letters encouraging you to release perfectionism, embrace your humanness, and live more intuitively

Struggling with binges? This practice can help.
Struggling with binges? Today, I’d love to share a powerful practice that can help. Binges can make you feel SO isolated. But I want you to know, you’re not alone. I know from personal experience and working with hundreds of other women who have struggled with binge eating that there can be so much shame…
What if you didn’t have to spend all summer hating your body?
With summer just around the corner (although, here in Columbus Ohio, it already feels like it’s arrived), it’s a great time to check in with yourself… How do you want to feel this summer? Don’t rush past this question: take a moment to really feel into it. After a year and a half of a…
The Magic of Mothering Yourself
There is magic in mothering yourself.I know Mother’s Day is often about our relationships with others. And, I know that for each of us, this day may bring up many different emotions, reactions, memories.This month in HELD we’ve been diving into the theme of inner critic. Much of what we’ve talked about so far is how the…
A season of little dreams
Anyone else feel like this past year cracked you open in such big, deep ways? Here you are, looking at all the pieces broken apart… Not entirely clear yet on how you want to put them back together… Very clear that you don’t want to put them back exactly where they were before? If so,…
Moving With + Through Big Feelings
If you’re an empath – which so many of us here in this community are – then I know you’re feeling big feelings right now. With so much pain in the world, I know it’s filling your heart, racing your mind, and keeping you up at night. Yesterday, I chatted with my friend Olga about being an…
personal story about receiving love + an invitation for you to do the same
As the doors to HELD coaching community + membership open today for the next 48 hours, I’d love to share a really personal story about receiving love with you. Yesterday was my birthday and I had a huge personal breakthrough. For most of my adult life, I have told everyone that “I’m just not really a birthday…
“Do I need to rest or is it lack of motivation?”
Last week, one of the members of UNMEASURED [the virtual barre membership that celebrates your body + helps you to cultivate a more joyful, intuitive relationship with movement] asked me… “How do you recognize the need for rest versus lack of motivation when it comes to movement?” Like all things connected to intuitive movement (+ intuitive eating,…
This will happen on your intuitive eating journey [+ a simple question to help you through it]
Many of us have found intuitive eating when we are in a place of restriction, food rules, and / or feeling really chaotic + obsessive in our relationships with food. Whether you are acting out those behaviors or carrying the thoughts, shoulds, rules, and judgments around in your mind, it can be incredibly all consuming….
The time I sobbed to my health coach because my pants didn’t fit…
Earlier this week, over 75% of you on Instagram shared that you experience negative body image and feel it interferes with and / or holds you back in some way in your life. Does that feel true for you? If so, I’m sending you so much love + compassion. And, so much understanding. Because I…
Are those “life hacks” hacking your life away?
Today, I’d love to share a real life story about really living. This month in the HELD coaching community we’ve been diving deep into the theme of rest. While at first it might sound like it’s all about taking days off of exercise (which it can be), that is only the tip of the iceberg. We’ve gone deep into how productivity,…