by Elizabeth Sherman | Jun 21, 2022 | Podcast
How to go with it when life sends you a curveball. It’s natural for us to jump to “the How” when we’re talking about our goals – we’ve been conditioned to think that way: Me: I’m going to make a million dollars. Dad: Great! How are you going to do that?...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Jun 14, 2022 | Podcast
How shame is passed down generationally. When we think about mothers and daughters, we think of a Norman Rockwell painting, don’t we? We think of mothers and daughters who have a close relationship, where the mother teaches the daughter how to become a woman, teaches...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Jun 7, 2022 | Podcast
Like Physical Fitness, but for your brain Can we talk about mental fitness? We talk a lot about physics fitness, but what does it mean to be mentally or emotionally fit? When we become physically fit, we perform repetitions of physical exercises, where we build up the...
by Elizabeth Sherman | May 31, 2022 | Podcast
An episode for beginner runners. I hear it all the time! “I just don’t like running!” I get it. I used to feel that way too. But if running is available to you and you want to do it, there are huge benefits to developing a running habit: it’s relatively inexpensive to...
by Elizabeth Sherman | May 24, 2022 | Podcast
A personal episode about our decision to expatriate from the US. One of the most common questions I get has nothing to do with health and fitness, but rather all the details about how my husband and I got to Mexico? And why? When I tell people that I live in Mexico,...
by Elizabeth Sherman | May 17, 2022 | Podcast
How to get through the hard part of changing your behaviors. There’s a point when we set out to make a change in our lives where things get really difficult. It happens to all of us. Sometimes it happens when we realize that this new way of doing things is our new...
by Elizabeth Sherman | May 10, 2022 | Podcast
How to be happier with your accomplishments. Every one of us has a judge in our brains that tells us that we can be happy when… We get the jobWe get marriedWe buy the houseWe organize the kitchenWe lose 30 lbs. That judge is not only a liar, but will often change the...
by Elizabeth Sherman | May 3, 2022 | Podcast
We know when we’re doing it. The question is how do we stop? Some of us believe that procrastination serves us – that we do our best work when we put things off because we “work better under pressure”. The data shows that this is untrue. And many folks...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Apr 26, 2022 | Podcast
How to create agency over your emotional life. Do you find that your emotions are all over the place? Based on what other people do, or what is happening in the world, you don’t have a lot of control over your feelings? So many of us give our power away when it comes...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Apr 19, 2022 | Podcast
Is it the weight? Or the habits that we do to lose weight? We’re told all the time – to lose weight and our risk of health-related disease will go down. I’m guilty of this as well. My health journey started as a way of trying to avoid following in my mother’s...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Apr 12, 2022 | Podcast
What does it mean to forgive someone? Forgiveness – we know its good for us, but sometimes we just can’t take that step. It feels like a betrayal. And what makes it difficult is that other people who are tangentially involved will urge us to forgive so...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Apr 5, 2022 | Podcast
How to ask other adults, “Do you want to be my friend?” without feeling creepy. Many folks in midlife start to notice that their life circumstances change rapidly. As their children leave the house, they also notice that their relationships in general are also...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Mar 29, 2022 | Podcast
Elizabeth Answers Listener Questions We’re diving into a listener Q&A episode this week, and we’re going to be covering topics on eating, exercising, mindset and more. A lot of these questions are linked to one another, so we’re covering a lot of ground today....
by Elizabeth Sherman | Mar 22, 2022 | Podcast
When we buy food, we vote with our dollars. Which foods do you want to vote for? Why do we eat the foods that we eat? Have you ever asked yourself that question? Probably not – but you might think about it when you observe other people eating. In this episode,...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Mar 15, 2022 | Podcast
Joining 2 families can be a challenge! Learn how to do it successfully. They say that something like 70% of second marriages end in divorce. And when you think about it, it kind of makes sense. Not from the point of view that people who get divorced are more likely to...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Mar 8, 2022 | Podcast
What is the difference between a Diet with a Big D vs a Diet with a Small D? What is the difference between a DIET – a way of eating that we follow from a book – and the idea that ‘this is just the way that I eat?’ If you pay attention to social media,...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Feb 22, 2022 | Podcast
What does it mean to become more fit? Does it mean that we look a certain way? That we have visible muscles? Does it mean that we can run a 10-minute mile? Or touch your toes? I think that when we set goals “to become more fit” we all have ideas of what that means TO...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Feb 15, 2022 | Podcast
How to work with your body in menopause and perimenopause instead of against it. If you’re a woman in midlife, it can feel frustrating when your habits haven’t changed, yet your body does. All of the things that we used to do to feel good in our bodies no longer work....
by Elizabeth Sherman | Feb 8, 2022 | Podcast
Want to know the secrets that I would tell myself – the version of me who was starting out on this journey? Of course, we can’t change our past. But if I were to go through my journey again, this is the advice that I’d share with my beginner self in order to...
by Elizabeth Sherman | Feb 1, 2022 | Podcast
How to get rid of menopausal belly fat What’s Going On? Why do we gain weight in our midsection as we get older? And not only how do we make it stop, but how do we make it go away? You’ve probably noticed that many of the things you did when you were...
