Midlife Rising

Are you constantly running on empty? If you're a midlife woman who feels like she has to do everything perfectly, you're not just 'busy', you're trapped. That relentless drive for excellence is a coping strategy that's secretly spiking your stress hormones (cortisol), leaving you exhausted, anxious, and making your menopause symptoms feel 10x worse. 

In this episode, we reveal the surprising connection ...

You’ve spent decades putting everyone else first.  You stifle your voice so you don't rock the boat or upset anyone.  You're always making sure everyone is happy.  And now you're exhausted and maybe even a little resentful. 

 If that sounds familiar, you’re not alone. In this episode, we’re unpacking the patterns of people-pleasing in midlife and the mistakes you might be making to try to stop.

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We all know that our hormones shift during menopause, but what if there's also  something changing that's much deeper? In this episode, we uncover the hidden spiritual purpose behind the physical symptoms.  

What if those hot flashes, restless nights, and waves of emotion aren’t just symptoms, but signals… calling you back into alignment with your soul?

There's a reason why some of those symptoms just seem to hang on n...

Wondering why rest feels impossible even when you're exhausted?  Last episode, we talked about why sleep gets so disrupted in midlife. And today we’re going deeper - because before you can sleep, you have to actually allow yourself to rest. And that’s where so many women get stuck.

In this episode, we dive into why midlife women struggle to allow themselves to rest and what it really takes to reclaim it without shame or self-ju...

Imagine this: you finally get into bed exhausted. You drift off.  And then like clockwork, it’s 3 a.m. You’re wide awake, staring at the ceiling, your mind racing through to-do lists and replaying conversations. By the time the alarm goes off, you feel like you never slept at all.

If that’s you, you are not alone. Midlife women everywhere are struggling with sleep and while we’re told it’s ‘just hormones’ or ‘just part of getting ol...

Some women think peri-menopause symptoms are purely a physical problem. They're wrong.

Of course, many symptoms manifest as physical ones. But what if the physical symptoms are actually fuelled by something deeper…like a hidden societal norm that keeps many women living in overdrive?

In this episode, we get into this hidden conditioning. We're talking about the concept of masculine and feminine energies. It's not a new...

If you feel like you're going crazy...like, with midlife irritability that you know isn't "you", or even rage events that are nonsensical - this episode is for you.

A friend recently said to me, "I felt like I was going crazy...I literally felt like someone had taken over my brain. I wasn't acting like myself and I couldn't control it". 

This is the side of menopause that people joke about, &qu...

Are you a woman in your 40's, feel like you've been running at full speed for way too long, and can’t keep it up much longer? This episode is for you. 

I hate to tell you - it's not your situation, and it's not your fault.

The reason the chaos and stress comes to a head in your 40's is because the drop in sex hormones fuels bigger cortisol spikes in your body. So you FEEL more stressed and busy than ever. 

And...

This episode is for the woman who has walked into a room and forgot why you were there; lost your train of thought mid-sentence; or read the same paragraph 3x before it finally sunk in...and it seems to be getting worse.

This is midlife brain fog.

You might think it's just part of peri-menopause or aging. But there is more to it. 

There is a very specific physiological reason why your memory isn't as sharp and you're ha...

A huge lie we’ve been told about aging is that belly fat is just inevitable.

And of course, we would believe this, because when you look around, many midlife and older women gain weight. So, you think it’s normal and there’s nothing you can do about it. And you might try to diet off and on because part of you doesn’t want to accept it, and another part of you says, “why am I doing this when it’s just part of aging”. 

The truth is tha...

When someone asks you how old you are, what happens? Do you cringe? Lie? Shamefully (or defiantly) tell the truth? 

This cringing feeling about aging is exactly what is keeping you stuck - feeling like your body is going downhill fast, and time is running out.

You’re feeling this way because society has quietly told you that you have to fight aging at all costs. 

So, you’re starting to feel invisible because you’re “less attractive”, ...

You might think that in today’s world, we can talk about menopause. We say, think again. 

Of course, it’s become more normal to share the hot flash humour with your friends or how hard it has suddenly become to get a night’s sleep without a 2-hour wake-up in the middle of it. 

At the same time, 90% of women in their 40’s and 50’s do not know the symptoms of menopause, research shows that the majority of women hide their symptoms at w...

If you’re a woman over 40 juggling work, aging parents’ doctor’s appointments, and the constant pressure to be more, do more, give more - while battling symptoms like 2am wakeups, heart palpitations, or constant low energy - you may be caught in the Pronatalism Pressure Trap.

Pronatalism is the belief that a woman’s worth is tied to motherhood, and it collides with patriarchy’s obsession with productivity to leave you over-functioni...

What if the night sweats, sleepless nights, and hot flashes you’re feeling aren’t “just menopause”? And, what if the usual fixes are actually what's keeping you stuck?

Welcome to the 1st episode of the Midlife Rising Podcast!  Today we’re going to show you that there’s an underlying root cause to midlife and menopause symptoms that no one seems to be talking about.

Too many women in their 40s and 50s make the same mistake: pushi...