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Oct, 2026

Guest Podcast: Menopause Weight Loss: What Actually Works After 40

Episode Description Perimenopause didn’t quietly tap me on the shoulder. It arrived during a time when burnout, weight gain, emotional eating, and years of pushing myself had already taken a toll. I recently joined Carmen Hecox on Create The Best Me to talk about that wake-up call and how it changed the way I approached […]
Oct, 2026

The Meditation Habit: How to Build a Consistent Daily Practice

Most meditation habits don’t fail from lack of willpower. They fail because the setup, the place, the time, the length, the reason behind it, never got built to survive an ordinary week. Here’s what the research on habit formation, memory, and motivation says about making a daily practice stick.

Oct, 2026

The 5-Minute Meditation (or 5-Second) Practice That Sticks

The thirty-minutes-on-a-cushion model of meditation fails most busy women, not because they lack discipline, but because the model itself doesn’t fit a day full of interruptions. Micro-meditations, brief conscious pauses woven into activities you already do, are the fix. Here’s the behavioral science behind why they work, plus a full set of examples for mornings, work, movement, hard emotions, and evenings.

Oct, 2026

TRE Exercises: Why Your Muscles Shake During a Wall Sit and Most Isometrics Exercises

That trembling feeling in your legs during a wall sit or a long yoga hold isn’t a sign something’s wrong, it’s your muscles working exactly as designed. A practice called TRE takes that same tremor further on purpose. Here’s the physiology behind the shake, what TRE claims to do with it, what the evidence actually supports, and who should be cautious.
Oct, 2026

Guest Podcast: Is Your Routine Actually Working? Fitness & Nutrition 101

Episode Description How much of the wellness advice we hear today do we actually need? I recently joined Missy Miculka on The Menopause Midwife for an honest conversation about midlife fitness, nutrition, and cutting through the noise that often makes health feel more complicated than it needs to be. As a certified nutritionist and personal […]
Oct, 2026

Why You Lose Balance Younger Than You Think (And How to Get It Back)

Most women assume balance problems are a concern for their 70s and 80s. Research says otherwise: measurable decline in the systems that keep you upright can begin decades earlier. Here’s what causes it, why falls carry more risk than people realize, and how to train the specific system that’s failing.
Sep, 2026

Can You Sit Down & Stand Up Without Using Your Hands? What the Sitting-Rising Test Predicts

Getting down to the floor and back up without using your hands sounds like a party trick, but a body of published research has linked exactly this movement to long-term mortality risk. Here’s how the test works, what the science actually shows, and a structured way to improve your score by the specific system that’s holding you back.
Sep, 2026

Why Nutrition Advice Is So Controversial (What 4 Years of Hosting Retreats Taught Me)

Ask ten nutrition experts for the best diet and you’ll get ten confident, contradictory answers. That’s not because the science is broken. It’s because studying how humans eat is nearly impossible, and after four years hosting women’s wellness retreats, I’ve seen the reason up close: what women say they eat and what they eat are two different diets entirely.

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