by Janet Huehls | Jan 18, 2021 | Exercise, Motivation
You know that nagging feeling you should be doing more: more exercise, eat healthier, meditate more often, lose more weight…. The list goes on and on and on. It’s an exhausting place to live, because that thought is always in the background of your attention,...
by Janet Huehls | Jan 10, 2021 | Exercise, Motivation
The reason you stop exercising has to do with the way you start If you’ve ever played Jenga, you know things can fall apart with just one small move. It’s like that with exercise too. One unexpected stressor, problem, or project, and your best intentions...
by Janet Huehls | Jan 2, 2021 | Motivation
Happy New Year! Even when so much ‘paused’ in 2020, you did not. Every day, every cell in your body changes just a little bit. It does not matter if you are in a pandemic, the holidays, the middle of winter, the pandemonium of parenting, or a busy work season, your...
by Janet Huehls | Oct 18, 2020 | Exercise, Mindset, Stress, Well-being
Why cant I lose weight with diet and exercise? Shedding the stress of the scale If weight loss is about calories in and calories out, why doesn’t diet and exercise always work? At the beginning of the pandemic, there were jokes about gaining the Quarantine...
by Janet Huehls | Sep 16, 2020 | Exercise, Mindset, Motivation, Stress, Well-being
In Sunday’s paper there was a full color comic strip—a dad all fired up to start exercising only to find himself doing the exact opposite, sitting in his easy chair watching T.V with a bag of chips. It baffles the mind! How can we have so many great reasons to...
by Janet Huehls | Aug 14, 2020 | Exercise, Mindset, Stress, Well-being
The five steps to using exercise for a complete solution to chronic stress In part one, I talked about five ways to rethink stress so you can recognize the sensations of stress and distinguish between acute, short-term stress and chronic, long-term stress. I also...
by Janet Huehls | Aug 6, 2020 | Exercise, Mindset, Stress, Well-being
A whole new way to think about stress Like the rising waters during a flood, the baseline level of stress has gone up a few notches around the world this year. The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced stressors into our lives that we could not have imagined. This extended...
by Janet Huehls | Jun 13, 2020 | Special Considerations for Exercising WELL
When I was in labor with my first child, I had a visitor: Anxiety. It was a very inconvenient time for her to make an appearance. But there she was, saying things like “how do you know you are ready to be a mom? What if you mess up? This child’s life is in your...
by Janet Huehls | May 31, 2020 | Exercise Right, Mindfulness, Motivation
In my last blog, I talked about how presence transforms struggles into joy. In applying this to exercise, I highlighted that struggles with exercise happen when the way you are approaching exercise leaves you feeling like you don’t have enough of what you need...
by Janet Huehls | May 25, 2020 | Exercise Right, Mindfulness, Motivation, Movement
Consider all that is happening in your body as you read this sentence. Your brain is focused on each letter, using memory to associate them with words and their meanings. At the same time, your nervous system is keeping you breathing, turning the air, supplied with...
