Curing Indecision with Mindset and Intention — After a year of self-study, I’ve taken my National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer exam and passed! 🎉 Now, I’m in the midst of job hunting! I have SO MANY thoughts and feelings about the process, and am attempting to bring mindfulness, curiosity, and even joy to what…

Reframing your setbacks and struggles as evidence of growth and progress — So, how’s it going for you lately? 🤔 It’s been a little over a year since the COVID-19 pandemic swept the globe and changed daily life in areas big and small, for better or worse. In some ways, a year later, as a society, we are both further than I…

Managing your Mind as the Key to Managing your Inbox and To Do List — Be honest: how often do you use your e-mail inbox as your to do list? Or, you have not one to-do list, but several? …

An mindfulness analogy for growth mindset and long-term, sustainable habit change around anxiety — You can’t expect to change your long-ingrained habits overnight. It has taken a long time (likely years and years) to develop your habits around anxiety, so if you’re trying to make a change to these ways of operating, that will probably take a long time too. Here’s a useful analogy…

Take the time to learn the neuroscience behind how your mind works in order to understand yourself better, be more self-compassionate, and be more likely to make positive changes that stick. — Christmas has come and gone. Now for the somewhat depressing, post-holiday letdown of the week before a New Year begins. Perhaps your thoughts are turning toward the future and how you’d like 2021 to be different. Maybe you, like many people, are overwhelmed with pandemic fatigue along with the normal…

Permission to Feel + 3 ways to Manage your Anxious Mind and Feel Better Now and Moving into the New Year — Holidays got you stressed? COVID making you anxious? The combination of the two hitting together creating a perfect storm of stress, worry, and anxiety that makes you feel some days that you are just about losing your mind? I feel that! And, honestly, so do so many other people. …

Blog Growing Pains and Possible Reasons for Returning to Medium as a Blogging Platform — So here’s the thing. 😂 Per my last blog post, in my opinion, Medium does leave something to be desired as a blogging platform, and is a tad too pushy about their paywall… But after leaving and trying to blog on my own platform, I realize…they also do a lot…

Hello there! It’s been a hot minute since I blogged here ❤ — I’ve loved the look and feel of Medium these last few years. Its been a great place to build content and some followers who are interested in my work! But, I’ve also not loved the increasingly common paywall gating of valuable information for readers. So, I’ve decided to start another blog over here: becky.searls.co It’s not very pretty yet, but I hope to make it beautiful in time. The content is the same kind of thing you’ve (maybe) come to expect from me:

An easier, tastier homemade keto pizza option — For the most part, my journey to eating better over the past several years has led me down the path of eating more whole foods and fewer processed ones. I’ve come to enjoy foods I never even considered eating or knew how to prepare before, like salmon, “egg roll in…