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The following post first appeared in the How I’m Doing It blog for Experience Life magazine. Read my original April 2014 magazine article here, in the How I’m Doing It column. My How I’m Doing It article and series of blogs and podcast focus on the trifecta themes of celebrating health as a pregnant and new mom, approaches to raising healthy children, and refocusing … Continue reading
The following post and podcast first appeared in the How I’m Doing It blog for Experience Life magazine. Read my original April 2014 magazine article here, in the How I’m Doing It column. By Courtney Opdahl (@clewisopdahl) After reading Melanie Kadlic Meren’s story on how she’s working to integrate healthy living within her own family, I was curious to learn more about … Continue reading
I’m half way through Brigid Schulte’s excellent new book, Overwhelmed: Love, Work and Play when No One has the Time. She chronicles research that shows how we as a society face insurmountable social, political, and cultural barriers to making time for leisure. This is like the icing on the cake of the “women can’t have it all” … Continue reading
The following post first appeared in the How I’m Doing It blog for Experience Life magazine. Read my original April 2014 magazine article here, in the How I’m Doing It column. “Eat good food. Exercise. Sleep.” This is how my 4-year-old describes the three things she needs to do to be healthy. Hearing her recite what I’ve taught her as … Continue reading
The following post first appeared in the How I’m Doing It blog for Experience Life magazine. Read my original April 2014 magazine article here, in the How I’m Doing It column. It is joyous to celebrate health. When you feel energized and are active and moving, feeling your muscles working to help you live your life, it’s amazing. After … Continue reading
I am thrilled and proud to share here my article for Experience Life magazine, which first ran in the April 2014 issue in hard copy and online. Experience Life is a magazine that helps readers achieve the revolutionary act of healthy living in today’s mixed up world. It has helped me transform my life for the … Continue reading
After we doubled our number of children (read: we had a second child), my husband and I thought we wouldn’t get too much more stuff. We already had the obligatory gear, toys, and feeding paraphernalia. And yet … these baby things tend to multiply. Or, perhaps it’s that this time around, we and our friends … Continue reading
In the search to juggle work and life, fortune smiled upon me when I met Northern Virginia-based Brigid Schulte – a Washington Post journalist writing about work-life issues and poverty. As a fellow mother, worker, and scrambler, Brigid has shared with me over the last four years just a glimpse of what it takes to tell … Continue reading
Could our American culture maxing out us Moms? (And Dads?) Yup. It certainly is. And support for this stance can be found full throttle in the book, Maxed Out: American Moms on the Brink. As a testament to the rising fever pitch of modern day challenges in raising children, Maxed Out joins the good company … Continue reading
Many around here agree that this has been a tough winter. The weather and inevitable family colds make maintaining any kind of schedule impossible. So as I listened on Wednesday to the looming forecast – upwards of a foot of snow on Thursday – I started to mildly panic. I had spent the better part … Continue reading
So Very Vienna: Adventures in Motherhood and Healthy Living 