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Be Enough Women: Not Enough for an Italian Vacation
Summer is bathing suit season. It is a time that brings on insecurities in many women. For me, wearing a swimsuit this summer was not just difficult. I was dreading it. My body is not where I wanted it...
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Tossing Out My Training Plan
The slap of my feet against pavement, the strains of my favorite songs in my ear buds, the stress of my day…all those are powerful motivators to keep me running. Yet there’s nothing like an upcoming...
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Inspired by Athletes
In the summer of 1994 my hometown hosted the Commonwealth Games. I really got into it – I went to some of the events and some of the other exhibitions that were part of the games, and a friend and I...
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Be Enough Women: A Different Kind of Fitness Revolution
Recently I read a post from Sandra at Absolutely Narcissism. It’s about starting a new revolution about fitness. It spoke to me deeply and I wanted to share her post (with permission of course!) with...
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Be Enough Me: Hiring a Personal Trainer
I woke up a couple months ago knowing that my exercise routine was not enough. It was time to hire a personal trainer to help find ME again. I never felt I needed a trainer- it was a waste of money,...
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The King and Queen Challenge
I can’t straighten my arms today. And I haven’t been able to for over 24 hours. The pain is excruciating, and I think I may just straighten them really, really fast to just get it over with, but I’m...
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Be Enough Women: The Postpartum Pudge
You know all that empowering stuff about how we should love our postpartum bodies because we grew a person and gave our children life and all that? And how all those marks and things that shifted are...
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Training for a Run, One Step at a Time
It surprises me every morning. My alarm begins ringing, and I fumble for the phone thinking someone is calling before I remember my scheduled workout. I grab the running clothes off my dresser, readied...
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Lessons Learned While Running the Princess Half Marathon
26,000 voices of aspiring princesses (and an occasional prince) sang in unison to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing” prior to the blast of fireworks that lit up the 5:30 am Disney World sky at the start...
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The Graveyard of Fitness Accountability
If you were to visit my house and peek inside my medicine cabinet, you’d see a calendar pasted there. Two printed pages, dated March and April 2013. On the March calendar I’ve scrawled notes about...
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