Change By Challenge

Change By Challenge I work with women who struggle with uncertainty reclaim their confidence I am so excited you are visiting my page.

I work as a health and life coach as well as a nutrition specialist and personal trainer. My life's mission is to help people enhance their relationship with their body and mind. I believe in a different approach to reach your health, fitness and life goals. I don’t just focus on your body, I focus on the connection between your body and your mind. I help you find the inspiration that will ignite

your motivation to find the balanced and empowering life you desire. If you are tired of not getting results and you are done stressing over what to do next, sign up for a FREE coaching call. I guarantee you will walk away feeling empowered.
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Change by Challenge isn’t just a service, it’s a way to transform your life. It creates a bridge between who you are and who you want to be.

For a lot of high achievers, rest does not just feel unproductive.It feels dangerous.Not consciously. But somewhere in t...
07/28/2026

For a lot of high achievers, rest does not just feel unproductive.

It feels dangerous.

Not consciously. But somewhere in the wiring, being still triggers the same anxiety as falling behind. Because when your sense of worth has been built on output, pausing the output raises an uncomfortable question. If I am not producing, what am I actually worth?

This is one of the most common and least talked about patterns in high achievers. Not laziness. Not lack of ambition. But a deep, often unconscious equation between doing and deserving. Between output and value. Between what you produce and whether you are enough.

The problem is that worth built on performance has no floor. There is always more to do. Always a higher bar. Always a reason the current level of output is not quite enough yet. And so the chase continues, not because you love it, but because stopping feels like losing something you cannot afford to lose.

Your worth is not a performance metric. It was never supposed to be.

Where in your life are you doing more to feel like enough rather than because you actually want to?

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07/23/2026

We tell ourselves there’s never enough time. but time isn’t the problem.

When productivity becomes the goal, we stop asking who we are and how we’re actually experiencing our lives.
And usually, we don’t slow down until loss forces us to.

So here’s the challenge:
Choose only three priorities.
Then ask, how do I want to experience myself in this time?

Isn’t that valuable enough?

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07/22/2026

The fear voice screams.

The wisdom voice just guides.

Most of us have spent our whole lives listening to the loudest one.

Steve Sapourn came on The Challenges of Change and said something in this moment that stopped me. Because how many decisions have you made from fear that you called logic? How many times have you silenced the quieter voice because the loud one felt more urgent?

This conversation goes deep on what it actually takes to start trusting the one that does not beg.

Episode 94 is out now. Listen at the link in bio.

There is a version of reliability that becomes its own kind of trap.You are the one people call. The one who handles it....
07/20/2026

There is a version of reliability that becomes its own kind of trap.

You are the one people call. The one who handles it. The one who always has a plan, always finds a solution, always knows what to do next. And it is genuinely one of your strengths. It has gotten you far.

But here is what accumulates on the other side of always being that person.

People stop asking if you are okay because they assume you are. They stop offering help because you have made it clear you do not need it. They stop checking in because you have always handled it before. And somewhere in the process of being endlessly capable, you quietly stopped being someone people thought to take care of.

The cost is not always visible. But it shows up in the loneliness of feeling like you are always the one holding things together. In the exhaustion of never being allowed to not know. In the relationships where the dynamic has become so lopsided that you cannot remember the last time someone showed up for you.

Who takes care of the person who takes care of everyone?

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Most perfectionists do not think of themselves as procrastinators.They think of themselves as thorough. Careful. Committ...
07/16/2026

Most perfectionists do not think of themselves as procrastinators.

They think of themselves as thorough. Careful. Committed to doing things properly. And there is truth in that. But underneath the thoroughness, research consistently shows something else is happening.

When your sense of worth is tied to flawless performance, producing something imperfect does not feel like a work problem. It feels like a self problem. So your brain, in its very logical attempt to protect you, suggests waiting. Refining a little more. Not quite starting yet. Doing more research. Getting more ready.

The logic is self-defeating but internally completely consistent. If you never finish, it cannot be judged as inadequate. If you never start, you cannot fail. And so the thing sits. While you stay busy doing everything around it.

Perfectionism is not high standards. It is fear of judgment disguised as quality control.

What have you been refining instead of finishing?

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Most people think boundaries are about other people.A line you draw to keep someone out. A rule you set to protect yours...
07/14/2026

Most people think boundaries are about other people.

A line you draw to keep someone out. A rule you set to protect yourself from someone else’s behavior. A wall you put up when things get too much.

But that is not what a boundary actually is.

A boundary is an honest statement about what you need and what you will do if that need is not respected. It is not about controlling what someone else does. It is about being clear on what you will do. And that distinction changes everything.

Because when a boundary is actually about the other person, it requires them to change for it to work. When a boundary is about you, it only requires you to be honest about your own limits and willing to follow through on them.

Most boundary problems are not about not knowing where the line is. They are about not believing you are allowed to have one.

Where do you know your limit but have not said it out loud yet?

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There is a particular kind of unsettledness that arrives when a role that defined you changes.You leave the company you ...
07/14/2026

There is a particular kind of unsettledness that arrives when a role that defined you changes.

You leave the company you built. The kids grow up and need you differently. The relationship ends. The career pivots. The title changes. And suddenly the version of yourself that made sense in that context does not quite fit anymore.

For high achievers this is especially disorienting because so much of identity tends to be built around what you do, what you produce, and what role you play for other people. When the role shifts, it can feel like the ground underneath you shifts with it.

But here is what is actually happening. You are not losing yourself. You are being asked to find the version of yourself that exists independent of the context. The one that is there before the title, before the achievement, before the role.

That process is uncomfortable. It is also one of the most significant pieces of growth available to you.

Who are you when the role that defined you is no longer the thing that defines you?

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The truth will set you free. But first it will make you uncomfortable.And that discomfort is exactly what this week has ...
07/10/2026

The truth will set you free. But first it will make you uncomfortable.

And that discomfort is exactly what this week has been about.

Because questioning the shoulds that have been running your life is not comfortable work.

It means admitting that some of what you have been calling ambition is actually obligation.

That some of what you have been calling drive is actually fear.

That some of the standards you have been holding yourself to were never yours to begin with.

That is not a small thing to sit with.

But here is what is on the other side of that discomfort.

The version of you that moves through your days from genuine desire instead of inherited pressure. That makes decisions from your own knowing instead of an invisible standard you never agreed to. That shows up fully because you chose to. Not because you were afraid of what would happen if you did not.

That version is not built in a single week.

But it starts with one honest question.

Is this actually mine?

If something shifted for you this week, even just one moment of clarity, drop a fire emoji below. That is the win.

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