The Gift of Your Pain
November 4th 2013
The Gift of Your Pain
Have you ever tried to numb yourself? Of course you have. We all have. We all numb ourselves in different ways even if we are not trying to numb ourselves. How? TV, food, alcohol, drugs, or mindless games. Why do we numb ourselves? We want to escape something. We want to escape our current reality. Why do we want to escape so much? What is so bad about our current reality? Everyone has a different pain. It could be a loss of a loved one, an illness, a loss of a job, being Continue Reading >
Then vs Now
Most people tend to reflect on the year when a new one is approaching.
I could spend hours talking about how I’ve changed and improved.
Last week I spoke on a call discussing some of the changes that have happened in the last 2 years because I said YES to becoming a Team Beachbody coach.
I went from being the girl crying in the closet at my clothes to never crying in there again.
I went from being the person calling the credit card company for available balance 
Skinny
What would you do to be skinny?
I know what I would do. I did it and guess what? It didn’t work. Sometime around the age of 12 I realized my self-image. I was at a friend’s house and we were trying on jeans. Hers were 2 sizes smaller than mine. I immediately thought that I was not good. I was fat. I was 12! I wasn’t fat. I was just a different shape. I didn’t have a clue about dieting. We ate out of box or can most of the time. I remember the regular meals at my house were fried 
Pain vs Pleasure
Mark and I attended Unleash the Power Within recently. Tony Robbins and Joseph McClendon III were awesome. So many lessons learned that weekend. So many breakthroughs. I’ve been listening to Tony Robbins in the car almost every day. The lesson today was about Pain vs. Pleasure. We do things to either avoid pain or to seek pleasure. It is in our DNA. Many times we do this on an unconscious level. If the pain of doing something seems greater than the pleasure that may be gained