12.21.20

The One Action You Can Take to Get Sleep and Lose Weight

This one hack will surprise you more than the others – like breathing, stress resilience, mindset, and menopause – to getting that fitness you want. Read on to learn a simple step you […]
12.16.20

5 Quick Tips to Survive Holiday Eating

It’s that time of year. Despite the pandemic, there are some things that are “normal” as we venture through the holiday season. We feel a sense of celebration, excitement, and, yes, even stress. […]
12.08.20

5 Questions You Should ask Yourself as You Approach 2021

Planning your day can be as important to your wellness as your diet. Finding experts in wellness who hold you accountable and coach you on the best-researched practices is a higher priority than […]
11.30.20

What is Alexandria Wellness? It’s Community and Resilience

Who would have thought that a global pandemic would place our wellness plans front and center of our lives and we’d accomplish so much in nine months? Is it really true these Alexandria […]
11.23.20

We Are Strong(her) and You Can Be Too

Over the last two weeks, we have proudly boasted about the incredible strength of our Alexandria Wellness (AW) community. The strength of all of us together and individually has been a silver lining […]
11.17.20

How Strength Can Help Surmount Stress

When stay at home orders due to COVID-19 were announced, many of us admit we thought by now this “thing” would be over. Here we are in mid-November, almost to Thanksgiving, and it […]
11.11.20

Why Strength Matters to Alexandria Wellness

Over the next four weeks, I will showcase Alexandria Wellness’ answer – and some stunning photos of strength –  to a simple question: What has helped you get strong(her) during COVID-19?     […]
11.02.20

The 4 Biggest “Mistakes” I’ve Made

I believe there is no such thing as a mistake. Instead, I believe our experiences are either experiments or actions that we choose to repeat or not. “Mistakes,” or experiments, help bring us […]
10.29.20

25 Ways to Gain and Keep Stress Resilience

These are stressful times. Let’s be honest – we live in a stressful town. Stress is everywhere. One in six Americans takes an anti-anxiety drug. In fact, anti-anxiety medications rose by a whopping 34 […]
10.20.20

The Final Tips to Increase Brain Health

Do you… Have big dreams and follow them? Minimize the “what ifs?” Eat fish or foods high in Omega-3 fatty acids? Recognize there are no “mistakes” in life. They are all experiments? These […]
10.14.20

3 More Tips to Improve Your Brain Health (And Save Your Life)

How is it possible something you can’t even see can not only harm your brain, yet also kill you? If you have read anything about my journey to reach optimal wellness and well-being, […]
10.05.20

3 More Tips for Brain Health (That Also Help You Fit into Your Jeans)

It may seem obvious. A habit of consistent exercise is good for you. Sufficient and quality sleep is also good for you, and eating brain nourishing foods will fuel your life and all […]
09.29.20

12 Simple Tips for Brain Health

And why you should care… Despite brain related illnesses skyrocketing, we still don’t hear much about how to achieve brain health. After all, your brain is involved in everything you do and everything […]
09.22.20

You’re Invited: An Alexandria Event that Gives Back!

Jennifer Poersch and I met through a mutual friend at our church. Since then, Jennifer has become a dear friend, a wellness superstar, and one of the biggest supporters of Alexandria Wellness and […]
09.15.20

The Most Important Habit of Highly Successful Women Over 45

Can you learn to love your body? Yes! This is from someone who practiced deprivation dieting, hated her body, body-shamed herself, and thought she could “run off” calories. I endured injury after injury […]


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