Feeding Family

Feeding Family

By Shannon Earl Twenty-three. Twenty-three is how many cookbooks I have on my kitchen bookshelf that are specifically geared towards cooking for food intolerances and special diets. And yet, how many days does it get to be 4:00 in the afternoon and I still have no...
Do You Enjoy Food?

Do You Enjoy Food?

Food is such a tricky subject these days. And enjoying food is even more so. Don’t eat meat, eat only meat, don’t eat dairy, eat lots of dairy, avoid all the glutens and their cousins, you won’t be healthy unless you eat gluten, only eat raw, never eat raw, and on and...
How to Set a Goal

How to Set a Goal

By Jamie Luck, M.Ed., B.B.A., CPT #Goals. Haven’t we all seen this hashtag that is taking over social media captioning?  It’s a word, and now buzzword, that we can all relate to, because all goals stem from our desires.  It conjures up feelings of expectation and...
The Power of Routines

The Power of Routines

By Shannon Earl While preparing for the birth of my first child I remember thinking very hard about what I was going to do to ensure we got good sleep once he was born. Surely, some of you parents can relate. I read all the sleep books, watched the videos, bought the...
How to Choose a Goal

How to Choose a Goal

How do you set a goal? Do you just pick something out of thin air? Maybe you wake up one morning, your joints are too tight to put on your socks and right there and then you decide to become more flexible. Or you see on social media that you should be reading three...
Climbing the Mountain

Climbing the Mountain

Over the years I’ve been asked what led me to becoming a personal trainer. Sometimes I will joke around with my answer with a response like “I like making people sweat” or “I can only count to ten so this seemed to fit.” But it really came from my own experience. I’ve...