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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.
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
Winter Blues? You Might Be Missing Negative Ions
Cold air. Still water. Infinite healing. Winter lakes offer exactly what your perimenopausal body is craving: negative ions to restore mood, energy, and clarity! Living in the Mid-Atlantic, you know how it feels: by 4:30 PM in late November, the sun is setting and darkness blankets everything. You're spending more time indoors, cooped up with heating systems running, and somehow you just don't feel... right. You're more tired. Your mood is lower. You catch every cold that com
Stacy Shilling
Nov 23, 20256 min read
Feeling Puffy, Swollen, and Heavy? Your Body Needs This Simple 2-Minute Routine
Waking up with a puffy face, noticing swelling around your ankles, knees, knuckles in your fingers or feeling like your body is holding onto fluid no matter what you do? You're not alone. Many women going through perimenopause tell me they feel bloated, swollen, and just "off" in a way they can't quite explain. The answer might lie in a system you've probably never thought much about: your lymphatic system. What Is Your Lymphatic System? Think of your lymphatic system as your
Stacy Shilling
Nov 2, 20255 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
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
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
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