“This is what I'm thinking when I have this no Achilles and I cannot walk… I'm thinking about these things that have been the highlights of my life, going to Iwa Zoo, going hiking on that icy vertical path in Montana, and thinking, I can't even walk. I'm not even going to be able to do that anymore. And no, I was not going to settle for that.”

“I have a real can-do attitude. If somebody tells me I can't do something, I will figure out a way to do it. Just watch me… I talk to the guy I am working with, and I said, okay, what else can we add to this? He said, ‘Well, you can add medical acupuncture, not just your neighborhood acupuncturist, but a real MD acupuncturist.’ So, we added that, and we added several other modalities. I mean, it became my full-time job, recovery.”

“The real takeaway is that if you get a grim diagnosis, or even like that physical therapist who said to me, ‘You just have to understand you're going to be compromised for the rest of your life.’ Don't take it. Apply all the energy you have to healing and getting through that grim diagnosis because you can probably do it. Use me as an example. I did it.”

“An Alzheimer's diagnosis does not mean the end of your life the next day. There are a lot of ways to provide high quality life to people who suffer from it, but it's up to us as the loved ones and the caregivers to know how to provide a high-quality life. They can have a very meaningful and fulfilling life living with this disease for years and years and years to come.”

“These are brain diseases that we're talking about, and there's no cure. So, we want to create the best life in the best world possible. And, in order to do that, we need to learn how to recognize the behaviors, the signs, and, very importantly, know to how to effectively respond to them. That's key to it.”

“I would advise that if you do suspect your loved one or the person that you've been asked to care for are showing signs of the disease, but maybe they're subtle, learn all you can about it because then you'll be prepared. And being prepared will make your life so much easier than figuring it out when you're in the middle of a crisis.”

“Perhaps now's your opportunity to make a larger impact. Perhaps now is your opportunity to really find your why, to identify who you are, what's important to you, what values do you want to leave for the next generation? How do you want to build into your kids and grandkids? What impact do you want to leave on this world before you breathe your last? That question starts with who you are, and our coaches are there to help our clients interpret and answer that question.”

“Retirement is great. I think it can be the most beneficial, rewarding, fulfilling times in retirees’ life. But if it's unplanned for, it can be just an existence. If it's planned for, it can be impactful. And we want to promote impactful lives for their second half.”

“I desire to help retirees avoid the mistakes that can come from an unplanned retirement to allow them to survive and thrive in their second half, to continue a life of meaning beyond retirement, to make their future bigger than their past. Because they matter. They matter to this world. They matter to you. They matter to me, and I want to see them thrive in retirement.”

‘If our capacity to be happy and at peace and ultimately fulfilled with things exactly as they are is tied to what the world is doing, we're going to go up and down and we're going to live a life that's at the mercy of circumstances. And so if we don't want that, if we want to live a relatively stress-free life, we need to find ways of transcending that.”

“It's not a lot of fun to get in touch with negative feelings. And so people suppress them one way or another. And so the prescription is, don't do that. Allow them, get in touch with them. They won't destroy you. Get to know them. In one way, you're really making friends with them. And in another way, you're gaining control, awareness, what you're aware of, you begin to control what you're unaware of, and continue to control you. You can't change something that you don't see. So awareness allows you to see and feel what's going on inside of you that sabotages your happiness, that sabotages your confidence and the negativity, the upset, the pessimism, the aggression, the over competitiveness, the shame, the unworthiness, all of that. It's all fear-based. And as you make an unconscious pattern conscious, it begins to dissolve.”

“The irony is that when you detach from the material world and this idea that happiness is coming from the material world, as you pursue success, you actually enjoy the process more. That old tension drops away. That fear of failure drops away. Then when you believe your self-worth and your peace of mind and your happiness depend on the outcome. So if you succeed, great. If you fail, well, you've learned something. You've learned something from the failure because you're not allowing the failure or the success to define who you ultimately are.”

“You will know if your practitioner is the right one for you. Just by talking with them and seeing what their philosophy is and how they would like to approach things and if it resonates with you, because that's what you need to work with. You need to work with someone who is going to resonate with you, understand what you’re trying to achieve, and do it in a way that's not overwhelming and that has the patience and the ability to do this properly.”

“We're all born with a bank account and we can't put any money in, but every day we withdraw 24 hours. If that 24 hours is spent stressed or concerned about health or pain or just not absolutely thriving and enjoying life, then that 24 hours gets screwed up, thrown in the waste paper bin, and the next day you go and draw out another 24 hours. The issue is we do not know what our balance is, but I know that I’m taking 24 hours today, and so this day needs to be phenomenal for me. I need to enjoy everything and I need to be in a frame of mind that I start the day looking for the amazing things, being receptive to them.”

“There is no generic prescription for the human body. We are so complex. We all have different DNA, we're all built differently. What you are seeing online or in any kind of media is a generic piece of advice. No one knows what age you are, what your medical history has been, what your blood glucose is like, what your liver function is like, how your hormones are functioning, what your sleep is like, your stress levels. No one knows anything about you. But if we know all of you properly, then we can make it specific for you.”

“There is this misconception in our culture that if I get this weight or get this body, my life will feel good. And what I feel like we're trying to do at WeShape on top of really addressing the movement piece is kind of saying that's not true. We're actually hoping people can stop going down the path of diets, can stop with all of these crazy workout routines, can just actually get back to basics and focus on what makes them feel good rather than what makes them look good.”

“I like to try to see if people will be open to shifting their perspective and really figuring out, well, how can I connect with my food in a different way? How can I be less critical and less judgmental of self when I'm eating certain things? Can we shift the goals and intentions for our relationship with food? I think that's a more meaningful cause than diets and calorie burn and the number on the scale.”

“It’s never too late to change how you connect with yourself, to change how you think about yourself, to change how you feel in your body. It's never too late.”