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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.
The Real Cost of Self Care in Perimenopause, And What's Actually Worth Your Money
If you listen to all of the noise about what self-care looks like in perimenopause, you'd go broke and run out of time to enjoy your day! Part Two of our Financial Series Walk into any beauty store or scroll through social media for five minutes and you will quickly feel like perimenopause requires a full-time budget, a bathroom the size of a warehouse and 90 extra minutes built into your day for self care! A red-light device here, a microcurrent wand there! A $90 peptide ser
Stacy Shilling
May 244 min read
Is Money Stress Making You Sick?
Do you lie awake at night worrying about bills? Does checking your bank account make your stomach drop? You are not alone and that stress may be doing more harm than you think. Money problems are one of the biggest causes of stress in America. And stress is not just a feeling. It is something your body feels physically. When you worry about money day after day, your body stays in a constant state of alarm. Your heart beats faster. Your muscles stay tense. Your sleep suffers.
Stacy Shilling
May 213 min read
The Mirror Doesn't Have to Be Your Enemy
A note for the woman standing in the bathroom at 6am, scrutinizing every line. Let's have an honest conversation. You know the one — the conversation you have with yourself in the mirror before the rest of the world wakes up. The one where you tilt your face toward the light and catalog every new line, every brown spot, every shift in the landscape of your skin or out of control grey hair. The one where you wonder when exactly that happened, and whether anyone else notices, a
Stacy Shilling
Apr 244 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
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
The Real Cost of Self Care in Perimenopause, And What's Actually Worth Your Money
If you listen to all of the noise about what self-care looks like in perimenopause, you'd go broke and run out of time to enjoy your day! Part Two of our Financial Series Walk into any beauty store or scroll through social media for five minutes and you will quickly feel like perimenopause requires a full-time budget, a bathroom the size of a warehouse and 90 extra minutes built into your day for self care! A red-light device here, a microcurrent wand there! A $90 peptide ser
Is Money Stress Making You Sick?
Do you lie awake at night worrying about bills? Does checking your bank account make your stomach drop? You are not alone and that stress may be doing more harm than you think. Money problems are one of the biggest causes of stress in America. And stress is not just a feeling. It is something your body feels physically. When you worry about money day after day, your body stays in a constant state of alarm. Your heart beats faster. Your muscles stay tense. Your sleep suffers.
The Mirror Doesn't Have to Be Your Enemy
A note for the woman standing in the bathroom at 6am, scrutinizing every line. Let's have an honest conversation. You know the one — the conversation you have with yourself in the mirror before the rest of the world wakes up. The one where you tilt your face toward the light and catalog every new line, every brown spot, every shift in the landscape of your skin or out of control grey hair. The one where you wonder when exactly that happened, and whether anyone else notices, a
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