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StrongHer Everyday: Tiny Shift, Radiant Confidence Blog
This is your space for inspiration, education, and real-life wellness. As a functional medicine health coach and critical care nurse, Stacy shares practical tools and heartfelt stories to help you reconnect with your body, ignite your energy, and create a life filled with intention and joy.
Here, you’ll find simple, sustainable tips to get StrongHer with movement, nutrition, mindset, and lifestyle—designed to help you feel your best and thrive through every season of life. Whether you’re managing chronic conditions, navigating hormonal changes, or simply seeking more balance and vitality, Stacy’s blog is a place where wellness meets real life.
Let’s move forward together—with energy, purpose, and joy.
When the Person You Used to Be Feels Just Out of Reach
My raw, honest account of perimenopause, self-doubt, and finding my way back. Let me start by saying something that took me a long time to admit out loud: I am a nurse. I spent my career helping other people understand their bodies, their symptoms, their options. And yet, when my own hormones started pulling the floor out from under me, I had no idea what was happening to me. Or maybe I did — and I just couldn't believe it was this bad. This is not a clinical post. This is me
Stacy Shilling
Mar 294 min read
Spring Into Your Best Season Yet
Science-Backed Ways to Shake Off Winter, Boost Your Energy & Get Ready for Summer Let's be honest... January 1st has nothing on the first warm breeze of spring! Today felt like the first day of a new year to me! While everyone else is still clinging to their New Year's resolutions in the dark of winter, you and I both know that spring is when the real reset begins. The birds are back, the days are getting longer, and something deep inside you starts to stir. For those of us i
Stacy Shilling
Mar 85 min read
Understanding PCOS: A Functional Medicine Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
With any diagnosis, advocating for your health is always your priority! If you've recently been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), you might be feeling overwhelmed, confused, or even relieved to finally have answers for symptoms you've been experiencing. PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women, yet it remains widely misunderstood and underdiagnosed. Let's break down what PCOS really is, explore functional medicine approaches to treatmen
Stacy Shilling
Feb 118 min read
Your January Check-In: Small Steps, Big Momentum
Which baby step do you need the most as you close out January? Here we are, already wrapping up the first month of 2026. How is it going? Before you answer, let me say this: I'm not here to ask if you've kept your New Year's resolutions or if you've already "fallen off the wagon." (Who even owns a wagon now a days?) Instead, take a breath and simply notice where you are right now. No judgment. No comparison to where you think you "should" be. Just an honest, gentle check-in
Stacy Shilling
Jan 274 min read
Cellular Aging & Inflammation: A Better Predictor of Your Health During Perimenopause
If you're in your 40s or 50s and experiencing perimenopause, you've probably heard a lot about tracking cholesterol and blood pressure, but there is another health marker that functional medicine practitioners increasingly recognize as even more important: inflammation . Recent research from 2024 revealing that inflammation may be the single best predictor of your long-term health and disease risk. Let's explore what inflammation really is, why it increases as we age (especia
Stacy Shilling
Jan 146 min read
Gratitude Doesn't Live in a Journal—It Lives in Your Life
I'll be honest with you: I'm terrible at writing down the things I'm grateful for. There, I said it. As a health coach who knows all the research about gratitude journals and their benefits, I still can't seem to make that daily writing practice stick. The blank pages stare at me. The words don't come. But here's what I've learned: gratitude doesn't have to live in a journal. It can live in your morning walk. In the freezing cold air that makes your cheeks tingle. In the soun
Stacy Shilling
Nov 28, 20256 min read
When the Person You Used to Be Feels Just Out of Reach
My raw, honest account of perimenopause, self-doubt, and finding my way back. Let me start by saying something that took me a long time to admit out loud: I am a nurse. I spent my career helping other people understand their bodies, their symptoms, their options. And yet, when my own hormones started pulling the floor out from under me, I had no idea what was happening to me. Or maybe I did — and I just couldn't believe it was this bad. This is not a clinical post. This is me
Spring Into Your Best Season Yet
Science-Backed Ways to Shake Off Winter, Boost Your Energy & Get Ready for Summer Let's be honest... January 1st has nothing on the first warm breeze of spring! Today felt like the first day of a new year to me! While everyone else is still clinging to their New Year's resolutions in the dark of winter, you and I both know that spring is when the real reset begins. The birds are back, the days are getting longer, and something deep inside you starts to stir. For those of us i
Understanding PCOS: A Functional Medicine Approach to Diagnosis and Treatment
With any diagnosis, advocating for your health is always your priority! If you've recently been diagnosed with Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), you might be feeling overwhelmed, confused, or even relieved to finally have answers for symptoms you've been experiencing. PCOS is one of the most common hormonal disorders affecting women, yet it remains widely misunderstood and underdiagnosed. Let's break down what PCOS really is, explore functional medicine approaches to treatmen
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