Karen Decker Fitness

08/19/2025

Contact highly regarded local healer, Shelli Shanti, massage therapist, and feel the soothing goodness and release of her healing hands.

01/23/2025

Source: Dr. Jordan Peterson

01/23/2025

Benefits of Strength Training:

The benefits of strength training go beyond bigger, stronger muscles. Weight training benefits your heart, bones, mental health, balance, fat loss and more.

01/21/2025

Dr. Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules For Life

01/20/2025

09/14/2024

Farewell Moby Dick's. ❤️ 💙 💜

09/14/2024

Ed Ziegler....Thanks for the memories ❤️ 💙 💜

09/14/2024

Bikinis are half off
at Karen Decker Fitness!
Come take a look.

05/04/2024

Don't do what your mother told you to do at the dinner table...

Eat when your body is hungry. Stop when your body is full. Infants do this naturally when breastfeeding. This skill of responding to natural hunger and normal cues of satiety can be a huge asset for children for their entire lives. New research also finds that using smaller plates can help control portion sizes and ultimately will reduce the number of calories eaten.

04/11/2024

Pilates Mat Class Start date, Tuesday May 16! PIlates Instructor, Deborah Pickett (361-249-4571) will offer at Karen Decker Fitness.
3 Mat Group Classes per week will be held on Tuesdays 11am, Wednesdays, 5:15pm and Thursdays 9am. PREREGISTRATION highly encouraged: 8 spots availble for each class. Price Per CLASS $20 payable directly to the Instructor via cash the day of each class, but multiple classes may be reserved and paid for in advance.
Contact Deborah Pickett directly at 361-249-4571 or text her with your contact information and chosen classes with selected date and time to be added to that days class roster. Walk-ins may be accomodated the day of class if space allows.
Please bring a mat and $20 cash.
Waiver signature required at your first entry and also Pilates class login-in signature at each class.


[NOTE: Pilates classes do not include general gym membership and gym equipment usage; info available at 361-800-1759.]

03/28/2024

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03/12/2024

WAYS WE NUMB OURSELVES - Courtesy of DailyOM Inspiration.
Numbing yourself prevents you from confronting your issues and keeps you from finding resolution or peace.
We are born equipped to experience a complex array of diverse emotions. Many of us, however, are uncomfortable confronting our most powerful emotions. We may shy away from delight and despair, and deny life’s colors by retreating into a world of monotone gray. We may numb ourselves to what we are truly feeling. It’s easier to suppress our emotions than to deal with them, so we may momentarily turn to pleasures such as alcohol, food, sugar, shopping, and too much television. We may even numb our hearts. While it’s normal to temporarily seek distractions as a means of coping with intense emotions, numbing yourself prevents you from confronting your issues and keeps you from ever finding resolution or peace. When you are numb, there might be no pain, but there also can be no joy or healing.

The activities that numb you may seem harmless or pleasurable, but using them diminishes the quality of your life. Numbing yourself so that you don’t have to feel intense emotions can often satisfy a surface need while blocking your awareness of a deeper need. You may find solace in food or shopping when what you really need is spiritual nourishment. The less you feel, the less alive you feel. Your feelings add vividness to your experiences and serve to connect you to the world around you. It is possible to disavow yourself of numbing behaviors a little at a time, and once again, taste life’s rich flavors. When you sense that you are engaging in a particular behavior simply to deaden your emotions, stop and ask yourself why. Examining the feelings that drive you to do this to yourself can help you understand what is triggering your desire to emotionally fade out.

With each numbing activity that you cut out of your life, you’ll find yourself being more aware and experiencing a greater emotional acuity. Senses once shrouded by the fog become sharp and acute. Traumas and pain long hidden will emerge to the forefront of your consciousness and reveal themselves so that you can heal them. You’ll discover a deeper you — a self that is comfortable experiencing and working through intense emotions with courage and grace.