Hack: Your Emotional Triggers are Lurking Here

Recently, I had a lively conversation with a client about emotional triggers. She was referring to the clothes in her closet. We got to talking about the clothes that don’t fit. Consider the small clothes that were impulsively purchased after a restrictive short-term diet.  After that diet ended the clothes were a painful reminder of the failure to maintain that unreasonable … Read More

Hack: Do this to keep Motivated in the Gym and Kitchen

For the last few years, many bloggers have written annual posts about their “word” for the new year. Oh, that’s nice, I thought sarcastically while scrolling past the articles. You might think I am jumping on the bandwagon, and you might be right! Initially, I didn’t see the value in a single word as a year-long theme. But then I … Read More

Are you a Good Witch or a Bad Witch?

Many of my clients talk to me as if I’m a priest in a confessional. “Judy, I am so bad, and I just can’t stop being bad” When this first happened over almost decade ago, I was afraid that my client had committed a crime. She explained that she was terribly bad…because she at a cheeseburger.  There are other confessions … Read More

Drive to Thrive: Master Fitness & Nutrition…for good!

Have you ever noticed how dogs and children, take action when they want something? Treats. Attention. A walk. Caymus, our younger pup, brought me his leash 3 separate times this morning. He obviously wanted to go for a walk, and he was taking action to get what he wanted. And it hit me, he is an expert at taking action … Read More