Issue # 11 The Skill That Predicts Whether This Sticks (It's Not Willpower) Hi Reader, If you read this week's Substack article, you already know what a punishing loop is, and why a stall in the present can activate the same dread you felt the last time a plateau turned into a slide backward. That's the why behind the fear. This email is about something the article didn't get into: the one thing that actually predicts whether a woman moves through a plateau instead of getting stuck in one. It...
3 days ago • 2 min read
Issue # 9 The voice that's doing the most damage isn't your aunt's Hi Reader, This week on Substack I wrote about Maya — a woman seven months into her tirzepatide journey who lost forty-one pounds and spent a holiday dinner eating less than she already had been eating, because her aunt made a comment loud enough for the whole table to hear. Maybe you recognized her immediately. Maybe you've been Maya at a table, or in a break room, or in a comment section, or in a doctor's office where the...
17 days ago • 2 min read
Issue # 8 You were in the equation, right? Hi Reader, This week’s essay was about something I see in almost every woman I work with, regardless of where she is in her GLP-1 journey. She knows what she needs. She knows what would support her health. She knows what she keeps skipping, deferring, and placing at the bottom of the list. And she keeps doing it anyway — not because she doesn’t care, but because somewhere along the way, she stopped fully believing that her needs belonged in the...
24 days ago • 2 min read
Issue #7 When the people who love you don't get it Hi Reader, There's a specific kind of loneliness that shows up on a GLP-1 journey that almost no one talks about. It isn't the loneliness of struggling. It's the loneliness of doing something significant — something that is changing you physically, emotionally, and in ways you're still finding language for — and finding that the people closest to you don't quite have a map for where you are. They see the number on the scale. They don't see...
about 1 month ago • 2 min read
No Instructions, Just a Syringe You started the medication. And now you have a list in your head — maybe not written down, but there, running in the background like an app you can't quite close. The shot. The nausea. The eating. The protein. The water. The exercise. The questions you don't even know how to Google yet. Here's what I want you to know before anything else: that list is not a sign that you're doing it wrong. It's a sign that you were handed something genuinely complex without...
about 2 months ago • 2 min read
After the Noise | Issue # 2 The reframe that changes every shared meal This week on Substack I wrote about something nobody in your doctor's office prepared you for — what happens to your closest relationships when your relationship with food changes. Not the logistics. The emotional weight of sitting across from someone you love and feeling like you're eating in a different language than everyone else at the table. If that landed for you, here's the one thing I want you to carry into the...
2 months ago • 1 min read
Hi Reader, You’re here because something about the words After the Noise landed for you. Maybe you’re on a GLP-1 and the emotional piece has caught you off guard. Maybe the weight is changing and you expected to feel relieved, but instead you feel something harder to name. Maybe you just knew, the way women know, that there was more to this than anyone was talking about. You were right. There is. After the Noise is a weekly newsletter for women navigating the emotional and identity terrain...
2 months ago • 1 min read