Mariet

"Regular exercise can lift your mood, boost your mental health, help you sleep better, helps you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight, and reduce your risk of chronic disease." Hmmm.  Sounds good - let's go! Wait, doesn't it take effort? I don't like effort. It makes me tired. And that sums up my inner dialogue about exercise. I've been trying to take better care of my physical health lately... one of the main reasons being for my mental health. For a whole year after having my second daughter (who is now 1.5 years old) I consistently exercised. I ran 5km 3 or 4 times a week most weeks. I'd do my run, then straight away do 200 bicycle crunches, followed by a 3kg (6kg total) weight exercise. I think I missed one or 2 weeks due to sickness, but I got on with it the rest of the time. Even got up to 9.5km at one point! Then this last winter hit. It hit me like a brick. The bugs went round and round. I generally got lazier and lazier for what...

Hello again! My posts seem to be getting further and further apart. I haven’t made the time to ponder and stew over things. Not in a useful way at least. I do plenty of stewing – believe me! Life just gets insane sometimes. I know you know what I mean. My husband and I have been trying and trying to find a free weekend on our calendar to get away to the family beach house (owned by my parents) and it’s just not happening! Things just keep popping up and they seem sort of impossible to side-step or even delay. Not all bad things. Mostly good things, actually! But, I’m finding myself getting tired. It’s not that the WHOLE weekend is getting filled up, just a thing or two – but a thing or two too many for getting outta here! Speaking of craziness - I’m still on my anxiety adventure, as I like to call it.   What a thrill!  And while things have improved bucket-loads, I still have my moments……or days…... And always, in hindsight, I realize why those times I let ...