Sleep & Mental Wellness
Look, I'm gonna be real with you right off the bat. When I first heard about those fancy "gradual transition" methods for handling time changes with kids, I thought they sounded great. In theory. You know what actually happened the first time I tried to execute
Nutrition & Diet
Okay, let's be real for a hot second. I used to be that mom who hid vegetables in everything. Pureed carrots in mac and cheese, spinach in smoothies that turned an alarming shade of swamp green, cauliflower "rice" that fooled absolutely nobody. My kids would take
Sleep & Mental Wellness
I still remember the night I threw my carefully printed sleep coaching schedule across the living room at 3 AM. After two weeks of following every expert tip to the letter, my 8-month-old was still treating bedtime like a personal invitation to host her own midnight rave. Sound familiar? Here&
Fitness & Exercise
Picture this: You walk into a commercial gym, and the speakers are blasting the same recycled playlist of aggressive hip-hop and metal that's supposed to make everyone feel like they're about to bench press a freight train. Everyone's nodding along, completely bought into this
Fitness & Exercise
Here's something that'll piss off half the hockey coaches reading this: 90% of hockey players are training completely wrong. Yeah, I said it. And before you slam your protein shake down and start typing angry comments, hear me out. I spent four years getting my ass
Weight Loss Wisdom
Picture this: It's 2 AM, you're standing in your kitchen in yesterday's clothes, surrounded by empty chip bags and cookie containers. Again. You swore this morning would be different. You had a plan. You were going to be "good." Sound familiar? Yeah,
Nutrition & Diet
Okay, confession time. Last week I impulse-bought three bunches of radishes at the farmers market because they looked so darn pretty. Then I promptly let two of them wilt in my crisper drawer while I ordered takeout twice and ate cereal for dinner once. Anyone else live this seasonal eating
Weight Loss Wisdom
I bombed my first real coaching session so badly that my client asked if I was feeling okay. There I was, fresh out of my certification program, armed with all the right frameworks and a shiny new credential. I had my intake forms, my behavior change models, and enough nutrition
Fitness & Exercise
Let me tell you about the time I almost ruined my meet prep because I listened to a fitness influencer. Three weeks out from nationals, I was hitting PRs in training. Everything felt dialed in. Then I made the mistake of watching some Instagram "expert" preach about how
Weight Loss Wisdom
I remember the exact moment I realized the fitness industry had it completely backwards. There I was, 320 pounds, walking into my old powerlifting gym for the first time in three years. Three years since my back injury ended my competitive career. Three years of depression, medical issues, and yeah.
Nutrition & Diet
Look, I'm gonna start this with what might be a hot take: most pasta salads are terrible. Like, genuinely awful. They're either drowning in mayo-based dressing that tastes like cafeteria food, or they're so bland they make cardboard jealous. But Caesar pasta salad? That
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Last year's daylight saving transition was... well, let's just say it involved my 4-year-old standing in the hallway at 5:30 AM asking why the sun was "broken," my 7-year-old having a complete meltdown because breakfast wasn't ready at his internally-programmed time,
Fitness & Exercise
I was staring at the same numbers on my phone for the third week straight. 185 for 5 on bench. Again. Not 190. Not even 187.5. Just... 185. You know that feeling, right? When the weights that used to feel challenging suddenly feel impossible to progress from? When you
Weight Loss Wisdom
I spent three years of my life crying in Target parking lots. Not because I had some tragic backstory (though we all have our stuff), but because I was so overwhelmed by the simple act of grocery shopping that I'd have a full meltdown between the toilet paper
Nutrition & Diet
I'll never forget the first time someone handed me a Pimm's Cup. It was 2018, blazing hot summer day in London, and I was working behind the stick at this gastropub in Shoreditch. Tourist comes up, orders one, and honestly? I had no clue what they
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Let me paint you a picture. Two years ago, I thought I was prepared for the fall daylight saving transition. I had my spreadsheets ready, my gradual 15-minute adjustments mapped out, my blackout curtains installed like some kind of sleep fortress. I was going to nail this parenting thing. Spoiler