One of the most consistent frustrations I see people have is not their ability to lose weight but the ability to keep it off. Most people can, for short periods of time, […]
As the new school year starts, many parents are bracing themselves for the uncharted territory of long-term remote learning while working from home. Spring shutdown was a whirlwind of chaos as we […]
The psychological impact of radical shift in environment and circumstance of any sort entails a process. When we lose a loved one, we go through stages of grief — that is, denial, […]
I was watching a stand-up comedian one day doing a bit about people at the gym. He was not a particularly in-shape guy, and he was talking about how he can’t stand […]
A while back, I was talking to a client who had just lost 100 pounds. As we were chatting about his own fitness journey, he kept saying, “If you saw me at […]
In our culture of immediate gratification and constant stimulation, our attention spans – even in the face of a global pandemic – have a shelf life of two months. After being bombarded […]
One evening, my phone buzzed. It was a text from a friend and longtime client, and she was ecstatic. “Been taking pics of myself every Friday from the front and back. OMG, […]
In the midst of these uncharted waters where we are trying to work from home, keep our jobs/businesses intact, homeschool our children, and keep some sense of sanity in place, it is […]
Imagine if you will, where one day you wake up and gas is cheap, traffic has evaporated, and you have been given six weeks off from work. Sounds like a dream come […]
In the face of this unprecedented global crisis that brings into focus all things we take for granted, and all ways in which we have lost touch with ourselves and each other, […]
You would think that by the time a star basketball player arrived at UCLA to play for one of the most legendary teams in NCAA history, they’d already know how to put […]