Get Lively with Jan

Ever feel like you just need to listen to a good story?   Sometimes I just want to hear joy in someone’s voice and get a jolt of inspiration. Ever have those days? Well, if today is one of them, I’ve got something for you. Now offering LIVESTREAM virtual classes from right inside the Get Lively®: […]

I’ve been talking quite a bit lately about how we need to keep on LIVING even though it may feel l like we’ve hit the PAUSE button on life. Sure, living in the age of the Coronavirus certainly has aspects of our lives at a standstill (no Pearl Jam concerts!!) but life is still happening.  […]

Life feels SO short of stable right now. I keep saying that I feel like I’m playing one of those scam games at a carnival… Just feeling short of stable. Has this ever happened to you? Have you read a passage in a book or heard a song lyric that seemed to explain your whole […]

So the grocery store is now lined with floor to ceiling bags of candy. And this tends to kick off the season of clients coming to me and saying: HOW CAN I AVOID THE HALLOWEEN CANDY?! This statement always gets me thinking about overdoing it, and how that almost NEVER actually feels good. Now offering […]

A few weeks back, I gave a virtual talk at the Council on Aging in Truro.  (My mom was actually my co-host!) I was asked to give this talk to help people find ways to stay positive during this time. So many of us, myself included at times, talk about just getting through this, as […]

“To be near something beautiful or precious but to be unable to experience it is the subtlest possible form of torture.” Robert Johnson Somehow I experienced this with a small bowl in my kitchen cabinet. I know, it sounds insane, but allow me to explain… Now offering LIVESTREAM virtual classes from right inside the Get […]

Find Your Spark The last several weeks have been a bit of a struggle. For many reasons, some very obvious that we are all going through, I was having a hard time regaining my footing, I was struggling to keep my energy going as we all face so much uncertainty.  I even had moments of […]

The last few weeks I’ve been talking quite a bit about sadness, struggle, and trying to strike a balance with it all. This week will be no different – and don’t worry, as I joked in this week’s podcast, this is not going to become the “Get Sad with Jan” show.  ;) Rather, I am […]

“It’s okay, I’m fine.” “Yeah, but it could be so much worse.” “It’s all good.” Raise of hands for whoever else has been saying this lately but actually feels like crap. Anyone out there with me on this one? Now offering LIVESTREAM virtual classes from right inside the Get Lively®: Health & Fitness Studio!  Join […]

The Delicate Balance of Living I had this thought earlier today and put it in my phone as a podcast topic. This delicate balance has been on my mind as we navigate through the storms and the sunrises of our lives. The balancing act that life is right here, right now.  Yours for the taking.  […]

Enjoying a Massive Glass of Lemonade Can you feel the smile coming through?   I’m smiling because, after another week of the highs and lows, I’m having a moment of realizing how sweet the lemonade can taste.   Heck, we keep getting the lemons tossed at us, so we might as well make something fabulous from them! […]

I don’t know about you, but do you feel like life has become one daily experiment after another? Do you find yourself coming up with scenario after scenario of what MIGHT happen if you do: X, Y, or Z? We’ve been at this “new norm” for months now, but for some reason, at least for […]

Who else feels like they are living under a tightly woven web of worry these days? Whether the obvious concerns about living during the age of Corona or perhaps debating whether or not you feel comfortable sending your kids back to school, we all seem to be living under these shrouds of worry. Now offering […]

Change takes so long because we debate it EVERY day.  Dang.  Is that true or WHAT?! How many times have you decided that you want to make a change in your life, just to debate it over and over until you talk yourself out of it before you even try???

In my monthly membership group, Get Lively® OnDemand, we are focusing on being more present this month, because well, that is usually a challenge, but add a PANDEMIC to the equation, and well, rehashing the past and worrying about the future can feel like a full time job. We are practicing being more present to […]

Remember earlier this year when we first received the “stay at home” order for two weeks? And then it got extended, and extended, and extended… I thought that now was the perfect time to think about what has changed over the past four months, how I have changed. I highly recommend you take 15 minutes […]

First of all, hope you are all enjoying this first week of July! Second, if you are like, well, most people, you’ve probably cycled through diet plan after diet plan, gotten on and off track dozens of times, and maybe you’ve even said your fair shares of: Forget this! I’m eating what I want and […]

You know that feeling when an Amazon box arrives and you think to yourself:  Did I order something? Well, this happened to me the other day, and I was right, I hadn’t ordered something, it was, in fact, a gift! Inside I found a book titled: The World Needs More Purple People

Gosh, my weekly messages really seem to be riding the roller coaster as well these days… And, well, now here I am about to write about the ups and downs again. Let’s start with this message I got in my daily reader (Book of Awakening by Mark Nepo). When water is rushing through a river, […]

Oh how I love the month of June… and here we are, mid-way through it. This is my absolute favorite time of year – I love everything about the summer months – time outside and in the sun, casual gatherings with friends, and the beach, the beach, and the beach.   And with that, I wanted […]

I don’t know about you but I am having a tough time getting the wind back in my sails these days…  I’m not used to living with so much uncertainty or lack of routine, so I’m finding that it takes SO MUCH more energy to do anything. So I decided that I need to break […]

Last week I asked if you, like me, felt like you were drowning in “what if” scenarios. I shared my current “what if” list and the cycle it was playing in my brain like when you have a playlist on endless loop. So I posed the question to myself – and to you – how […]

Who else feels like they are DROWNING in “what if-s?” right now? At the time that I’m writing this message, here in Massachusetts, the Governor just laid out the reopening plan for our state… I could continue with the downward spiral of “what if-s?” scenarios and believe me, that is tempting, but I’ve decided to […]

As the debates are raging over: wearing masks in public, when we should reopen, what businesses should open first… I find myself wanting to crawl into the fetal position! But what I need to remember – what we all need to remember – is that we get to choose how we spend our time. Yes, […]

Recently our good friend, known in these parts as GP, posted a video on Facebook. In it there was an aspect of grief over what we are missing out on and at the same time surprise over what many of us are calling the silver lining moments. And so I did some writing, and came […]