Making Her Choices

The gym didn't fix it. The GLP-1 didn't fix it. Contrave didn't fix it. So I stopped looking for someone else's answer. In this episode, I'm laying out my entire failure timeline — three approaches, three different mechanisms, one common thread: every single one of them treated the symptom. Not one of them asked "why." This is the episode where I stop being the patien...

Everybody talks about the medication. Nobody talks about what happens when it doesn't fit your life. In this episode, I'm telling you about my experience with Contrave — the weight management medication that was supposed to be the next answer after the GLP-1 didn't work out. My provider recommended it. The pharmacology made sense. I filled the prescription with both my clinical brain a...

Everybody's whispering about the shot. Your coworker won't say how she lost the weight. Your cousin posted a transformation pic with nothing but a prayer hands emoji. Your group chat has opinions. But nobody — and I mean nobody — is talking about what happened in the bathroom. Well. I'm going to talk about it. In this episode, I'm sharing my real experience with semaglutide — what I expected, what...

You can lie to your mirror. You can lie to your doctor. But your hair will tell on you every single time. One morning in September 2025, Tawana touched her crown and something was different. Not dramatic. Just thinner. Softer where it used to be dense. Like somebody had been erasing something while she wasn't looking. Her first thought wasn't "I need to see a doctor." It was &quo...

She's been in the gym since October 2024. Twice a week. Every week. Cardio. Strength. Different machines, different routines. She showed up when she was tired, when her body said no, when nobody was watching and nobody was clapping. And the scale didn't move. The pants didn't fit. And the belly? The belly waved at her in the mirror like an uninvited relative who decided to stay. In Epi...

She’s a registered nurse with 20+ years in nephrology. She’s read thousands of lab reports for thousands of patients. And then one Tuesday afternoon, she opened her own patient portal — and everything changed. In the premiere episode of Series 2: The Body Honest, Tawana reads her actual lab results out loud — all of them. The comprehensive metabolic panel that came back clean. The kidney function...

Sometimes the wake-up call doesn't come gently. In this Series 1 finale of Making Her Choices, I get honest about an area of my life that's still a work in progress — my body, my health, and the patterns I ignored while rebuilding everything else. From the subtle warning signs to the moments I couldn't laugh off anymore, I realized something important: your body keeps track, even when...

The Serrated Axe Speaks She’s been watching from the front row this whole time. In this episode of Making Her Choices , the conversation shifts — and for the first time, the axe gets the mic. I once shared something I heard in a sermon: there are two kinds of people — the scalpel and the serrated axe. The scalpel is precise, careful, always thinking about what it leaves behind. The serrated axe cu...

Why is it so hard to ask for help — even when we clearly need it? In this episode of Making Her Choices , I unpack the quiet struggle many strong, independent women face: doing everything alone, even when it’s costing us more than we realize. It sounds like strength on the outside. “I’m good.” “I got it.” But underneath, it’s exhaustion, pressure, and the belief that needing help means you’re fail...

Some grief doesn’t come with a funeral. No flowers. No condolences. No clear ending. Just a quiet ache for something that didn’t turn out the way you thought it would. In this episode of Making Her Choices , I talk about the kind of grief people don’t always recognize — grieving a future that never happened, a plan that fell apart, or a version of your life you were certain you would be living by...

Money decisions shape more of our lives than we like to admit. In this episode of Making Her Choices, I open up about the financial conversations many women were never taught to have — the emotional weight behind money, the fear that keeps us in jobs too long, and the difference between being responsible and being stuck. Early in my career, I stayed at my first nursing job two years longer than I...

Sometimes growth doesn’t look like celebration. Sometimes it looks like silence. In this episode of Making Her Choices, I talk about the quiet and complicated reality of outgrowing people — not toxic people, but good people. People who once fit your life perfectly, but no longer align with who you’re becoming. It started with a text message. The kind that used to turn into a two-hour conversation....

Difficult Women Set Boundaries: How to Set Them, Hold Them, and Stop Apologizing for Having Them Being labeled “difficult” often just means you’ve stopped being convenient. In this episode, we unpack what boundaries really are, why they make people uncomfortable, and why women are conditioned to feel guilty for having them. If you’ve ever been called dramatic, rude, cold, or “too much” simply beca...

Dating Yourself First: Turns Out, I Actually Like My Own Company What happens when you stop waiting for someone else to make your life feel complete? In this episode, we explore the transformative power of dating yourself first choosing self-love, emotional independence, and personal growth before seeking validation from anyone else. If you’ve ever struggled with loneliness, heartbreak, self-doubt...

The First 90 Days: Sweater People, Honey People & Finding Your Place The early days of any new chapter can feel awkward, lonely, and disorienting. In this episode, we talk about the first 90 days of starting fresh, learning who feels safe, who feels sweet, and who helps you warm back up to yourself. A reflection on belonging, adjustment, and trusting your instincts in unfamiliar spaces. The fi...

In this first episode of Making Her Choices, I open up about what it truly means to start over. After twenty years in nursing and a lifetime of caring for others, I found myself at fifty facing a major life transition — a new state, a new season, and the powerful decision to choose myself. Starting over at 50 isn’t a crisis; it’s a declaration. In this episode, we explore the courage it takes to w...