This is about to be your year! Have you determined an intention to take action? That is actually what a New Year’s resolution is… A determined intention. How determined are you? So often New Year’s Resolutions are made and kept for only about two weeks at best. This is typically because of an all or nothing mentality AND/OR the fact that there are too many unrealistic “rules” to the goal. Some of you don’t make them at all for fear of failure based on your past behaviors. Her

The truth is, being healthy isn’t so complicated. It boils down to a few simple standards that then other healthy habits begin to flow out of automatically. And I’ll just start by saying that following the same “Diet” that your mom, aunt, best friend or whomever, had “success” with, is NOT a healthy woman habit. In fact, most popular fad diets encourage unhealthy behaviors that will almost ALWAYS backfire in the end. So take to heart these following habits and if you aren’t a

Hey! It’s me, Amber Dabney Smith, your Coach and Hope Dealer. I own this site and write Fitness³, but am being my own Guest Writer for Soul Food for this post. It is definitely cuisine for your heart as I expose my heart in regard to my Protector. And ya know something?? He’s yours too. I am sure you have heard God referred to as Heavenly Father. I think that if everyone had a full understanding of this, so many wouldn’t get so uncomfortable at the thought of entering in to a

Hey! It’s me, Amber Dabney Smith, your Coach and Hope Dealer. I own this site and write Fitness³, but am being my own Guest Writer for Soul Food for this post. It is definitely cuisine for your heart as I expose my heart in regard to my Protector. And ya know something?? He’s yours too. I am sure you have heard God referred to as Heavenly Father. I think that if everyone had a full understanding of this, so many wouldn’t get so uncomfortable at the thought of entering in to a

Bring about an emotionally calm, clear, and stable state with meditation. While some people think it is a part of a religion or spiritual activity (and it can be), meditation is simply a practice of focusing your attention on one thing at a time. You are likely meditating quite often and don’t even realize it. Even worry is a meditation, it is just an extremely unproductive one. It is impossible to worry, fear, or hate when your mind is thinking about something other than the

I am a Hope Dealer. Why do I call myself this? What is Hope? And what does it have to do with Fitness? Do you have to have Hope to be Fit and Well? Let’s delve in to these questions and answer them. The dictionary says that Hope is to look forward to something with desire and ‘reasonable confidence’. To feel that something desired ‘may’ happen. First, allow me to address what this has to do with your “fitness”. You feel a certain way because you think a certain way. If you ar

So why do I call myself your 3 part Wellness Coach? We are triune beings. We are made up of 3 parts. Our Mind, our Body and our Spirit. We aren’t fully well unless all 3 are healthy. You really cannot be your best self without nourishing them all. As a practitioner with all the credentials needed to help you lose weight, get tone, get physically stronger, totally fit, and everything else that goes along with your physical appearance and physical health, I happen to know that