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...
by Lori Ann King | Oct 6, 2025 | Mindset
“We’re all just walking each other home.” — Ram Dass The Message As I soften and surrender into the most sensitive, reflective, compassionate parts of me, messages rise up from my heart like an early morning sunrise over a lake. Recently, one of...
by Lori Ann King | Sep 29, 2025 | Cycling
Each month, I’m sharing a chapter or concept from my upcoming book, “Cycling Shorts: Everything I Need to Know I Learned While Riding My Bike.” This month explores what happens when Mother Nature has other plans for your ride. Back in my teens and...
by Lori Ann King | Sep 22, 2025 | Mindset
I recently got an email from my Mum, who mentioned my Dad had gotten out in his kayak. That same week, my sister video chatted from Florida. She was having lunch with a colleague who lived on the water. They surprised her, giving her a boat ride to a restaurant...
by Lori Ann King | Sep 16, 2025 | Life Lessons
Instinct. Intuition. Gut feelings. Or God? Sometimes it’s hard to tell where that inner knowing comes from. All I know is, it’s always there. Quiet. Steady. Waiting for me to tune in. Lori, remember that time in your 20s when you were dealing with...
by Lori Ann King | Sep 8, 2025 | Mindset
There are weeks at work when the deadlines pile up, the meetings feel endless, and I start wondering if I’m in the right place. (Or even on the right planet.) But then something small shifts: a teammate says, “This was a fun week!” Another reminds me to tuck a kind...
by Lori Ann King | Sep 1, 2025 | Self-Care
Choosing Sanity Over Chaos in a Life of Constant Demands It was a week with a lot of tough stuff. Really, truly, heavy stuff. In addition to the crazy, chaotic pace at work that never seems to let up, only accelerate with more demands and requests, another caregiver...
