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11/10/2026

🌈🇺🇸🤘💪🏼🦄🍑. Go lift some weights.

I’m talking to the women my age. The 40- 50-year-olds. The ones who spent years hearing that lifting would make us bulky. I care what you think. And if you think you’re going to get bulky by picking up some weights, I think you’re wrong.

I see people every day as a healthcare provider. I can often tell who’s been lifting consistently. I hear it in how sharp they are. I see it in how they move. A lot of times I see it in their labs, too.

And it’s a compilation of things. You start showing up to lift, and pretty soon you’re thinking, “I worked my ass off in there. What can I eat that’ll actually help me feel good and get stronger?” You start wanting to spend more time with people who challenge you. You start wondering where else you’ve been selling yourself short.

That’s the discipline I’m talking about. You keep asking your body to do a little more, and eventually you have proof that you can.

I’m on day 70 of 75 Hard for the fourth or fifth time. I did my first one after a hurricane, after losing my house, after becoming an empty nester way too soon and becoming a Grammy, all basically in the same year. And I was in grad school.

I already knew I could do hard things. I still had no idea how much more I was capable of.

That’s what I want the women my age to find out for themselves. How much of the life you want are you talking yourself out of because you’ve already decided what you can handle?

Go lift some weights. In my experience, it helps with a whole hell of a lot more than you think.

Just saying.

11/09/2026

LET’S TALK ABOUT YOUR KIDNEYS! 🫘💧

You know that eGFR number on your annual chemistry labs? Yeah, THAT ONE!

Sometimes it gets dismissed because you might be dehydrated. And yes, dehydration can temporarily make your kidney function look worse.

But if you’re chronically dehydrated, WE NEED TO FIX THAT S**T TOO! 😂

An eGFR between 60 and 89 doesn’t automatically mean kidney disease. But that doesn’t mean we should ignore it, especially if it’s declining!

Waiting until it drops below 60 to start asking questions? BONKERS!

Here’s what I want to know:

Are your kidneys actually damaged, or is something else affecting that number?

That’s why I like checking a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio (uACR).

Your kidneys are supposed to keep albumin in your bloodstream, not let excessive amounts leak into your urine.

And here’s something interesting! You can have elevated urine albumin even when your regular urine dipstick is NEGATIVE for protein!

A uACR below 30 mg/g is generally considered normal to mildly increased. Above that deserves further evaluation.

I favor proactive screening because I don’t want to wait for significant damage before we start paying attention!

Your body is AMAZING! It can adapt, compensate, and sometimes recover. But FIRST WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT’S HAPPENING!

So here’s your homework:

🫘 Pull up your last labs and find your eGFR.

🫘 Look at the TREND, not just the number.

🫘 See if you’ve had a urine albumin-to-creatinine ratio checked.

🫘 If something is abnormal, ask about repeating it or investigating further.

And PLEASE find a clinician who helps you understand your labs, not just tells you they’re normal!

I WANT YOU EDUCATED, EQUIPPED, AND EMPOWERED!

More on keeping those beautiful kidneys healthy later. Including hydration. Not today. 😂

Love you! Bye! I’m getting my coffee! ☕️

Also, I’ve always said I have TMS. TOO MUCH STUFF DISEASE.

And somebody let me buy a cargo van.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING?! 😂🚐

11/08/2026

We really need to give ourselves a little more grace when it comes to our health.

We are trying to be healthy in a world that is practically designed to make us unhealthy.

Our food looks less and less like food found in nature. Our work environments keep us sitting indoors under artificial lights for hours. We spend so much of our lives staring at screens, disconnected from nature, movement, and sometimes even each other.

And PLAY? When did we decide that was just for children?

Our bodies evolved to move, explore, connect, experience sunlight, and interact with the natural world. Yet so much of modern life asks us to do the opposite.

And then we wonder why we don’t feel good.

Here’s something I love from the research:

A 2019 study involving nearly 20,000 people found that spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature was associated with significantly greater odds of reporting good health and well-being.

That’s roughly 17 minutes a day!

Now, this doesn’t mean 17 minutes is some magical biological threshold, or that going outside fixes everything. The research is observational. But it is a beautiful reminder that supporting our health doesn’t always require doing MORE.

Sometimes it means getting back to what comes naturally.

Go outside. Touch the grass. Watch the sunrise or sunset. Walk with someone you love. Laugh. PLAY. Eat food that resembles food. Move your body because you GET to.

And please, stop treating yourself like a failure because you’re struggling to be healthy in an environment that makes healthy living harder than it should be.

Give yourself some grace. Then give yourself some sunshine. ☀️

It’s gorgeous outside today. Go enjoy some of it!

Forget fine. Be Exceptional. 💚

Research: White et al., Scientific Reports (2019). “Spending at least 120 minutes a week in nature is associated with good health and wellbeing.” https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-44097-3

11/08/2026

“But when you’re not right there all the time, how am I going to get my labs done and come see you?”

Well, you might just have to be a little more intentional about your health and care! ❤️

And I might just have to come to YOU! 🚐

I am SO excited watching this mobile wellness unit come together! I’m out here killing mosquitoes, measuring things, dreaming, planning, and figuring out how to make it all work. 😂

I’ve always believed that health and care should fit into people’s lives, not require them to constantly rearrange their lives to access it.

People are BUSY! They’re raising families, running businesses, working, traveling, and doing their best to live their lives. Getting across town for another appointment isn’t always easy.

So what if we did things differently?

What if I brought wellness to your workplace? Your team? Your community? Your family?

What if businesses started thinking more intentionally about how they structure TRUE health and care for their people?

I’m officially taking appointment requests for my mobile wellness unit! 🚐❤️

Individual visits, labs, wellness experiences, and even a day of wellness for your team. Let’s talk about what we can create!

This is about more than a van. It’s about making health and care more accessible, intentional, and aligned with the lives we’re actually trying to LIVE.

Now, back to killing mosquitoes. Apparently they think this is THEIR mobile wellness unit. 😂🦟

Forget fine. Be Exceptional. ❤️

11/07/2026

2027, let’s live HEAVEN! ✨💜

Not someday. Not somewhere else. Right here, right now.

Creating a world where we help each other thrive, where health is nurtured, people are empowered, and we recognize the good unfolding all around us.

For the good of all and harm of none. ❤️ .org

11/07/2026

Fussin’ or fixin’?!?!

11/06/2026

I’ve never been a big fan of before-and-after pictures. And today, I finally figured out WHY.

Don’t get me wrong. I LOVE watching transformations. It’s incredible to see what the human body is capable of!

But so often, before-and-afters are framed as though the BEFORE version of you was somehow less than. Like that person was a problem to be fixed, and the AFTER version is finally worthy of celebration.

But what if the BEFORE version of you is the very reason the AFTER version exists?

When I look back at pictures of myself, so many of those “before” pictures were taken during seasons of deep pain.

And that woman?

SHE DOES NOT DESERVE HATE. SHE DESERVES COMPASSION.

She was surviving things you couldn’t see in a picture.

She was learning, falling, getting back up, and finding her way.

And she is WHY I am where I am today.

I don’t want to look back at her with disgust. I want to look back at her with LOVE.

And I sure as hell don’t want to live afraid of another season of pain because somebody might decide I’ve lost my “results.”

We call those seasons setbacks.

But are they?

Life will fu***ng knock you on your ass.

Sometimes your body changes. Sometimes your priorities change. Sometimes you’re just trying to make it through the day.

That doesn’t erase who you are or everything you’ve accomplished.

And your ability to get back up, to rise, to learn, to love yourself through it, and to BE the change?

THAT’S WHAT MAKES YOU FU***NG MAGIC. ✨

These pictures are all ME.

Different seasons. Different bodies. Different experiences. Different kinds of strength.

Not one of these women deserves less love than another.

You are allowed to be proud of who you’re becoming without being ashamed of who you’ve been.

Be nice to my friend. And when you’re talking about yourself, remember that you’re my friend, too. ❤️

Go be whatever level of badass you want to be today.

AND LOVE EVERY VERSION OF YOU. ❤️

11/06/2026

How dare you downgrade a version of me that I LOVE?! ❤️

Yesterday, someone called an older version of me fat. Apparently, it was a joke and somehow supposed to be a compliment about how hard I’ve worked on my body.

But here’s the thing…

I LOVED THAT VERSION OF ME.

She was a fu***ng badass. She was beautiful, adventurous, strong, and living her life. And I love the woman I am today just as much.

I didn’t change my body because I hated it. I changed because I knew I was capable of MORE.

I wanted to feel stronger. Challenge myself. See what would happen if I really gave it my all.

And I’ve done it the other way, too.

I’ve hated myself into submission. I’ve changed my body into something other people celebrated while feeling miserable inside.

And you know what I learned?

People will ALWAYS have something to critique.

So at some point, I had to ask myself…

WHAT THE F**K DO I WANT?

I want to feel ALIVE, WORTHY, and LIBERATED.

And I AM alive, worthy, and liberated. Right fu***ng now. Not ten pounds from now. Not after another challenge. NOW.

You can LOVE your body exactly as it is AND know you’re capable of more.

You don’t have to hate yourself into changing.

You can LOVE yourself into discovering what’s possible.

And PLEASE, can we stop diminishing people in the name of complimenting their progress?!

I think about my patients and members who are working so hard to build confidence, improve their health, and believe in themselves. How easily one careless comment could steal the joy they’re beginning to find.

So here’s my challenge:

EDIFY PEOPLE.

See their potential. Speak to their capacity. Celebrate their courage.

And remember, seeing someone’s potential doesn’t mean you get to decide what their life should look like. Their journey belongs to THEM.

That includes YOU.

You do not have to diminish who you were to celebrate who you’re becoming.

And that brings me to something I finally understood today about why I’ve never loved before-and-after pictures.

More on that in Part 2. ❤️

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Lake Charles, LA
70605

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