yellow in diagram below) is where we struggle. These are people you might see once/week. The people you build […]
How Amanda Plays
In this blog I want to share some examples of how I’ve used play in different aspects of my life: Play in my relationship I was struggling with being snappy, and short with my boyfriend. In addition to praying for patience and to be slow to anger, I decided to make this a game. […]
What Does Work/Life Balance Mean?
As millennials we really value work life balance, but do we actually balance them? Do we even know how? What does work life balance even mean? I will answer all these questions in this blog series. Part 1- What does work life balance mean? Many of my clients tell me stories about their partners […]
Create New Experiences
“Without new experiences, something inside you sleeps.” -Frank Herbert Can you think of the most FUN, active weekend in your adult life? Mine was at my friend Jackie’s bachelorette party weekend at Camp No Counselor. This took place somewhere in Equinunk, PA, but they have them all over the country. I was really looking […]
5 Things to Make Your Relationship THRIVE
Being in your twenties and early thirties is all about relationships with a major focus on dating. As I went through my twenties I learned a lot about dating and my view of what I wanted changed as I matured. Part of it had to do with lacking my father my whole life. I had […]
7 Ways to Be Happy
If you struggle to find happiness in life you aren’t alone. We all go through periods where we may struggle to be happy. Happiness is in us all the time but we lose track of it. We are distracted by constantly trying to do stuff and climb the corporate ladder. The definition of […]
7 Properties of PLAY
“ The opposite of play is not work — the opposite of play is depression.”- Dr. Stuart Brown Dr. Brown says when play is happening, almost all of these 7 things are firing. Play is Apparently Purposeless Play does not seem essential because it does not provide us our daily needs for […]
Adults Should Play
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing”- George Bernard Shaw Kidult definition: Noun- an adult with an air of free-spiritedness; childlike in spirit. A person who knows how to have fun. Adjective- Characteristic of an adult engaged in lighthearted behavior; to have a good, […]