Personal Training by Jenn

Y’all, I just took an Elevate class at The Falls Tennis & Athletic Club. It’s similar to pilates reformers but with a little funk. They have several different days & times to choose from.

10 Ways to Speed Up Your Metabolism WebMD offers 10 tips to increase your metabolism and speed up the rate at which you burn calories and lose weight.

Some exercises for you to do on a cold Fall day!

Dead Butt Syndrome Is a Thing—Here Are All the Signs and How to Prevent It You’ve heard of amnesia of the brain—but your butt? There’s such a thing as gluteal amnesia, also known as dead butt syndrome. Here's how to beat it, even if you sit all day.

Thank you for this reminder!

25 Again? How Exercise May Fight Aging The muscles of those who worked out looked like those of 25-year-olds and showed less of the inflammation that is tied to health problems as we age.

Have you thought about fostering, but not sure what it entails? DRR is seeking fosters for incoming doodles.
🗣Q&A: Post below, and a DRR team member will happily answer your question(s) before applying to foster with DRR!
“Saving one dog will not change the world, but surely for that one dog, the world will change forever.”
➿Karen Davison

I need to remember this, how about you?

Why do we confine ourselves to a small life? Do we not trust ourselves THAT much that we rationalize crappy relationships and crappy jobs and crappy health and say that life is "not that bad"? Because that's what it comes down to- us not trusting ourselves.
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We don't believe we are worthy of a big life, and so when great, magical, earth-shaking opportunities are presented to us, we freak out. We don't trust them. We don't trust ourselves in handling them.
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Even worse, we don't even see them.
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We don't even notice when they're staring us right in the face.
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Because if we don't believe we are worthy of love, we won't know how to recognize it when it shows up. And if we don't believe we are worthy of a job that lights us up, we won't trust the things that come naturally to us because it doesn't feel like a struggle. And if we don't believe that we are valuable enough to live an abundant life, we will let money slip right through our hands, not trusting them to hold it.
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So many areas in our life where we are playing small.
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Enough.
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Found digging through some old things, my first sprint triathlon...hopefully not my last!

It is okay & very normal to be afraid to do something new, go a different direction. You need push yourself to this point of fear now and then, to test your limits, to feel alive. We live with too much safety & predictability even when it comes to the most simple tasks. Step out of you comfort zone & see where it takes you. Bring your light, the world needs it.

Missing you already!

Y’all I meet the cutest couple/family here in Rosemary. They have this new shop they’re launching & I had to share! We were visiting with all of them last night when this was taken. The dress is gorgeous & so soft. This is their youngest son’s “friend” & he’s going to in the fall. We said when they come to we’ll show them a real good time!

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The real estate in your head is way too valuable to be taken up by wondering whether someone likes you or what they meant by that text. People whose communication is vague, slippery, or smacks of any type of strategy are not the kind of tenants you want in there. Evict them! Life is too short for that s**t. They’re not your people. Save your energy for the ones who are.

Only my daughter would find a “Pirate Treasure” in the ocean of a bottle of rum!

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We have been at this for a very long time, and it’s just not working. But it IS benefitting people - just not necessarily those who it’s said to benefit.
Diet companies are benefiting. Diet book authors are benefitting. Drug companies are benefiting. Weight loss surgery practitioners are benefitting.

I’m not saying that there is NO benefit received by those who are pursuing the traditional weight focused method. They may have started exercising when they weren’t before. They may have started cooking for themselves and eating more nutritionally. They may feel better about themselves because they “achieved” something. They may feel better because now people are complimenting them.
But most of this is temporary (because the weight comes back in for 95% of cases) and the cost can be very high, and the world can become very small.
Improved health and quality of life can absolutely be realized without focusing on weight - but too many people are not ready (or willing) to hear that. And the reality is, focusing on weight as the way to improve overall health is simply not working for the whole of the population. We can do better, there is a better way.

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Mothers, be brave. Love your child by choosing to love your body. Loving your body doesn’t mean liking every single thing about it. But it does mean treating it with kindness, gentleness, compassion, and patience.

True Story!