Category Archives: Exercise
Give the gift of health: YMCA
For anyone who has been following my blog you already know I am a big supporter of the YMCA and the Stork Family YMCA in Waterloo has been a big supporter of me. I have learned over the past year … Continue reading
Basketball at the Y with my toddler
I took a day off from work yesterday to be on Sahil Dhingra’s show, Reconnectfully Yours. We took a significant step towards building awareness about stigma & suicide through a raw and real dialogue. I thought this was the highlight … Continue reading
What would you do to give your kids 5 more years of life?
“For the first time in history, this generation is expected to die 5 years younger than their parents.” ~ Designed to Move What would you do with 5 more years? What would you give to help your kids live 5 … Continue reading
Happy thought #46: The Y community
It’s no secret that I love the YMCA. Their openness to partner with me through my grief journey, to provide memberships for my daughter and I in exchange for my weekly Y articles, the life-giving staff, and the beneficial programs, … Continue reading
What if the death of my husband was my first loss?
What if the death of my husband was the first loss I had ever experienced? Being only 32 at the time, I knew plenty of people who had not yet lived through the death of anyone close to them. Sometimes, … Continue reading
Get a grip! – Finding the right tools for the long haul
Finding the right pair of shoes is like having the right kind of friends. They’ll either cause me to trip and tattoo my sole with blisters, or they’ll fit just right to get the job done, and after walking many … Continue reading
The tricky business of a WORK/LIFE balance
Two months ago I went back to work after a 4 month leave of absence. While on leave, I could go to the gym with my daughter, and because she had spent most of the day with me, she willingly … Continue reading
HEALTH IS WEALTH SERIES: “Blessed are the flexible, for they will never be bent out of shape.”
My first yoga class at the YMCA was surprising. I don’t know exactly what I was expecting. Perhaps for it to be more like the Wii Fit yoga I had experimented with years ago. But the YMCA‘s yoga had moves … Continue reading
HEALTH IS WEALTH – join the crowd! (just be careful which crowd you pick)
I want to build muscle. That was my top goal for going to the gym. I was tired of telling my toddler I didn’t have the strength to pick her up. As an only parent to a needy three-year-old, she … Continue reading