Adventures of Health, Wellness and Balanced Lifestyle

In-Vitro Fertilization is a very strange process.  Sometimes I wonder how we even made past a couple of things or as I call them speed bumps along the way.  At 36 I walked into the fertility clinic full of hope of maybe I really do have to relax and it'll happen. I laugh at that now but hey people always say that or when I say where going through IVF and they say no no just um.... try this ect.  Its ok really Im good with telling you I dont ovulate and its probably been a very long time since I have but mix that with a monthly cycle its like a cruel JOKE. This past year and some change while getting ready for the big frozen embryo transfer has kept me on my toes as well ( however its been close to 5 full years of TRYING THINGS ).  I feel like theres always something lurking and ready to attack at an given time, the wrench in my plans at this point Im so used too.  Shit, somedays going through the process I would just ride the roller coaster and say WEEEE and t...

So it has taken my husband and I 5 years to get to this point in our fertility journey.  During these last 5 years Ive been told that Im Bi Polar ( nah i just have resting bitch face and have no time for bullshit sorry that imnot overly smiley it doesnt mean anything ), Im Depressed ( nope just sarcastic by nature ), Im Anxious ( i really am anxious though ) and multiple other things from Doctors in the area and they even tried to give me all the PILLS in the WORLD.  As we all may or may not know my husband loves to research things!  So the first thing to research was the GOITER in my neck basically my thyroid blew up and the reason it blew up was because to be honest I wasn’t taking care of myself I was at the gym every morning at 5 am I worked out for 2 hours.  Though I know how to eat ( im a nutrionist ) I was told crazy things by PERSONAL TRAINERS  ( they don’t have degrees y’all ) stop eating carbs ect.  However I never stopped eating the things I wan...

I haven't written in a VERY long time, been having way too much fun doing me things.  In the past months Ive really figured out who I am.  Id like to make this post inspiring to all ages of life.   Over the past 4 or 5 years Ive changed drastically as a person.  I had no idea who I really was in 2013, I was going through a divorce, I was forced to stand on my own and I was forced to figure out who I was and what I wanted out of life.  In 2013 I started this journey when I started to date my now husband.  I needed to loose some weight but I also wanted to be confident in myself.  Walking into the gym I always wanted to be with someone leading the way, when my husband wouldn't ever work out with me it instantly became clear this wasn't about him this was about me!  I had a personal trainer for about a year and in that year though I learned how to lift I never saw gains until I worked out FOR MYSELF BY MYSELF. To this day though I like helping peop...

After much debating in my own head space I finally decided that Id write about this topic, not because Im an expert in relationships but because I find it important. Jonathan and I got married October 9th 2015 in Pennsylvania, the weeks before our wedding we had a date night planned once a week which gave me horrible anxiety about what we would be going to do or if he'd like doing it with me and vice versa.  So when I talked to him about this it ended up in an argument, saying things like you don't want to try new things ect ect.  Its not that, Im a rather simple person basically FEED ME and LOVE ME FOR ME. So we scratched date night planning and planning one all together turning it into just spending time together.  We go grab dinner or hang out at home, he helps me around the house when I clean which generally ends up in some silly comments or he'll text me when Im at the farm riding silly stuff or our new thing is texting GIFS.  My point here is no matter what y...

 I haven't written in awhile not because I haven't wanted too or I had no good ideas I just simply haven't allowed myself the time.  It hasn't been a huge priority for me lately. Back in late March we found out that our dog Scooby was suffering from Spinal Ataxia.  Spinal ataxia is when the spinal cord is compressed and the message from the brain cannot get to the hind end of the dog in most cases, so he had the drunk wobbles as I called them.  That day we had done a ton of X-rays and so fourth at the vets office so we decided to give the medications a try.  With out the medications he could barely walk without falling all the time, so we tried the medications.  One med was for the actual compression of the spinal cord a pain blocker and the other was for pain management.  We tried these medications for a month to see how we felt about them, and they didn't help as much as we thought they would and the pain management medication he just threw up ever...

Recently ( like as in today ) I visited the establishment Americas Best.  My Dr closed his private practice and moved there.  So I arrive 20  minutes early to fill out the paperwork, while I was filling out the paperwork the front desk staff seemed to be malfunctioning ( only proper word for it ).  The lady on the phone was rolling her eyes and asking me questions at the same time.  ( um i can't make this up )  Then I get shuttled back for my glaucoma test lovely I hate that test, but to make matters worse the technician was EATING during my exam which is disgusting while trying to administer my test of which you touch my eyes!  GROSS!!!!!   While I waited for an hour an 15 minutes for my exam the rolling eye girl was going on and on and on about some patient, if I can hear you I bet we all can, complaints and all.  I finally get seen tell the DR what all happened he apologized and said he would address it.  Cool no problem.  UNTIL...

I recently watched a video online about relationships and it got me thinking about respect within the relationship.  The number one killer the video stated as an issue within relationships was FACEBOOK and or INSTAGRAM.  The video also stated that it was mainly men who like over sexualized photos of other women than their significant other, but women do it too.  I have a huge crush on Matthew McConaughy like HUGE,  I tell my husband all the time.  But what Im talking about is very different from a crush.   Im talking about liking others photos that are too overly sexual to be on FB or Instagram.  I really start to wonder if anyone cares about their own self respect?  I see more and more women wearing the shortest shorts ever to show off their bum or the tightest shirts to show off their chest.  Men aren't any better theyre willing to almost bear it all for their views, just holding a towel over their privates.  I don't even want to tal...

I haven't written in awhile, not because I haven't wanted too but Ive had so many ideas that I couldn't figure out what I was really trying to say.  Yesterday the entire world celebrated Valentines Day.  I woke up to the most awesome love note (made me cry), then spent the day doing things for myself.   I had a friend ask me the other day what makes a marriage happy or makes it tick, funny I had just read an article that I loved by Tom Hanks about this very topic, my response was "I genuinely like my husband as a person he's my favorite to be around".  Now, now, this doesn't mean we don't bicker out of love or even have arguments.   This means he's my favorite person no matter my mood, no matter whats going on in my life or his I just want to be close to him.   We can be in the same house and not talking but just being in the same house is my comfort.  My husband LOVES to play video games after a day at work and I LOVE to go ride my horse after wo...

Not long ago to be exact about it 4 or 5 years ago, I was told that I had no direction in life because I changed career paths a lot!  Its not that I didn't have direction, but the paths I was taking wasn't giving me fulfillment in life and probably led to a lot of other things that happened too.  I don't blame them though I have rather honestly embraced change on a constant level ( except if I have an extremely set plan ), been faced with people telling me no I can't do that because they didn't agree with it.  Ive opened 3 successful companies one of which Ive coupled with another and the other a small investment company with my father.  So embrace your dreams, embrace your goals, don't let anyone define success for you, thats only for you to decide!  Embrace the criticism, embrace the unknown put yourself in uncomfortable situations because you know it'll scare the shit out of you! Go after the things you want wholeheartedly and don't worry about the n...

Im a firm believer that if we haven't learned a lesson that the universe is trying to teach us, we will repeat the same thing until its learned!  Lately, I feel as if this has happened to me.  I've had somethings happen to me in my personal life that have tested my trust and the words people have used.  Sometimes, I begin to wonder why its always this same thing when I know in my heart its because Im a loving, caring, giving, generous person that people tend to take advantage of.    What is the right answer for people when the trust in a friendship is tested?  Im not sure there is a definitive right answer for people.  Some people choose to talk about it and everything is cool until it happens again, others choose to lead with positives and not negatives.  I personally give a huge amount of time and effort until I realize whats going on and I  give people second chances that I shouldn't.    So heres to the good heart with the goo...

I wonder what this world would look like if all women supported other women instead of bashing them constantly?  Lately this has been on my mind because I see it happen frequently and Im not gonna lie I can act like this and be just at judgmental sometimes myself so theres no sugar coating there.  Women are a very intriguing breed if you will call it that, theres so many different sides to a womans personality. What I want to know is are we programmed to be so vicious all the time?  Am I overly sensitive to the world where I notice this and Im like can we please stop with the constant cut downs ladies.  I can't take it anymore.  The fact is this, be friends with women who you can support because they have the same goals/ values and morals as you, IF they don't then don't support them but also don't be fake about it.  We can all learn to love people from a distant if we truly want the best for them, sometimes as human beings morals goal values ect don't add...

 Recently I had a friend ask me how my business was doing, I said Im thriving, Im not where I want to be yet professionally.  Im definitely happy with how Im running things and how well I have done in 6 months time!  I want to break things down for my viewers and start from my story in 2013 which a majority of you if you know me personally know already.  I wasn't always this happy nor did I understand that happiness was created from within oneself.  I thought happiness was depending on other people to run my life, make all my decisions for me, or buying things I didn't need.  I thought relationships were great if people needed me constantly to help them but I got nothing in return but a huge slap in the face.  I also had this idea about how I should look and I starved myself eating little to no food to loose weight even though I knew better because of my education and background in Food and Nutrition.   I hold a Masters Degree in Food and Nutriti...

 The other day I was browsing Facebook and a family member of mine had posted about this documentary on Netflix called the Minimalist.  So this morning my body isn't getting along well with me and I have a cold and I was up at the insane hour of 4 AM so I figured Id watch this.  So in thought the title gives it away or so you think, and to find out more about the documentary you should watch it but in short here it goes.  In todays society were taught that the more money we make the more successful we are, the more things we buy the happier we will be and the more we look like so damn TV ad or model the more love we will receive.  We can all sit here and say that yeah we all know this isn't the case but then let me ask the question then WHY DO WE GIVE INTO THIS?  Were all guilty of buying crap we don't need to feel better about ourselves because we can shell out X amount of dollars for said item.  Why is keeping up with the JONESES more important to u...

Something has been on my mind for awhile now with the holidays being present SELF REFLECTION!  I have no formal writing skills and I have a ton of grammar issues and I point that out because this isn't really for my viewership to be honest this is more just about me being me and feeling free enough to speak my mind. I would like you all to take an hour out of your day so you can reflect on this past year in a healthy way!  The highest HIGHS and the lowest LOWS and all those in between moments and learn the importance of them being there in your life!  Learn how to move forward into positive light from the lows and negative mindsets, really immerse yourself in YOU for a change!  The highs are always an amazing thing remember to be humbled by them not BOASTFUL, use the highs in a positive manner in helping other people become what they want in life or helping them get there which can be so rewarding and beneficial to most! So heres to an amazing year in 2016 and I h...

With THANKSGIVING coming up which in my family is major family time I get so excited to catch up with them.  I want to remind people of this be THANKFUL for everyone and everything in your life.  I try and always have a realistic approach to life events like well this happened but, this could have be way worse type attitude and too see the silver lining in everything regarding life/life events.  Lately, I feel like I have been tested so frequently Im missing the bigger picture with things I cannot control others and their actions around me, but I can control how I respond to them.  Great lesson to learn this time of year especially with the holidays coming up.  SO take everything you've been dealt and pour a cup of THANKFULNESS, GRATITUDE and GRACE and remember that life is about what you can GIVE others not what they CAN GIVE YOU. Best Coach Felicia Have a Blessed and HAPPY THANKSGIVING.  I will still be responding to emails and clients until next T...

For the most part the people who follow this are already on my work page and know that I post things to social media only if I find them helpful and inspirational in general.  My personal page is much like my work page as it generally shares the same content and photos of my life.  Lately Ive found myself cutting ties with people on social media because of a few reasons I find the content negative or I don't even communicate with these people unless its through social media.  Lately Ive been really ridding myself of social media use and thinking to myself when did it become so important for me to tell the world what Im doing and so fourth.  Not that its important to actually do this but social media as a whole has changed.  Its used to be a place to just chat and catch up on life and now its used for self esteem, stalk or bully someone.  How did it go from something so positive to something so negative and then when we don't have that contact we freak out i...

So over the past few weeks Ive done a ton of self reflection and Ive touched on this subject before but this one is mainly for my lady readers.  The idea that we have to be perfect human beings came from where?  I have no idea but were so fucking hard on ourselves.  Why do we feel the need to be a certain weight or think that we have to look a certain way to make another person happy.  These ideas are total bullshit.   Im a very strong minded woman, overly passionate about life and Im always down for a great heated conversation with others but something I cannot stand is the self fucking shaming people, mostly women like today in the locker room at the gym oh my god Im fat here and here and here, I noticed nothing on this girl so naturally I blurted out well youre not fat.  She had seen me lifting she said your all muscle and I replied with you are as well but your blinded by self shaming to see it.  As soon as I said that the tears were flowing and I...

Last week I had the chance to get to go on travel with my husband to California while he was working.  Its not often our schedules match up or I can even take time with having a very busy schedule here but we made it happen. Ahh California treated me very well and I loved every minute of it minus the city, too me was HUGE and Im more of a country girl.  The one thing I did notice was how everyone was super happy and positive through-out the whole trip every person I came across was always happy and smiling most would attribute that to the weather and loads of vitamin D but I think its something more.  I don't think I heard one person complain about life or their respective jobs once it was pretty incredible.  So whats the west coast got that the east coast doesn't besides pretty great weather?  THEY HAVE TIME, by that I mean no one is in a rush unless youre on the interstate.  Life seems to be moving slower out there than here on the east coast and I LOVED...

The reason I want to talk about this is for the main one that people don't realize how passive aggressive they are.  Over the past year Ive noticed Im even passive aggressive and when its done too me I literally loose my marbles because to be completely honest it fucking sucks!  So lets begin with me since Ive brought this up, Ive noticed that if I'm annoyed with someones questions/questioning I will sometimes answer a question with a question this is a passive aggressive behavior.  Im working very hard to create a positive life and in doing so sometimes we all need to change things.  Another one I can't stand is the questioning on text messages without the whole damn story, don't question someone because your upset with them be an adult and say what you mean.  Tell the whole story and not a half truth too or just the half you want the other person to know because you think they won't find out later, the truth will always come out regardless of if you meant fo...

Hey Folks!   Before I write this Im in now way trying to sway a political response or feedback because though this pertains to the election this isn’t about a political stance. Now thats outta the way I can begin!   I just wanna throw this curve ball out there lets talk about the MR TRUMPS issue with his words.  YES , Its wrong, Yes I agree with a majority of America who say its wrong.  But at one point do we then move on?  Let me re phrase that at what point do WE OWN THAT WE HAVE ALL USED THE SAME WORDS BEFORE.  WE ALL HAVE.  So your friend is acting like a P***Y and you say that outloud oh hey guess what you just did the same thing as MR TRUMP.  Regardless of how you meant it or if it was a male or a female you did it, THINK ABOUT THAT the next time you have something to say.  This man has apologized to the public, stop crucifying him for the same words we all have used and down to the real issues hindering the UNITED STATES whic...