Change, adaptation and growth

I believe there are three types of change, and the way we recognize how we respond to them can drastically affect our lives.

Loss, Mental Training, resiliance, Starting FreshMeredith LyonsFebruary 5, 2021Resilience, changeComment

Body Image Issues

No matter who we are, there’s generally something about ourselves that we’d like to change. And I’m all for working to be the best that you can be, but what about when you’re fighting against your basic architecture?

Diet, Fitness, Mental TrainingMeredith LyonsDecember 18, 2020Self Awareness, listening, Weight Comments

Being a Creative in Covid

For all of those out there in the habit of beating themselves up because they just. can’t. create.

Friends and Family, Mental Training, Motivation, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 13, 2020Resilience, Relationships, freelancer, CreativityComment

Hooray, Hooray, I'm your silver lining

This was potentially my most difficult entry to write yet. Everything right now is so fraught with tension and honestly, that’s boring to write about unless you have a new perspective on it or a way to relieve it. So I went a different way.

I like to take my own photos, but the one illustrating this entry of me and Dean was taken by our friend Edith. I have only resized it. No filters, no crops. It’s perfect as is.

Heading into a spiral. Anyone want anything?

This isn’t a cheerful one this week. I always try to interject some cheer or at least an uplift to what I write, but this is for the people who may be feeling like I do and just need to read their feelings in someone else’s words and feel less alone for a few seconds. I will not give up.

Hanging on to pockets of light

It can be very easy to dismiss the tiny things that give us happiness. I think it all too important to recognize them right now.

Friends and Family, Mental Training, Motivation, Pets, resilianceMeredith LyonsSeptember 11, 2020Kittens, Resilience, recovery, RelationshipsComment

Practice makes better practice

One of my friends once said, “When you do something every day for years and years, you get better at it. It’s just the way of the world.” I continue to prove him right.

Fitness, Mental Training, MotivationMeredith LyonsAugust 21, 2020transition, trainingComment

Is there an upside to anger?

Learning to deal with an unfamiliar emotion.

Why are you fine some days (hours) and a basket case the next? Let's break it down.

No matter what your situation is, you’re doing the best with what you have. And everyone’s experience will be different. Give yourself a break.

Quarantine. What's to Like?

I think we’ve all hit a wall this week. Here’s some positive aspects.

Mental Training, RelationshipsMeredith LyonsApril 17, 2020quarantine, friendsComment

The Earth is quieter, are your internal voices louder?

What are we discovering with quarantine? Inside and out?

Mental Training, Friends and Family, resiliance, RelationshipsMeredith LyonsApril 10, 2020COVID-19, Coronavirus, family, mental trainingComment

Staring down a pandemic without much to lean on.

A work from home quarantine sounds doable. Unless you’re a freelance fitness instructor and artist.

Fitness, Mental Training, resilianceMeredith LyonsMarch 13, 2020Coronavirus, freelancer, politics, ResilienceComment

Balancing constant improvement with current contentment

The balance between appreciating where you are and trying improve.

What I've learned after a year of posting a weekly blog.

I believe I’ve become a slightly better writer, and, as with most things, it’s been in ways I haven’t anticipated.

resiliance, Starting Fresh, Mental TrainingMeredith LyonsDecember 27, 2019writing, transition, moving, mental training, ego, New Years Goals, ResilienceComment

Trauma and hindsight. Climbing out of the forest, looking back at the trees.

Lightening doesn’t normally strike twice, but does that mean it can’t? Or are you still just shaken up from the first time.

Mental Training, Motivation, Starting Fresh, resilianceMeredith LyonsNovember 29, 2019Self Awareness, recovery, trauma, mental trainingComment

Fighting 2019 all the way to the end

Getting through rough patches. Trying to give myself breaks. Moving through this year. Ready for the other side. Ready to be better and stronger and done with this lesson.

Friends and Family, Marriage, Mental Training, Relationships, RunningMeredith LyonsNovember 8, 2019Resilience, mental training, growth, healthComment

The impossible task of preparing for the unknown, and why I won't stop trying.

The picture (and embedded video) are all the photographic evidence I have left of a family trip to the Grand Canyon. I had an album of older photos, but I think it must have been a casualty of the fire because I cannot find it. By this time I had written my first novel. Hand written on recycled paper, where it remains. I never made it through putting it into typeface. I like to think this little one would be happy with where she ended up. (Although she would be pissed I hadn’t done something with that historical fiction she wrote at thirteen.)