FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: TWO TRUTHS AND A LIE ABOUT AGING
Two truths and a lie. It’s a game – a drinking game I played in college with my dormmates. A great icebreaker and an...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: IT’S ABOUT TIME WE PRIORITIZED HEALTH
Have you ever noticed that once you get a new car — or someone you know does — suddenly that exact car is everywhere?...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: IS LOVE REALLY MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE?
If I’m being honest, I totally forgot a few weeks ago was the Super Bowl. You ask, how could you forget when everywhere you...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: NORMALIZE MESSY, UNGLAMOROUS JOURNALING
When I was a kid, I had an aunt who painstakingly wrote every single detail of her day in what I called a diary....
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: CHANGE DOESN’T FEEL LIKE PROGRESS AT FIRST
Whether you are starting a new wellness routine for the first time or restarting one for the hundredth time, there is never failure. There...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: STOP MICROMANAGING YOUR BODY
What if you didn’t know how old you were? Not on paper. Not on your driver’s license. Not on Facebook when it reminds you...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: MUSCLE GIVES YOU A HALL PASS ON THE SCALE
If your New Year’s health goals include stepping on a scale and holding your breath, let’s pause for a moment. Because in 2026, the...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: WINTER BODIES DON’T EXIST IN THE KEYS
If you’ve lived here long enough, you’ve probably noticed something strange about winter in the Florida Keys:
It doesn’t really exist.
Sure, the humidity backs off...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: THE STRENGTH TO BE GRATEFUL (EVEN WHEN YOU’RE OVER IT)
If you’ve lived in the Keys long enough, you know Thanksgiving hits a little differently down here. While the rest of the country is...
FUNCTIONALLY CAFFEINATED WELLNESS: FIGHTING THE WEIGHT OF ‘TECH NECK’
If you remember anything from the late ’90s, you might remember a little blonde boy telling Jerry Maguire that “the human head weighs 8...




















