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Training Body & Soul

Alive: Praise Pumps and Punches (Video)

March 24, 2014

You guys. Something is up because this is 2 videos in 2 weeks!! It’s very hard for me to actually do exercise stuff anymore on the blog (ironic, since I am exercising all the time), but it just takes much more for me to get it done and usually it’s the thing that gets shuffled […]

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Filed Under: Featured, New Move Monday, Train Hard, Videos Tagged With: abs, exercise, lower body, New Move Monday, upper body, video 18 Comments

“Frozen” Flutters Video (Core Focused Pilates Routine) & Bday Giveaway!

March 18, 2014

*** Giveaway Closed!*** Hey all! It’s my birthday today and I’ve made it tradition over the past couple years to gift YOU with a present with either a workout, giveaway, or both! (Here is year 1 birthday post and year 2 birthday post) I had a total other routine in mind, but Friday as I […]

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Filed Under: Abs and Lower Back, Featured, Lower Body, New Move Monday, Printables, Train Hard, Upper Body, Videos Tagged With: abs, lower back, lower body, pilates, video 150 Comments

5 “Full Body Functional” Exercise for the Mom!!

June 17, 2013

I hear from many mom who say that they struggle with getting up and down from the floor, carrying in bags of groceries, and having back pain while sitting or standing. This makes it really hard to do the things moms need to do at a very base level. I’ve created a simple routine to […]

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Filed Under: Featured, Fitness, Printables, Train Hard Tagged With: exercise, lower body, The Better Mom, upper body, weights 1 Comment

30 Minute Total Body Treadmill Workout

March 17, 2013

Hey all! It’s my birthday and I wanted to give YOU a present! What says love better than a kick butt workout, right? šŸ™‚ Many of you have emailed me saying that you have a treadmill, but are tired of just running on it. You want to add some pizazz to your current routine but […]

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Filed Under: Featured, New Move Monday, Printables, Train Hard, Upper Body, Videos, Weights Tagged With: exercise ball, lower body, New Move Monday, upper body, video, weights 14 Comments

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There are things that once served us for a season There are things that once served us for a season that no longer do yet we are holding onto them. There are some things we’ve stopped fighting for that still need our energy because we are tired and have forgotten what’s on the line.

My encouragement to you to tonight is to put to prayer the ā€œthingā€ that came to mind and wrestle down what God is asking of you.  Sure- we CAN keep living like we are, but we want to be WISE women (& men)...ā€pure,  peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.ā€ (James 3:17) Father: give us discernment to know when to hold on and when to let go! šŸ¤
ā€œI don’t knowā€ is the response I get to aski ā€œI don’t knowā€ is the response I get to asking what the next step is when someone comes to me with a relationship, health, faith, career or leadership question. Now to be fair, true...sometimes people are truly asking for help discerning that next right thing but many times I find they are really asking for me for confirmation.

Some of you are sitting stagnant because you keep telling yourself that you don’t know. I think you do know, you are just afraid of the implications and uncertainty of that decision. To be expected. Moving from comfort never comes without risk. 

I’m just here to tell some of you that it’s time. You’ve got enough info and have prayed about it long enough to move forward. When you know, you know. šŸ‘ŠšŸ»
There is great power in letting go and trusting Go There is great power in letting go and trusting God. This doesn’t come easy, so if you can’t say this yet about the situation at hand, keep bringing it to Him in prayer! šŸ¤

ā€œThose who know your name trust in you because you have not abandoned those who seek you, Lord.ā€ Psalms‬ ‭9:10‬
ā€œWhy are you looking for the living among the de ā€œWhy are you looking for the living among the dead?ā€ asked the men. ā€œHe is not here, but he has risen!ā€ Luke‬ ‭24:5-6‬

What a day to rejoice! My Savior and reason for everything is alive! Happy Easter, friends! šŸ¤šŸ¤šŸ¤
Just because you didn’t choose it doesn’t mean Just because you didn’t choose it doesn’t mean that God won’t use it. The imperfect world weaves its way in and out of our stories. Feel the feels, then look it straight in the face and believe for something more. #presson #redemption
ā€œSoft and fiery, beautifully fierce..ā€ I’ve ā€œSoft and fiery, beautifully fierce..ā€

I’ve always had a fire in me. I can’t explain it except that I knew I was always ā€œmoreā€ than the season, place & age I was in. Not in a prideful way, but in a ā€œI want to change the worldā€ sort of way. For most of my life I’ve tried to push that down as strong, ā€œfacts-basedā€, articulate, independent women were not applauded in the faith, cultural and ā€œgeneralā€ worlds I lived. But pulling back and softening my ā€œedgeā€ only lead me to a dull, apathetic, and boring life. 

God, in His grace, has taken me on a journey over the last few years to free me to who He created me to be...which included keeping my edge and fierceness. Along with that this, He’s grown my capacity to carry a soft and tender side deep down just as equally. It’s taken work. Getting gritty. Facing hard things. Grief. Tears. But all that has made me into the woman I know God has been building all these years. 

I never felt like everyone else like but not because I wanted to be like everyone..but just because I never knew anyone like me who modeled what I felt God planted deep in me at an early age. One of my passions now is to be that woman for other young women who feel the same burn as me, and to help them take that fire, balance it with tenderness, truth and love & rock the worlds in which they live.

The photographer of this pic referenced me as a ā€œleader of leadersā€ and while I knew I was born a leader, I never considered that maybe this great intensity and strength inside was meant for something even more. What a gift and I hold that so humbly. Grateful for all of you who have made me into the woman I am today on my 41st birthday. Let’s do this thing. šŸ”„ #firestarter #flamethrower

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I had the privilege of baptizing my sweet friend G I had the privilege of baptizing my sweet friend Gracie Sunday at church. One of my greatest joys is walking with people through their life, teaching, encouraging & loving on them as they learn to make their faith their own. (Aka: discipleship)

There is nothing- and I mean nothing- like someone sitting across from you hungry to eat whatever you dish them. A sponge for truth and a pure heart to just listen... that was Gracie.

Every wed night during the community group hubs and I lead, we would pick a topic, or review the sermon or the group would ask a question, or I would go on one of my ā€œholy spiritual Clare tangentsā€ šŸ˜‚ and right then & there with the teaching & encouragement from other mature believers in our group, is where part of her growth in Christ came. (We often would split up guys/girls during this time)

Wed. Nights were just part of Gracie’s growth. Slide through the pics and you will see the larger perspective of a group of women surrounding Gracie and me. These are her ā€œtribeā€.. women who texted every day about what they were reading in the word. Prayer requests. Life updates. They became Gracie’s daily lifeline while I came in as a weekly jolt. šŸ˜‰

You know who benefited from this? All of us. In different ways, we all grew and were encouraged. You know what else grew? Our church because we were unified from within. 

Not only do we learn from one another in community, but we learn ourselves best too. Scary? Heck yeah! But so vital. We need one another..to cry with. Ask Questions (Run dating app profiles past šŸ˜‚) but.. to celebrate together too!  There is nothing like it. Dive in! Let’s gooo!! #lovegodloveothers
Be it our silence or reading between the lines, we Be it our silence or reading between the lines, we all need someone who is able to see more than what we outwardly portray. I’m thankful for friends who are willing to work with me through what I’m not saying and many times don’t REALIZE I’m not saying.

Tag ya girl who does this for you and hey while you’re at it, check in on that friend that you are sensing needs you to speak some love, truth and encouragement! šŸ¤ Your gut is probably right!
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