Women's new trump card

by | Motivation

“Goal clout” is an important concept to help explain why it’s been so hard for us busy women to keep up our desired behavioral goals (move more, eat better, meditate, etc.) and how we can learn to maintain them for life. Want this new trump card? I created the goal...

Better Reasons for Women to Exercise

by | Motivation

My colleagues and I at the University of Michigan recently published an eye-opening study on midlife women.  It showed that the health benefits we’ve been taught to strive to achieve through exercising might not be powerful enough to deliver the health outcomes we...

Cinderella: Modern Lessons for Women in Midlife

by | Motivation

Many of us treat our bodies similar to how Cinderella was treated by her stepmother. We consider our bodies to be our nemesis.  We ignore them –we do anything to avoid acknowledging them. Wikipedia says “The word “cinderella” has, by analogy, come to mean one whose...