The Dana Lee Project, 405 MAIN Street, Butler, NJ (2026)

For the first 18 of those years, I suffered from disordered eating and I hated my body no matter how lean I got, but had no one to turn to to understand why I couldn't figure it all out (I mean, people were looking to ME for dieting answers!) It wasn't until I decided to stop dieting once and for all (it was scary, I admit) and focus more on how my mental and emotional health was impacting my physical body, that I finally found relief and an easier way to live. I now coach women just like you through a 12-month process of healing while providing support, a safe space, a step-by-step framework, and a community of women all rallying for the same thing; to feel lighter in body, mind and spirit so they can get onto live the life they've always wanted for themselves.

01/29/2026

It’s been a couple years now that I put down the rush, opted-out of the hustle culture and decided that the slowness of my mornings was something vital to be protected and prioritized.

What I once feared as lazy became the thing that unlocked it all. well, isn't that ironic?

Slowing down is how I effectively healed my nervous system. There was no other way around it.

Speeding up to just “get over” financial trauma, food issues or body image struggles?

That wasn't the way.

Actually, in the seeking to speed up the process took even LONGER.

Rushing only contributed to compounding stress and it caused fractures and put me into spiraling and repeating patterns of the same s**t-different-day predictable outcomes layered with feelings of guilt, shame and more self-loathing... because I thought there was something WRONG with me for not being able to figure it out.

The majority of my success, as I look back and as I am experiencing it NOW (which is the ONLY reason I feel called to write about this from a place of wisdom), is because I decided it wasn’t important for me to be in a hurry anymore.

I am not in a hurry to get clients.
I am not in a hurry to get results from a workout or a way of eating.
I am not in a hurry to see the world.
I am not in a hurry to get all of my perimenopause questions or symptoms answered RIGHT NOW. (I mean, "PAUSE" is found right in the word itself lol)

Here's a good example of what I mean - I wasn’t in a hurry to get my teeth straightened and yet, I ended up getting my Invisalign off 2 months early.

It’s obvious to me that there is a strong correlation with being intentional about slowing the f**k down and things happening and unfolding for me more effortlessly than ever these days. Like a big magnetic force field. It’s incredible. I’m in awe about it on a daily basis. 🙌🏼 This is the stuff I journal about.

Instead of hurry, I care about being in a rhythm.

And, I care about being in a real human rhythm with those around me.

Earlier this week I met with a new client who is joining my mentorship program. And after doing a few workouts with me at my studio she said she can’t quite put her finger on it, but “this place makes me feel really good every time I’m here, since the first day I walked in. And I have felt good every time after I leave.”

ALL of my clients tell me that.

I mean yeah, it’s cute ‘n cozy. Pretty colors. Well designed.

What they can’t quite put their finger on is the lingering essence of my intention for the space and all who enter it. It’s a clean energy feeling of what it’s like to be in a safe home - it’s palpable, it’s undeniable. Just ask the plants! 🪴 (& it smells nice too!)

My energy and rhythm sets the tone for my brand and entire place of business, both online and off. Like a big protective bubble I hold around it. And I believe that it’s also protected from those who do not belong there equally as well. I know I repel people and I am ok with that. It's not intentional, it just happens.

I'm okay with it because I trust the process and pace of my own personal growth and evolution.

It’s funny - I never hear anyone say “I love the speed of this song.” 😂

So why would we want that in life?

I hear people say things like “I love the rhythm… the timing, the beat, the chorus… the guitar, the drums… of this song.”

Perhaps the answer in healing your relationship to food and your body has eluded you for years now.

Perhaps it’s time to stop asking “how do I stop this overeating?” expecting a short answer. A quick solution.

Think of the possibilities if you lean into slowing down enough ask and hear what comes after the question: “why am I doing this thing that I do?” with a genuine curiosity.

A genuine intention of getting the layered, complex, life-pattern answers that unlock the essence of the real YOU.

Where freedom, the space, the pace and rhythm… the quality of a well-lived life reside.

The answers are right there for you, but only when you are truly ready for them and are willing to set the pace for yourself so that you are able to hear and listen, absorb and learn. That is where self-destructive patterns have no oxygen to survive.

No longer on a time restraint, but rather on a “I’m ready for it no matter how long it takes” frequency and vibe.

If you want a fast answer, ask ChatGPT.

If you want deep answers on a cellular-knowing level, I am a place where you will not feel rushed so that wisdom can emerge from within you.

Nature is not in a hurry, yet everything is accomplished under the right conditions and environment over time. Ya know - The whole acorn and oak tree thing.

I don’t rush anymore.

I don’t do fast anymore.

I do however, stand for EFFECTIVENESS and QUALITY.

I stand for getting the LIFE LESSONS.

Imagine shifting from hurrying up to get over and “just heal alreadyyyy” to prioritizing everyday quality of life instead?!

Shifting from the stress of needing to figure it out and solve the thing within some self-imposed deadline, to opening up to allow for however long it takes?

Can you IMAGINE?! 🤯

I can! Because as it turns out, the most important thing isn’t about the time frame at all - IT’S ABOUT ACTUALLY HEALING IT.

Looking back in hindsight IDGAF how long it took. I am deeply, profoundly and in utter gratitude to be living this TODAY.

Could this be the year of YOU? Where you learn how to prioritize yourself without the heaviness of guilt that comes with it?

Where you commit to slowing down and working with a guide, a mentor, someone you trust through the process of your own personal evolution?

Learn about my MindFit Method mentorship program designed for women to break old patterns so you can rebuild and consciously design a healthy life for yourself one piece at a time.

Talk with me about it privately by setting up a call though the form on this page: https://www.realfit.tv/mentorship

01/23/2026

Looking back, my parents raised me and my siblings without any pressure or expectations of being “successful” or having to hit some sort of family or societal standard.

I did not have pressure to perform a sport, a musical instrument, art, or academics in some particular way. No career path defined or laid out for me. No religious rules to adhere to.

Yet, we definitely had an understood moral code and were raised with values and ethics, house rules and responsibilities. My parents had their own way of instilling it in us. And it worked, even if it was quite possible that they had no idea what they were doing at the time, since they started having kids when my mom was 19 years old, Dad 20, already married at that point.

The fact that I went to college and got a degree that resulted in 2 professions was completely on me. The decision. The money to pay for it. The follow through to completion.

They would have loved and accepted me even if I chose to quit school a year or so in and go in a completely different direction. Oh, how I cherish that freedom that was granted to me. To say I am grateful to look back and observe just how much that approach served me personally, does not do it justice.

Us Chapman kids had love, encouragement, support and space to f**k around and find out, skinned knees ‘n all. Proud Gen Xer right here 🤘🏼

We learned consequences from our own actions every step of the way. My mom was also known to step in and advocate for us - but only when it was necessary. I definitely witnessed mama bear come out to protect us and sort out certain debacles in our youth. But I can count them for all 3 of us combined on 1 hand. Maybe she just didn’t have the capacity to fight our battles at such a young age herself, but either way, I’m glad she let us mostly figure things out on our own. Even between siblings.

I think they absolutely nailed it for our blue collar family living in the suburbs during the 80’s & 90’s. Each of us has gone on to live beautiful lives and grow our own families, in our own ways. I’m so fortunate that we all actually get along. No family drama. No addiction. No dysfunction. Mom & Dad- you did good!! Real good.

I’m so grateful for that freedom for me to develop as an individual, I don’t even know how to put it all into words. It’s so cliche to say what I’m about to say, but idgaf. It has made me who I am today and I happen to really love who I am. I honor and respect how I got here.

All that being said, what ended up happening for me as the middle child (although I don’t know how much that actually has to do with it), I created my own pressure and expectations for myself and on myself as I got older.

I didn’t know it then, but I do now - pressure is the holding of something that matters to us.

Which is different from stress. Stress is caused from external forces that can create internal fracturing depending on how the situation or circumstance is handled.

I was a C maybe B student throughout grade school and high school. I didn’t care for school much, but still, never missed class. School was something I just had to suck up and get through. I didn’t really enjoy it or learn to love learning until I was out of high school actually.

After high school and over that following year, I decided to work full time at a local gym, Riverdale Health Club, to fuel my workout obsession and so I could take time to figure out wtf I wanted to do with my life - as all my friends were going off to college already. This is when I began to develop my own internal pressure to do something meaningful with my life. I deeply craved it and remember it feeling like a magnetic pull towards something greater.

I had an insatiable curiosity (a trait I believe was inspired by my mom) to see what the world really had in store for me, especially since things weren’t already planned out. It became like a choose your own adventure.

Taking that year off after high school was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made.

That, coupled with my parent’s belief that whatever path I chose, I was gonna be alright. They didn’t seem worried. If they were, I certainly didn’t pick up on it.

Although they weren’t in the financial place to support, they were definitely in a better emotional place to support at that point and that has proven to be HUGE for me. Especially looking back in hindsight.

That pressure and expectation I created for myself served me quite well… until it turned into stress. And as I shared above, stress is different than pressure.

I began to live in a world of self-imposed deadlines that began to suffocate me as I grew into adulthood and was trying to figure out problem-solving in my life.

I became so rigid with my own rules as an illusion of controlling the outcome that I chose to handle it (read: did not actually handle it) by developing an exercise addiction and a dysfunctional relationship with food.

That wasn’t from pressure. That was from stress. And now I understand the difference. But for years it was a jumbled mess inside me that made me confuse the 2.

I was caught in that pressure-stress feedback loop for 20+ years not understanding the difference until I had some serious system breakdowns internally and externally.

It wasn’t until I was willing to see and acknowledge how many problems I created (and quite literally fed into) unnecessarily for myself. Self-imposed expectations… striving, proving, attaining, reacting, that was all ME.

Reacting to life. Not responding.
Feeling pressure of pursuing my dreams. But not knowing how to hold it all together as it unfolded.

Last year my word was “capacity”

Which was so perfect for me because the key to expansion and growth personally and professionally is being able to hold the pressure of meaningful things. In other words, capacity.

I needed to expand my capacity if I wanted to be able to grow my business or pursue other ventures with Steve. (We have so many ideas and are developing another side business this year)

Pressure is something I want to be able to hold. As an entrepreneur. As a leader. As a woman who believes the best is yet to come. Pressure is required when I have a dream and a vision and I lean into and trust the process of developing it with patience, perseverance and thoughtful ex*****on. I think it is very closely related to my creative urges too. I get bouts of ideas and inspiration and I often need to hold the pressure of wanting to drop everything and create vs respect my schedule and responsibilities that are required of me that day. That’s definitely NOT stressful. It’s pressure, like I’m bursting at the seams. That’s what has happened the last 2 weeks for me. I have been unable to write because of timing and responsibilities in my calendar, even though I’ve had things to say and share. So finally! I can release the pressure valve today.

It’s so important to continue discerning the difference between these 2 for myself as peace, healing, optimal health and becoming my best self is unfolding before my very eyes.

I think “managing stress” is lumping pressure and stress together and is a flawed way to address it in everyday life.

Stress doesn’t do much but try and throw me off my game. Take my eye off the prize. And break s**t along the way. My body and spirit being some of those things.

Pressure is required for growth and progress. Diamonds, mountains, stars, flowers, fruit, muscles... just a few of nature's beautiful things that require pressure as part of the process. Having the ability to hold it as a human - I'm learning - is no different. It’s an essential component of becoming a better person and creating a beautiful life for myself and those around me.

If you are interested in what it’s like to work with me privately, either working out with me (near or far) or are craving a program that allows you to develop the next stage of your life as a woman, message me. I’ve got options and incredible programs! 💕

01/13/2026

When it matters, challenges are part of the growth.

When making a decision to take better care of yourself challenges WILL come up to block you and stop you in your tracks IF you allow it. OR… you can choose differently and pass the test.

Eventually, challenges become very minimal because you have become the person who cannot be derailed. So the derailing loses interest in you 😂

It’s not IF challenges come up to stop you.
It’s WHEN they do.

It’s an inevitable rite of passage if there is a history of on again / off again food and exercise patterns. The pattern is there and it will continue until you choose to see how it’s presenting in your life and what there is to learn from it.

Just because it’s a new year, it does not mean the brain gets new wiring from a turn of a calendar page. Although, indeed it can be inspiring when it feels like the next few months are fairly clear to get an action plan in place.

However here’s how it actually goes down:

Start an exercise program. Get a shoulder injury while f**king sleeping of all things. Workout DERAILED.

Start an exercise program. Someone quits at your job and suddenly you’re taking on extra work and not able to leave on time to get to class.

Start an exercise program. Your kid gets the flu and takes everyone else in the household down one by one…. For weeks.

Except- how do you think I would handle any of those things?��Derailed? Halted? Make it mean that I’m just not meant to take care of myself? I don’t deserve it? That everyone else’s needs are more important than my own?

Nope. I don’t make it mean ANY of those things.

That’s because how I decide to handle unexpected challenges is 100% about being thoughtful in my willingness to work with it, around it and through it. I commit to getting the lesson. Sometimes requiring the help of others. Asking for help, then being willing to receive it.

Stop me? No. Not if it feels like a true path for my own best interest that I know deep down is what I’m meant to be doing.

Shoulder injury? Ok. what CAN I do? Legs, core, other arm stuff. Let’s do it. I have a can-do identity. Not fluff or toxic positivity either. I genuinely focus on the reality of my abilities without the risk of hurting myself further.

Unexpected work load? I know how to set and enforce boundaries to clearly let others know what they can expect from me. My mental health REQUIRES me to lift and it will not be a sacrificial lamb to someone else’s inefficiencies. It is a non-negotiable in my life. Never once did I look back and think, “ohhh I’m so glad I worked late those nights and skipped all those workouts.” F**k NO. That’s because I have a healthy boundary-enforcing identity. I can say no and it’s ok for me to be disliked or p**s someone off.

Sickness? I respect my body. I may feel frustrated about missing my workouts, but actually… not really. Because I am someone who commits to working out for the REST of my life!!! That includes bouts of sickness. That includes weird injuries. That includes times of heavy work loads. I include it ALL. Because that is LIFE. And I always do the next workout as I am able to. Always and forever.

And, THAT is my identity. And because of that, my habits and behaviors align accordingly. It has nothing to do with motivation. It has to do with who I am as a woman. Today, and in the future of who I want to be.

How my clients handle challenges that arise is a vital part of the entire process required to begin breaking up with old, outdated identities like being an emotional or binge eater, or loathing exercise because there was always a stigma associated with it for various reasons, I assist them in handling the break up while new versions have a fighting chance to emerge.

Yesterday I had a client who did 2 sets of push ups on her toes with impeccable form.

I asked her, “6 months ago when you started this workout program did you ever imagine this would be you?”

No. No she did not. Yet that happened! Together, we helped her form a new relationship with exercise that she never experienced before.

In that same workout session, I had another client who recently found out she has stress fractures in her femur. No standing load on her legs. She came to class anyway knowing I am very solution oriented and can easily modify exercises so she is either seated or not putting any extra weight on her leg so it can heal. Even bringing PT exercises into her workout.

She left with sweat on her brow and feeling really good about moving her body and showing up for herself anyway.

Talk about radical mindset shifts in women who haven’t committed to exercise - or to taking care of themselves like this EVER in their lives. It changes the game.

And, lucky for them and ALL my clients, my word of 2026 is co-create. I am here to help create for me, and what THEY want to create for themselves- Who they want to become. And I’ll be right by their side, happily leading, guiding and mentoring the way.

Learn about my MindFit Method designed for women to break old patterns and rebuild a healthy identity for themselves step by step by talking with me privately here: https://www.realfit.tv/mentorship-application

Learn about my in-person group training program for women in Butler, NJ: https://www.realfit.tv/grouptraining

01/08/2026

I can’t remember the last time I labeled a day as overall, just s**tty. 💩

I just don’t see things that way anymore. I no longer sweep my day away with a broad stroke of negativity like that when if I’m being really honest with myself, simply isn’t true.

It is quite possible for me to have something craptastic go down like lock my keys in my jeep while it’s running and needing Steve to do a drive-by-unlock with my spare key in between teaching classes at the fire academy 12 miles away 🤦🏼‍♀️ …while at another point in the very same day have the most incredible, thoughtful and insightful conversation with a client that makes my heart & soul beam and has a major impact on that woman’s life from that conversation forward.

I’m not going to allow the key incident to take away from what I experienced with a mentorship client.

That’s because I have learned to live in duality.

Which means, both can be true and one doesn’t take away from the other.
Not if I don’t allow it, that is.

I had to train my brain and my thinking to become less of the doom & gloom vs rainbow & butterfly extremes.

No, actually that’s a lie. I didn’t have to do jack s**t.
I WANTED to train my brain and my thinking.
Big difference.

Believing life was somehow supposed to void of adversity was a movie-like fantasy I bought into for a long f**king time.

But, once I made the decision that I WANTED to see things differently,
wouldn’t ya know it… S**t hit the fan, as it does. 🤦🏼‍♀️

Several painful events (far more serious than locking my keys in my jeep) unfolded in my life in such a way that gave me the undeniable opportunity I asked for - to see and experience more nuance in my day to day like never before.

Less black/white, on /off, high/low, success/failure extreme view of how I thought the world worked. My body along with diet and exercise addictions 💯 included in that.

The result from this social experiment on myself? I’m calmer and the stress from the outside world doesn’t eat at me like it used to. I’m mostly at peace these days. True f**king story.

And in fact, now take the stance that I don’t ALLOW anyone to steal my peace- I learned that one from a dear friend ☮️ And that’s a massive position of power to hold for oneself.

I know who I am becoming is the woman who can handle challenges big or small, that might last a day… or drag on for months. WHILE celebrating the beauty that is found within pockets of every single day. And with the people I love and care about the most. I’m no longer allowing anything to take away and diminish the happy and beautiful parts.

But, I think what’s even more important is that I don’t FEAR challenges coming up anymore.

It’s not always the s**t itself. It’s the FEAR of the s**t coming my way that would hold me back. I’d live in “brace for impact” mode because of that anticipation.

In other words, “when is the other shoe gonna drop?” Pit-in-my-stomach.

But, if adversity is inevitable, I might as well make every challenge that comes up in my life an opportunity to step back and look at myself. Where’s my part in all this?

To really see what there is to learn about how I want to go about handling it this time. Especially if I want the next year to be different than previous ones. That’s really up to ME. No one else.

This came as a practice over time. Lots of practice. & Lots of time. Sprinkled with a heathy dose of patience and grace for myself while I was f**king things up left & right then proceeding to UNf**k left & right too.

Eventually that lead me down a more steady and even-paced path. Where I could actually stop & smell the flowers and enjoy the breathtaking view a bit more often.

Every Tuesday at noon I have a group call with the women in my mentorship program.

The way I like to lead those calls is by having my ladies point out and actually acknowledge the good s**t happening in their lives. The places, spaces and ways where things are going RIGHT. Where they feel proud. Where they did something brave, like have a tough, but much needed conversation that involved advocating for themselves or getting their needs met.

Which means, we also talk about challenges too. Like that last one ☝️

You can only feel brave if you dealt with a family dynamic differently.

You can only feel proud if you had a conflict come up at work and handled it differently.

All the feelings I wanted to experience- peace, love, confidence, pride, success, satisfaction, self-acceptance… all happen as a result of how I address various otherwise-viewed difficult situations, conflict and blurred boundary setting. (Or enforcing, let’s be honest. That’s the really hard part of boundaries. Setting is one thing. Enforcing? That’s next level.)

Because I help women who are used to eating their feelings, we focus instead on understanding and processing emotions in a different way. That includes being honest about what and how they feel right now. No longer denying themselves the truth of it. Also naming that feeling too, which can be murky and why I have a several modules dedicated to it in my mentorship program.

That’s how we develop the capacity to hold the joy, love and goodness in our lives without the fear of having it ripped out from under us because some unforeseen bulls**t flying in out of nowhere and F-ing it all up.

Something I’ve come to really embrace is that when it matters, challenges are part of the growth. Not separate from it. Not something to avoid, but rather something to include.

And I’m here for it ALL because how I live out my days FU***NG MATTERS.

and it’s no bulls**t-There is beauty in my most profound of life’s challenges and losses. I have far too much evidence in my life to see it any other way through these 49-year old eyes.🩵🩵

01/06/2026

I’m a pen to paper kinda gal.

Every 6 weeks I design new workouts for myself and for my clients.

I have been using 5x7 lined & color coded index cards based on the format for almost as long as I’ve been creating choreography for my fitness classes. Sooo 3 decades now.

I used to think that I had to hold onto all my old note cards because one day I I might wake up and the creative well would have run dry.

Nope. Never happened.

And I can finally trust in that, so I only keep them for maybe a year now then chuck ‘em.

Something I finally came to terms with was that ideas and inspiration flow as long as I respect my creative process.

I used to think there was something wrong with me because I would procrastinate on putting workouts together…. Sometimes literally 29 minutes before I’d teach a step class or kickboxing, I’d be sitting on the floor scribbling notes from mini-movies of sequences I’d visualize in my head.

I finally started observing that THIS is how I produce my best work - the day OF or just before I need to deliver the workout to my clients.

This was how I could get laser focused and produce something really fun and effective. I could tap into the pulse of what inspired me and clicked in my brain in the moment.

Same goes for playlists to accompany said workout. 🎶

Turns out, I wasn’t procrastinating AT ALL because planning ahead was the thing that felt most forced to me, when the whole idea of doing it ahead was so that it WASN’T forced.

When I tried doing this a few days ahead of time to “be better prepared,” it never worked. I would always end up scratching notes out, rearranging moves or exercises and second guessing myself. Which came out in my energy as an instructor or trainer. I don’t know if anyone else felt it, but I certainly did. It felt off. & I didn’t like it one bit.

Trying to be better prepared made me less prepared !!

But the thing is, procrastinating usually has something to do with putting off a task that you don’t really want to do.

I absolutely LOVE creating new workouts so that didn’t match up or make much sense when I really thought about it.

So a good decade or more ago I decided to reframe this little habit ‘o mine.

What if I let myself off the hook for “waiting til the last minute?” and I just focused on the fact that I always got it done when it needed to be done? I let go of thinking HOW I did it was somehow flawed.

Well wouldn’t ya know it- something really cool happened.

I got even BETTER at workout program design.

That extra layer of guilt, shame, doing it “wrong”…. Went away. That wasn’t part of my process anymore.

And without that layer of emotional crap & s**tty thinking, I have so much f**king FUN doing it now. ❤️‍🔥

Procrastination is one thing.
Respecting one’s creative process unlocks a whole ‘nother ripple effect of aliveness and adventure.

It’s exciting to know that when I really listen and honor who I am and how I do things, beautiful things unfold.

After all, these workouts are how the women I train fall in love with lifting and moving their bodies again… or maybe for the first time EVER. It keeps them coming back for more. Committed to themselves for the strength factor, but the fun factor too. And that’s f**king incredible.

Something that proves the more I let myself be me, the more those around me benefit. ❤️‍🔥🤘🏼💪🏼

01/04/2026

A few years ago I adopted a phrase to combat my fear of overwhelm:

Steady as I am ready.

Coming off the trauma of losing a home and a business after the recession set me into freeze mode more times than I can count at the thought of all I needed to do to dig myself out and change my situation. This included rebuilding my business because I knew that was what I was meant to do. (Spoiler alert: I was right.)

Steve landed a good gig as a union pipe fitter for a major utility company exactly 10 years ago today.

That move has had a major impact in healing BOTH our nervous systems.

With it, came stability, decent benefits (after years of little to no health insurance) and a nice combination of building stuff with his hands and talking to customers. He’s so good at both those things. Plus, working with a few really great guys, helps tremendously. Then there’s the amazing work he does as a fire instructor at the academy on nights & weekends - it’s not just for the paycheck. It’s for the joy of teaching firefighters.

And that is a critical piece not to overlook in rebuilding our lives too. Ya gotta find joy in the process of it all.

Yet, for the first decade after all that happened, I felt emotionally paralyzed at even the *hint* of overwhelm.

And that phrase- steady as I am ready- has done wonders for me. 🤯

Just stopping in the moment to say it to myself would remind me that I can handle this next little thing. It helped me pace out and take care of bi’ness without stopping in my tracks at the thought of all the things required to run multiple facets of my business and move on with my life.

Since this most recent Thanksgiving, I started picking up on how frequently I would hear people use the word “busy” and I decided to stop using that word for myself unless it was genuinely warranted.

Busy as in, “I can’t attend because I’m busy at that time.” Ok, that works.

Generalizing “busy” as a way of living?

Nope. That does not work for me personally. It’s not how I want to live.

Busy to me, is associated with frantic energy. Overwhelm. Overworked. Trying to pack 5 pound of s**t in a 1 pound bag. Not enough room or time for it all.

That feels like a neverending list that I will never have time for. A life spent, that’s for sure. On what? I don’t remember.

And something I know for sure- The more I would use the word busy, the more it remains the case.

I didn’t like that. Not one bit.

I don’t want to live busy.

I want my clients and my friends and family to feel my genuine presence and undivided attention when I am with them.

I want to sit down to write or draw or design workouts and get lost in my work.

“Busy” feels like a whirlwind. A blur. An “I don’t even remember what happened exactly.”

So instead, I’ve reclaimed it. I’ve been saying - when busyness comes up in conversation- that me personally, “I’ve been pretty evenly paced.”

Because that’s true.

I take care of what I need to take care of when I need to take care of it. Period.

One thing at a time.

One project at a time.

One person, appointment or event at a time.

The coolest thing has happened through this past holiday season since I began saying that out loud, in conversation…

The anxiety to get it all done melted away. I just didn’t experience it this year. *P**f! Vanished*

I also stopped doing obligatory s**t I didn’t want to do. That was a biggie.

But in all fairness, that’s been progressively getting better every year …& not just through the holiday season which is why it’s worked so well for me at this point in time. That’s a practice that warrants proper time for it to unfold, which is one I help my clients with too.

Instead, I experienced exactly what I intended to- quality time with the people I love, connection with clients whom I adore, lots of creativity through writing and drawing and crafting projects which is super fun and meaningful to me, and I definitely experienced the magic of being able to slow down and take in the quiet mornings of several snowfalls we’ve had so early in the season. Waking up early, it’s still dark. Coffee in hand. Christmas tree lights on. Watching the snowfall 🥰

What a gift.

Steady as I am ready at a pretty even pace. ✌🏼

Yep. That’s my reality now and that makes me pretty f**king excited about being the woman this year who can handle whatever comes her way, the challenges sure, but more importantly, the good s**t too! Because I know I have the capacity for it.

After all, CAPACITY was my word for 2025. 🥳

My word for 2026? More to come on that one…

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