Wellness — Blog — Carolee Walker

10 tips for walking in the age of social distancing. Yes, that's a thing.

Nearly every state stay-at-home order permits walking and exercising outside and that’s a good thing.

Getting outside and moving around is more essential than ever, and like many of you, we’re walking more than ever. Even guys who run or work out in the gym or participate in fitness classes are using walking as a form of exercise, some of them, like my husband, for the first time. Although I’ve been going into work for the past several weeks, this week, I’m trying out teleworking, and I’m exhausted. I don’t know whether it’s figuring out the tech side of working from home when everyone else is at home or the temptation to just sit in front of the computer, especially when all of your meetings are teleconferences or WebX or Teams meetings. But one thing is for sure. working from home, or just being home, day after day, is physically and mentally draining.

Exercise, Walking, Walk-Talk Therapy, Wellness, HealthCarolee WalkerApril 6, 2020walking, Jennifer Udler, Positive Strides, walk-talk therapyComment

I'm in the race, but I already won

Here it is March 7 and TWO years since I published Getting My Bounce Back. Seriously. What a whirlwind. I spent the better part of 2017-18 pulling the book together, getting an agent, and landing a publishing contract. Other first-time authors report the experience can be overwhelming but also thrilling, and I’d say it’s been exactly like that for me.

So where am I with all this? Especially since you haven’t heard much from me lately.

Exercise, Fitness, WellnessCarolee WalkerMarch 7, 2020getting my bounce back, Goals, Intentions, New Year's ResolutionsComment

Just one lifetime. Yes there's only one.

Last year, around this time, about a month before Mia and Julian’s wedding, I was sitting in Dr. David Moss’s office telling him that I had a debilitating range of motion issue in my shoulder that was preventing me from performing a dance Adin had choreographed for the surprise flash mob at the reception.

Dr. Moss smiled. He’s a member of the practice at Washington Orthopedics and Sports Medicine that has supported me among their clients that come from the Washington, D.C., professional sports and dance worlds. He removed a joint from one of my fingers probably on the same day he might have fixed a Caps finger.

Excerpt from GETTING MY BOUNCE BACK: Hardwiring happiness

Once you train yourself to consciously absorb the positive experience or to tell yourself you are absorbing the positive experience, the payoff is you’ll begin to create new neural connections that transform passing mental states, such as feeling cheerful, into lasting neural traits, i.e., being a cheerful person.

Maybe this is what happens subconsciously to people who live amid incredible natural beauty. I suspected this when I lived in the San Francisco Bay Area, and I’m wondering if this is what is happening in Jamaica.

BE THE DOG

Digging in, discovering who I am, and seeing how far I can push myself to be strong, fit, and healthy

CAROLEE WALKER