I have to admit: for a long time I didn’t really see running as my thing. I ran for exactly one reason: shame. I ran […]
Category: Training
What is Courage without Failure?
Failure is defined as the lack of success, or not accomplishing an aim or purpose. When we fear failure, we are tempted to avoid the pain […]
Breaking the Cycle of Doom
Perceptions affect your feelings. In turn, these feelings are associated with your self-worth, guiding behaviors like internal self-talk. Your behaviors then influence your perceptions, and […]
Choose to Love Your Best You
Once, when I was in the throes of my final doctoral clinical before graduating, I found myself neck deep in job searches, financial struggles, final […]
Resolve to Grow: 4 Super Powers of High Performers
In the tradition of celebrating the new year and reflecting on the last, it is time to recognize not only what we resolve to change […]
Running Through Fire
We started at a jog, chatting a bit more uneasily than during our usual coffee shop talk. A bit more forced. A bit more hurried. […]
Six Ways to Salvage a Bad Race
Bad races happen. But you don’t have to let it get the best of you! First of all, there is no such thing as a […]
On Going All-in
This year with trail running and racing, I decided to go “all-in”. It is time for me, not because I have the ability or the […]