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...
Midlife Movement Reduces Stress And Pain (ep 31)
Dec. 8, 2025

Midlife Movement Reduces Stress And Pain (ep 31)

Vote for the mBc podcast! We’ve been nominated for a Discover Podcast podcast award in the Health and Fitness category. Hurrah! The Quiet Magic of Healing Sooner ✨ Some weeks feel ordinary on the surface: little routines, lit...
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...
What day is good for you?
Dec. 2, 2025

What day is good for you?

Would love to know! Thanks for your feedback! Season 2 will start next week. Steph This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mybodycan.substack.c...
The Mental Side of Movement (ep 30)
Nov. 29, 2025

The Mental Side of Movement (ep 30)

Thirty days. Thirty episodes. Thirty attempts to say out loud what I have been trying to make sense of privately for years. I knew this project would change something, but I didn’t know it would change this much. I didn’t kno...
Building Friendships Around Movement (ep 29)
Nov. 28, 2025

Building Friendships Around Movement (ep 29)

There is something I’ve never said out loud before, but it’s been simmering in the background for months. As I rebuild my strength, as I try new routines, and as I settle into this new phase of midlife, I am realizing that my...
Walking, My Lifelong Movement Joy (ep 28)
Nov. 27, 2025

Walking, My Lifelong Movement Joy (ep 28)

Walking has always been my movement home base. Out of every type of movement I have tried in my life, walking is the one that has stayed with me. Through childhood, through illness, through injury, through all the shifts and ...
Frozen Shoulder and My Exercise Plans (ep 27)
Nov. 26, 2025

Frozen Shoulder and My Exercise Plans (ep 27)

I didn’t expect frozen shoulder to shape my entire movement life. But here I am, years later, still noticing the aftershocks in my workouts, my choices, and even my confidence. Today I want to walk through what happened, what...
How Strength Training Improved Travel Days (ep 26)
Nov. 25, 2025

How Strength Training Improved Travel Days (ep 26)

How Strength Training Improved Travel Days I did not expect my travel days to become a marker of progress in my strength journey, but here we are. Today I want to talk about what it actually takes, physically and mentally, to...
Do I Dislike Cute Exercise Gear? (ep 25)
Nov. 24, 2025

Do I Dislike Cute Exercise Gear? (ep 25)

I didn’t expect this to be the thing I uncovered during my 30-day movement experiment, but here I am: somewhere between dumbbell reps and editing my own voice for the 25th day in a row, discovering a weird little streak of re...
Exercise Progress Needs Tracking (ep 24)
Nov. 23, 2025

Exercise Progress Needs Tracking (ep 24)

Planning is helpful but proof changes everything. Today I realized something big: I’ve been putting all my exercise plans into Google Calendar and assuming that was enough. It worked beautifully when I only had two workouts t...
Rethinking Unspoken Exercise Rules (ep 23)
Nov. 22, 2025

Rethinking Unspoken Exercise Rules (ep 23)

I didn’t realize how many unspoken rules I had about exercise until I started breaking them. Accidentally at first, then intentionally, and now with a bit of curiosity. For most of my adult life, movement was supposed to look...
Refining My Movement Routine... (ep 22)
Nov. 21, 2025

Refining My Movement Routine... (ep 22)

Today’s episode is a little different. I am deep into this 30 day podcast challenge and while most of this month has been about movement, balance, strength, and navigating my very midlife body, today I needed to step back and...
Is Endometriosis a Missing Link... (ep 21)
Nov. 20, 2025

Is Endometriosis a Missing Link... (ep 21)

There are days when a single Instagram reel hits harder than any workout ever could. Last night was one of those nights. I was scrolling in that half-distracted, half-exhausted state that often comes at the end of my day when...
When Rest Derails Your Exercise (ep 20)
Nov. 19, 2025

When Rest Derails Your Exercise (ep 20)

I recorded this episode while doing my very first fascia video, which already tells you the mood I was in. I was moving, stretching, wobbling a little, making noises I probably didn’t plan to record, but I felt alive. And in ...
Movement That Brings Joy (ep 19)
Nov. 18, 2025

Movement That Brings Joy (ep 19)

Today surprised me. I didn’t plan anything big; I just pressed play on a fascia movement video on YouTube because fascia has been on my “I want to try this someday” list for ages. Ten minutes in, I was so unexpectedly energiz...