Episodes

Midlife Exercise Blocks: Rediscovering Barre in a Body That Changed
Feb. 9, 2026

Midlife Exercise Blocks: Rediscovering Barre in a Body That Changed

I didn’t stop doing barre because I didn’t like it.I stopped because I didn’t feel “good at it” and that mattered for some reason. This was an unconscious consensus for sure. And it stuck. The way subtle pressures rest on our...
Managing Exercise Soreness in Midlife
Feb. 2, 2026

Managing Exercise Soreness in Midlife

Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about soreness. Not pain. Not injury. Just that dull, sometimes surprising physical soreness that shows up after movement. The kind that makes you pause and ask, wait, why now? If you want to ...
Releasing Stress When Chronic Pain and Trauma Change How I Move
Jan. 26, 2026

Releasing Stress When Chronic Pain and Trauma Change How I Move

For a long time, I released stress by moving for a long time. Long walks.Long hikes.Long bike rides. Not fast. Not intense. Just long enough for my nervous system to settle into a rhythm and let whatever needed to move, move....
How to Rebuild a Healthy Nutrition Mindset in Midlife Without Restriction
Jan. 19, 2026

How to Rebuild a Healthy Nutrition Mindset in Midlife Without Restriction

There’s a particular kind of frustration that shows up in midlife. You’re moving your body.You’re getting stronger.You can feel progress, even if you can’t always see it. And then your eating habits quietly slide sideways. No...
How Much Exercise Do We Really Need in Midlife
Jan. 12, 2026

How Much Exercise Do We Really Need in Midlife

How Long Is Enough Movement? I’ve been thinking a lot about a question that kind of annoys me. How long do we need to work out for it to “count”? There’s something about that framing that feels gross to me. Not because it’s a...
Falling Without Breaking Through Strength Training
Jan. 5, 2026

Falling Without Breaking Through Strength Training

How do you fall better? It’s not a question I ever expected to ask. Falling feels like something you avoid, not something you train for. And yet, last week, after a completely ordinary misstep on a quiet street, I found mysel...
What If I Want to Exercise While Sick?
Dec. 30, 2025

What If I Want to Exercise While Sick?

When Rest Isn’t Enough I’ve been sick again. Not dramatically sick. Not emergency sick. Just that low grade, lingering, frustrating kind of sick that doesn’t knock you out all at once, but quietly rearranges your days. The ki...
A return to joyful movement with resistance bands
Dec. 22, 2025

A return to joyful movement with resistance bands

What did I love to do as a kid, purely for the joy of it, that somehow disappeared when movement became serious ? Not productive. Not corrective. Not attached to a goal. This episode, and this piece, came from remembering tha...
What I Wish Gyms Could Be
Dec. 16, 2025

What I Wish Gyms Could Be

I didn’t record this episode while lifting weights or balancing on one foot or stretching my hips on the floor. I recorded it while walking outside in Bilbao, Spain, past a fountain, toward the river, on a break from work. Th...
Future focused movements
Dec. 6, 2025

Future focused movements

Season 2: coming on Tuesday! Midlife movement gets real, messy, honest, hopeful. Rebuilding your body in midlife shouldn’t feel impossible. my Body can returns for Season 2 with a weekly look at what it actually feels like to...