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Unapologetic Aging

A sanctuary for midlife+ rebellion, for those choosing curiosity, compassion, and liberation over body shame and stigma about our changing bodies.

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When Body Shame Becomes Body Fixing

How the body hierarchy teaches us to blame our changing bodies

Is There Anything More Complicated Than Being an Aging Woman in This Culture?

Nicole Kidman and the impossible assignment of getting aging “right”

Don't Let Someone Else's Fear Become Your Doubt

Staying true to yourself when ageism and diet culture enters the conversation

Protein Without the Fear

Looking Closer: How to support your muscle mass without sacrificing your relationship with food

Looking into my own eyes

When the mirror becomes a place of reunion instead of evaluation

Through this body

On embodiment, aging, and living a life too big for body judgment

What Body Liberation As We Age Is Really For

Life Beyond Fixing and Optimizing Your Body

There Is Nothing to Achieve Here

What if healthy aging isn't about optimizing your body, but deepening your relationship with it? A meditation led me to rethink what we're really longing for in midlife and beyond.

Before We Try to Quiet the Food Noise

What the growing conversation about food noise reveals about our relationship with food.

There Is No Right Way to Age

What a Viral Post About Aging and Body Grief Revealed About the Conversation Women Are Hungry For

What blurry vision is teaching me

On body grief, gratitude, and the thousand tiny losses that accompany a long life.