Stop fighting your body.
Start building one
that carries you
for decades.
A conversation for women about living in our bodies
—for decades,
not just seasons.
the signals your body's been sending that you were taught to ignore.
New here? Start with the 5 Body Truths…
The 5 Body Truths name what your body's been telling you all along.
But naming it is where the work starts, not where the work ends.
Join the conversation on Thursdays at 1 PM CT, where you get to ask the questions and work through the answers with other women just like you. That's where the truths stop being a list of things to do and start becoming a practice that’s flexible, realistic, and totally yours. No Guru required.
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
Ready to get started?
Ditch the Dogma is designed to help you reconnect with your body, notice what’s actually happening, and build understanding over time.
STEP #1
Women are taught to ignore what their bodies are telling them. The 5 Body Truths name those signals and explain why they matter.
The 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.
STEP #2
Every Thursday, Paula, her guest hosts, and the women participating on the livestream work through a new wellness topic — no script, no pitch, just an honest conversation about living in our bodies.
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.
STEP #3
The live show is where attention starts. Field Notes is where it goes deeper —written, deliberate, and built to be returned to.
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.
Waiting doesn’t preserve options.
It quietly reduces them.
THURSDAYS AT 1 PM CT.
DITCH THE DOGMA
Meet your host…
and fellow seeker of well-being, resiliency, and longevity.
That's me. Circa 1986.
Always creating. Always hiding.
Ditch the Dogma is challenging me to create into my 60s and beyond. I am finally stepping into the work I was created specifically to do. I am no longer hiding, but actually standing in front of the camera. This is a really big deal for me.
I don't want to be another wellness guru.
And, I am not a medical expert.
Let's get that out of the way. I have no desire to be a wellness guru, and I'm not a doctor. I have certifications and degrees — they're listed on my Meet Paula page — but no initials after my name, and nothing here is medical advice. I'll say it often: see a professional. What I share, and what my guests share, is what we've actually lived and tested. It earns its place here, or it doesn't make the show.
A booming wellness industry,
a sicker population.
The wellness industry will rake in nearly $10 trillion a year by 2029 — and yet fewer than 1 in 10 Americans is metabolically healthy. Sit with that. A trillion-dollar machine selling us "wellness," while we keep getting less well. I'm not saying the industry is the whole problem — but a different perspective and a different conversation are long overdue.
Wanna know more about me?
Check out my full story below.