Emotional Eating & Self-Care

Let’s chat about emotional eating and self-care! I think we recognize the link between turning to food for comfort, but may not really fully understand why that is, and how to work through it and overcome it. We may also not understand how self-care practices are a useful tool to combat eating for reasons other…

Five Tips For Managing Holiday Stress {FTT23}

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s are upon us! Is it just me, or does anyone else have a love/hate relationship with this time of year? It seems like we blaze through each event focusing only on the next event to come. We waste Thanksgiving thinking about Black Friday and cyber Monday. Then we get caught…

Kaci’s Friday Find — I Deserve A Donut App by Barb Raveling

  This week I wanted to share a resource that I came across for those who may be struggling with eating behaviors related to either emotional eating triggers or lies from the enemy / world. This is a free app designed to help with understanding and breaking eating for reasons other than to hunger and…

Kaci’s Friday Find — Your Future Self Will Thank You

  If you caught my latest IG TV video, then you heard me list this book as one to know about. If not, head to watch Day 39 of the #75Hard Challenge on how knowledge can fail us if we don’t have 2 key things in place. I shared several of my favorite books surrounding…

#GiveMe30HabitProject 09.01.2019 {Read Labels}

Welcome to the 9th habit in the #GiveMe30HabitProject!! See this post for all the details and backstory! This month’s habit is to read nutrition labels! The purpose of this month’s challenge is just to gain awareness. It is not to cause you to pass judgment on any of the foods that you are eating. You also do…

Five Tips For Boosting Your Mood {FTT12}

We all have those days when we just feel less than our best mentally. It passes with time, but what if you want to do something about it ASAP? Here’s 5 tips! 1️⃣ Do something for others. The quickest way to experience joy is to do something that brings joy to another person. Do a…

Weekly Quotes #11 {8/18/19 – 8/24/19}

A collection of thought-provoking, encouraging, enlightening, and inspiring quotes from various sources that I have come across this past week!       I get asked often for the references to quotes I use. This series is a way for me to keep track of and share the good ideas I come across each week! Where…

Five Tips For A More Relaxed Approach To Tracking {FTT11}

    I love the flexibility of tracking macros. Custom macro programming is one of the ways I work with my clients who are just getting started on their healthy eating journey. We’ve all heard of flexible dieting, but what about using macros for flexible maintenance? There’s nothing wrong with having goals, but when you…

Five Tips For Better Sleep {FTT10}

How is your sleep? Not just the quantity, but also the quality? Sleep impacts everything. Our mood, our health, our ability to gain and lose muscle or fat, our function at our jobs, our ability to live out our calling… The list goes on. It is not a badge of honor to run on as…

Five Tips To Help Determine If The Splurge Is Worth It {FTT9}

Keep in mind that the purpose of this post has nothing to do with guilt or shame, rather the removing of these from your eating choices. Sometimes practicing self-discipline (which also happens to be a fruit of the spirit) in the form of refraining from partaking is the healthiest thing to do. Other times, the…

#GiveMe30HabitProject 08.01.2019 {Morning Routine}

Welcome to the 8th habit in the #GiveMe30HabitProject!! See this post for all the details and backstory! This month’s habit is to implement a morning routine! Do me a favor and watch this video! Seriously. Even if you have to watch it in chunks, because I know it is long. So many nuggets of wisdom in this…

Five Tips For Getting The Most Out Of Reading God’s Word {5TT8}

Scripture is God breathed and useful for edification (2 Timothy 3:16). It is living and active; sharper than any double-edged sword (Hebrews 4:12). It is our daily bread (Matthew 6:11). We are to nourish ourselves on the Word of God daily in order to feed our spirit and to crave it as a newborn would…