Fear as your best friend.

Fear is a subject that I talk a lot about with my clients. I’ve always considered myself to be someone who walks along the edge of life without breaking much of a sweat. I’ve discovered as I’ve gotten older that I am more aware of the dangers of the...

Dealing with Type 1 Diabetes: Kim’s Fitness Story

What were your goals when you started working with me? To Get healthy, stronger and control my type-1 diabetes.   What was your body weight when we started?  And what is it now? I started at 135 pounds and am now at 127 pounds.  I didn’t decide to start a personal...

Clients and the early years

Back in the day when I started my business, I knew very little about what I was getting myself into. Freshly certified, all I knew is that I loved working out for the obvious mental and physical rewards that exercise brings… but I was in for a rude awakening...

Cancer and Memento Mori: Make it count!

Every day I wake up, I wonder how much longer I have. A month, ten years, fifty years? Where will I be when it happens and who will be at my side? Will I be scared, or will I feel calm? I’ve come to accept this simple fact. I’m dying. We all are and have been since...

Feeling sorry for yourself?

In order to make lasting changes in your life, you have to become a “long-term thinker.” You have to be able to look into the future and know what it is you want to attain and commit to it. Then you have to accept that getting there will take a lot of work...

Making Stuff Happen

Making lists of goals has always been really fun for me. Something about writing an idea or a goal down and then being able to cross it off because it’s accomplished is very rewarding. Not only that, but I love measuring improvements in myself and in others....