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FRW Five for Life Principle #3: Sleep & Stress – The Dynamic Duo or the Terrible Twosome?
I am awful at sleeping. Truly, horribly, health-deterioratingly awful. Though I haven’t always been this way, sleep issues have plagued...
katemarden
Oct 21, 20225 min read


Mind Matters: Prioritizing Brain Health
Every month is awareness month for one or more diseases and/or afflictions, and most of us have seen pink this month – pink socks, pink...
katemarden
Oct 12, 20224 min read


Balancing Act for the Ages
Exercise as a tool for weight loss, heart health, and overall health improvement isn’t new to any of us. If you have kids, chances are...
katemarden
Oct 8, 20222 min read


Taking the FRW Five for Life on the Road
With the pandemic over – for many practical intents and purposes – travel is on the radar for many of us. If you’ve traveled by air...
katemarden
Sep 30, 20224 min read


FRW Five for Life: Functional Fitness
Nobody does exercise quite like Americans do exercise. We do cross-fit, we run 5k’s on every holiday, we Peloton, we lift, we row, we...
katemarden
Sep 26, 20225 min read


FRW Five for Life: A Back-To-Basics Approach to Nutrition
Diet is a bit of a 4-letter word to me, not dissimilar to those other 4-letter words I try – largely in vain – to discourage my kids from...
katemarden
Sep 7, 20225 min read


Finding a Path with No Guiding Light: Lessons from Dementia
Perhaps you’ve seen my emails and social media posts about the “FRW Five for Life” – cajoling you into joining me in this healthy...
katemarden
Aug 22, 20224 min read


An Introduction to the FRW Five for Life
We all want to live long, healthy lives, and while there are certainly cards we are dealt over which we have no control, there are...
katemarden
Aug 8, 20226 min read


Exercise for Your Brain
We all know by now that being “healthy” is about more than how many pounds you can bench press or how little sugar you eat. Mental...
katemarden
Jul 23, 20224 min read


In the Hot Seat: Summer Wellness
We’ve all been there: as soon as mild springtime temperatures skyrocket into summertime heat and oppressive humidity, so too does our...
katemarden
Jul 8, 20223 min read


The Skinny on Intermittent Fasting
Jump online to search for current diet fads, and intermittent fasting will inevitably pop up. Yet – unlike some trends such as the blood...
katemarden
May 12, 20224 min read


The Beauty of Running Without Agenda
Want to hear a dirty secret about me? I think metrics are overrated. That’s right, I said it: all those metrics we, as runners, obsess...
katemarden
Mar 5, 20223 min read


The Enduring Memory of Grief
I started writing this blog on my late mother’s birthday. On this day, she would have been 76 years old, but she didn’t make it past 71....
katemarden
Mar 1, 20223 min read


Protecting our Mental Health in Unprecedented Times
To say that the past few years have been an unusually stressful time would be a pretty significant understatement. A global pandemic that...
katemarden
Feb 1, 20224 min read


Feeding Your Brain: Nutrition for Learning
**Note from Coach Kate: I originally wrote this blog post for my "other" job - that of Recruiting Manager at Diplomatic Language...
katemarden
Feb 1, 20224 min read


Working (Out) from Home: Embracing the Opportunities
We may be slowly making our way out of the worst of the pandemic isolation and non-essential business closures, but many people are still...
katemarden
Feb 1, 20224 min read


Work/Life/Running Balance: It's a COVID World
Originally published here: https://teamrunrun.com/work-life-running-balance/ As many parts of the world start an incremental return to...
katemarden
Jan 16, 20224 min read


Running to (re)Find Oneself after Becoming a Parent
Originally posted here: https://teamrunrun.com/running-refind-oneself-after-becoming-parent/ I always wanted to be a runner. But I never...
katemarden
Jan 16, 20224 min read
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