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Confessions Conversations: Melissa O’Hara

January 9, 2026

Hey Team—can anyone relate to that moment when your blood starts to boil because one more person asks for one more thing of you? Today on Confessions Conversations my…

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BONUS: Positive Self-Talk – Helmstetter Book Recap

December 19, 2025

Welcome to Confessions. I’m Mags—the recovering micromanaging-perfectionist-martyr here to offer a short synopsis of What to Say When You Talk to Yourself by Shad Helmstetter. If you’re curious about…

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Learning to Prune – A Shift in Parenting Growing Kids

November 28, 2025

As I officially closed out the 2025 gardening season, I found myself reflecting on how I approached pruning this spring and summer. There were basically two reasons that I…

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Letting Go – Moving On From the Past

November 14, 2025

Team, I just got off a tear-filled phone call with my husband, G Man. I’ll end the suspense—it was my tears filling the call, not his. G’s kinda used…

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Confessions Conversations: Rachel Joffe

November 7, 2025

Hey there, TeamConfessioners—guess what time it is? It’s time for another Confessions Conversation. Today, my friend Rachel Joffe joins me in the studio. For over twenty-five years I’ve watched…

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Tightening the Screws – My 6 Essential Self-Care Routines

September 12, 2025

Hello Team, I’ve missed you! I hope everyone had a lovely summer and is settling back into the fall with ease. Personally, the transition from summer to fall is…

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Summer Rewind #6: An Honest Look At My Chronic Overwhelm

July 25, 2025

Summer feels like the perfect time to be reminded of a little nugget I picked up from an old soul I fell for while G Man and I were…

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Summer Rewind #5: Every Good Idea is Not a Good Idea – Pausing Before I Take Action

July 18, 2025

Today’s Summer Rewind touches on a topic that made a huge difference in my life. I’m so happy my buddy Christine from C2 Care Redefined picked this one from…

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Summer Rewind #1: Putting Too Much Weight on Weight – Breaking Free from Decades of Shame

June 20, 2025

Hello Team—Welcome to the Summer Rewind series of Summer 2025. As I mentioned last week, Confessions is teaming up with C2 Care Redefined this summer. That means that if…

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Analysis – My Secret Weapon for Finding Peace

May 16, 2025

The other day I was analyzing my night sweats and I shared my discovery with G Man. “Homey, I have a theory about my perplexing temperature troubles at night.”…

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