Sweet Spot

I have a huge passion for health and fitness. Throughout the years I have spent working out and going to the gym, I have also realized that fitness can be extremely misleading. I'm serious. I used to look at "fit" and shredded people and equate them as the ultimate picture of health. Truth: A girl can have 8 percent body fat and NOT be healthy.  A girl can have a shredded six pack and NOT be healthy. A girl could go to the gym twice a day for hours at a time, 365 days a year and STILL not be healthy.  A lot goes on behind the scenes that we don't know about and sometimes it can be causing more damage than good. So you can see why I say that fitness is completely misleading and overrated. Let's stop striving to look like that Instagram model and instead turn our focus on being HAPPY + HEALTHY.  If you want to truly love the skin that you are in, you CANNOT sacrifice your physical and mental health. Your fitness journey will be SO much easier and eve

In today's blog post I wanted to talk about contentment. I know I have mentioned it in other posts, but it's been something that I've been learning a LOT about recently and I felt obligated to share.   I know a lot of other people in their 20's can struggle with contentment, no matter what stage of life you are in. As a young adult it can be difficult to be content with what we have, what we look like, and where we are in life when social media is such a huge part of our everyday life. If the very first thing you do in the morning is unlock your phone and check Instagram, then the first thing you are allowing in your mind is comparison. Comparison is the ENEMY of contentment.  Let's talk a little bit about what contentment actually means... according to Google the definition of contentment  is " a state of happiness and satisfaction."   Another way of putting it is a content heart doesn't need more and doesn't need less. They are completely