Share If pictures speak 1,000 words, I’ll let the first one in this post express the total calm and beauty I experienced on my river trip last week. I loved every unplugged second of it. Great food & guides (thank you Echo!), great people, great yoga, and endless little moments of laughter, connection and perfect [...]

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Jenny on May 5th, 2010

Share Jenny’s Note: This is a guest post from Matt Gartland, an awesome blogger I met at SXSW. Matt blogs at Healthy Lifestyle Design and Untemplater – and I love what he stands for. Matt’s mission is to “make the world a healthier place by inspiring others to ‘healthify’ their lives….to help others design euphoric, [...]

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Share Well, folks – spring is in the air! It’s about time we ditch winter and leap into days full of sunshine and unicorns. No unicorns? Okay fine, let’s get excited about the good weather anyway. The sun is shining, the days are long, and everyone seems to shed a few layers of clothing (guys [...]

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Jenny on February 27th, 2010

Share “Periods of recovery are likewise intrinsic to creativity and to intimate connection. Sounds become music in the spaces between notes, just as words are created by the spaces between letters. It is in the spaces between that love, friendship, depth and dimension are nurtured.” —Jim Loehr I live a life that I am incredibly [...]

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Share I would be remiss if I didn’t write the obligatory “big personal athletic moment as metaphor for life” blog post after finishing my triathlon. So here I go. Contrary to the story I made up for many years that “I could never do a triathlon because the swimming would kill me,” yesterday I completed [...]

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Jenny on February 26th, 2009

Share With the flu still sweeping through my office like the plague, it got me thinking: even without a physical fever, I’ve been feeling tired and stressed at work lately (as you may have noticed from the topics of recent posts), which has a negative ripple effect on all the other areas of my life. [...]

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