About my Body can : putting myself back together again in my 50's Podcast
After years of illness, injury and well, the menopausal transition, I'm taking the reins back on my strength, balance and flexibility. I'm experimenting with some weights, exercise bands, and more in order to find exercises that fit my life.
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I recorded this episode after something small but meaningful happened during a workout. I didn’t plan for it to become an episode. I just noticed that a familiar pattern had shifted, and I wanted to celebrate it.
What surprised me wasn’t the movement itself. It was how I related to it.
The mindset shift
I’d been doing a short workout. Five minutes of barre. My knees were still healing. My arms were shaky. My coordination was off. I was clearly not good at what I was doing.
Normally, that’s the moment where frustration shows up. Where I start negotiating with myself about whether this is worth it. Whether I should be doing something else. Something I’m better at.
Instead, a different thought landed.
“I sucked at this but it’s fun.”
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17 Feb 2026
Strength Exercises I Do at (and Near) My Desk in Midlife
There was ping pong happening behind me when I recorded this episode.
Not aggressively. Just enough that if this were the audio episode you’d hear it and think, oh, she’s definitely not at home.
I was standing in a coworking booth with a resistance band around my legs.
Yes. Around my actual legs. While working.
Very professional.
And I keep wondering, why is it so weird to move at work?
Because my brain is moving. My thoughts are moving. Everything up here is firing. And my Body wants to join in.
If you want to keep thinking about this with me, you’re welcome here.
I write to make sense of what my Body is doing and how that changes how I work, move, and think. And right now what it’s doing is refusing to sit still like a polite midlife woman with a laptop.
And I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
💡 Check out the Substack post that goes into this topic in more detail: https://mybodycan.substack.com (https://mybodycan.substack.com)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mybodycan.substack.com (https://mybodycan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
10 Feb 2026
Midlife Exercise Blocks: Rediscovering Barre in a Body That Changed
I didn’t stop doing barre because I didn’t like it.I stopped because I didn’t feel “good at it” and that mattered for some reason.
This was an unconscious consensus for sure.
And it stuck.
The way subtle pressures rest on our body before the brain ever checks them.
I’m realizing now that a lot of my movement history lives there.In the quiet decisions.In the things I stopped trying without ever officially quitting.
This is my Body can, after all.Not my body should.Not my body used to.Just what my Body can do. Right now.
And lately, my body can do five minutes of barre.
Five minutes.That’s it.
And somehow, that’s enough.
💡 Check out the Substack post that goes into this topic in more detail: https://mybodycan.substack.com (https://mybodycan.substack.com)
This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit mybodycan.substack.com (https://mybodycan.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_1)
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