Happy Friday friends! It’s been a good week and will be an even better one next week because we are spending half of it in LA visiting some family. Since the temperatures decided to drop here in Chicago, I will gladly take 60 degrees. I’ve also been battling a bit of a head cold over

I recently read an article that tied together working out and mental heath, which was an enlightening thing to see. I’ve already written about how exercise won’t make you happy, but I found it encouraging that there was an actual scientific study to support it. Much of the study and the analysis of its findings

There’s been a big movement within the self-care revolution that emphasizes “giving yourself grace” and “taking it easy.” I can entirely get behind that sentiment, I understand it, and I’ve preached it numerous times in blog posts concerning depression and my own tips for self-care. Despite the fact that I think we need to stop

Welcome to 2019! I’ve been working on getting back into the swing of things this week after having time off over the holidays, and it’s resulted in some extra afternoon naps which I’m blaming on the baby (but also readjusting to waking up at 5:30 am for workouts). I didn’t have to search too hard

Well we’ve reached the end of the year and I thought it was fitting to take a look back and put all of the best performing posts in one place. These were all written this year, and every time I do this analysis it’s still this post written in 2015 that takes the top spot