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Today, I really want to dive into the world of menopausal workouts. Yep. You know, many of you like me, you might have started to see some subtle or not so subtle body changes, and maybe you chalked it up being over 40, life stress, but there's more to it than meets the eye. And you know, many of you listening to me, you have been working out for forever.  Most ...

Let’s talk 75 hard. It started back around 2019 and I feel like it blew up around COVID and everywhere you look you see #75hard! My friend, LeeAnne Hayden, is one of the few people I know who have gone through the 75 days and I wanted to have this open conversation with her! I wanted to talk to someone who has been there, and I know I can have ...

If you're over 35 and curious about your menopausal status, I've got a handy checklist of symptoms to help clue you in. So grab this menopause tracker and take back the reins!https://kimbarnesjefferson.lpages.co/menopause-checklist/ Let's dive into the Greene Climacteric Scale. For many of you, you are like what the hell is that? This doesn’t sound like it has anything to do with menopause.  But it does!! When I started my perimenopausal ...

Grief… It is a tough subject, but in the last few years, given everything we have gone through, we need to talk about this.  No one sat us down and told us how to deal with grief.  It is just not something that is brought up to prepare you on how to go through it.  Many of us think it’s not something you need to deal with until later. But ...

Embracing the process… enjoying the process! I want to talk about this because, in the last few weeks, I have been talking about diet culture. And diet culture has told us it has to be hard, it has to suck if it's not hard we aren't doing it right. If it feels easy… clearly, you're doing it wrong! So many of us get caught up in it. So many of ...

I know I struggled with this, and I think some of you have struggled with this or currently are! That is procrastination!!  This shows up in ALL areas of our life and I know that I am the QUEEN of procrastination!  And yes, this can happen to the most organized person!  So, what is happening with this? Something is going on in our brain that is wired that way!  Everyone ...

Menopause and diet culture!  Many of you are in that perimenopausal state or you are postmenopausal.  But as we lead up to this, we have all been impacted by diet culture! It's been in our brains since our teens and early 20s!  So, what exactly is diet culture?  https://fitgirlmagic.libsyn.com/are-you-ready-to-break-up-with-diet-culture210Well.. it is social expectations about how you should look and how you should eat!Your body should fit a certain way, should ...

Let's open the door with this conversation.  We are talking about menopause, and I have spoken about it before in past podcasts, but I don’t think that we can speak about it enough!  It's this multidimensional conversation and I feel like menopause right now is having a moment.  We never really talked about menopause growing up, right? Your Mom didn’t sit you down and say when you reach this age ...

Ladies, after you read through this blog, I want you to go and listen to the podcast!  I had such a great time talking to my guest Maryann LoRusso.  We dive into so many different topics that I think anyone at any age can benefit from this conversation! Not someone in their 40s or 50s! I found Maryanne on Instagram and I really loved her vibe and I know that ...

Today's topic stems from so many women telling me they fall off track. There are several times a year many of you fall off track.  The holidays/fall, the end of the year and then summertime! And I get it!! In New England, we are cooped up for most of the year and when we get to 70 degrees, we are crazy in the street! You want to go have the ...