by missypoo586 | Jul 23, 2025 | Midlife Glow Up, Wellness & Mental Health
Losing My Job, Finding My Voice Got laid off on Monday. At first, it felt like a setback. But maybe it wasn’t. Maybe it was the universe saying: it’s time. Time to take my life back.Time to stop waiting for permission.Time to start the second act of my life on my own...
by missypoo586 | Jul 16, 2024 | Midlife Glow Up, Pop Culture & Nostalgia
High School Misfit Vibes In 1990, I was a sophomore in high school still trying to figure myself out. Spoiler alert: I still am. Back then, I wasn’t in clubs. I didn’t make any teams. And the doors of rejection? Oh, they swung wide open for me on the regular....
by missypoo586 | Jul 16, 2024 | Beauty & Skincare for Mature Women
JFC what is wrong with me? I love Amazon. I love the instant gratification, fast delivery, and the abundance of perfectly targeted necessities I don’t need. I just went balls out on Prime. As earlier indicated, I’m a slob with a nasty habit of ordering...
by missypoo586 | Jul 15, 2024 | Relationships & Marriage, Wellness & Mental Health
Living a Double Life in My Head When I step outside myself and look in, I see a shell of a person just trying to get by. But no one else sees that. In therapy last Friday, I sat and ranted my way through the week, explaining why I feel entitled to act the way I do. I...
by missypoo586 | Jul 12, 2024 | Midlife Glow Up, Wellness & Mental Health
From Happy Hour to Hide-Under-the-Covers Hour Back in my 20s and early 30s, Fridays were everything. I’d roll into the office in my cutest outfit, strut into happy hour, and hit the pregame ready to work the room. Nothing stopped me from getting shitfaced, talking to...
by missypoo586 | Jul 11, 2024 | Midlife Glow Up, Wellness & Mental Health
Clutter, Anxiety, and the Messy Midlife Mind Every room has a pile of something. My nightstand is a game of Jenga stacked with unopened mail, nail polish remover, and random crap threatening to crush my coffee mug. My dresser? Covered with ADHD artifacts. Even our...
by missypoo586 | Jul 11, 2024 | Menopause & Perimenopause
Coming out of covid was rough. Mama packed on a shit ton of weight. Granted, it was a time when a weekly delivery of a case of rosé was essential. It was also a time when I fell in love with my now husband. We cooked, we ate, we drank, and we made silly TikToks, it...
by missypoo586 | Jul 11, 2024 | Menopause & Perimenopause
Back in 2007 I launched a website (way before blogging and influencers) called DoYouLoveIt.com. Each day, I posted about things I loved. Dude lemme tell you, the site took off! IYKYK. The benefit, it felt so good to write my thoughts out. I woke up this morning...
by missypoo586 | Jul 10, 2024 | Menopause & Perimenopause
Every Tuesday I’m out of the house by 6 am for a 6:30 am pilates class and then in the office by 8:30 am. Yes, I shower before pilates. Yes after class I sit in my car for 15 minutes to change my clothes and put makeup on before I head to the office. Yes,...
by missypoo586 | Jul 10, 2024 | uncategorized
When my son was around eight, he started to get into football. He asked me what a touchback was and I came up with some ridiculous fucking answer like if the player didn’t touch the ball with two hands they have to give the ball back. Accepting my role as a dad,...
