Jan 30, 2025 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Every year, millions of people set ambitious New Year’s resolutions—only to feel frustrated when they struggle to stick with them. But what if I told you the key to success isn’t just willpower or motivation, but your environment? 🏡✨ I recently shared this idea with...
Jan 1, 2025 | Physical Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
The start of a new year brings a familiar flurry of resolutions and promises to ourselves. This year will be different. This year, we’ll finally get it right. But lurking behind those good intentions is a louder, more harmful voice: diet culture. Diet culture thrives...
Nov 6, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Physical Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Six Weeks of Wellness: How Small Changes Helped Me Find Balance and Reduce Stress Here we are at Week 6—the final post in what was supposed to be a six-part series on managing stress, finding balance, and improving wellness. I started this journey to share my weekly...
Nov 1, 2024 | Emotional Wellness
Mindfulness, Missed Days, and Big Wins: A Perimenopausal Parenting Rollercoaster This past week, I’ve been reflecting on my mindfulness journey and just how important structure is—not just for my kids but for myself, too. Life can feel chaotic, especially during...
Oct 23, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Screens, Stress and the Search for Balance Last week, I briefly mentioned my kids’ inability to get off screens, and I wanted to explore that a bit more today. Does anyone else feel like their kids haven’t stepped outside since COVID? ????♀️ The constant screen time...
Oct 17, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Navigating Hormones and Finding Balance Last week, I felt pulled in so many directions that I almost forgot what it’s like to have control of my day. I was co-chairing an event at my kids’ school, which required me to be there every morning—right during my usual gym...
Oct 9, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Mood Swings and Being Called Out by My Kid So last week, my younger son, “Red,” who is still in a brick-and-mortar school, joined that “hang out at home during the day” party with a snazzy cold that resulted in a nasty ear infection. This means another week out of...
Oct 2, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Life Is Hard, and Perimenopause Doesn’t Help Life is hard. Perimenopause doesn’t show up at a convenient time. Most of us are stuck in this “sandwich era”—raising kids while, for some, also caring for aging parents (thankfully, I’m not there yet). It feels a bit...
Sep 21, 2024 | Physical Wellness, Social Wellness
Here’s an unpopular opinion: Alcohol just isn’t worth the trouble. Yeah, I said it. And before you roll your eyes, hear me out. For some of us, moderation simply doesn’t work. You might be fooling yourself into thinking that drink here and there is harmless, but if...
Aug 30, 2024 | Social Wellness
For many of us, midlife is a time of transition. Whether it’s raising kids while caring for ailing parents, kids leaving the nest, changes in our careers, or the physical and emotional shifts that come with this stage of life, it’s easy to feel isolated. This is where...
Apr 25, 2024 | Intellectual Wellness, Uncategorized
As women navigate through different stages of life, hormonal changes can bring about various physical and emotional transitions. Two significant phases in a woman’s life often surrounded by questions and uncertainties are menopause and perimenopause....
Apr 3, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness, Uncategorized
Let’s talk about turning 35+. It might sound like a number we dread, but it’s actually a pivotal time for women to embrace their health and set the stage for a vibrant future in their Age of Empowerment. There is help for perimenopause symptoms my friends!...
Jan 23, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Physical Wellness
Food It’s the stuff that we love to hate and the stuff we hate to love. It can give us the energy to go about our day with a fierce focus or it can slowly drain us of every ounce of ambition. It can bring back fond memories of time with family or leave us in misery...
Jan 1, 2024 | Emotional Wellness, Intellectual Wellness, Occupational Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness, Spiritual Wellness
Are you making New Year’s resolutions this year? With the new year upon us, one takes time to look at the year that has just passed and then consider what they want in the year to come. Enter the New Year’s resolution. While I don’t typically agree...
Dec 15, 2023 | Emotional Wellness, Social Wellness
The Holiday Season Can Be a Magical Time I love the holiday season. The lights, the decorations, the togetherness. The holiday memories from my childhood drive me to create lasting memories for the ones that I love. However, for a time of year that supposedly brings...
Nov 21, 2023 | Emotional Wellness, Physical Wellness, Social Wellness
Goodbye Alcohol Today, I lament the loss of my own personal drinking culture, the former key to my social life. Alcohol, we’ve had some fun and wild times but you were leaving me with one too many rough mornings and sapping way too much of my motivation in life. While...
Oct 20, 2023 | Emotional Wellness
Stressed Out? I know that many have heard about the power of “yes”, but have you ever thought about or considered the power of “no”? Did you know that this last Tuesday (October 10th) was World Mental Health Day? This day of awareness was started in 1992 by the World...
