Nicolette A. Wellness

As we our weekend of thanks comes to a close I couldn’t forget take the time to acknowledge my second family, my Caoching family. Sheesh, what a year it has been for @tonal. AM I RIGHT? Lots of growth, lots of change. Some of it painfully challenging, some of it exhausting, but most of it exciting, new and SO FUN. Our coaching team grew a lot this year. In a year where we can’t meet in person, give hugs or welcome with (actual) open arms. But even with all these barriers, I’m... really proud of our team for the support we give one another, the shoulders we provide to cry on, the sounding boards we act as and the laughs we share. Some of you might not know this, but we don’t all live in the same city. (Half LA, half SF) This, even when not in a pandemic means all of us coaches have to be very intentional when finding time together, getting to know one another and creating a special bond. Although, right now, the idea of having to fly to LA to shoot in our new studio sounds daunting, I’m honestly SO excited to see more of my coaching family more often. I miss them all so much. Not everyone is pictured in this collection of photos, but they are all appreciated and loved so deeply, regardless. And I CAN’T WAIT for the day we can take photos together again! @allisontibbs, @jenidelpozo_fitness and @bodyfitbyamy, we’re so stoked you’re apart of the family! And to my fellow OG’s, lets keep rockin’ this shit like we have been for years. The Coaches LOVE YOU @tonal, fam!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY ONE AND ONLY. MY FAVORITE HUMAN. MY FAVORITE TRAVEL PARTNER. MY LOVE! He grounds me. Makes me feel at home no matter where we are. He’s genuine and unwavering in his beliefs. He’s a good, good man. He’s talented, he’s a freak, he’s hilarious and I’m grateful we found each other in this life. If you’ve ever met him, you’ve thought Wow, what a great guy. I’m excited to one day marry him when we can travel, eat, drink & be merry with our closest friends an...d fam. Until then I’ll happily lay next to his snoring ass as his fiancé (we never use that word lol). Happy, happy birthday @jsnmjsnm. I love you!!!! (Ps. This is right after he made the biggest mistake of his life asked my crazy ass to marry him.) @catmonstr

MY BEST FRIEND IS GETTING HER PhD TODAY!!!!! Y’all! This is sooo many years in the making for @lizletchford. 7 years on her dissertation but so many more preparing her for THIS DAY! She had dedicated her life to this and I’m SO EXCITED to see her face when she gets hooded(? Lol). Selfishly, I’m really excited to not have her dissertation looming over our big future plans. (But I also know she feels the exact same way) ... . I hate school. I think she’s crazy. But I love learning and I love continuing education. We both value the importance of growth, mentally and emotionally, and know being forever students will help us be even better resources to our clients and those we help. We have our sights set REAL HIGH for the future. It’s going to be a lot of work but we’re ready. I mean we’ve never been people to sit back and relax for too long before imagining up a new plan to take the world by storm, so why start now? . CHEERS TO YOU, MY LOVE! You are a bright light, a loving soul and an incredible friend. I love you so very much. Congrats! And now let’s show the world what we’ve got in store!

When in doubt, dress in something that makes you feel cute & call.it.a.day! Tuesday, where ya at?! Cuz Monday is driving me crazy.

Rides bike only when it’s perfect conditions. Requires photo. . Happy Saturday, fam! Move your body, eat tasty food and hang with those you love!

Y’all we are on FIRE . It’s been over 3 years since I first saw @tonal up on the wall in our first tiny HQ, off a hidden sketchy street in SF. I remember walking up and thinking where the heeeeeckkkkk is @ryanvance taking me to?! . I’ll be honest, before I saw Tonal in the flesh, I was skeptical. I was a COACH, I trained with IRON...IN A GYM. I thought, there’s no way this can even compare.... Fast forward 3+ years, I haven’t done a full workout in a gym in well over a year. I work out primarily on Tonal. I love it. I love this company, I love what we’re doing, I LOVE my coaching team and the content team who supports us. Annnd every other team in the company creating a COMMUNITY, not just a product. (Although, yea, this product is pretty stinkin’ badass) TONAL FAM, WE ARE ON FIRE Y’ALL. Let’s sweat. Let’s lift heavy shit and let’s support one another while doing it! So STOKED you’re here. So stoked we’re FAMILY!!! . Special thanks to @phillipnoss & @jordan_dertinger for creating this masterpiece!

When you think of your most joyous moments what were you doing? Who were you with? Chances are those moments were simple, not very revolutionary, maybe even insignificant. Because joy isn’t experienced through external influence. Joy is felt from within. It’s experienced through the simplicity of our innate feelings and natural world around us.... This is different than happiness. Happiness is experienced through external influences. It’s sought after and found. And interestingly, it’s usually easier to pinpoint. Now, take a moment and pause and try to think of a joyous moment. Not a happy one, but one where you felt joy, lightness, a lack of need or want. A moment that may have been so small it seemed insignificant. Recently, I went out to lunch for the first time in 6 months. I sat on a rooftop, I drank mezcal and ate delicious food. As I headed home and feeling of joy came over me. It wasn’t the rooftop, it wasn’t the drinks, or my incredible friend, like you’d think. (Although, all those things brought me great happiness.) But the joy? The joy was when I sat in the car and felt a warm breeze on my face and I thought, wow, what a life this is. How blessed am I to live this life. It’s not glamorous, it’s not filled with money, but it offers me moments like this to feel joy. It was so simple, so seemingly insignificant. Lead with joy. Make decisions through the lense of joy. Follow joys footsteps not money, fame or power. You will end up disappointed and joy will be much harder to come by.

A day spent doing normal things that didn’t feel normal at all.

Like many women, I’ve long suffered from digestion/gut issues. And, like many women, my gut issues started after my 7 year long stint with bulimia. After I recovered, I didn’t trust myself with food, so I became unhealthily obsessed with eating healthy. During this time I was diagnosed with celiacs disease and became lactose intolerant. Fast forward to now. I have worked hard to develop a much healthier relationship with food. One where I don’t (or at least try my darndest) l...imit myself or punish myself for eating, whatever it is. But the damage I did had already made it’s mark in my body because of how I treated it....Enter SIBO. A few months ago I tested positive for SIBO (Small Intestine Bacterial Overgrowth). It’s this annoying diagnosis that means I have to be on a special diet and taking medicine to heal my gut for anywhere from 6 to 18 months or so. These last 2 weeks of my treatment were extremely difficult for me. I was on a special diet protocol which was very limited on food and serving sizes. What I’m learning: Limiting my food is triggering for me. I did it for so long. I am completely and utterly resistant to it now. I WANT TO EAT WHAT I WANT TO EAT WHEN I WANT TO EAT IT (EVEN IF IT MAKES ME FEEL LIKE POOP) BECAUSE I CAN. AND I WILL. ...well, I can’t right now. And it took a toll on my emotional wellbeing. I was hungry. A lot. I was craving my favorite meals, snacks and foods. I felt defeated, I blamed myself. You did this to yourself. This is your fault. This is what you get. Deal with it. BUT, I made it through. We always do. Nothing you’ve experienced up until now has broke you, cause you’re still here. I’ll have to do it again soon and I think I’ll be better prepared this time. I’ve been marinating in the words my friend, @icedcheddar, posted the other day Embrace change & discomfort - being hungry sometimes, won’t kill you. . Get uncomfortable once in a while. Those are the moments we humans ELEVATE!.....and then go eat some pizza in my honor, for me.

BACK AT IT TODAY, @tonal fam! Excited for what I’ve got dropping in the next few months! . 2nd phase to one of the most popular programs on @tonal! Can you guess which program?!... A new program format that I’m so stoked on and can’t wait for you to try! And a program that utilizes a cool, new and smart feature to help you get stronger! Eeeee!!! CAN’T contain my excitement!! HAPPY MONDAY, y’all! Let’s get to WORK!

Share your cute ass selfies with the world, don’t be shy, people! . Happy Friday y’all!

My little bro, @jacobeminger, is so talented and I’m so proud of all his hard work. (He’s always been the smart one haha). He worked so hard on this and I’m so proud of the final product and so impressed by him! He wrote, produced and performed ALL OF THIS on his own!! WOWOWOW!!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JACOB! I love you soooo very much!!!...

@jsnmjsnm is a crazy fool and asked me to marry him back in July. He hasn’t rescinded, so all is well thus far. . After 9 years together we were ready.... Our relationship has been slow, steady and consistent. It’s never been an explosion of intensity or a feeling of need. It’s just felt simple, yet exactly right. This is what is right for us. We are all different. We all need different things. But if you’re looking for unwarranted relationship advice, here it is: Being in love doesn’t have to be wild and mad and head over heels to be love. Love is simple. Love is our beginning and ending. Love is how we all communicate. It’s in everything we do and say. Love is engrained in us. It’s in our DNA. Don’t over complicate your love. I love Jason like I’ve never loved anyone else. It’s not glamorous, infatuating or consuming. It just is. . from my best gal, @catmonstr

The fires made their way to our river spot. So sad, but thankful we spent so much time there this summer. The air is still so bad here. The smoke feels like an even heavier weight now just sitting on all of our shoulders here in California. I find moments of joy often these days though. Little quick pockets of joy in between this persistent, strange, ongoing heaviness.... I know we’re all really over it. This ongoing heaviness. Its slow escalation. It’s slow roll in closer and closer until it feels like it’s sticking to you. But you don’t have to feel joy every moment of every day to be joyful. Appreciate small moments that spark joy even if only for a short time. My pockets of joy from this weekend: Tasty Indian Food Refreshing tea from @flowerheadtea Seeing Mac laying out in the sun Wearing a cute outfit Hot showers Happy Sunday, fam. Hang in there. And remember, this isn’t forever. . Love this photo by my good friend, @taylorhoff

Fun @tonal shoot the other day with my dudes, @jordan_dertinger & @phillipnoss. Gettin’ all moody n shiiiiit. I love being on set for programs and workouts for all y’all, buuuuut it’s fun to change it up!

VIRUTAL CLASS ANNOUNCEMENT Starting Wednesday 8/26 I will be teaching EVERY week through a new video platform called, Recess! You can view my schedule, profile and book my classes through my page on Recess! Link in my bio.... I’m so stinkin’ excited to start offering virutal classes! I don’t normally teach classes and have not really jumped on the virutal class train, since I mainly work with clients 1:1 and coach for Tonal. Plus doing Zoom + online payments felt clunky and disorganized. But Recess is incredible! It rids us of zoom links and passwords, it has amazing audio capabilities (MUSIC, BABY!), easy sign up and payment (no fees, just a rate per class set by me that goes to me!) an array of incredible classes and instructors, and the class platform itself is really cool and user friendly. I promise to bring you an experience like no other group class. For one, I’m funny as hell , two, I will always integrate my vast strength programming knowledge and postural health education and experience and three, my playlists RULE!! Yea you will SWEAT, but you will also LEARN, baby!! The link in my bio takes you to my profile where you can view my classes, register and message me if you have questions. CLASS SCHEDULE: (all PST) Every Wednesday 8a-8:30a Full Body Tabata with Weights (body weight variations provided) 8:35a-8:50a Core Burn Class 11:30a-12p Posture Reboot Class descriptions and more info on my profile! LET’S TRAIN OUR BODIES AND MINDS!! SEE YOU WEDNESDAY! #timeforrecess #werecess

You are not what you do. I have never been someone to be all in. I never had only one group of friends, or one favorite hobby. I’ve never had one best friend or been really good at one sport. I never had a favorite subject and I’ve never felt so deeply connected to anything to identify with it. And, I’ve always felt shame around this.... Seeing a world where people seemingly have their thing has made me feel inadequate or that there’s something wrong with me. I have searched my whole life for my thing, I’ve yet to find it. But it’s not because it doesn’t exist, it’s because it doesn’t exist as one singular thing. Deep down, I’ve always known this. But I despised this about myself. It’s clear to me now that I don’t gain satisfaction from one thing. I don’t get what I need from one source. In all the times I can remember, all I ever wanted was to have a thing, do a thing, be a thing. I always wanted an identity within a thing. You guys, I’ve been CAUGHT UP in my preoccupation with what I’M NOT and feeling inadequate because of it, instead of seeing it as a STRENGTH! What a blessing to feel joy and fulfillment from MANY things. I have always been so distracted on being better at only ONE thing, that I’ve missed the value in feeling joy for many things. In summary, I self discovery. Thanks for coming to my TedTalk, byeeeee.

We’re MOVING! Which means we’ll have to say bye to our newly painted gym/office! . BUT this means we get to design a whole NEW space and I can hardly contain my excitement. We’ve already started designing and I’m looking forward to being more adventurous with our furniture and style. . @jsnmjsnm’s art and his incredible craftsmanship are going to play a major part in our new home and I’m so excited to fill our home with his incredible things!... Change inspires creativity and I’M READY FOR IT!