Category Archives: Healthy Activity Pattern

What Now? How to Not Accidentally Quit After Reaching A Big Goal

Congratulations! You’ve reached your goal!! But instead of elation, or maybe alongside it, you feel tired or depleted or ravenous. Maybe you’re conscious of the “what now?” or “what’s next?” thoughts. Or maybe… what’s that? Grief? Confusion? Your identity has been associated with that big goal for months, maybe years. If you no longer haveContinue reading “What Now? How to Not Accidentally Quit After Reaching A Big Goal”

Question of the Day: Help! How Do I Get Myself Off the Couch?

How to Get More Active NOW! You want to “get active,” but work, kids, lack of motivation, partners, Netflix, stress, boredom, anxiety, anger, frustration, insecurity, late-stage capitalism, are all actively inviting you to give your attention to them. How do you break free of “all that” and peel yourself off the couch? Has the phraseContinue reading “Question of the Day: Help! How Do I Get Myself Off the Couch?”

Question of the Day: How Do I Deal With Obstacles and Lapses?

3 Tips to Getting Back Up Again You’ve embarked on a new fitness plan, a healthy eating pattern, a smoking cessation program–or maybe you’ve been absolutely spiffy at it for months–and then the inevitable happens. You stumble. You miss a session. You give in to temptation. Maybe you think: “No problem, I’ll get to itContinue reading “Question of the Day: How Do I Deal With Obstacles and Lapses?”

Question of the Day: Can I Be Body Positive AND Try to Lose Weight?

I’ve noticed that people often have a difficult time holding two different thoughts as true at the same time, such as the dialectical premise that you can practice “radical acceptance” of a past trauma AND wish to move on from it, or “radically accept” that you live with chronic pain AND that life is worthContinue reading “Question of the Day: Can I Be Body Positive AND Try to Lose Weight?”

Question of the Day: I Hate to Exercise! What Should I Do?

(Or, I Don’t Have Time or It Doesn’t Work or … ) This is today’s question to spur reflection and provide a moment for you to get present with yourself. I will follow it with an example from my own life or an experience shared with me. You may want to contemplate the question orContinue reading “Question of the Day: I Hate to Exercise! What Should I Do?”