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5 Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight After 40 (And What to Do About It)
Turning 40 isn’t the end of the world—but let’s be honest, our bodies don’t play by the same rules anymore. As a family nurse practitioner and a woman who has gone through the weight...
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Emotional Self-Care After 40: Learning to Sit With, Soothe, and Strengthen Your Feelings
Why Emotional Self-Care Is Essential After 40 You’ve learned to push through. To keep going. To hold it all together. But after 40, those suppressed feelings often resurface. Grief....
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Sacred Sundays: Creating a Weekly Ritual to Refill Your Cup
Why Sundays Matter More Than We Think Sunday is more than a day before Monday. It’s a transition point—a threshold between the energy of the week behind you and the intention of the...
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10 Micro Self-Care Practices That Fit Into Even the Busiest Day
The Myth That Self-Care Requires Hours of Free Time You want to care for yourself. You try to carve out time. But between work, family, and life’s many moving parts, self-care keeps...
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The Self-Care Audit: How to Know What You Actually Need Right Now
Why Guessing Doesn’t Work: The Power of Self-Care Awareness You wake up feeling off. You’re tired, irritable, or just disconnected. So, you take a bath. Or buy a face mask. But somehow,...
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Redefining Self-Care After 40: It’s Not a Luxury, It’s a Lifeline
Why Self-Care Must Evolve After 40 In your 20s and 30s, self-care might have meant girls’ nights out or the occasional vacation. But after 40, life gets more layered. Responsibilities...
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Dee Monique FNP-C is a board-certified family nurse practitioner with over 20 years of experience guiding patients through the most pivotal chapters of their health journey. On this blog, I will empower women over 45 who are facing weight loss challenges, chronic conditions and hormonal shifts.

Combining my clinical expertise with my own powerful transformation story. I will deliver relatable and compassionate guidance that bridges modern medicine with holistic wellness. Whether you’re managing high blood pressure, struggling with menopausal weight gain or simply trying to feel like yourself again. I will equip you with real-world tools, step by step reset plans and encouragement rooted in both science and lived experience.

This isn’t just about weight loss: it’s about reclaiming your power, your health and your joy!