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Perimenopause and Mental Health: Steady the Ground, Then Do the Inner Work
If you’ve been lying awake at 3 a.m. with a racing mind, snapping at the people you love more than you'd like, wondering where your focus went, or feeling like your energy's fine one day, then crashes the next, then...
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Midlife Strength: Training Your Body and Your Emotions Together
For most of our lives, we were taught to work out to control our bodies, or to pursue "smaller is better." In midlife, I want to offer you a different reason to build strength: to get bigger. Stronger in your body for...
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You'd Never Say That to a Friend: Getting Curious About Your Inner Critic
When a friend is struggling, you're quick to show her patience, warmth, and remind her you still love her even when she thinks she's missing the mark. But when you're the one falling short, the voice in your head...
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The Movement Your Body Actually Needs in Perimenopause
Many women in midlife feel overwhelmed by all the movement advice out there for perimenopause and are convinced that a workout doesn't count unless it's a full 60-minute class every day or a long run. When the week...
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Midlife Identity: Who You Are Outside Every Role You Play
Many women in midlife carry a subtle but chronic feeling of dissatisfaction, unfulfillment, or exhaustion that doesn't lift, even when the roles they play are going well. Mother, partner, worker, daughter: each one...
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The 3 Emotional Habits Keeping You Stuck
Three emotional habits might be keeping you stuck, even when you're trying hard to grow, heal, and live life well. If you're wondering why the same inner patterns keep showing up, this episode names what's happening...
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September Is the Real New Year for Moms (Here's Why)
Every mom knows the September scramble: new school schedule, new aftercare or evening routine, new sports and activities, the final stretch of work projects before the year winds down. Everything gets a slot on the...
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Midlife Nourishment: Eating From Care, Not Control
Every woman comes into midlife with her own storied history in relationship with food. Our thoughts, feelings, and habits around food are inherited: from diet culture, from family, from social rules about what makes...
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The Emotion Nobody Names at Back to School (and Every Other Kiddo Transition)
Every mom I talk to this week has a different feeling about back to school, and it can even shift day to day for the same woman. Underneath the relief and the nostalgia is something most of us have never actually...
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Inside My Medicine Cabinet: What's Actually Worth it for Midlife Ladies
For most of my life, I took no daily vitamins or supplements. I've always been lukewarm when it comes to pills and I've never liked the idea of taking "a lot of things." But over the last five years in perimenopause,...
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How Perimenopause Changed Our Marriage: A Conversation With My Husband
We like to joke that our marriage has changed twice so far. The first time was after the birth of our son. The second was when we hit our 40s and perimenopause joined the party.
In this episode, Brent joins me for an...
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Building Strength Emotionally and Physically: A New Way to Think About Movement
You already know movement helps you feel better. Clearer, more settled, more like yourself. But there's a layer of that benefit you’ve likely never learned to use on purpose: bringing your emotional world into your...
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