Womenshealth.gov Expert Interview

I am honored to have been interviewed on womenshealth.gov about how women can create sustainable self-care and motivation and how to craft New Year’s resolutions that last. Directly below is one of the questions they asked and my answer. What is your favorite...

Thank You My Fall WS 432(002) Students!

Dear Students, I’m so glad you decided to take my new class this past Fall. At the beginning of our term I was so excited about this new course to teach young women how to design lives and make decisions that are more likely to lead to health and well-being that...

EveryBODY, EveryDAY

Guess what?  It’s not your fault. So many of us have tried to exercise, tried to diet, tried to lose weight, without ever achieving results that last. So, we feel like failures. Many of us have come to the conclusion after 25+ years of trying and failing, numerous...

Women's new trump card

“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

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...