As I just wrote a few weeks ago, I love A Christmas Carol. A few years ago, I started the tradition of listening to it every holiday season. This year, I was asked to give some presentations on managing holiday stress. Of course, A Christmas Carol came to mind. Holidays are a time for stories…Read more »
Author: Claire E. Parsons
5 Tips to Get Started if You Got (or Expect) a Peloton as a Holiday Gift
This holiday season you may find that the pandemic has caused you to jump on the bandwagon that is Peloton. Trust me, you aren’t alone. Rather fortuitously, I purchased one in November, 2019 as a Christmas gift for my husband. At the time, I was a loyal and happy Orange Theory patron but my husband…Read more »
Why Ebenezer Scrooge Is a Perfect Illustration of “Not Self” and the Holiday Lesson It Offers Us All
If you are interested in meditation or have studied Buddhism, you may know the concept of “not self”, but I bet you’ve never considered what that has to do with Ebenezer Scrooge. Of course you haven’t, but bear with me because they are connected and there’s a holiday lesson in it for you. “Not self”…Read more »
Before You Start the New Year, Think About Your Origin Story
It’s New Years Eve and I’ve been inundated in the last week with reminders that we are about to start—not just a new year—but a new decade. That realization makes you consider all that you’ve been, seen, and done in the last 10 years. For me, this has been one of the happiest decades of…Read more »
Orange Theory and the Art of Zen?
Last time, I talked about how I used mindfulness to start getting comfortable with running at Orange Theory. Well, in the mysterious way of the universe, I recently had occasion to think about how the interval training used at Orange Theory and other fitness programs like Aaptiv can help with mindfulness. I went to a…Read more »