Beyond Resolutions: Ditching Diet Culture for Real 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...
Hormonal Parenting: A Perimenopausal Mom’s Journey – Part 6
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...
Hormonal Parenting: A Perimenopausal Mom’s Journey – Part 3
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...
Hormonal Parenting: A Perimenopausal Mom’s Journey – Part 2
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...
Hormonal Parenting: A Perimenopausal Mom’s Journey – Part 1
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...Page 1 of 2