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Simple Tip Tuesday: Eat Fancy, Curb Cravings

Serve yourself like a queen or king to curb cravings. When you inhale a bag of potato chips, or scarf down a pint of ice cream, lets be serious, you don’t really know what you’re doing. You zone out....

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Simple Tip Tuesday: Calm Down Before You Scarf Down

When your body is in fight or flight mode (sympathetic nervous system), it cannot rest and digest (parasympathetic nervous system). As nice as “sympathetic” sounds, that’s not the mode you want to be...

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Military Olympian Makes Transition to International Wellness Guide: Task and...

Sarah Plummer Taylor is on a roll. The 34-year-old founder of both SEMPERSarah.com, a wellness mentoring brand, and Just Roll With It Wellness LLC, a resiliency training and education company, keeps a...

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Guard Your Spare Moments Well…Relaxation, Exercise, Water, & Recipes

Guard well your spare moments. They are like uncut diamonds. Discard them and their value will never be known. Improve them and they will become the brightest gems in a useful life. -Ralph Waldo...

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Alkalinize, Juice, & Reduce (inflammation)

It’s already the end of September (yikes!). Things are beginning to cool down, but I want to cover three “hot” wellness topics with you that can help you feel your very best: Alkalinizing Juicing...

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Time Management: Accepting Limitation in order to Transcend It + Roasted Root...

The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one. -Mark Twain   Have...

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Powerful plant protein (+ cooking tips!)

“I was determined to know beans.” – Henry David Thoreau, The Bean-Field How about you? How well do you know beans? Creamy cannellinis, meaty garbanzos, sweet adzuki, tender pintos, and so many more –...

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You’re Stronger Than You Think You Are: Practicing Yoga With Injuries

“Meeting yourself where you are’ is a dance between complacency and perfectionism, coupled with trusting that you are stronger than you think you are.” ~Sarah Plummer   (This article was originally...

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Why forgiveness helps YOU heal

Have you ever downed an entire package of chips, crackers, or cookies? Ate pizza or cake until you felt sick? Drank more coffee or wine than your body wanted?  Have you ever worked out well past the...

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Exploring Your Ingredients for an Energized and Fulfilling Day (guest post)

“What you do every day matters more than what you do once in awhile.“ ~ Gretchen Rubin, author Today, I’m sharing some musings from a dear, wise, and humorous friend, Kris Beal. Kris has a newsletter,...

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FITNESS – To be fun, or not to be fun? That is the question!

Friend, colleague, and co-owner of our business Just Roll With It Wellness LLC, Dr. Kate Hendricks Thomas, (eloquently as always) describes how agency, grace, and resiliency bring the fun back into...

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Program Eval for Resilience Training for Military Veterans – As Published in...

Developing, offering, and evaluating programs to cultivate resilience for military veterans and their families is work easy to love. New evaluation results are out, and we enjoyed being on a team that...

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4 Ways Yoga Can Help You Manage Chronic Pain (Guest Post)

Yoga has become a tremendously popular way to relieve stress, improve flexibility, and boost both physical and emotional health. For those with chronic pain, yoga can have a powerful effect on reducing...

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3 Surprising Health Benefits of Yoga

Yoga has long been popular for its ability to help us relax, soothe stress, ease tired muscles, and build flexibility. Whether you prefer a vigorous power yoga workout or a gentle, calming routine,...

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How Athletes Integrate Yoga In Their Workouts (guest post)

Yoga has long been known for its mental and physical fitness benefits. Until relatively recently, however, many top athletes derided it as “soft” and “earthy,” irrelevant to their hardcore training...

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Brave Strong True – Happy Veterans Day to You

“Honest, humble, and humorous, I enjoyed every page of this book and plan to share it with everyone I know – veteran and civilian alike!” It is truly my honor to share something special with you today,...

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Focus Outward. Pay Attention. Extend a Hand. Today is the day!

Happy Friday December 11th, 2015! Today. Is. The. Day!   My book, Just Roll With It: 7 Battle Tested Truths for Building a Resilient Life, is now available in hardback, paperback, and kindle on...

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Does It Piss You Off When People Tell You To “Just Let It Go?”

Ya, me too. But I think that’s because somewhere deep down I know I need to. I need to just. Let. It. Go. So, I got to thinkin’ – I’m probably not the only one who’s felt this way! And as we approach...

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The Pistol or the Yoga Mat?

Originally posted January 4, 2016 by Yoga Service Council in Trauma-Informed Yoga / Veterans A couple of years ago, in a New Year’s Eve note to my readers on SemperSarah.com, I encouraged them to be...

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Living Your Practice: Incorporating Yoga Into Your Daily Life

Like many other things in life, yoga practice becomes deeper and more meaningful as you spend more time with it. In Yoga Sutra 1.14, Patanjali notes that the three keys to success in any aspect of life...

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