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You can legitimately achieve an hour’s worth of workout in 4 minutes.
Wait a second, what did I just write? You can legitimately achieve an hour’s worth of workout in 4 minutes, without any crazy scheme or equipment.
Sounds like a con, right? Wrong. Tabata training gives you the benefits of an hour-long workout in just 4 short minutes. Well, they might feel a lot longer while you’re doing it.… Read the rest
Stay with me on this – it’s a valid question and I want to hear your thoughts!
As I mentioned in last week’s article – “I don’t care if I never have sex again” – women need to feel loved and supported in order to want sex. Men often need sex to feel loved and supported. Lack of help around the house is often cited as a major reason women don’t want sex. They don’t feel supported and sex just feels like one more chore.… Read the rest
Two days later we decided to “do something silly” and agreed we would get married (maybe I will blog that some other time).
His mother reacted with enthusiasm, asking why he had “kept me so quiet”. His father was just quietly there in the background. If he was surprised or concerned he didn’t mention it to me.… Read the rest
I can’t tell you how many times I have heard “I don’t care if I never have sex again” from my female clients.
It’s fair enough. You have so much going on in your life, the last thing you need is one more chore at the end of the day.
Women are generally the ones taking care of everyone else. We’re the ones that have little people touching our bodies all day long. At the end of the day, we’re tired. Mostly, we just want a good night’s rest.… Read the rest
Being a parent usually means very little time for yourself. You don’t get down time, you don’t get time to be still and just breath. The crazy thing is that it is exactly what we all need to have to be able to keep going day after day.
It is essential that we try to have time each day to let our minds stop. We need to let our mind stop thinking, stop processing, stop questioning and just let it be. You will be amazed at the difference in your ability to cope with the world if you can schedule a couple of “quiet time” sessions into your day. I can hear you saying “as if”.… Read the rest
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