Wellness Blog & Updates
My best advice on how to SAVOR a life you love fueled by a thriving mind & body.
The Medication Opens the Door. Coaching Helps You Walk Through It.
My doctor said, “No problem,” and wrote the prescription within minutes. No conversation about protein. No plan for protecting my muscle. Nothing about side effects—or how eating might suddenly feel different at a table filled with people I love. Just the prescription...
More Muscle, Lower Body Fat, and a Side of WTF
On advocacy, the whole equation, and what one (very doctor-heavy) month taught me about the V in SAVOR. The short version: The V in the SAVOR Method stands for Variables — the idea that your health is a whole equation of interacting factors (muscle, body fat, sleep,...
Do You Give Yourself Permission to Experience Beauty?
How art refuels a thriving mind — reflections from our second SAVOR Society gathering Before everyone arrived, I'll admit I was a little afraid. Our first gathering in March had felt like the start of something I didn't quite have words for but could feel. Magical,...
Your Girlfriends Might Be the Best Health Decision You’re Not Making
Social health is as real as sleep or exercise — and it may be the pillar you're quietly skipping. Social health, in one line: it's the quality and structure of your relationships — how much they actually nourish, support, and sustain you — and it ranks alongside...
The Walking Book Club® 2026–27 season
Twenty years ago, I pressed play on an audiobook, laced up my sneakers, and started moving. I had no idea what it would become. What started as a way to support my son through dyslexia — movement and audiobooks, together — grew into The Walking Book Club®: a community...
Why Are Midlife Women Being Ignored in GLP-1 Research?
Why Are Midlife Women Being Ignored in GLP-1 Research? Something is happening in the world of midlife women's health. And honestly? It's about time. I've been coaching women for decades — watching them white-knuckle their way through every wellness trend that promised...
Why Social Health Matters
In a time when loneliness and disconnection are increasingly recognized as real health concerns, social health—the quality of our relationships and sense of belonging—is becoming an essential part of how we define well-being. Why Social Health Matters: What I Learned...
When Precision Nutrition Meets Real Life
Why Health Decisions Are Often More Personal Than Perfect Precision Nutrition Data can guide health decisions—but thriving usually requires something deeper than perfect information. A Conversation That Stayed With Me Not long ago, I was talking with someone who had...
Before You Mail Your Poop and Pop on a Glucose Monitor…
Personalized nutrition promises something many of us are looking for: clarity. Send in a sample. Wear a monitor. Upload your data.Finally discover exactly what your body needs. But sometimes the deeper lesson isn’t a perfect answer.It’s realizing how complex our...
Weight, Appetite, and Health
When Science Changed My Mind About GLP-1 Medications This wasn’t just about weight. It was about health. Last week, I shared the journal page. Weeks of tracking.Calories in.Calories out. Two biometric devices measuring energy expenditure. If effort were the answer,...