20 in ’20
20 Goals in 2020. Let’s do this. Drink more water Move daily Live the 80/20 life with everything: Healthy Food, Exercise, Parenting and Life. Try to get it ‘right’ most of the time and allow myself to be human the rest of the time. Sleep 7-9 hours nightly. Meditate daily Write in my gratitude journal […]
Gratitude Attitude
In my basement, there is a box – a box filled with gratitude. There are pink ones and lined ones and ones with sayings from Buddha; there are ones with drawings and ones with hard-to-read handwriting, countless dates and years and moments remembered. I have been keeping a gratitude journal since 2007, not diligently but […]
Tina Bell: Out of Darkness
Tina Bell is tough. The retired Canadian Armed Forces Master Corporal has weathered storms of anxiety, depression, suicidal thoughts, deep grief, and PTSD and come out the other side. She attributes overcoming life’s struggles to exercise. “It is hard to put into words how fitness has changed my life – it has been the single […]
Replacing Bad Habits with Good Ones
Until I quit drinking, you would never really know I had a problem with alcohol. We were the quintessential “high-functioning” family – two young kids, every excuse to have a little bit too much wine from time to time. We both had great careers, a lovely family, and we travelled all around the world and […]
My Story
I found fitness at an early age. After my dad died in 1983 I began running to ease the pain of grief. My mom and I then stumbled into Patty’s Physical Fitness Freaks in our small town of Hudson, PQ. We pumped our heart in Hi/Lo Aerobics in our church basement a few nights a […]
Could Exercise Be The Prescription You Need to Improve Your Mental Health?
Forget the “take two pills and call me in the morning.” Exercise saved my life. If I look back on the connect-the-dot moments of my life, there are direct correlations between the peaks and valleys and the role exercise has played in helping me not just cope but thrive. I was never the athletic kid, […]