Stop fighting your body
and start trusting it.
If you’ve googled everything, consulted AI more than you’d like to admit, and you’re curious what changes when you listen to your body instead…
See what changes when your body takes the lead!
Here’s what changes when biology takes the lead
—not in theory, but in real life.
Chasing smaller loses its grip and strength becomes the focus so much earlier.
Looking younger matters less and resilience —of body and mind— starts to matter more.
Fighting aging gives way to building capacity to live with it:
strength you can keep
recovery you can rely on,
energy that doesn’t collapse.
That’s what happens when you ditch the dogma and let the body set the terms.
And, this is where something else begins.
You start to notice not just the signals but the way you attend to them.
That shift in attention quietly shapes:
how you experience your life,
your sense of self,
and your presence in the world.
And it matters now because waiting narrows options
yet capacity quietly compounds
when you work with your biology —instead of against it.
This is the shift I help women make.
Beauty stops being something to chase and becomes something you can live inside.
No system to follow.
No rebellion to perform.
No hacks to chase.
No quick fixes to undo later
Just a body that finally gets a say.
And notice what changes.
Listening to your biology changes how you live in your body. You start moving through your days differently—and with more freedom inside them.
—Paula Marie Davis
Most of us, myself included,
Ignore our bodies on purpose.
Because “I’ll deal with it later” usually works for a while. And, let’s face it, we are constantly offered solutions that promise relief with minimal effort.
I tried to ditch my biology.
It didn’t budge.
Maybe you’ve tried, too?
You know, different bodies.
Same old hacks.
They work for a while—until the body asks for something else.
And that’s the part most advice skips. What you ignore doesn’t disappear. It shows up later as:
They promise speed, but they mostly postpone the work
—and let the consequences arrive quietly.
chronic tension
quiet loss of capacity
longer recovery
mental fatigue that lingers
less room for error over time
So, I stopped fighting my body and started listening.
Listening meant paying attention to the cues I had been ignoring, especially the ones I was quick to blame on anything excepts the habits that were not serving me, such as:
holding my breath without realizing it
pushing through fatigue instead of changing the pace
skipping movement because I felt “too busy
staying inside all day and wondering why my mood dipped
eating late because I hadn’t slowed down all day
cravings when my boundaries were off
scrolling late into the night instead of going to bed
poor sleep I blamed on hormones instead of my habits
And, over time, the patterns became easier to notice and the changes impossible to dismiss.
How to find your way around here.
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Witnessing is where the work begins—before fixing, forcing, or optimizing anything.
It’s the practice of paying attention to the body as it is, because attention reorganizes behavior long before willpower is required. This is also where I do that work out loud, in real time, on the live show.Description text goes here
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Field Notes is the deeper dive—the written backbone that grows out of Witness.
This is where observations turn into patterns, patterns turn into understanding, and understanding gets tested over time. It’s slower, more deliberate, and meant to be returned to—not skimmed.
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The Five Body Truths emerged from years of witnessing and note-taking, not from trying to create a method.
They’re the patterns that kept holding up across different bodies, ages, and life stages—once attention stayed long enough to see them clearly.
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Meet Paula and my ongoing work —what I’ve lived, tested, gotten wrong, and chosen to trust, in the past, present, and what’s ahead.
If any of it helps you reconnect with your body and reclaim your own authority, that’s enough —’cause you don’t need another guru.ption
Take your first step.
If this resonates, I talk through it out loud, in real time—on Ditch the Dogma so you can:
notice what lands in your body,
the way you attend to it ,
and what begins to change in how you think, live, and lead.
It’s an easy one. Promise.
Not to tell you what to believe.
Not to sell you a system.
So you don’t have to sort through the noise alone.
To think clearly about the body, the noise that surrounds it, and what actually holds up over your lifetime.
On Ditch the Dogma, we talk through what it really looks like to live in a body for the long haul—how strength is built, how food supports life, and how presence happens when you stop performing.
They’re questions I’ve had to live inside —to test, get wrong, and return to— as my body changed. I’m not interested in telling women what to believe—only in paying attention to what holds up when belief, rebellion, and shortcuts stop working.
P.S. I’m building this in real time, because this kind of work can’t be rushed. Plus, I’m learning as I go.
If you see value in where this is going, I’m asking you to take one small action: hit subscribe on the Ditch the Dogma YouTube channel. And, if you’re a real gem, turn on notifications, too.
It tells the platform this conversation matters —and it encourages me to keep showing up. 🤍
It’s easier to accept a shortcut than to sit next to a woman who did the work and now moves differently through life—not because she’s better, but because she’s freer.
—Paula Marie Davis
Waiting doesn’t preserve options.
It quietly reduces them.
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We believe this conversation matters.
Most wellness spaces feel like they’re trying to convince me of something. This doesn’t. Paula talks about the body the way women actually experience it — complicated, honest, and not for show. That alone makes me trust the conversation.
So much wellness content is designed to lead you somewhere you didn’t ask to go. This isn’t. Paula talks things through without trying to turn it into a sale, and that makes me trust it.
There’s a lot of talk about listening to your body, but very little about what that actually looks like over time. Paula doesn’t pretend it’s instant or easy. She’s honest about the effort, and that makes the work feel possible.
There’s pressure to believe in something fully or you’re doing it wrong. This conversation lets you stay curious without committing your whole identity to a method.
This conversation isn’t here to replace one set of answers with another — it’s here to make room for questions most wellness spaces consistently avoid.
I can’t afford to keep buying things that promise results and don’t explain the tradeoffs. I want to understand my body, not just spend money on it. That’s why this matters to me.