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Living Lighter: a simple cloth diapering system

I received a lot of good questions about how we go about cloth diapering after last week’s Cloth Diapering Q & A (and I had SO many questions before I started) so I thought for this week’s Motherhood Monday post I’d do a quick breakdown of my system. As I mentioned last week, cloth diapering really

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Half-Marathon Training Plan

I’m officially training for my next half-marathon. And I haven’t been this out of shape in a long time. So it should be fun 🙂 Thank goodness I have the support for TBL Run Club that just kicked off this week. If you haven’t joined yet, come sign up. Our facebook group is up and

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Cloth Diapering Q&A

I have officially entered the world of cloth diapering. Typically when I mention that I’ve decided to cloth diaper, I hear a lot of “good luck with that” and “you’re crazy”. But after doing my research and watching my sister-in-law do it with ease, I decided it’s the best route for our family. I also

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The Balanced Life Run Club!

I am so excited to kick this off today! A lot of you have expressed interest in joining an online run club to help us all stay motivated and committed to our workouts. If you’re like me, even if you have every intention to run during the week, life gets busy and runs get put

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Fall Run Club?

Good morning! I just got back from a great (slow) run in preparation for my next half-marathon and spent the whole time piecing together the final details of an idea I’ve been dreaming up for the past few weeks. As you know I’m easing back into my running routine post-pregnancy and it seems like there

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Motherhood Mondays

First off, a big THANK YOU to all of you who took a moment to answer my short survey regarding what you’d like to see more and less of on The Balanced Life. I’m excited to jump back in from maternity leave and give you more of what you want. When it comes to pregnancy

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Choose Beauty: a new perspective

beau·ty [byoo-tee] noun 1. the quality present in a thing or person that gives intense pleasure or deep satisfaction to the mind, whether arising from sensory manifestations (as shape, color, sound, etc.), a meaningful design or pattern, or something else (as a personality in which high spiritual qualities are manifest). Lately I’ve been re-defining my idea

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Target Workout Clothes

I just got back from my morning walk which included a quick stop at Target and had to share a quick post with you. They have the cutest workout clothes right now. Yoga pants, running skirts, tanks…you name it they have it and this particular line is super cute and affordable. I’m in that awkward

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girl with running shoes

Finding Fitness Without Overdoing It

A guest post by Jen Helms, creator of Fit-Cycle… When I was in school completing my undergraduate degree at Indiana University, I decided to run the Indianapolis 500 Festival Mini Marathon even though I only had a couple of months to train. After a couple of weeks I noticed a pain starting in my left

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Food Is Fuel

Today’s guest post is by Danielle from This Life I Live… I haven’t always had a healthy relationship with food. For many years food was always connected to control in my life. It led to some really unhealthy habits. Indulging and restricting became the way that food enslaved me. I was in a constant pursuit

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Piper The Pilates Princess

I’m so excited to share today’s post with you! As a new mother I am already dreaming up ways to provide my daughter with strong, confident female role models. I’m not an extremist, I’m not against Disney princesses. If my daughter loves them I will let her love them. But I will also be intentional

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Finding Beauty In A Simpler Life

Hello! My name is Abby and I blog over at Pan y Colada. I’m so excited to be able to share a bit of my heart with you today! Swirling around in my head lately is the concept of excess. After returning in late February from three months of volunteering in Ecuador, the phrase that

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