You Don't Have Early Dementia, You Have Burnout and Menopause Brain Fog

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Do you lie in bed at night, body exhausted, but your brain is frantically grocery shopping, replaying patient charts, and worrying about your aging parents like a browser with 4,000 tabs open? You are secretly terrified that your forgetfulness is a sign of something serious.

This isn't just insomnia, and it definitely isn't early-onset dementia. This is the Mental Load, and it is crushing your spirit. If you are a woman over 50, your brain isn't breaking—it is evolving. The estrogen veil is lifting, and your biology is demanding that you stop multitasking and start accessing your Wisdom. When you try to solve spiritual shifts with more cognitive effort, you end up in a spiral of anxiety and fog.

In this episode, Dr. Julie clears the fog. You will discover why decision fatigue is making you feel crazy and how to activate your Third Eye Chakra to switch from "Overthinking" to "Intuition." We introduce the "Brain Dump & Burn" ritual—a specific practice that is the only way to finally shut off the noise and sleep. You will learn to trust your inner knowing again, rather than your exhausted frontal lobe.

You don't need to think your way out of this fog; you need to feel your way through it. Press play to close the mental tabs and reclaim your clarity.

This podcast supports women healers over 50 navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions with strategies for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed boundaries, and chakra alignment to heal resentment and self-neglect while cultivating soul joy, radiance, and a purposeful next chapter of freedom and inner peace.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Welcome to the 12 days ofRadiance Reset.
We are ditching the holidayoverwhelmed to take you from
exhausted and trapped to radiantand free.
This is your end of the yearreconnection.
Okay?
Your body is in bed, but yourbrain.

(00:22):
Is grocery shopping, planningtomorrow's charts, and worrying
about your aging parents.
This isn't insomnia.
This is mental load and it'scrushing your spirit.
Empowering brilliant women inhealthcare over 50 to transform

(00:46):
burnout and compassion fatigueinto renewed passion.
Reigniting your spark to createa life that energizes you every
single day.
I'm your host, Dr.
Jules.
Let's get to it.
So today we are clearing thefog.
We are moving from overthinkingto intuition.

(01:10):
You need to listen to the end ofthis episode because I'm going
to validate why decision fatigueis making you feel like you're
losing your mind.
I know many of you are secretlyterrified.
You're developing earlydementia, and spoiler alert, you
probably aren't.

(01:32):
We are activating the third eyechakra because when it's
blocked, you have brain fog.
When it's open, you haveclarity, and I'm giving you the
brain dump, burn ritual.
This is the only way to emptyyour mind before sleep.

(01:52):
So sweet soul.
You can actually rest.
So let's talk about theinvisible weight you are
carrying.
We call it the mental load.
It is the invisible projectmanagement of life.
It's knowing who needs birthdaycards, when the dog needs shots,

(02:14):
and tracking the vitals of everyclient or patient on your floor.
But here is what happens inmidlife.
Your brain changes.
Yeah.
We lose estrogen duringmenopause.
The veil lifts theneurochemicals that allowed you

(02:38):
to multitask endlessly in yourthirties.
They are gone, and I want you tohear me.
This is not a deficit.
This is not your brain breakingthis.
Is a demand from your biology tosimplify.

(02:58):
You can no longer tolerate thenoise because you're entering
the season of wisdom, notproduction.
Your brain is forcing you tofocus on what actually matters
energetically.
This fog sits in your third eyechakra.

(03:22):
And this is located between youreyebrows.
This is the seat of yourintuition.
And right now you are so busyanalyzing data, worrying about
the future, and replaying thepast that your intuition is
screaming into a void.
You can't hear your own soulbecause the mental chatter is

(03:47):
too loud.
We need to quiet the noise soyou can trust yourself again.
So how do we clear this noise?
Well, we do this activity that Icall a brain dump and burn.

(04:10):
So tonight, before you get intobed, take a.
Piece of paper.
Now, this needs to be a physicalpiece of paper and a pen, and I
want you to write down everysingle tab in your brain that is
open, the dry cleaning, theclient diagnosis.

(04:31):
You're worried about the fearabout money, the guilt about
your mom.
Get it all out of your head andonto the paper.
Then I want you to light acandle.
We are going to do tratakameditation, candle gazing

(04:54):
safely.
Burn that paper or tear it up ifyou can't burn it as you watch
the paper disappear.
You tell yourself the paperholds the worry now, so my mind
can hold the peace.

(05:15):
You don't need to think your wayout of this fog fact as you
can't.
You're gonna have to feel yourway through it.
You need to find out what yourarchetype is.
So I want you to take the watchyour burnout, compassion
fatigue, archetype quiz that'slinked in the show notes.

(05:37):
Take it right now.
Clear the fog, trust your gut.
Together we rise.
If this episode hit home, don'tjust nod and move on.
Give yourself what you actuallyneed.
Tap the show notes right now tograb your free Compassion

(05:59):
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And girl, if you know anotherwoman healer who's running on
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