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Be Kind to Yourself
Last Wednesday was one of those days where I could taste the promise of Spring. The soft streaming of snow melting, birds alive and mobile, and sun beaming through the [...]
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The Lucky One
The universe is always there to remind us that we’ve got it pretty darn good. I had about 25 minutes of self-pity when I was not feeling so fabulous early [...]
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Where Does Fear Keep You From Flying?
As part of a Holistic Healing Practitioner program I am participating in now, we are required to read a book written by Dr. Joe Dispenza called Evolve Your Brain: The Science [...]
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Why Not You?
Sure, we all have dreams and desires. And sometimes those dreams are simply to figure out what our dreams are. What is it that separates those who dream from those [...]
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The Left Turn
When Mother–also known as my boss on Monday through Friday–asked me this morning if I wanted to take lunch to go for a walk in the woods, I hesitated at [...]
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The Lengths We Go to Belong
With days getting ever more crowded, I have taken to getting my daily movement in during the early morning hours to free up some time in the afternoons. This is [...]
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Family, By the Heart
On my lacrosse team this year, among messages of ground ball pickups, hustle, and scoring goals, we have an overarching theme of family. For the next two months, and hopefully [...]
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I Am Value
This past weekend I spent some time with one of my favorite teachers learning her masterful ways. We spent some time in a state known as “presence”, or what athletes [...]
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An [im]Promptu Assignment
I spend much of my time around my lacrosse team these days, and they inspired me more than the inspiration I can come up with on my own–I hope they [...]
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Rules to Play By
At a retreat I attended in February, the lovely Jennifer Pastiloff inspired us to write our “Rules to Live By.” This year with Bishop Guertin Lacrosse, we have extended this […]
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Own Your Crazy
So I have this friend. He’s one of those guys that you just want to be around—and I say that apprehensively as his head already competes with an oversize yoga […]
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Imperfect Comedy
They say to follow your bliss; do what makes you truly happy. I think one of the greatest challenges in this here human experience is clearing away all of the […]
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What They Do
“She looks bigger. You think she gained weight?” I have a question repeating to me over and over again that I wish I could answer: why do we care? Why […]
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Remember when you were a kid and you would play around on the swing set or climb a tree or jump on a trampoline with no safety net? How about [...]
View ArticleTo My High School Self
Lately I have been feeling rather scattered. As a deep being, I recognize that the internal can often reflect the external. So when I consciously looked around at my desk [...]
View ArticleDare to Be Enough
Brené Brown rapidly became one of my favorite public figures after I watched a TED talk she gave on vulnerability. She researches vulnerability and shame and how the willingness to [...]
View ArticleA Little Hilarity for Health
My friend and mentor Bill Connolly is in marketing by day and comedy by night. He is pursuing his dream with conviction and without apology. He even wrote a book [...]
View ArticleThe Mean Girl
“Were you a bully in high school?” One of my friends asked me that the other day. And immediately I thought, Oh, you must mean, was I bullied in high school… [...]
View ArticleFrom Mandy: You matter. You are never alone. You are enough.
What is my message? What am I really trying to say here? While considering this question, I spun a number of different ideas around in my head. Presence in sport. [...]
View ArticleThat Mental Stuff and Food
The summer after my freshman year of college was when I really started to take my nutrition seriously. I worked very hard to be physically prepared for lacrosse at BU, [...]
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