What to give up? What extra thing to do?  What to get rid of? Well, you could do nothing differently for the next 6 weeks and then nothing will change… OR… For those celebrating Easter, the season of Lent is upon us. And for everyone, spring is upon us, ushering in a sea of articles…

Time goes too fast!! Love, Mama I was starting spring cleaning recently and found a journal that I purchased in May, 1995 to write letters to my children.  I have put some excerpts below to illustrate the elusive property of time…that the days may seem long, but the years fly by. The love we pack…

Written in the spring of 2013 as my middle son was making his decision on where to attend college…that son is about to graduate from Boston College. Time does indeed fly by, but the lessons stay. As parents, there is always the line we come to when it is time to let go…or almost time…or…

I love having my clients over to my house to show them what a “Fit Family” kitchen can look like! They are amazed at how clutter free it is…and it doesn’t look like there is a lot of food there, yet I’m able to feed my 3 teen boys every day! As Peter Walsh, of…

I love you forever, no matter what.     When my son Mark was four years old, he was having one of those terrible, horrible, no good, very bad days when nothing seemed to go his way and he couldn’t do anything right (in his mind). I told him, “don’t worry Marky, I love you unconditionally.”…

We have all heard the doctors’ recommendations…8 glasses of water a day, walk 30 minutes a day, get 8 hours of sleep a night…but it seems that the sleep request/command is the one least adhered to and possibly the most important to our health. We all know that we feel better when we are well-rested…your…

Sometimes the best laid plans of mice and men get completely thrown off track! All sorts of things can happen in life to derail us from our stated goals…death of a loved one, job loss, and divorce top the stressers list in nearly all surveys. There are some instances when it is most appropriate to…

In a recent New York Times Health article, it states, “When ticking off the benefits of physical activity, few of us would include intracellular housecleaning. But a new study suggests that the ability of exercise to speed the removal of garbage from inside our body’s cells may be one of its most valuable, if least…