With work and school days getting longer, and the everyday pace of society getting faster, stress and anxiety levels are on a rapid incline. This consequently has a dramatic impact on our overall health, mood, energy and happiness.

In recent years the benefits of exercise and nutrition have become common knowledge and are widely accepted as truth. It’s only a matter of time before the positive impacts of meditation sit alongside them as a staple for a balanced lifestyle.

“Aim for 7-8 hours of shuteye each night,” a statement we’ve heard our entire lives. Yet for many of us, actually getting that much sleep is more like a fairytale than reality.

In honor of Team WAG’s February Goal and today being the “day of love,” we decided to dive a little deeper into the meaning of self-love.

Change is hard. Big change, worthy change, change that matters, it’s all HARD. There is absolutely no denying it.

When you’re an incredibly driven person, small mistakes and setbacks can easily be blown way out of proportion in your mind and feel catastrophic.

As part of the Working Against Gravity program, we encourage our clients to complete a weekly mindfulness exercise to ensure we are approaching our fitness and nutrition plans from a place of love.

As children, reading is a core foundation and staple activity in our day. Throughout school we gain extraordinary amounts of information and knowledge through books.

How would we feel if we let love and growth drive change rather than fear and negative self talk?

As CrossFitters, Weightlifters, and fitness enthusiasts -- we love measurable data. It’s harder to grasp measurable results when it comes to your mental game. But it’s not impossible.

Mindfulness - A mental state achieved by focusing one's awareness on the present moment, while calmly acknowledging and accepting one's feelings, thoughts, and bodily sensations, used as a therapeutic technique.