In Hovering in the Gap, I revisit the terrifying space between knowing and understanding—and what it felt like when the people around me couldn’t always see how hard my brain was working just to get there. Then, sitting beside my son as he faced a challenge of his own, I began to wonder if maybe the gap isn’t something we have to escape.

Maybe it’s where we become weightless—and allow curiosity to complete what fear never could.

After nearly a year of fighting, what happens when there’s finally nothing left to battle? In Unclench, I’m learning to loosen my grip on perfection, stop treating ambition like an emergency, and recognize that maybe getting my life back was never about winning. Maybe it was about finally being here to live it.

In Episode 9, “Who Earns the Cape?”, I explore what happens when recovery stops being about getting back to who you were. After motherhood, illness, and stroke changed the way I saw myself, I started to wonder if I even wanted the old version of me back—or if I finally had permission to decide who I wanted to become.

After every medical emergency, my body changes.

The appointments eventually stop. The procedures end. Life moves forward.

But shame doesn’t.

In this episode of This Might Be Personal, I share the moment I stopped recognizing the person staring back at me in the mirror and the quiet battle that followed. It’s a conversation about body image after illness, the guilt of expensive medical care, the impossible standards we hold ourselves to, and learning that the person I was searching for in the mirror was never me—it was Wonder Woman.

What if the greatest battle isn’t surviving the emergency?

What if it’s learning to stop treating your own body like the enemy after it’s already fought so hard to keep you alive?

This is an episode about recovery, identity, grace, and discovering that sometimes the only thing left causing damage… is friendly fire.

I tell my kids to be brave. To do hard things. To never let fear make their decisions.

But what happens when I’m the one who’s afraid?

In Episode 7: When the Cape Falls Off, I talk about the side of recovery that doesn’t always look like progress—the overwhelm, the guilt, the moments my kids see the cape hit the floor, and the grace they give me when it does.

From parenting and homeschooling to navigating the invisible icebergs in my own brain, this episode is about learning that thriving doesn’t require everything to be perfect.

Sometimes courage is being afraid, getting in the car, and going anyway.

I thought I had finally found the answer—and that closing the hole in my heart would let me put the fear behind me. But lying awake on the operating table, everything changed. In Episode 6 of This Might Be Personal, I share the failed first attempt to close my PFO, what it felt like to be the less than 1%, and the moment it felt like someone took the guidewire and shredded my cape.

Sometimes falling out of the sky isn’t the end of the flight. Sometimes you’re just learning another way to fly.

After rebuilding my strength and finding my way back to kettlebells, I thought I was finally weightless again. But a year after feeling stronger than ever, I experienced a stroke that changed everything. Months of testing, uncertainty, and fear eventually led to finding a PFO — a hole in my heart that could be fixed. Episode 5 follows the moment I thought I had finally found the answer, the solution, and the path back to myself.

With my world-class coach, Shannon, who sees me clearly, momentum becomes the thing that carries me - physically and emotionally. This episode is about discovering that flight isn’t about force. It’s timing.