Attention to Intention

You ever have those feelings bubble up & you think 'oh hell no, I don't have time to deal with this' so you run for the email, the social feed, the cocktail, the muffin. You find yourself ending your day feeling exhausted, like you went through war & your family gets the left over pieces of you.  Sunday scaries get the best of you? You starting thinking about Monday & wi...

Another month, another feature of our #shareyourstory monthly episodes. On this feature of #shareyourstory, I am pleased to share with you a conversation with a badass, authentic human being that is living her truth and kicking peoples asses on and off the treadmill.  A dear friend, someone who pushed me on my fitness journey and just an amazing human, Katie Costalas. Katie is owner of a local bou...

The elusive unicorn called happiness - is it real? What does it mean? How can we get some?  Spoiler alert, it's not from getting the inbox to zero,  getting the nicer car or kitchen renovation, or getting into those pants that you haven't been able to fit into for years.  We chase our whole life down this path of 'happiness' to this present we've promised on the other side...

You wake up and the first thing you tell yourself is how much you suck because you forgot to send that email, do that thing for your kids, text that person back & this is all before you leave the bathroom? You fill your calendar with 85,000 things to do in an 8 hour day & when you don't complete the impossible, you tell yourself you failed?  Do you feel like you're failing at lif...

You Beautiful Humans - We are going a little rogue  and including two #shareyourstories in the month of February (throwing all sorts of caution to the wind) My dear friend & amazing human being, Scarlett Lewis, shares a beautiful message of forgiveness and choosing love and what a better time to share this message then right now, today.  I love to hear Scarlett's passion for this movement...

We can all look back at moments in our life and think THANK GOD, X went the way it did as it lead me to X (infuse any life moment here).  As serendipitous as it is, those times of light always come after the darkest times. In this episode of Attention to Intention, we talk about the power that comes as we age through life & the wisdom, self-reflection, & courage it gives us to begin to lea...

My Beautiful Friends - I am so excited to share this soulful conversation with you as we launch our February feature of #shareyourstory with my dear friend, entrepreneur, and amazing soulful human being, Tarin Calmeyer. The foundation of these monthly features is to feature women that have had the courage to follow and lean into their truth, to share what that journey looked like for them and how...

We all have a story and we either run from it or embrace it. We can allow those battle wounds of childhood trauma, rejection and lack of security to be a ground for strength or hold us back in life. Are you letting your story weaken you or give you strength? In this episode of Putting Attention to Intention, we talk about the power of story-telling, the stories told us to by our family and our chi...

We all wear labels in life. When was the last time you thought of the label placed on you? Is it serving you or holding you back? Are you the go to person in your family - the one that holds it all together? Are you the planner in your relationship? Are you the one that all your colleagues call for answers? As human beings we will fight and claw to act in line with the labels and lanes the world t...

Do you cram your calendar full of things to avoid silence? As soon as those whispers from your emerge, do you bolt like Forest Gump and run right into the arms of your addiction (work, food, booze)? You know those real scary whispers: The one that tells you that you're addicted to the drug of achievement & there's more to your life besides being the A employee  The one that tells you...

What to join the likes of Oprah Winfrey, Sara Blakely, Arianna  Huffington when setting the dreams for your life? The power of what we look for we find and one of the ways to accomplish your dreams is through a vision board.  This is the 3rd part of our three part series on creating the dreams for this season in your life.  Now that you've been able to pause and reflect on where you are in yo...

As a society we put so much noise around resolutions for the New Year which seem so far off and so unachievable and when we have one little bump we think 'screw this...I knew this wouldn't work' and we revert right back to the extra weight, the unfulfilling job, the partner that is a roommate because it's comfortable  It's not about the resolution, it's about creating...

As we write the ending to this year and begin to turn the chapter into the year ahead, do you allow yourself time to reflect on the past year? What did you learn? What do you want to shed? Or are you like so many of us and come barreling through life like a tornado. Before we can begin to think about our dreams and goals for the next year - we need to know where we are today and what lessons we&ap...

My Friends & Fellow Truth Seekers, I'm happy to bring to you our December feature of our monthly feature #shareyourstory i n which we feature a woman that had enough courage to live her own truth & is sharing her story on how she found that courage and what she learned along the way, in hopes that it gives you permission to unlock and share your own truth.  JJ Stenhouse is a soulful a...

Envision this....it's a Sunday afternoon & you get this tidal wave of anxiety that just starts to wash over you as you think about the week ahead and it consumes you. You start going down this slippery slope thinking of what's instore for you this week, what you didn't get to from last week, how you're going to juggle it all. That, my friend, is called the Sunday Scaries an...

Does this sound familiar? You stay steady on the course of working, begin all the things to all the people in your life and one day you find yourself physically sick or curled up in the corner in fetal position crying (no judgement here, I've been there).  It's at these moments that you realize you need a break.  Why does it take us to the point of sheer mental exhaustion or physical ill...

How many times in a day do you buckle yourself into the comparison rollercoaster? You see your friend get the promotion, the bigger house, the marriage, the kids and think you're a loser and you suck because you haven't hit that achievement? If you have an all season pass to the rollercoaster of comparison - you, my friends, are not alone - hell our society has made a lot of money on sel...

My Friends & Fellow Truth Seekers: Welcome to another installment of #ShareYourStory. Every month we're featuring a woman that had enough courage to live her own truth  who is now sharing how she found the courage & what she learned along the way - in hopes that it gives you permission to unlock and share your own truth. This months feature is someone who I immediately felt a connecti...

Does your life remind you of that Bill Murry movie Groundhog Day? Do your mornings feel like a tornado went through your house? Does your day make you feel like a rag doll being pulled by the needs of your family and work? In this episode of Putting Attention to Intention, we talk about the one microstep that will change your morning and how you show up in your day. We want to hear from you: How a...

The life you're living today at this very moment: is it what YOU want or is that YOU allowed the world to tell you that you want it? Are you giving yourself permission to let that quiet whisper in your gut speak? The one that says that you deserve more for your life. Are you listening to your own voice or allowing it to be suffocated by the noise of the world On this episode of Putting Attent...

How many times through a week have you said: 'I can't wait until Friday'  'Two more days to Friday'  'Is it Friday yet' Surviving through the weekday to come alive only on the weekend. Are you truly enjoying your life at this moment in time? Are you celebrating milestones or Are you just going through the motions & living in these ‘as soon as…’  statements ? ...

How many times in a day do you do 'the thing' that you don't want to do but you do it anyway because you feel guilty? How many things do you do in a day that brings you further away from what you want so you can make someone else not be 'disappointed' in you? Do the conversations in your head sound like this? When I said that to my boss, I hope they understood what I meant...

My Friends, I am so excited to announce the launch of our new monthly series,  #shareyourstory .  Every month we'll feature a woman that had enough courage to live her own truth & is sharing her story on how she found the courage and what she learned along the way - in hopes that it gives you permission to unlock and share your own truth. This months feature is someone who is not only a d...

What do you see when you look in the mirror? Is it someone that you've ignored, ridiculed, abandoned On this episode of Putting Attention to Intention, we talk about the most important relationship you'll ever have in life - the one with yourself - the one that we're not ever taught how to love, nurture, and show up for. When we don't value ourselves, we're constantly look...

In our society we view jealousy as something negative: we should be happy and grateful with what have (etc, etc, etc). We've been looking at this all wrong - the act of jealousy is actually giving us clues about waht we want in our lives. In this episode of Putting Attention to Intention, we discuss how to lean into these feelings of jealousy: what are they teaching us and how can we use them...