What happens when you want to improve your marriage, but your partner would rather reorganize the garage than discuss the relationship? You’re willing to try counseling, read the book, listen to the podcast, and have the awkward conversation. Your partner? Not so much. Does that mean you’re stuck until they decide to participate? Marriage coach […]

“What do you do for fun?” It seems like such a simple question. But when someone asked me that after my husband and I moved to Florida, I realized I didn’t have an answer. For years, I would’ve said, “Working out.” The more I thought about it, the more I realized that working out wasn’t […]

Have you ever treated a life decision like it was the final exam? You research every option. Make the pros-and-cons list. Save screenshots. Listen to podcasts. Ask your friends. Open 37 browser tabs. Then you hover over the imaginary “submit” button, terrified you’re about to choose the wrong answer. Here’s the good news: Life isn’t […]

How to Support Your Adult Kids Without Doing Everything for Them You remember standing in the grocery store doing math in your head, so you didn’t have to put something back at checkout. Figuring out how many miles you could get out of $10 of gas. Staring at your first electric bill wondering what exactly […]

I used to love when people said:“I don’t know how you do it.” Of course, I’d pretend it was no big deal.Oh, you know… I just get it done. But on the inside? That praise was fuel to hustle even harder.Add one more thing to the calendar? Sure. Remember every detail? Obviously. Need someone to […]

Why “Just Try Harder” Is Bad Identity-Change Advice (And What To Do Instead)  Have you ever caught yourself saying, “I’m just a bad sleeper”? Or “I’m an emotional eater”? Or “I’ve never had any willpower; I’ve just always been this way”?  I have. More times than I’d like to admit.  This week on Fit Girl Magic, I sat down with business […]

There are women who look lonely. And then there are women who don’t. Today’s post is about the second group. I call her Finding-Your-People Faye. She has a spouse. She has neighbors. She has coworkers. She has kids or grandkids. She has hundreds of Facebook friends, three group chats, and an Instagram feed full of […]

Three GLP-1 conversations into this podcast and they all keep landing in the same place: The medication is a tool. What you do with it is still on you. This week I sat down with Shenelle Green, a bariatric coach who had bariatric surgery herself almost four years ago, is in recovery from alcohol, and […]

Who taught us that it only counts if it all gets done? Somewhere along the way, most of us got the same memo: track everything, never miss a workout, meal prep in the tiny plastic containers, get up at 5am. And if you miss one step? Start over Monday. We accepted it the way we […]

Have you ever left a doctor’s appointment feeling more frustrated than when you walked in? You finally worked up the courage to mention the exhaustion. The lack of motivation. The brain fog. The fact that everyone in your house suddenly seems annoying. The doctor runs the labs. A week later you get the call: “Everything […]

There’s a word a lot of women wear like a status symbol without even realizing it. Busy. Not stressed-about-it busy. Proud-of-it busy. Like somehow being exhausted became proof you were ambitious, responsible, successful, or “doing life right.” And for a long time? That was me. I was the first in and last out at work. […]

Think You’re “Fine” in the Heat? Your Body Might Disagree. Every summer, there’s always that one person proudly jogging at noon when it’s 97 degrees outside like they’re training for a Navy SEAL documentary. And listen… for years, a lot of us were taught that sweating more meant we were working harder. More sweat. More […]