When I was pregnant, my OB tried to schedule me for the standard glucose test, and I asked, “Why do I have to do this? Is there an alternative?”
Because apparently I am not the kind of patient who hears “standard procedure” and thinks, perfect, no further questions.
The alternative, she told me, was testing my own blood sugar five times a day for two weeks, tracking everything, and reporting back with the results.
Which sounded inconvenient.
It also sounded like information.
So I did it.
For two weeks, I tracked what I ate, when I ate it, how my blood sugar responded, and what changed when I shifted the order of my food. What I learned blew my mind.
There was so much information available once I stopped treating my body like a mysterious inconvenience and started paying attention.
My first thought was: if blood sugar matters this much during pregnancy, why aren’t we teaching people more about it before there’s a problem?
This line of questioning has become my whole personality.
I ask why. I test things. I pay attention. And then, usually, I look into it.
This has been one of my greatest gifts, and also the reason I have been deeply annoying to teachers, coaches, doctors, partners, and anyone else who just wanted me to go with the flow.
Unfortunately for them, I have follow-up questions.
Lots of them.
But the questions were never just for me.
I have always been the person who finds the thing and has to share it: the book, the product, the doctor, the idea, the workaround, the weird little habit that helped, the thing I tried that worked, and the thing I tried that absolutely did not.
I connect dots. I connect people. I bring back what I find.
At 18, I told my parents I wanted to be a life coach.
To their immense credit, they bought me a book about life coaching instead of asking the obvious: “Life coaching? With all 18 years of your life experience?”
A fair question, honestly.
What I had, even then, was the instinct: find what helps, understand why it helps, and share it.
I just didn’t know then how much of that understanding would come from the parts of life no one can really prepare you for.
The injuries. The surgeries. The business built from nothing. The marriage. The motherhood. The therapy. The divorce. The sobriety. The love after loss. The cancer. The caretaking. The grief.
The moments that split your life into before and after.
Somewhere along the way, “Why is this happening?” became “What now? What helps? What else is possible?”
And that is really what So I Looked Into It is.
The questions I couldn’t stop asking, and the useful things I found on the other side.
Because I know what it feels like to stand in the middle of something hard, weird, unfair, or wildly inconvenient and wonder, “Is this just how it goes?”
A lot of the time, it isn’t.
This is not a science blog.
It is not a grief blog.
It is not a wellness blog where I pretend one supplement, morning routine, or expensive little wellness gadget magically fixed my trauma and turned me into a woman with no inbox, no cortisol, and no unresolved childhood shit.
I wish. Truly.
So what is it?
It’s where I share what I’ve tried, what helped, what didn’t, and what I’m still quietly side-eyeing.
The practical things. The emotional things. The inconvenient things. The slightly unhinged things that still deserve a closer look.
I can believe the sign meant something and still want the study.
I can try biofield tuning, acupuncture, meditation, or the weird thing someone swears changed their life and still ask, “Okay, but what the hell is actually happening here?”
I can read books about the afterlife, get regular bloodwork, research breast imaging, talk about sobriety, ask better questions at the doctor, and still make a dick joke in a post about death.
That’s the range.
I’ll bring research when it exists. I’ll ask people smarter than me when I need to. And when I’m working from lived experience, intuition, or pattern recognition, I’ll say so.
Not everything true arrives with a footnote. But when there’s evidence, I want to see it.
Still, I’m not here to sell certainty.
I’m here to share what actually helped.
Maybe it gives you a place to begin.
xo,
Alex
Oh I am here for THIS! The messy, the fun, the questions. 🤓
Looking forward to more, you inspired-boss-BABE 😉🤍🫶