Follow along in the Midlife Metabolism workbook, Part 5: “Stop Comparing to Your 30-Year-Old Self”, page 12 Let’s be honest for a moment, shall we? How often do we look at old photos and compare ourselves to the person we used to be? A childhood snapshot. A photo from our teenage years. A picture taken 10 or 15 years ago. For many women, that comparison happens almost without thinking. We start out looking back at a memory—and end up measuring who we are today against a younger version of...

Follow along in the Midlife Metabolism workbook, Part 4: “The One Thing You’re Probably Missing”, page 10. Sleep, page 10 When women want to change their bodies, sleep usually isn’t the first thing they think about. Food? Absolutely. Exercise? Of course. More protein? Probably. Sleep? That often gets treated like something we’ll focus on once everything else is handled. But one of the biggest messages in the Midlife Metabolism Reset is that sleep is not separate from your metabolism,...

Strength is one of those words we use all the time without stopping to ask what it actually means. We call someone strong when she pushes through. When she keeps the family moving, answers the texts, remembers the appointments, shows up for work, carries the groceries, holds everyone together, and somehow makes it look manageable. But strength is not only what you can carry. Sometimes strength is putting something down. It is asking for help before you reach a breaking point. It is choosing...