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Change By Challenge I work with women who struggle with uncertainty reclaim their confidence I am so excited you are visiting my page.

I work as a health and life coach as well as a nutrition specialist and personal trainer. My life's mission is to help people enhance their relationship with their body and mind. I believe in a different approach to reach your health, fitness and life goals. I don’t just focus on your body, I focus on the connection between your body and your mind. I help you find the inspiration that will ignite your motivation to find the balanced and empowering life you desire. If you are tired of not getting results and you are done stressing over what to do next, sign up for a FREE coaching call. I guarantee you will walk away feeling empowered.
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Change by Challenge isn’t just a service, it’s a way to transform your life. It creates a bridge between who you are and who you want to be.

10/22/2026

Trust isn’t built in big gestures. It’s built in marbles.

Brené Brown explained it to her daughter after a rough day in kindergarten. Trust is like a marble jar. Every time someone does something trustworthy, a marble goes in. Every time they don’t, marbles come out. And sometimes the whole jar shatters.

What makes the marbles go in is almost always small. A friend asking how your parent’s surgery went because she remembered it was coming up. Someone showing up with fresh flowers because they noticed yours had died. Nothing flashy. Just proof that someone was paying attention.

That’s the part worth sitting with. Feeling seen and cared about doesn’t come from the grand moments. It comes from consistent, thoughtful acts that tell someone, I noticed you.

It works the other way too. Every time you follow through, remember the detail, or check in without being asked, you’re putting marbles in someone else’s jar. And every time you cancel, forget, or let something slide, you’re taking a few out.

Take a minute to think about it from both sides. What small thing builds trust for you? And who in your life is waiting on a marble from you?

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10/20/2026

Trauma isn’t about what happened to you. It’s about how your body processed what happened.

That distinction matters more than most people realize. It means trauma isn’t a measure of how bad something was. It’s a measure of how overwhelmed your system was at the time, and whether you had the tools to digest it.

When you didn’t, your body did what bodies do. It stored it. Delayed it. Held it somewhere safe until you had more capacity to deal with it. That’s not weakness. That’s your nervous system being incredibly smart under pressure.

It’s adaptive. It’s resilient. It also just really doesn’t feel good to carry.

So if you’ve ever looked back at something and thought, that wasn’t even that bad, why am I still affected by it, this is why. Your body wasn’t judging the size of the event. It was just doing the best it could with what it had at the time.

That deserves compassion, not criticism.

What would change if you stopped judging your past reactions and started getting curious about them instead?

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10/15/2026

Effort is not a strategy. And we keep treating it like one.

If I just work harder. Try more. Show up bigger. Be more. Do more. We exhaust ourselves adding force to something that was never a force problem to begin with.

A fish that tries harder still cannot climb a tree. The effort isn’t the issue. The container is wrong. The strategy is missing.

We do this all the time. We pour more into an approach that isn’t working and wonder why we’re tired and stuck in the same place. When the real question was never how much harder can I push but where am I applying this effort and is that actually the right place for it.

More is not always the answer. Sometimes the answer is different.

Where are you treating effort like a solution when what you actually need is a better strategy?

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The answers are usually already there.Stillness just makes them impossible to ignore. And so does Wednesday, apparently....
10/15/2026

The answers are usually already there.

Stillness just makes them impossible to ignore. And so does Wednesday, apparently.

What’s something you already know that you’ve been too busy to listen to?

10/12/2026

The greatest thing you can do right now might be the thing you’ve been avoiding the most.

Befriend stillness.

We’ve gotten really good at using distraction to get through hard seasons. And honestly, sometimes that’s survival and survival is enough. But distraction has a cost. It robs you of your own presence. The moments you needed to process something, to actually feel it and move through it, got filled with noise instead.

Stillness is where wisdom lives. It’s where you hear the things you’ve been too busy to listen to. It’s where you finally get to catch up to yourself.

One of the biggest weaknesses in our culture right now is the inability to just be still. To sit without a screen, a task, a reason to keep moving. Because stillness feels uncomfortable. And uncomfortable, somewhere along the way, started feeling dangerous.

It isn’t. It’s actually where your strength is.

When did you last give yourself real stillness, not sleep, not scrolling, actual quiet?

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10/08/2026

What if the problem isn’t the situation. It’s the story you’re telling about it.

Resistance is exhausting. Not because life is hard, though it is sometimes, but because fighting what already is costs more energy than almost anything else you’ll do. You’re not changing the thing by resisting it. You’re just suffering twice. Once from what happened and once from refusing to let it be what it is.

Everything is technically neutral until we assign it meaning. The meeting that got moved. The plan that fell apart. The conversation that didn’t go how you wanted. None of it arrives with a label. We add the label. And then we live inside it like it was always true.

This isn’t about pretending hard things aren’t hard. It’s about asking yourself honestly, what story am I adding to this that’s making it worse than it actually is?

Try the experiment. Just for today. What if you let one thing just be what it is, without the story attached to it?

What would actually be your problem then?

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10/07/2026

Character isn’t built in the easy moments. It’s built in the ones where you had every reason to show up differently and chose not to.

Choosing to own a mistake when your ego wants to defend it. Choosing to show up with love when you’ve been hurt. Choosing to trust again when trust has already cost you something. That’s not weakness. That’s the hardest kind of discipline there is.

And when you build that kind of ethos, when who you are stops depending on how people treat you or how circumstances unfold, something shifts. You become someone you can actually rely on. Not because life got easier. Because your character got clearer.

That’s the mission. Not just building a business or hitting a goal. Becoming someone whose values show up even when it’s inconvenient.

Who are you choosing to be today, especially in the hard moments?

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There’s a version of strength that looks so good from the outside it becomes its own trap.You handle things. You figure ...
09/30/2026

There’s a version of strength that looks so good from the outside it becomes its own trap.

You handle things. You figure it out. You don’t burden people. You wait until you have it together before you let anyone see where you are. And slowly, without meaning to, you’ve built a version of yourself that’s very easy to admire and very hard to actually reach.

People trust you with everything and offer you nothing, not because they don’t care, but because you’ve made it look like you don’t need anything. You’ve been so consistent at performing self-sufficiency that the people around you took you at your word.

And then something gets hard. And you look around for someone to tell and realize the architecture of your own independence has made that almost impossible. Not because nobody loves you. Because you never let them practice showing up for you.

Needing things is not a weakness. It’s how relationships actually work, in both directions. The version of you that never asks for anything isn’t strong. She’s just alone in a room full of people who would help if you’d let them.

What would you ask for today if you let yourself?

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The way you talk to yourself when you make a mistake. The standard you hold yourself to when nobody is watching. The spe...
09/29/2026

The way you talk to yourself when you make a mistake. The standard you hold yourself to when nobody is watching. The speed at which you extend yourself grace versus criticism. All of it becomes the template.

Not just for how you treat other people, but for what you accept from them. What you ask for. What you tolerate. What you walk away from. When the inner voice is harsh, demanding, and conditional, you tend to attract and accept that from the outside too. Not because you deserve it, but because it feels familiar.

And when you start to shift that, when you start catching the criticism and replacing it with something more honest and more fair, everything starts to recalibrate. The standards you set. The things you ask for. The relationships that feel like home versus the ones that feel like you’re constantly proving yourself.

The work always comes back to this. Not fixing the outside first. Coming back to the relationship you’re having with yourself right now and asking whether you’d accept it from anyone else.

Would you?

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Two people can go through the exact same experience and walk away with completely different lives depending on the story...
09/26/2026

Two people can go through the exact same experience and walk away with completely different lives depending on the story they attach to it.

One person loses a job and decides they’re not good enough. Another loses the same job and decides it wasn’t the right fit. The event is identical. The meaning they assign to it is everything.

This isn’t about toxic positivity or pretending hard things aren’t hard. It’s about recognizing that the narrative you build around an experience will follow you into every room you walk into after it. It will shape what you try next, who you trust, what you believe you’re capable of, how much risk you’re willing to take.

You don’t get to choose everything that happens. You do get to choose what you decide it means about you. And that second choice has more influence over your future than the first one ever did.

What story are you carrying about something that happened that might be worth questioning?

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