Own Your Stride

On Stride is a body of work about supporting a capable body through change — without forcing, fixing, or starting over.

This isn’t wellness for beginners.

It’s for people who have lived in their bodies long enough to notice that things are different now — not wrong, not broken, just changed.

Bodies that have:

  • moved
  • worked
  • cared
  • trained
  • adapted
  • carried responsibility

Bodies with history.

Why On Stride Exists

BayMax the horse

I’ve been a rider for more than 35 years.

Like many long-term athletes and movers, my body carries the evidence: imbalance, arthritis, wear, adaptation.

In midlife, I reached a point where “doing more” stopped working.

Trying to return to an earlier version of myself didn’t make sense — and neither did the solutions I was offered.

I tried the conventional route:

  • surgeries
  • pain management
  • prescriptions

Nothing stuck.

At first, I assumed the problem was discipline.
Everyone else seemed to manage. Why couldn’t I?

Then I noticed a pattern.

Women in midlife, frustrated with modern medicine, turning to alternative approaches — only to feel like failures again when those didn’t work either.

So I chose a different question.

What if pain was information, not an enemy?
What if listening was more useful than pushing through?

FROM EXPERIENCE TO PRACTICE

As my health and strength improved, I pursued evidence-based training — not to become a fitness personality, but to understand my own body more clearly.

I wanted tools that respected:

  • complexity
  • history
  • context
  • capacity

This work comes from that process.
It’s grounded in lived experience and informed by training — but it’s not performative, prescriptive, or trend-driven.

On Stride grew out of that decision.

How to Read This Site

The work here is organized around six dimensions of wellness — not as categories to perfect, but as lenses to notice patterns.

  • Body — structure, strength, pain, adaptation
  • Energy — fatigue, capacity, recovery, hormones
  • Nourishment — food as support, not control
  • Rhythm — pace, rest, repetition, daily life
  • Identity — change, capability, self-trust
  • Connection — relationship, environment, belonging

You don’t need to read everything. You don’t need to start anywhere specific. You can enter wherever something feels familiar, or whatever is quietly relevant.

What This Is (and Isn’t)

On Stride is:

  • Thoughtful and evidence-informed
  • Grounded in lived experience
  • Written for adults navigating real bodies and real lives

On Stride is not:

  • Influencer wellness
  • Before-and-after thinking
  • A chase for youth, productivity, or perfection

There are no quick fixes here.

There is attention, context, and respect for the long arc of a body’s life.

About Me

I’m a lifelong rider, a midlife woman, a full time career-woman, a mom of three grown men.

I live between disciplines and perspectives:

  • movement and stillness
  • structure and intuition
  • evidence and experience

I write to make sense of those intersections, and to offer language where things often feel vague or dismissed. On Stride is the place where that thinking lives.

An Invitation

If you’re here because something feels off — but not wrong — you’re in the right place.

You don’t need to overhaul your life.

You don’t need to push harder.

You don’t need to become someone else.

You may just need a steadier way of listening.

Training & Certifications

  • Certified Wellness Coach (NASM)
  • Certified Nutrition Coach (NASM)
  • Yoga Teacher (RYT 200)