Weight Loss Wisdom
Why I Had to Learn to Shut Up to Help My Clients Change And how Motivational Interviewing saved my coaching career (and my sanity) I used to be the worst kind of coach. You know the type—armed with solutions for everything, ready to fix every problem before my client
Sleep & Mental Wellness
The Truth About Baby "Essentials": What You Actually Need vs. Marketing Hype Let me tell you about the time I spent three hours researching the "perfect" diaper caddy at 2 AM while eight months pregnant. I read 47 reviews, compared dimensions, and agonized over color schemes.
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Why One Day Isn't Enough (And How We Can Do Better for Women Entrepreneurs) Grab your coffee—we need to talk. Last Tuesday, I was sitting in my favorite local coffee shop (owned by this amazing woman named Sarah who makes the most ridiculous lavender oat milk lattes)
Weight Loss Wisdom
Stop Overthinking Your Sports Nutrition (And Start Doing What Actually Works) I used to be that athlete who'd spend hours researching the "perfect" pre-workout snack while surviving on energy drinks and whatever was left in my dorm mini-fridge. Picture this: 6 AM swim practice, fueled by
Nutrition & Diet
Why I'm Not Sorry for "Ruining" Traditional Pozole Look, I'm about to commit what some might call culinary sacrilege. I'm going to tell you how to make pozole in 30 minutes using canned beans and store-bought salsa verde, and honestly? I'
Fitness & Exercise
Why I Quit the Gym Rat Race for Kettlebells (And You Should Too) Let me paint you a picture. It's 2018, I'm 35, and I'm standing in a commercial gym feeling like a absolute fraud. Around me, twenty-somethings are deadlifting twice their bodyweight while
Nutrition & Diet
Why Monkey Bread is the Ultimate Comfort Food Democracy Let me start with a confession that might get me kicked out of the foodie club: I genuinely prefer monkey bread made with Pillsbury biscuits over the from-scratch version. There, I said it. And before you come for me with your
Why Your Handstand Fear Makes Perfect Sense (And How to Debug It) Let me start with a confession that'll probably make you feel better about your own handstand journey: I once spent twenty minutes psyching myself up to attempt a wall handstand, only to chicken out and do
Stop Treating Your Body Like a Rental Car I used to deadlift 500+ pounds and thought I was invincible. Then my L4-L5 decided to have a conversation with me that lasted six months. Turns out, vertebrae don't negotiate. That injury taught me something most lifters refuse to accept:
The Alfredo Wars: Why Perfect Isn't the Point There's this moment—you know the one—when you're standing in your kitchen at 6 PM, staring into the fridge, and all you want is something that feels like a warm hug on a plate. For
The Coach Interview Red Flags Everyone Ignores I paid $3,000 to a "transformational health coach" who spent our first session trying to sell me a $15,000 "VIP experience." She had all the right certifications, glowing testimonials, and a waitlist longer than a Trader Joe&
Why the 1200-Calorie Diet Is Sabotaging Your Goals (And What Actually Works) Let me paint you a picture. It's Monday morning, you've just downloaded your fifth calorie-counting app this year, and you're convinced this time will be different. You've done your research
Why Your Fitness Plan Keeps Failing (And the Stupidly Simple Fix) I used to be that person who bought a gym membership in January, went twice, and then spent eleven months feeling guilty about the $50 monthly charge on my credit card. Sound familiar? For years, I collected fitness plans
Why I Quit the Potty Training Olympics (And You Should Too) Picture this: You're standing in Target's diaper aisle, calculator app open, doing mental math on how much money you've literally flushed down the toilet on diapers. Your toddler is singing the Bluey theme
Your Child Isn't Broken—The Sleep Method Is Three years. That's how long I spent convinced I was failing as a mother because my daughter wouldn't sleep. I remember standing in Target at 2 AM (because when else do you shop with a non-sleeping
Why I Threw Away Every Hot Chocolate Packet (And You Should Too) Okay, real talk—I used to be a Swiss Miss girlie. Like, completely and utterly devoted to those little paper packets that promise "rich, creamy hot chocolate" but deliver what basically tastes like sweet chalk water
Why I'm Obsessed with Getting Bangers and Mash "Right" (And You Should Be Too) Okay, real talk: I've probably made bangers and mash like forty-seven times in the past two years, and I'm still not sure I'm doing it "
Stop Playing Food Police With Your Clients Let me tell you about Sarah. Three months into our coaching relationship, she swore she was eating 1200 calories daily. Her food log? Pristine. Her results? Nonexistent. I spent weeks wondering if she had some rare metabolic disorder or if she was just.
The Soup That Saved My January (And Will Save Yours Too) You know that feeling when you're three weeks into January and your body is literally screaming for something that isn't leftover Christmas cookies or another heavy casserole? Yeah, that was me last Tuesday night, standing