How to Train According to Your Menstrual Cycle
What understanding your period, being female and acknowledging your unique differences does mean is that you are entirely more capable of understanding how to be the strongest that you can be - in more ways than one.
How Ice Baths Might Help You Stop Peeing Yourself
If you’re of the rare category of people who has neither given childbirth nor had to endure sexual abuse and yet you still wrestle with incontinence, you may be frustrated by the lack of answers. So here’s a theory that is seemingly far less explored, but just might make a big difference.
EQ, Mirror Neurons & Paul’s Letter to Corinthia: How to Lead with Empathy
Defined by “the effective regulation of emotion in self and others, and the use of feelings to motivate, plan, and achieve in one's life,” emotional intelligence is about the discernment between varying emotions and how to use this information to guide interaction and behaviors. Our emotional intelligence is important to operate in relationships.
Two Exercises to Wipe Out Shoulder Pain
I’ve seen these exercises be highly effective in eliminating shoulder pain within weeks where months or years of physical therapy failed. These exercises alone aren’t the solution to all of the root issues behind your shoulder pain, but I am confident that they will begin to shift your state and your structure to living with less pain, less frustration and more joy in life. For all the ways you’ve learned to live with your pain, there is freedom available.
A Year in Review
The body is a whole of many parts and I continue to seek out everything hidden in that truth - thank you for being the hands, the feet, the eyes, ears and breath. Here is what we exercised with that shared body in 2021…
A Giving Challenge
Giving Tuesday usually sits at the tail end of the post-thanksgiving campaign craze as a philanthropic effort to inspire "global generosity...unleashing the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world," as Wikipedia puts it. Unfortunately by the time we get there, most of us are spent in more ways than one and I think that this is a relevant analogy to many of our lives.
Waiting for Endurance
On August 28, Sarah Loogman will be circumnavigating the island of Oahu by swim, run, paddle, ruck and bike as an awareness-driver and fundraiser for this organization. This effort of approximately 150 miles will take roughly 20-24 hours and complete as a single stretch. As the founder of Point One Vision, Sarah is intentional about depicting the message of this organization and to fully embody all that it aims to represent.
Breakfast with Cannibals
“My first clue that something was wrong was with my back against a mud wall between two huts in a cannibalistic island village of Lake Victoria with children clawing at me for candy and toys that we had brought as donations.”
It's Not About Me
My feet are firmly set upon the foundations of this ministry to see a kingdom-vision through. Sometimes it means fixing the leaking pipes, painting the walls or washing the windows. Other times it means bringing in new furniture or adding a mural at the end of the hall. Once in a while it means adding another room or building a mantel.
Ruach
It is not many steps beyond breath awareness that comes a conversation around the spirituality of the human being. Though many people may draw the line here, there will be much missed by stopping short of this recognition. It is difficult to put to words the complexity of the multi-dimensional soul of man and terminology such as self-awareness, awakening and self-care are quickly followed by ideas of divinity, sovereignty and globally unified human consciousness.
When (Not) Helping Hurts
I’d recently come back from my first trip to Uganda, Africa and was desperately seeking ways to reconcile the shock I experienced in the contrast of cultures upon my return home. Africa wasn’t the first place I had ever experienced third-world poverty, but it would become my last.
What is Strength?
We all need something. The human cannot function in its intended capacity alone. For this reason, self-love and self-service are nothing more than a trap to captivate ourselves in a lie of self-centeredness that is isolating and defeating, though it may elicit great sensation of pleasure in the seeking. The essential perspective in finding strength is first, to know where one is weak. Our fundamental weakness is that we cannot self sustain and this means that neither can anyone else.
Love is Alive.
Our experiences - the traumatic, dramatic, surreal and sensual - are often the defining points of our lives and have the power to alter the course of our chosen reality. Yet when we consider the summation of our life and reflect on the quality and reason for what we’ve learned, it’s relationship that matters most - whether we went with or without.
Mirrors and Magnets: Breaking the Self-Love Culture
Self-love is the culture of self-centeredness, or selfishness, masked in wispy fonts, floral journal covers and rousing conversation about the “true self.” Of course, this doesn’t feel as fuzzy and warm, but Truth is not measured by the subjective ways we feel about a thing.
The only way to discover your True identity will come through awareness of your intended creation, not self-created love. There is no balance of Ego and self-love; they side the same.
Friends of Bethany
The Friends of Bethany annual retreat is about a union and reunion of young women with amputations or limb differences who are made whole in their identity, bonded by faith and made strong in community, fitness and surf.
2020 Vision
If we choose to see the accomplishment of goals as a byproduct in the pursuit of becoming the person we believe our imagine ourselves to be, our task inevitably becomes to live in harmony with the value, rather than the practice, of the goal. In doing so, we diminish the risk of blinding ourselves by the meaningless measure of the task alone.
GIVE Aloha: The Keala Foundation
The Keala Foundation in Kauai, Hawaii are doing something. And they’re doing something... big.
The locals may not be especially keen to tourists, but that's because they're used to having more taken from them than given. And yet even as a guest, the positive vibes of the community are hard to miss. Life is a little slower, interaction and connection are respected and the honor of aloha is more a sensation of the waves than a postcard greeting. You learn that if you give aloha, you'll get aloha.
And yet...
Kauai has a major drug problem.
You are enough.
We find pride and confidence in our ability to carry more and we admire those who juggle the world like a circus clown. We fervently seek after something we don’t fully comprehend, we drive hard and fast to no visible end, yet we find our identity in work ethic or maybe passion of the moment. This badge of honor has become the mask of our culture but what we fail to recognize is that we need no credit, we need no mask.
What is a Coach? - Part II
This isn’t a step-by-step program on “How to be a Coach" - if you want a logistical approach to your duty, this is not it. The summary is that being a teacher is about being genuine in building relationships with others.