It’s that time of year again! The holidays are here and so are all the feelings that go with them. So if you are human, the likelihood that you may find yourself taking comfort in a giant plate of Christmas cookies or one too many mulled wines is 100%.

The one piece of advice I have given to every client I’ve ever worked with is to “protect your pelvis”. The muscle, bone, ligaments, tissue, and fat that make up your supportive female center are also an emotional net catching all of the pain, trauma, sadness, anger, and hurt that are part of being human.

I didn’t need to follow anyone else’s proven entrepreneurial method to be successful. I just needed to literally use my brain. But, not the way I had been doing it before. I would use everything neuroscience tells us about our noggin' and set mine up for optimal performance. So I came up with a new way to start my day and what happened after that was pure magic.

Despite starting the day with the best of intentions, by the afternoon we had all managed to put wellness on the back burner. Cut to the pink skies of sunset and a few happy hour Casamigos margs later, my sun-soaked friends and I were Postmating pizza just as quickly as we were popping bottles of red.

Once a Type A. front of the room hand-raiser, I was afraid to use my voice because I now knew there was something wrong with it.