Tag: personal growth
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Claire Bays Reminds Us: You are Capable
I went live on Instagram the other day to interview my dear friend, Claire Bays. You may remember Claire from her guest blog post, “The Most Important Conversation You’ll Ever Have.” Claire and I went live talking about her experience with Crossfit, sobriety, mindfulness and more. YOU ARE CAPABLE I wanted to share here on…
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Talking About the Enneagram at OKC Mom Blog
I have committed to submitting several blog posts over the upcoming months to the web site Oklahoma City Mom. OKC Mom is a blog for moms written by moms in the Oklahoma City Metro. The site is an awesome resource for moms in and around Oklahoma City. I cannot reprint my contributions to that site…
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My Relationship with Food
Part of personal growth for me is learning to overcome unhealthy habits, and for me, that includes my relationship with food. I was sharing in a group recently the fact that I think I have a food addiction, and that I am working to overcome it. A woman and I spoke about it after the…
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Learning I was an Introvert Freed Me
People exhaust me. I mean that in the nicest way possible – I really do. I’m not trying to sound like an asshole, although I come across that way sometimes. It’s just, I’m an introvert. Most people think of introverts as being shy, but I am not a shy introvert. Thanks to a career in…
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THE MOST IMPORTANT CONVERSATION YOU’LL EVER HAVE
Guest blog post by Claire Bays. The most important conversation you’ll have – for the rest of your life – is the one happening between your ears. WHAT IT WAS LIKE I grew up in a relatively small town in Oklahoma. We call it Shawnee, America. I didn’t grow up playing sports, wasn’t involved in constructive…
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Controlled Drinking Helped Me Find My Bottom
I wrote about recovering from alcoholism briefly in my first blog post, explaining how giving up drinking had launched me onto a path of personal development. The decision to quit drinking was an extremely difficult one, because alcohol was so much apart of my identity at twenty-five. But after I experimented with controlled drinking, it…
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Learning How to be Patient is a Process
When I was little, my nickname was Patience. No, I didn’t have any patience. Yes, my dad was being sarcastic. If patience is a virtue, well then, I guess that made me…unvirtuous? Even to this day, having patience is difficult for me sometimes. Like, why can’t everything happen right now when I want it to?…
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What You Say to Yourself Matters
Guest blog post by Samantha Thompson What you say matters, what you say to yourself matters even more. RECOGNIZING HOW I TALK TO MYSELF One of the biggest contributing factors in my growth mindset was changing the words I used. Words that were programmed into me, thoughts and ideas put upon me by the society…
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I Am Worth It, and I’m Not Too Old
Guest blog post by Julie Shropshire CrossFit. IYKYK, am I right? Just kidding. I’m going to tell you a story about a middle-aged broad who resisted change, and resisted CrossFit, because she didn’t have the right mindset. Okay. It’s me. I’m the middle-aged broad. WHAT IT WAS LIKE Back in March of 2016, my husband…
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The Success of Personal Development is in the Journey
When we are on a course of personal development, the real success comes from consistency throughout the journey. SUCCESS IS IN THE PROCESS Recently, I was listening to a podcast where the host was interviewing John Maxwell, pastor, author and personal growth and leadership guru. John talked about how success was not in the final…
A Growth Mindset 