Summer Camp for Middle School Girls!!!!

It's tough being a girl these days.  One in 3 girls will be in, or know someone in, an abusive relationship; 50% of teen girls are depressed; eating disorders, substance abuse and self-injury are on the rise.

Summer Reset summer camp is a preventive program to show girls that they are amazing!  At camp, they will learn tools that will serve them during these challenging years, and throughout life.

Each day will start with 20 minutes of yoga and meditation.  There will be plenty of time for discussion, creative and written activities, and kinesthetic movement - to appeal to our different learning styles.  Topics covered will include healthy relationships, thinking for yourself, creating a positive outcome, anger management, healthy lifestyle, persistence, responsibility and accountability... and FUN!!

Dates:   Session 1.... July 20-24 

Session 2... July 27-31

(with more dates added as needed)

Sessions run 9:30am-3:00pm

Location:  316 S. Main St., Southbury CT 06488

It's all about being preventative and proactive!

Please contact me with any questions:  snavas@sbcglobal.net/203.217.7745

Life & Career Coach!

I recently completed an intensive course on life and career coaching and I am ready to help everyone become as happy as I know they are capable of being!  Don't know what a life coach is?  In a nutshell, it's the best friend you've always needed but didn't know it!  If you are in a rut with your career, your workout, your relationships, your spirituality, your life... A life coach can help you figure out what is lacking in your life.  Together, you set goals and your coach helps you figure out how to achieve them - and keeps you accountable.  Most people can jumpstart their life with just a few sessions.  Unlike therapy, coaching deals with the present and your desired future, and works with Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic and Time-focused goals!  That's why it's SMART to hire a coach!  So let me know if you need a nudge (or shove) - first session is absolutely free!

Teen Pregnancy - We can (must) all help

The Perfect Gift!

Please check out the smilepacing store for tee shirts, hoodies, tanks, etc for the triathlete, runner, triathlete's BFF or other No. 1 fans!  They will definitely elicit a giggle from the recipient and lots of conversation everywhere s/he wears the item!  Does your wife "run like a mother"?  Does your boyfriend "dig sweaty chicks"?  Is your toddler's mother a "trimama"?  Come check it out!

SHOP

On Facebook!

I have two groups on Facebook, open to anyone.  "Triathletes Who Smilepace" is actually a bit of a misnomer, as its members include triathletes, runners, hikers, yogis, and anyone who wishes to be any of the above.  I send out daily or almost daily messages to inspire members to stay conscious of their attitude in training, racing, working & living.  "No Mommy Pills Here" is a group for inspired moms or those seeking inspiration.  Our society is obsessed with quick fixes and the purpose of this group is to inspire its members to live an inspired life through a positive, compassionate and passionate approach to life.  (If you are on anti-depressants but recognize that medication alone is not the solution, please check us out!)

Are you sufficiently challenged?

Bless those who challenge us to grow, to stretch, to move beyond the knowable, to come back home to our elemental and essential nature.  Bless those who challenge us for they remind us of doors we have closed and doors we have yet to open.  They are Big Medicine Teachers for us. 

- Navajo saying

Women's Triathlon - Farmington, CT - Sept 14 2008

Today was the 2nd Women's Triathlon in Farmington, CT.  It was muggy.  Wet.  Muddy.  A few minutes before the swim start I remembered I had loaned my goggles to my 8 year old niece over the summer and I never readjusted them.  Bill (my husband) helped me out, while joking about Michael Phelps and how he'd had leakage problems in Beijing.  Well it turns out that my swim was just like Phelps' - in terms of leakage.  But I figured it was only .5 miles in the water so it didn't warrant stopping to fix them.  The bike was in pouring rain.  I don't bike in the rain.  In fact I don't bike outside.  My dungeon, a.k.a. my basement, is where I bike.  On my trainer, away from the elements, potholes, distracted drivers and critters, with my mp3 player.  I have never biked in the rain.  But you know what? It wasn't so bad.  I took the turns carefully, I sometimes had to blink in order to see in the driving rain, but it wasn't bad, especially as it was warm out.  The run.  According to the website, it would be a flat run.  Well, when I say I have a flat chest I am not engaging in false advertising.  The race website was.  Not only was it far from an A cup, it was MUDDY.  One downhill in particular was a hairy one, as I slid right down to the bottom - somehow upright the whole way.  A woman in front of me lost her shoe in a bog.  That being said, it was a BLAST.  There is nothing like getting wet and filthy by 9:25am on a Sunday, with a bunch of women of all ages, shapes, walks of life, with the men standing on the sidelines cheering us on.  I know, let the women do the work, what else is new, but the fact is, this was joyful work.  Hell, the men were watching the children right?  There is truly nothing like an all-women's race in my book.  It's not that we are less competitive, it's that we have so much going on that we are simply happy to be out there, celebrating our strength and motivation and freedom to do something just for US.

After the race I dragged Bill and Jacqueline (my 7 year old daughter) into a Halloween store.  I bought myself a Viking costume.  Must be the adrenaline...