When you think of doing an exercise for your core, what exercise comes to mind first? Here is my guess: you pictured laying on your back, knees bent and hands behind your head while pulling your chests towards your knees. Am I right? You pictured a sit up? This is normal. A common thought is,...Read More

“A limiting belief is a misunderstanding of the present that shortchanges the future.” -Michael Hyatt What if I told you that someone was trying to make your life difficult? They wanted to make it less fulfilling, to make easy tasks hard, to prevent you from living the life you want. What if I told you...Read More

“We all need something to struggle against and to struggle for. The aim in life is not to avoid struggles, but to have the right ones; not to avoid worry, but care about the right things; not to live without fear, but to confront worthy fears with force and passion.” – Eric Greitens Have you...Read More

Callie (1), a mother of two and member of BSP NOVA, is a bad mother. She isn’t good enough—not as a mother, as a teacher, or in most areas of her life. Sorry, that’s all a lie. Well, not the part about her being a mother and member of BSP NOVA, but the negative descriptions...Read More

Lily (not her real name), a member of BSP NOVA, has been struggling. The current COVID-19 situation had, like it has for most of us, significantly impacted her life and routine. Some days were good, other days bad. She felt lost. When she was working, she felt a sense of purpose and meaning in what...Read More

It’s safe to say we’ve all already been effected by this pandemic. And I don’t want to scare you, but some folks are going to come out the other end in a real bad spot… worse than they were coming in. Not directly from the Coronavirus, but because of the choices that they made in...Read More

“Don’t be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish. And if you’ve been wounded and need a comrade to pull you up? So what?” -Marcus Aurelius In the spring of 2015, the spring break of my junior year at JMU, I was sitting on the coach...Read More

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” -Mark Twain If I asked you, “Did you know that Australia is a continent?” then you’d most likely answer “yes” with ease.   What if I asked you this: “How do you know Australia...Read More

Do you want this COVID-19 situation to be over with? I know I do. It’s easy to find ourselves lost in thought dreaming of a coronavirus-less future. One where the virus hasn’t twirled our lives round and round like clothes in a drier. “The only thing that is truly significant about today, or any other...Read More

Things have gotten real, huh?  We’re feeling it too, in a number of ways… most recently, due to the fact that all gyms in Virginia had to close their doors as of 11:59pm last night.  It’s REALLY time for a new plan. SO, we’ve immediately shifted to serving our members online in some big, resourceful,...Read More