How I Rebuilt a Healthier Relationship With Running
I’ve been a runner for a long time, but it’s taken me years to claim that identity. It’s taken me even longer to do it in a healthy way. For one thing, I started running when I was a teenager,…
Category Health & Fitness
Learning a New Skill as an Adult: Why It’s Never Too Late to Start
If you’ve ever stood at the edge of a dance floor, a gym class, or a new hobby thinking, “Everyone here started years before me. I’ve already missed my window,” I’m going to say this with my WHOLE chest: You…
Perfectionism in Motherhood: Learning to Let Good Enough Be Enough
For a very long time, I believed one of my greatest strengths was my ability to work hard. I was the kind of person who liked making plans and seeing them through to get the best possible result—because that’s what…
How to Do Squats: Beginner-Friendly Variations to Build Lower Body Strength
Let’s talk about squats! Love them or hate them, squats are an essential exercise for building strength in your lower body. Why Squats Are a Powerful Lower Body Strength Exercise Squats are a compound strength exercise. This means that unlike…
How to Make Fitness Fun Again as an Adult
Remember gym class or playing outside at recess? (No, not the awkward rope-climbing part or when you fell and scraped your knees)… the part where you were just running around, laughing, playing games, and completely forgetting you were even exercising?…
Same Team, Different Paths: Stay-at-Home Moms and Working Moms
One of the first major decisions we make as moms is the path we will take moving forward. As in, will we continue working or spend more time at home with our child? This decision is made with many different…
The Sandwich Generation: My Story of Caring for Aging Parents While Raising Kids
It’s 3 a.m. and I’m woken from a sound sleep. Someone is calling for help. In a panic, I rouse my husband and we race downstairs. My father-in-law has fallen. Again. That was our life for the better part of…
The Truth About Menopause Belly Fat (What Science Actually Says)
If you ask the average woman going through perimenopause what she is most concerned about, you’ll probably find a few things near the top of the list: hot flashes, for sure. Vaginal dryness, definitely. Mood swings, irritability, and incandescent rage…
A Spring Energy Cleanse That Has Nothing to Do With Dieting
Every spring, the wellness world starts pushing detox teas, juice cleanses, and “reset” plans that are really just unsustainable diets wearing a mask. But what if your low energy, brain fog, and that heavy, uninspired feeling also have to do…
Mom Rage: Why It Happens and What It’s Really Trying to Tell You
It often starts with the smallest things, and it can feel like it comes out of nowhere. Everything is going fine while I’m getting my kids out the door and ready for school. And then, slowly, it starts to build.…