Word for 2025…

PLAYFUL

The start of 2025 brings a natural moment to reimagine your relationship with fitness. I like to focus on reconnecting with the joy of movement.

Think back to when movement flowed naturally through your day. Dancing in your living room, racing down hills, stretching toward the sun. That free spirit got buried under life’s responsibilities – career demands, family obligations, caregiving. Your body became a vessel for stress rather than expression.

The path back to vibrant health starts with a single word – your intention for 2025. This word will guide how you approach movement, nutrition, and self-care. Will you choose “strong,” “peaceful,” “adventurous,” or something uniquely yours? When you align fitness with your chosen intention, it transforms from obligation to opportunity.

My word for 2025 is PLAYFUL (but it was a toss-up between playful and STRONG!)

Here’s a typical scenario I hear, although we each have our own version….

You get busy with your career, you get married, you focus on buying a house and making it a home. You’re perpetually short on time, drained of energy; as a result you become less active, perhaps putting on a few pounds, then a few more. Meanwhile, you start developing a repertoire of stress-related symptoms such as stomach pain, back pain, or insomnia.

Before you know it, you can’t get out the door to exercise without your coffee, can’t fall asleep without a glass of wine, can’t climb to the top of that little hill to watch the sunset. This is how you start to drift out of playful fitness.

Life marches on.

Eventually, kids arrive, you hit problems in your marriage, you worry about your aging parents. Maybe you find yourself, as I did, dealing with a physically or mentally ill family member. Suddenly, you’re a full-service caretaker.

And what happens?

That free, playful spirit—that creative energy that used to dance and sing through your arms, your legs, your hips, your smile—begins to fade. Instead of finding expression through your body, it’s trapped there and forgotten.

Does any of this sound familiar?

Think about a time when you felt comfortable in your body, and life felt fun and free. It’s almost as though a line is drawn between that free-spirited, movement and enjoyment of the world . . . and becoming a responsible member of society.

Many of us get to an age where it feels like you go to look up a favorite recipe and find the page missing. And you ask yourself… How did I ever create that energy? Would I ever feel that spark, that aliveness, again?

The answer is… yes, you can.

Whatever your intentions are for 2025, I’m dedicated to supporting you in your journey.