Marissa is a wife, mother, and do-er.   Like many moms (ahem), she found herself having gained more than she would have liked during pregnancy and a year after her daughter’s birth decided she wanted her body back.   Not only did she want her body back she wanted to take her training to a [...]

“Beauty is a radiance that originates from within and comes from inner security and strong character.” – Jane Seymor There are few things quite as lovely as inner beauty and spend some time on Lori’ blog, Finding Radiance, you’ll quickly see she posseses an abundance of it.  Lori has taken quite the journey and her determination [...]

Over the weekend I saw Tron. A few times in the movie Flynn says that he was so busy chasing perfection that he failed to see it in front of him. Or something like that. In fact, Flynn missed 20 years of his son’s life because he was busy chasing perfection. 20 years. Gone. We [...]

It’s an honor to feature Jen from Making Messes as the first Girl Hero of the new year. Jen is a committed wife, mother, friend and, as she puts it, has lost one Backstreet Boy in weight.  More than once I might add.  She has also run races and left her life in the city [...]

Where do you want to be in 10 years?  When 2020 hits what do you want to look back and see? Only one full day left of 2010. It just seems like yesterday it was “Y2K”.   It just seems like yesterday I gave birth to a baby boy who is now 10 years old. 2000 [...]

This morning I did something spectacular. I threw away some unreasonable expectations I had of myself.  Some mental clutter.  Some .0002 oz weights. For years, I have had perfectly straight rows of turquoise post it notes taped to the wall behind my computer monitor.  On them I wrote “steps” that I thought would take me [...]

It’s been a awhile since I’ve posted a Girl Hero interview.  It’s shame because these are favorite posts to put together.  There are so many amazing women out there and Girl Hero Jami is no exception. Jami is a 41 year old “life coach” to her 14 year old quadruplets (3 strong rowdy boys and [...]

I already knew the kettlebell was one of the best fitness tools out there.  I knew it had made working out fun again. I knew it was responsible for making my core the strongest it has ever been. I didn’t know it would become a tool God would use to further shape and challenge me. [...]

This weekend I spent my first weekend alone in my house EVER.  We won’t talk about how old I am and how SCARED I was.  Nor will we talk about how I refused to let anyone on Facebook know I was home alone for fear that I might be friends with a closet creeper.  Ya, [...]

Hope you had a happy 4th of July weekend.  I have some fun news!  Our short film played in a local festival here in town.  Here is the trailer.[hana-flv-player video="http://sunnylifemovie.com/SunnyLifeTrailer.flv" width="450" height="250" description="Sunny Life Trailer" player="4" autoload="true" autoplay="false" loop="false" autorewind="true" clickurl="http://sunnylifemovie.com" clicktarget="_blank" /] We shot this about 3 years ago (before I lost over 20 [...]