Living My Best Life with True Clarity

The past few weeks have been pretty interesting for me.  I have been living every day trying to stay as positive as I can but I need to keep it real.  Since I was hospitalized the last week of June, I have been living with constant headaches and dizziness.  I have had them on and off for the past year but they have intensified.  It isn't always horrible but it is always there and at times can be pretty intense.  It can be a little nerve wracking and it definitely can get in the way of living life to the fullest.  However, I will not let it stop me.  Tomorrow morning I will meet with a Neuro Surgeon to see if I need Chiari Decompression surgery soon.  If I do I really hope to get it over with right away.  Most people do not know what Chiari Malformation is...I didn't.  I talked about it in my prior blog entry.  The surgery takes anywhere between 3 to 6 hours.  The surgeon goes in through the back of the head an...

It sounds so easy when I type it out.  How can you train your mind to stay positive?  When you go through the hardest times in life, how can you soldier through and come out stronger?  I am asking for a friend...just kidding.  Fitness and staying active has always been my outlet.  I am writing a book about it now.  It has saved me through my struggles in my late teens and early 20's with alcoholism. Fitness also saved me through a dark depression with post partum after my second child.  That is when I started training for fitness competitions.  My son was 5 months when I started training for my first one and it helped me crawl out of that black hole.  It really did.  I got stronger both mentally and physically and I have to admit I grew a lot as a Mom.  I saw how strong I am both physically and mentally.  Fast forward a few years and my struggle with Lyme was the first time I couldn't turn to exercise to help m...