by Lori Ann King | Jan 13, 2026 | Mindset
For many years, I chose a word for the season I was in. Not a resolution. Not a goal. A companion word. Something to return to when life got loud or blurry. In my teens, I craved independence. In my twenties, I longed for strength. In my thirties, I chased freedom. In...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 7, 2026 | Self-Care
Last year, I finally admitted something: I was exhausted not because I was working too hard, but because I was constantly paddling upstream. I had knowledge and skills. I cared. I was doing what I thought I should be doing. But something was off. I was forcing...
by Lori Ann King | Jan 2, 2026 | Cycling
Redefining Victory After Surgery, Change, and Recovery We are very good at tending to physical wounds. We ice. We stretch. We submit to physical therapy. We endure discomfort because we believe in healing. Somewhere along the way, many of us also find ourselves...
by Lori Ann King | Dec 24, 2025 | Holidays
I pulled off the surprise of the decade, but not without a little grit along the way. Last Wednesday, my mum turned 80. On Saturday, my sister celebrated her birthday. Somewhere between those two milestones, I boarded a plane from Las Cruces to Central New York,...
by Lori Ann King | Dec 2, 2025 | Self-Care
I was looking back over some pages in my journal and came across this one from October. Life is often both a juggling and balancing act. I’m someone who pushes myself right up to the edge, and then life happens and pushes me over. As we begin the slow descent into...
by Lori Ann King | Nov 26, 2025 | Life Lessons
A few weeks ago, I wrote about boundaries and the inner hub and outer rim: how our energy, time, and emotional bandwidth shift depending on what life demands of us. In a recent presentation, I revisited this concept: the inner hub as our sacred core, and the outer...
by Lori Ann King | Nov 17, 2025 | Mindset
The other night, Jim and I sat together in the quiet. Me: Do you ever feel lonely? Jim: Not really. It’s more like isolated. And a tad depressed. Me: Yeah. Jim: I’ve actually been thinking about counseling. Me: Yeah. Me too. We let the conversation linger there, two...
by Lori Ann King | Nov 10, 2025 | Self-Care
My dad used to say, “When she needs her space, she needs her space.” He understood something about me before I did. As a child, I spent hours in my room, curled up by the window, cat tucked in close. It wasn’t hiding. It was surviving. I’m an introvert and a highly...
by Lori Ann King | Nov 3, 2025 | Self-Care
We’ve talked about cultivating calm. Now let’s talk about cultivating stillness. Not so easy, is it? Lately, I’ve noticed how restless I can be. Anxious. Struggling to sit still. At night, when my body longs for sleep, my mind takes off running with thoughts circling,...
by Lori Ann King | Oct 27, 2025 | Cycling
Everything in my life seems to come back to something I learned on a bike. There’s a saying among cyclists: Get on my wheel. It means tuck in close behind another rider, catch their draft, and let their energy carry you for a while. When you ride together like that,...
by Lori Ann King | Oct 20, 2025 | Life Lessons
I was working register during the busy dinner hour. The lines at Burger King were five across and five deep, filled with families and small, hungry children. It was my first job, and I was 16 years old. In front of me stood an angry, belligerent, and possibly drunk...
by Lori Ann King | Oct 13, 2025 | Menopause
October is Menopause Awareness Month, so I have to share at least one story about this journey we’re all navigating together. If you’ve been with me for any length of time or read my first book, Come Back Strong, you know that I was thrust into surgical...
