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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.
Wear the Cute Set. (But Let's Talk About the Tube Top.)
Let me start with the part I will not budge on: you are allowed to wear whatever makes you feel good at the gym! Matching sets, bike shorts, a crop top, a bold color, a bow in your ponytail. All. Of. It! Nobody's workout was ever ruined by someone else's cute outfit, but plenty of workouts have been ruined by someone hovering in the doorway thinking, "Maybe I'll go when I feel more put together." Not today, friend. A few years ago, gym fashion was an oversized t-shirt from a
Stacy Shilling
Sep 253 min read
Could Mold Be Making Your Perimenopause Symptoms Worse?
What happens when you don't immediately fix that leak? If you're in perimenopause, you may already feel like your body is playing tricks on you! Hot flashes, poor sleep, brain fog, mood swings, and fatigue may show up out of nowhere. But what if something in your home is adding to the problem? Mold is one possible piece of the puzzle. Here's what we know, what we don't, and what you should do about it. First, an Honest Look at the Science Research on mold and female hormones
Stacy Shilling
Sep 204 min read
Falling Leaves, Rising Mold: How to Get Ahead of Fall Allergy Season
Who is already itching their eyes? Blowing their nose constantly? Yup, they are here...seasonal allergies! Fall is here and the leaves are starting to drop. For many people, this also means sneezing, stuffy noses, and itchy eyes. But leaves are not the only problem. As rain and morning dew sit inside wet, piled-up leaves, mold spores begin to grow. These spores float into the air and may make allergy symptoms even worse. The good news is that you do not have to reach for med
Stacy Shilling
Sep 133 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
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
Wear the Cute Set. (But Let's Talk About the Tube Top.)
Let me start with the part I will not budge on: you are allowed to wear whatever makes you feel good at the gym! Matching sets, bike shorts, a crop top, a bold color, a bow in your ponytail. All. Of. It! Nobody's workout was ever ruined by someone else's cute outfit, but plenty of workouts have been ruined by someone hovering in the doorway thinking, "Maybe I'll go when I feel more put together." Not today, friend. A few years ago, gym fashion was an oversized t-shirt from a
Could Mold Be Making Your Perimenopause Symptoms Worse?
What happens when you don't immediately fix that leak? If you're in perimenopause, you may already feel like your body is playing tricks on you! Hot flashes, poor sleep, brain fog, mood swings, and fatigue may show up out of nowhere. But what if something in your home is adding to the problem? Mold is one possible piece of the puzzle. Here's what we know, what we don't, and what you should do about it. First, an Honest Look at the Science Research on mold and female hormones
Falling Leaves, Rising Mold: How to Get Ahead of Fall Allergy Season
Who is already itching their eyes? Blowing their nose constantly? Yup, they are here...seasonal allergies! Fall is here and the leaves are starting to drop. For many people, this also means sneezing, stuffy noses, and itchy eyes. But leaves are not the only problem. As rain and morning dew sit inside wet, piled-up leaves, mold spores begin to grow. These spores float into the air and may make allergy symptoms even worse. The good news is that you do not have to reach for med
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