Wellness For Real at Any Age

This episode is all about the art of saying no….setting loving boundaries for ourselves with others and with food/drink. Learn why setting boundaries wth food and drink can actually create a healthier relationship with food that leads to weightloss, health, & food freedom. You will learn how to set boundaries without creating restriction mentality and instead creating a more postive, loving relati...

Take a listen to learn about boundaries and why they are so important for our mental and emotional health but also why they are so important for weight loss. We will talk about how to begin to implement healthy boundaries in life as well as with food. As always, I include very practical strategies to get you started!

Do you often react to your feelings and later regret how you acted or behaved? Do you often over eat or over drink to escape emotions or numb them momentarily? Take a listen to learn how to keep feelings from ruining your life and your weight and health.

Why do we keep doing the thing we don’t really want to do? It can be so frustrating to know what you really want to be doing (like not overeating, not over drinking, not worrying, not over spending) but doing these things anyway! Take a listen & learn how to get to a place where you can begin to change this behavior….where we don’t overeat, over drink do the habit of behavior that we really don’t...

Do you struggle with over-eating or binging behaviors? These topics are really close to my heart as personally they have effected me in such a profound way over my lifetime. I also have worked and continue to work with so many clients who deal with over-eating, over-drinking, binging behaviors. It is a silent, very shameful struggle. These behaviors can really take over our entire lives. You may n...

You all might also remember, and I’m sure many of you have done this over the years (I definitely have!) where you use a formula to find out how many calories you are burning in a day. You plug in your weight, height, activity level, etc and it tells you how many calories you're burning in a day and from that number of calories you now believed you were burning every day, if you were trying to los...

You all might also remember, and I’m sure many of you have done this over the years (I definitely have!) where you use a formula to find out how many calories you are burning in a day. You plug in your weight, height, activity level, etc and it tells you how many calories you're burning in a day and from that number of calories you now believed you were burning every day, if you were trying to los...

Have you ever wondered how journaling can create weight loss? We talk about how it works with our brain and body to create many benefits. I also give a few practical strategies on how to take a few easy steps to implement a journaling practice.

I believe our brain has a very different connection with food than any other sort of vice or addiction (if you will) that we try to use to fill a void within ourselves. If we don’t receive the nurturing or comfort from interactions with other people…but most often from our own Selves…this manifests into using food to feel this nurturing and comfort. It becomes our best friend. Take a listen to lea...

If you're trying to lose some weight and/or gain back health or create optimal health, then what we eat & how much we eat is one of the most important ways to influence your results. Learning to distinguish when you are truly hungry, & what your body is truly hungry for, is a key to unlocking optimal health & well-being. Learn strategies to implement this skill.

Experimentation & evaluation are 2 very powerful tools for those wanting to lose weight for good and/or wanting to make any behavioral changes. You will learn how these tools work to create change, HOW to use them, WHEN to use them & exactly what questions to ask yourself to get results.

In this episode I talk about disordered eating patterns including binging, secret eating & emotional eating. I wanted to create an episode about Secret Eating in particular because, for many people who suffer with this issue, it feels incredibly shameful which creates negative issues within all aspects of our lives including our relationships with ourselves and others. It is a pattern of eating th...

There is often a misunderstanding that we need to feel motivation or use willpower to behave or act in a new or different way. The simplest example many of us can relate to would be “I need to feel motivated to change my over-eating habits” or “I need more willpower to move my body”. Those are the things our brains tell us and we believe it. But remember that our brain often does not tell us the t...

In this episode I talk about a specific way to approach restriction with food that works. There are ways to set guidelines for yourself that set you up to comply and follow these personal guidelines without feeling deprived or sad or like you’re missing out.

In this episode I discuss how to cultivate satisfaction in your food life (& regular life) through your behaviors, thoughts & food-choices. This is one of the principals I’ve incorporated within my own way of eating & one of the strategies I work with my clients on to cultivate LASTING weight loss. It is also an important part of long-term weight loss that no one really talks about (even though it...

Yoyo dieting is not only physically difficult on our bodies, it is incredibly emotionally & mentally exhausting & detrimental to our well-being. Living life in this way actually creates a life with extra stress & an unneeded focus on body and food (which takes away from focus and intention with other parts of our lives). It creates a very damaged and unhealthy relationship with our bodies & then w...

Does this sound familiar: “I do OK during the week but once the weekend comes, I lose it....its a free for all with food”. Or “I stick to my food plan during the week but once Friday night hits, it’s all over. I eat everything and anything”. If you find yourself in this hurtful cycle and constantly experience Monday morning remorse and regret, this episode can help you learn how to create weekends...

Build muscle after 40. Improve climbing performance. Recover faster. Stay strong on the wall. If you’re a climber over 40 and not seeing the strength gains you want, your daily protein intake may be the missing link. In this video, I break down 4 simple protein rules for climbers that make it easy to hit your daily protein target — without tracking obsessively or overcomplicating your nutrition. A...

In this episode I discuss how to say no to ourselves & still feel good. Have you ever experienced the difficulty of saying no to the extra piece of cake or the second donut? Have you ever asked something like this... “How do I get myself to say no to the thing I know is going to bring me consequences I don’t want while not feelings so deprived and sad when I do say no?!” I discuss this more in dep...

In this episode I teach you what reframing is and how to implement the technique into your life to make any change you want to make and make it last. As always, I give practical thought strategies and behavior strategies you can begin to implement today to start changing your life and body.

In this episode I explain WHY you keep doing things you don’t want to do and HOW to unwind your patterns of behavior that are not serving you (including eating & drinking behaviors). You will learn why you often continue to get stuck in patterns of behavior and thoughts that you don’t want to do. For example: you want to drop weight but continuing to over eat even though you really don’t want to.....

Can you really climb V7 after 50? Or is that level reserved for younger climbers? At 52 years old, I decided to stop guessing and find out. In this video, I test my current limits, break down what’s actually holding climbers back after midlife, and share what I’m changing in my training to make V7 a realistic goal — not a fantasy. If you’re over 40, 50, or beyond and still want to:• Climb harder•...

If you’re a climber over 40, your training, recovery, and mindset need to evolve — or progress slows. In this episode of Next Send, I focus on three critical areas that make all the difference for midlife climbers:* Recovery: how to let your body actually adapt* Strength training: why it’s non-negotiable after 40* Identity & mindset: the stories we tell ourselves about agingI could have talked...

In this episode I talk about Future-You-Work, what it is & how to implement it into your life to get to your weight loss and health goal (or any goal you hold!) much quicker & easier & make it last for a lifetime. As always, I give practical strategies you can start to implement today!

This episode is focused on how to gain psychological flexibility which gives you quicker, easier, lasting weight loss. Not to mention contentment, more moments of joy & a meaningful life. As always I give very practical strategies you can start implementing today.