February 3, 2025 • 16 mins
Do you ever find yourself listening to that cruel inner voice that's telling you you're not enough, not good enough, etc? Did you know that the way you talk to yourself might be holding you back from living your best life during perimenopause and menopause? This episode of the Ageless and Awesome podcast promises to transform your self-talk, enabling you to ditch the self-shaming and embrace a kinder, more compassionate inner dialogue. Listen as I guide you on a journey of self-discovery, revealing how negative self-talk can sabotage your health goals, while a supportive mindset can pave the way for a healthier, more fulfilling life. Discover the profound impact that loving self-talk can have on hormone balance and emotional well-being, especially during the challenging transitions of perimenopause and menopause.
Join me in this empowering conversation where motivation and mindset are at the forefront. We discuss the crucial role of self-compassion in achieving sustainable positive changes and how it can enhance your motivation and confidence. By understanding the detrimental effects of stress and negative self-talk on our bodies, we reveal why speaking to ourselves with kindness is not just beneficial—it's essential. Whether you're stepping into your 40s, 50s, or beyond, learn the secrets to being truly ageless and awesome, and inspire yourself to live with outrageous confidence and grace.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, I'm Susie Garden and this is the Ageless and
Awesome podcast.
I'm an age-defying naturopathand clinical nutritionist and
I'm here to bust myths aroundwomen's health and aging so that
you can be ageless and awesomein your 40s, 50s and beyond.
The Ageless and Awesome podcastis dedicated to helping women
(00:24):
through perimenopause andmenopause with great health, a
positive mindset and outrageousconfidence.
Hit, subscribe or follow nowand let's get started.
Hello, gorgeous one, andwelcome to this week's episode
of the Ageless and Awesomepodcast.
This week, I'm going to talkabout something that I haven't
(00:46):
talked about before, and that isit's very much, I guess, about
mind games that we play, mindset, the way we talk to ourselves,
often in ways that we wouldnever talk to anybody else.
So what I'm going to talk about?
It's an often overlooked kindof aspect of any health journey,
(01:06):
but particularly inperimenopause and menopause.
I say many paws all the time.
Perimenopause and menopause.
An often overlooked aspect ofthis journey is the battle
between self-shaming andself-compassion, something that
I think probably most of us atsome time in our lives have been
(01:28):
guilty of talking to ourselvesnegatively, often without even
realizing it.
This self-shaming can derailour health goals.
It can damage our self-esteem.
It derail our health goals, itcan damage our self-esteem, it
(01:50):
oh my gosh, can be so damagingto talk to ourselves in a way
that's negative, and so I wantedto kind of dive into that a
little bit today, because Ithink it is a really important
thing to get on top of.
Sometimes it can be, you know,the key to getting health into
your body getting eating theright foods, getting the
(02:10):
movement that works well foryour body.
If we are self-shaming ratherthan having self-compassion,
that's going to make a hugedifference.
So let's have a look at this alittle bit more.
Look at this a little bit more.
So if we start basically withmindset and mindset encompasses
a whole bunch of differentthings I'm talking this a very
(02:32):
specific type of mindset, verymuch around the self-talk Having
a mindset when you'reapproaching a hormone healing
journey, which I guess whenwe're looking at perimenopause
and menopause, that is reallywhat it is.
If we're approaching thatjourney with a critical and
harsh attitude rather than anurturing and supportive
(02:58):
attitude, that can make a hugedifference to the outcomes that
you get, particularly if youhave emotional responses that
involve self-soothing with food,for example.
If you're having a loving andcompassionate approach to
yourself and nurturing andsupporting yourself.
(03:20):
That is going to get you somuch further in life than being
critical towards yourself andharsh.
Really, look after yourself andyour inner talk when it comes
to that.
When we are in that sort ofheadspace of being critical and
harsh, it can really have anemotional impact.
It increases stress, itincreases anxiety.
(03:42):
That can actually worsen ourhormone imbalances.
I'm sure you've heard me talk alot about the impact of stress
on our estrogen in particular,because it increases cortisol
that impacts our estrogen.
So when you're talking toyourself in a way that's really
(04:02):
negative, you're talking toyourself in a way that's really
negative, where you're having anattitude of criticism and harsh
attitude, then that's reallygoing to impact you on an
emotional level and that oftenleads to giving up.
It often leads to going oh well, I might as well just sit and
eat all the food, just sitaround, not do any movement, not
(04:26):
worry about anything, becauseyou're feeling this emotional
impact of that negativeself-talk.
So motivation is such animportant part of anything in
life, really, isn't it?
If we can be motivated to makepositive and sustainable changes
, rather than losing ourmotivation and giving up, we're
(04:48):
going to have a way betteroutcome on our health, on our
well-being, on how we movethrough life.
So very, very important.
So really avoid using negativeself-talk, blaming, blaming,
punitive language towardsyourself.
Speak to yourself with kindness,with understanding, with
(05:10):
forgiveness.
I find this particularlybecause, as you know, I work a
lot in weight loss andparticularly in the context of
peri and menopause.
It can be really challengingsometimes and I find a lot of
women really blame themselves,really have a fairly harsh view
(05:32):
on their own behaviors thatpotentially have led to this,
and what I'm saying to you isthere is nothing good that's
going to come from that and it'sjust completely unnecessary to
do it.
Speak to yourself with kindness, with understanding, with
forgiveness.
It makes a huge difference toyour whole outlook and how you
feel about yourself andtherefore how you will respect
(05:54):
your body and how you will moveforward in a way that is
actually treating your body withthe utmost respect and care.
Another part of this is yourresponse to setbacks.
So seeing a setback as beinglike a personal failure that can
really derail your progress,rather than viewing a setback,
(06:16):
for example, as an opportunityto learn and grow and I see this
a lot again with food, whenpeople are, you know, wanting to
follow a personalized plan, forexample which is probably if
you've been listening to me fora while, you know that that's
the kind of work I do ispersonalized nutrition plans and
if someone you know goes offthe rails a little bit and
(06:38):
doesn't follow that plan andthen really beat themselves up
about it, that's not what I'mabout and it's not what I feel
like anyone should be about.
It's.
You know, everyone is doing thebest that they can.
So if you go off the rails, ifyou, you know, made yourself,
particularly at this time ofyear, new Year's resolutions,
often by the end of Januarypeople, a lot of those New
(07:00):
Year's resolutions, have fallenby the wayside.
Rather than beating yourself upabout it, just move on.
Just forgive yourself and moveon.
Be kind to yourself yourself upabout it.
Just move on.
Just forgive yourself and moveon.
Be kind to yourself.
Learn, okay.
Why did I give up?
Why did I stop?
Whatever it was that yourresolution was, why did I stop?
What is there I can learn fromthis?
(07:22):
How can I set myself up forsuccess rather than failure next
time?
So, really, looking at anysetback you have rather than
beating yourself go okay.
What can I learn from this?
How can I do this better?
How can I do this differently?
Body image is another one.
I think that comes into this.
So if you're speaking toyourself negatively, you can
really foster a negative bodyimage and that can lead to
(07:44):
really unhealthy behaviors andself-sabotage really unhealthy
behaviors and self-sabotage.
If you can promote a healthy,respectful relationship with
your body and love your body,love what your body can do for
you, where it takes you in life,no matter what body you're in,
it makes a massive difference toyour ability to reach your
(08:06):
health, your well-being, yourweight loss, your hormone, your
wellbeing, your weight loss,your hormone healing journey,
your goals.
So I would totally recommendthat you again just treat
yourself with the utmost respect, love, kindness and care.
I also wanted to talk in thiscontext about behavioral change,
(08:28):
because when you're talking toyourself negatively or you're
treating yourself with not somuch with kindness, with
self-shaming rather thanself-compassion, that can often
result in extreme, unsustainablechanges in lifestyle that can
lead to burnout, can lead togiving up, can lead to
(08:50):
self-sabotage.
When you're treating yourselfwith self-compassion, then
you're making changes that aresustainable, that support you,
that make you feel good, notmake you feel deprived.
So really keep that in mindwhen you are making any sort of
changes to your lifestyle is howcan I do this with a sense of
(09:10):
compassion and kindness towardsmyself?
Makes a huge difference,believe me, to your mindset, and
this can have a really bigimpact on your long-term success
.
Because, let's face it, when wego into any sort of health
journey or weight loss journey,we want those benefits that
you're receiving to bemaintained and be long-term
(09:33):
success.
You don't, you know, go makethese changes to your lifestyle
to then just go back to how youwere before, cause you make the
changes for a reason, right, youmake the changes cause you want
to be in a different place,whether that's, you know,
physically, whether that's, um,emotionally, whether that's
whether that's emotionally,whether that's mentally.
So you want that long-termsuccess.
(09:56):
You want to be more likely tosustain the changes that you've
made, the healthy habits thatyou've built.
So having self-compassion andforgiveness is going to take you
a long, long way towardskeeping that maintenance of what
you've achieved.
I would also really highlyrecommend, when you're going on
(10:17):
this journey, when you'rethinking about things like
self-compassion versusself-shaming, is to build a good
social support around you, acheer squad, friends, whether
it's friends or family, or youknow people in the online
community.
Sometimes they can actually befantastic supports to you, even
(10:38):
though you may never have metthem, because they don't have
any baggage, they don't have anycompetitiveness.
There's nothing there that'sactually going to them wanting
to sabotage you.
So if you can build a strongempathetic community or strong
empathetic relationships withothers, that will really help in
terms of building your abilityto have self-compassion versus
(11:03):
shaming and self-shaming.
And we know that when youchoose self-compassion over
shaming, you create a positive,supportive environment for your
hormone healing journey, foryour weight loss journey, for
any sort of health and wellbeingjourney, and that leads to
better outcomes for you overallwellbeing for you as well.
So this was just a short andsweet episode.
(11:25):
Today.
I wanted to get into somethinga little different to perhaps
the more scientific stuff that Ioften talk about.
There is absolutely sciencebehind what I'm talking about
today, but it's just a littlebit softer, and I think that's
really important.
Particularly for women women inperimenopause and menopause,
(11:46):
particularly women who arewanting to make changes to their
lifestyle, to make them feelbetter, to make their bodies
work more effectively.
I think it's really importantto not just look at what should
I be eating, how often should Ibe moving my body, how much
water should I be drinking?
Sure, that's all important, butif you're going into that, just
constantly tearing yourselfdown, constantly just saying
(12:11):
nasty things to yourself andwe've all done it right, I mean,
I know I used to do it quite alot.
I've become much more aware ofit, but I still catch myself
occasionally um talking tomyself in a way that I would
never speak to anybody else.
So I think it's something thatfor many women it's it's just a
constant work in progress andit's easy to make gains, which
(12:34):
is great, and you can just do it, you know, minute by minute,
hour by hour.
If you catch yourself talkingto yourself and go oh, I'm so
stupid, oh, why did I do that?
Stop it, just turn it around.
What can I learn from this?
You know, make it into anexperience that is going to
support you rather than bringyou down.
You need to be your own bestfriend, your own support, and
(12:57):
also bring in others as well, asit kind of becomes clear to you
who those people are going tobe.
So I hope talking aboutsomething like this has been
helpful.
I think sometimes it seems likea really simple thing, but it
can be really hard for people todo, and I think some of the one
(13:18):
of the there are many ways youcan do to help cultivate
self-compassion and one that Ireally love and I learned this
as a yoga teacher and I employeda lot with my clients and I
think it's just a very simpleexercise that I'm going to share
with you before we sign off thepod today, exercise that I'm
(13:38):
going to share with you beforewe sign off the pod today.
And that is a little it'salmost like a mantra.
I guess it's not really.
It's more of a self-loveexercise, actually, I'd say.
But what I recommend is that you, at some point in the day
either once or twice a daygenerally I recommend doing it
first thing in the morning or atnight before you go to bed is
to stand in front of the mirror,looking at yourself in the eyes
(14:00):
, putting your hand on yourheart, really grounding into
your feet, so you're reallyfeeling grounded into the earth
and just take a deep breath inand out and keep looking at
yourself and just say threetimes I love and accept myself,
I love and accept myself, I loveand accept myself.
(14:24):
That is, you'd be surprisedlooking at yourself in the
mirror, how powerful that can be.
I have many women that I'vebeen through this exercise with
that can't get through threetimes without crying.
But just the more you do it andyou can use another mantra to
use is rather than I love andaccept, is I love and respect.
(14:46):
I find I love and respectmyself is also a very powerful
one.
So if this is something youthink you might kind of benefit
from, I really feel like sosimple, right, it's free.
You can do it in the privacy ofyour own home.
I really recommend doing this.
Um, try it once a day.
(15:07):
Even more powerful if you do ittwice a day, and let me know
how you go.
Uh, you can find me on thePerry Mortause.
I'm going to say it every week.
I reckon I'm going to becomplaining about these dots at
theperimenopausepath onInstagram, or just email me.
Hello at suzygardencom.
(15:28):
I'd love to see how you gotwith this.
Anyway, enjoy the rest of yourweek.
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(16:11):
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you over there.
Hi, I'm Susie Garden and this is the Ageless and
Awesome podcast.
I'm an age-defying naturopathand clinical nutritionist and
I'm here to bust myths aroundwomen's health and aging so that
you can be ageless and awesomein your 40s, 50s and beyond.
The Ageless and Awesome podcastis dedicated to helping women
(00:24):
through perimenopause andmenopause with great health, a
positive mindset and outrageousconfidence.
Hit, subscribe or follow nowand let's get started.
Hello, gorgeous one, andwelcome to this week's episode
of the Ageless and Awesomepodcast.
This week, I'm going to talkabout something that I haven't
(00:46):
talked about before, and that isit's very much, I guess, about
mind games that we play, mindset, the way we talk to ourselves,
often in ways that we wouldnever talk to anybody else.
So what I'm going to talk about?
It's an often overlooked kindof aspect of any health journey,
(01:06):
but particularly inperimenopause and menopause.
I say many paws all the time.
Perimenopause and menopause.
An often overlooked aspect ofthis journey is the battle
between self-shaming andself-compassion, something that
I think probably most of us atsome time in our lives have been
(01:28):
guilty of talking to ourselvesnegatively, often without even
realizing it.
This self-shaming can derailour health goals.
It can damage our self-esteem.
It derail our health goals, itcan damage our self-esteem, it
(01:50):
oh my gosh, can be so damagingto talk to ourselves in a way
that's negative, and so I wantedto kind of dive into that a
little bit today, because Ithink it is a really important
thing to get on top of.
Sometimes it can be, you know,the key to getting health into
your body getting eating theright foods, getting the
(02:10):
movement that works well foryour body.
If we are self-shaming ratherthan having self-compassion,
that's going to make a hugedifference.
So let's have a look at this alittle bit more.
Look at this a little bit more.
So if we start basically withmindset and mindset encompasses
a whole bunch of differentthings I'm talking this a very
(02:32):
specific type of mindset, verymuch around the self-talk Having
a mindset when you'reapproaching a hormone healing
journey, which I guess whenwe're looking at perimenopause
and menopause, that is reallywhat it is.
If we're approaching thatjourney with a critical and
harsh attitude rather than anurturing and supportive
(02:58):
attitude, that can make a hugedifference to the outcomes that
you get, particularly if youhave emotional responses that
involve self-soothing with food,for example.
If you're having a loving andcompassionate approach to
yourself and nurturing andsupporting yourself.
(03:20):
That is going to get you somuch further in life than being
critical towards yourself andharsh.
Really, look after yourself andyour inner talk when it comes
to that.
When we are in that sort ofheadspace of being critical and
harsh, it can really have anemotional impact.
It increases stress, itincreases anxiety.
(03:42):
That can actually worsen ourhormone imbalances.
I'm sure you've heard me talk alot about the impact of stress
on our estrogen in particular,because it increases cortisol
that impacts our estrogen.
So when you're talking toyourself in a way that's really
(04:02):
negative, you're talking toyourself in a way that's really
negative, where you're having anattitude of criticism and harsh
attitude, then that's reallygoing to impact you on an
emotional level and that oftenleads to giving up.
It often leads to going oh well, I might as well just sit and
eat all the food, just sitaround, not do any movement, not
(04:26):
worry about anything, becauseyou're feeling this emotional
impact of that negativeself-talk.
So motivation is such animportant part of anything in
life, really, isn't it?
If we can be motivated to makepositive and sustainable changes
, rather than losing ourmotivation and giving up, we're
(04:48):
going to have a way betteroutcome on our health, on our
well-being, on how we movethrough life.
So very, very important.
So really avoid using negativeself-talk, blaming, blaming,
punitive language towardsyourself.
Speak to yourself with kindness,with understanding, with
(05:10):
forgiveness.
I find this particularlybecause, as you know, I work a
lot in weight loss andparticularly in the context of
peri and menopause.
It can be really challengingsometimes and I find a lot of
women really blame themselves,really have a fairly harsh view
(05:32):
on their own behaviors thatpotentially have led to this,
and what I'm saying to you isthere is nothing good that's
going to come from that and it'sjust completely unnecessary to
do it.
Speak to yourself with kindness, with understanding, with
forgiveness.
It makes a huge difference toyour whole outlook and how you
feel about yourself andtherefore how you will respect
(05:54):
your body and how you will moveforward in a way that is
actually treating your body withthe utmost respect and care.
Another part of this is yourresponse to setbacks.
So seeing a setback as beinglike a personal failure that can
really derail your progress,rather than viewing a setback,
(06:16):
for example, as an opportunityto learn and grow and I see this
a lot again with food, whenpeople are, you know, wanting to
follow a personalized plan, forexample which is probably if
you've been listening to me fora while, you know that that's
the kind of work I do ispersonalized nutrition plans and
if someone you know goes offthe rails a little bit and
(06:38):
doesn't follow that plan andthen really beat themselves up
about it, that's not what I'mabout and it's not what I feel
like anyone should be about.
It's.
You know, everyone is doing thebest that they can.
So if you go off the rails, ifyou, you know, made yourself,
particularly at this time ofyear, new Year's resolutions,
often by the end of Januarypeople, a lot of those New
(07:00):
Year's resolutions, have fallenby the wayside.
Rather than beating yourself upabout it, just move on.
Just forgive yourself and moveon.
Be kind to yourself yourself upabout it.
Just move on.
Just forgive yourself and moveon.
Be kind to yourself.
Learn, okay.
Why did I give up?
Why did I stop?
Whatever it was that yourresolution was, why did I stop?
What is there I can learn fromthis?
(07:22):
How can I set myself up forsuccess rather than failure next
time?
So, really, looking at anysetback you have rather than
beating yourself go okay.
What can I learn from this?
How can I do this better?
How can I do this differently?
Body image is another one.
I think that comes into this.
So if you're speaking toyourself negatively, you can
really foster a negative bodyimage and that can lead to
(07:44):
really unhealthy behaviors andself-sabotage really unhealthy
behaviors and self-sabotage.
If you can promote a healthy,respectful relationship with
your body and love your body,love what your body can do for
you, where it takes you in life,no matter what body you're in,
it makes a massive difference toyour ability to reach your
(08:06):
health, your well-being, yourweight loss, your hormone, your
wellbeing, your weight loss,your hormone healing journey,
your goals.
So I would totally recommendthat you again just treat
yourself with the utmost respect, love, kindness and care.
I also wanted to talk in thiscontext about behavioral change,
(08:28):
because when you're talking toyourself negatively or you're
treating yourself with not somuch with kindness, with
self-shaming rather thanself-compassion, that can often
result in extreme, unsustainablechanges in lifestyle that can
lead to burnout, can lead togiving up, can lead to
(08:50):
self-sabotage.
When you're treating yourselfwith self-compassion, then
you're making changes that aresustainable, that support you,
that make you feel good, notmake you feel deprived.
So really keep that in mindwhen you are making any sort of
changes to your lifestyle is howcan I do this with a sense of
(09:10):
compassion and kindness towardsmyself?
Makes a huge difference,believe me, to your mindset, and
this can have a really bigimpact on your long-term success
.
Because, let's face it, when wego into any sort of health
journey or weight loss journey,we want those benefits that
you're receiving to bemaintained and be long-term
(09:33):
success.
You don't, you know, go makethese changes to your lifestyle
to then just go back to how youwere before, cause you make the
changes for a reason, right, youmake the changes cause you want
to be in a different place,whether that's, you know,
physically, whether that's, um,emotionally, whether that's
whether that's emotionally,whether that's mentally.
So you want that long-termsuccess.
(09:56):
You want to be more likely tosustain the changes that you've
made, the healthy habits thatyou've built.
So having self-compassion andforgiveness is going to take you
a long, long way towardskeeping that maintenance of what
you've achieved.
I would also really highlyrecommend, when you're going on
(10:17):
this journey, when you'rethinking about things like
self-compassion versusself-shaming, is to build a good
social support around you, acheer squad, friends, whether
it's friends or family, or youknow people in the online
community.
Sometimes they can actually befantastic supports to you, even
(10:38):
though you may never have metthem, because they don't have
any baggage, they don't have anycompetitiveness.
There's nothing there that'sactually going to them wanting
to sabotage you.
So if you can build a strongempathetic community or strong
empathetic relationships withothers, that will really help in
terms of building your abilityto have self-compassion versus
(11:03):
shaming and self-shaming.
And we know that when youchoose self-compassion over
shaming, you create a positive,supportive environment for your
hormone healing journey, foryour weight loss journey, for
any sort of health and wellbeingjourney, and that leads to
better outcomes for you overallwellbeing for you as well.
So this was just a short andsweet episode.
(11:25):
Today.
I wanted to get into somethinga little different to perhaps
the more scientific stuff that Ioften talk about.
There is absolutely sciencebehind what I'm talking about
today, but it's just a littlebit softer, and I think that's
really important.
Particularly for women women inperimenopause and menopause,
(11:46):
particularly women who arewanting to make changes to their
lifestyle, to make them feelbetter, to make their bodies
work more effectively.
I think it's really importantto not just look at what should
I be eating, how often should Ibe moving my body, how much
water should I be drinking?
Sure, that's all important, butif you're going into that, just
constantly tearing yourselfdown, constantly just saying
(12:11):
nasty things to yourself andwe've all done it right, I mean,
I know I used to do it quite alot.
I've become much more aware ofit, but I still catch myself
occasionally um talking tomyself in a way that I would
never speak to anybody else.
So I think it's something thatfor many women it's it's just a
constant work in progress andit's easy to make gains, which
(12:34):
is great, and you can just do it, you know, minute by minute,
hour by hour.
If you catch yourself talkingto yourself and go oh, I'm so
stupid, oh, why did I do that?
Stop it, just turn it around.
What can I learn from this?
You know, make it into anexperience that is going to
support you rather than bringyou down.
You need to be your own bestfriend, your own support, and
(12:57):
also bring in others as well, asit kind of becomes clear to you
who those people are going tobe.
So I hope talking aboutsomething like this has been
helpful.
I think sometimes it seems likea really simple thing, but it
can be really hard for people todo, and I think some of the one
(13:18):
of the there are many ways youcan do to help cultivate
self-compassion and one that Ireally love and I learned this
as a yoga teacher and I employeda lot with my clients and I
think it's just a very simpleexercise that I'm going to share
with you before we sign off thepod today, exercise that I'm
(13:38):
going to share with you beforewe sign off the pod today.
And that is a little it'salmost like a mantra.
I guess it's not really.
It's more of a self-loveexercise, actually, I'd say.
But what I recommend is that you, at some point in the day
either once or twice a daygenerally I recommend doing it
first thing in the morning or atnight before you go to bed is
to stand in front of the mirror,looking at yourself in the eyes
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, putting your hand on yourheart, really grounding into
your feet, so you're reallyfeeling grounded into the earth
and just take a deep breath inand out and keep looking at
yourself and just say threetimes I love and accept myself,
I love and accept myself, I loveand accept myself.
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That is, you'd be surprisedlooking at yourself in the
mirror, how powerful that can be.
I have many women that I'vebeen through this exercise with
that can't get through threetimes without crying.
But just the more you do it andyou can use another mantra to
use is rather than I love andaccept, is I love and respect.
(14:46):
I find I love and respectmyself is also a very powerful
one.
So if this is something youthink you might kind of benefit
from, I really feel like sosimple, right, it's free.
You can do it in the privacy ofyour own home.
I really recommend doing this.
Um, try it once a day.
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Even more powerful if you do ittwice a day, and let me know
how you go.
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I reckon I'm going to becomplaining about these dots at
theperimenopausepath onInstagram, or just email me.
Hello at suzygardencom.
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