by Stephanie | Nov 9, 2021 | motherhood, Your Best Self
In December 2011, I was the mother of a five-year-old and a three-month-old. The word “balance” would have been a joke to me then, because I was literally balancing nothing. I was a milk machine, a baby-holder, and a kindergartener’s chauffeur. I was heating up frozen...
by Stephanie | Feb 11, 2019 | Rodan + Fields, Your Best Self
You guys, I took a big, scary leap recently, one that is way out of my comfort zone. I’m 40 years old, and I’ve been teaching music classes for 18 years, writing and blogging for 7 years, and producing Listen To Your Mother Boulder for 3 years. My teaching...
by Stephanie | Nov 2, 2018 | family life, HerStories, Your Best Self
It’s written every single week in my planner. Maybe not the first thing in the “work to-do” list column. That’s reserved for something really pressing, something that might actually contribute to my income or have significant impact on a...
by Stephanie | Aug 30, 2018 | Your Best Self
I read an article in the New York Times last week titled “Worshipping the False Idols of Wellness.” It was written by a female doctor named Jen Gunter, and the premise is that the wellness industry is basically targeting and exploiting women with harmful...
by Stephanie | Jan 21, 2018 | motherhood, Your Best Self
It’s January, so that means the masses are frantically setting goals that aren’t attainable, making masochistic resolutions, setting themselves up for failure, and trying to be healthier and happier by changing their lives in expensive and impractical...
by Stephanie | Nov 20, 2017 | Your Best Self
I think I’m going to make a master list of all the things I blatantly made fun of was skeptical to try that I now love. Friends, it’s a long list. As one who approaches trends with trepidation and perhaps even a misguided superiority, I am usually a pretty...
