If you are self-aware, emotionally intelligent and still finding yourself people-pleasing or walking on eggshells in your relationship, this episode will help you understand why, without blaming yourself.

Trauma-informed coach and somatic therapist Steffi Seefeld joins me to unpack why so many high-achieving women feel confident and successful on the outside, yet anxious, unseen, or unsure in their relationships.

If you start feeling the Sunday Scaries before the weekend is even over, you’re not alone.

In this episode, I sit down with leadership coach and Enneagram expert Ali Dunn to talk about a different way of planning the year ahead—one rooted in self-awareness, motivation, and alignment, not hustle or “shoulds.”

Eating less and exercising more does not help with weight gain in perimenopause. It can actually backfire. Here’s what works instead.

In this episode, I talk with registered dietitian and holistic nutritionist Betsy Markle about why traditional dieting stops working in perimenopause and what actually supports metabolism during midlife.

Did you accomplish a lot this year but still feel oddly unfulfilled? This episode will help you understand why, and what to do next.

In this solo episode, Jessica shares end-of-year reflection prompts for midlife women who want to live more intentionally and feel more aligned as they head into a new year.

And after 50 episodes of talking with doctors, hormone experts, therapists, pelvic floor PTs, coaches, healers, and wildly inspiring midlife women, I’ve noticed the same themes rise to the surface again and again. Today, I’m pulling together the most important lessons from the first 50 episodes to help you feel less alone, more informed, and way more empowered in this chapter of life.

If you’re a midlife woman who’s finally getting your protein, strength training, and sleep dialed in — only to have the holidays show up like a glitter bomb of sugar, cocktails, and family dynamics — this episode is exactly what you need.

Between the gifts, the hosting, the traditions, the cards, the cooking, and the never-ending expectations… December can feel like a full-time job. But what if this year could feel different?

Shira Gill is here to help you create a holiday season that feels joyful, calm, meaningful — and actually aligned with your life right now as a midlife woman. Hallejulah.

In honor of Thanksgiving, I asked listeners to share what they’re feeling most grateful for in midlife. Your answers were honest, hilarious, heartfelt, and full of that signature midlife “F-it” energy we all know and love.

Today’s episode is a crowdsourced roundup of what real women 40+ are grateful for right now — from better relationships with our bodies, to boundaries that finally stick, to friendships that feel like lifelines.

If you’ve hit your 40s and found yourself thinking, “I don’t feel like myself anymore,” you are in extremely good company. This is one of the most common—and most misunderstood—symptoms of perimenopause.

In this episode of the Midlife Advice podcast, I’m joined by Dr. Prudence Hall, a gynecological surgeon turned regenerative medicine practitioner, who helps women decode their symptoms and reclaim their energy, clarity, libido, and spark.

Welcome to the Midlife Advice podcast, where smart, curious, and slightly sassy women over 40 come to figure out all things midlife.

In this short solo episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on why I changed the name of the podcast from Belong Wellness to Midlife Advice — and how this shift reflects exactly what the show has become: a go-to source for real, relatable, expert-backed advice on hormones, health, relationships, and purpose.

At 35, Teyonna Bowman was a young mom who thought she was doing everything right — eating healthy, staying active, raising her kids — until she found a lump in her breast that changed everything. After surviving breast cancer twice, Teyonna entered medically induced menopause at 40.

In this episode, Teyonna shares what it’s really like to navigate early menopause after cancer — the physical symptoms, the emotional whiplash, the loss of connection with her body and her husband — and how she ultimately reclaimed her strength and purpose.

In this playful mini-sode, I reflect on my recent family “vacation,” and how I’m almost ready to drop the quotes. I talk five-hour flights with no iPads, the magic of kids’ clubs, Yoto players, hotel spas, and share tips (and a few silly wins) for traveling with little kids while keeping your sanity intact.

In this episode, I talk with Andrea Nakayama, a functional nutritionist and narrative-medicine practitioner (yes, we cover what that means). Andrea explains how our beliefs about aging influence inflammation, cortisol, memory, recovery, and even longevity—and why your mindset may be one of the most powerful tools for midlife women’s health.

Forget headstands — the most advanced yoga is parenting without losing your cool.

In this week’s episode of the Belong Wellness Podcast, I talk with Sarah Ezrin, yoga teacher and author of The Yoga of Parenting, about how yoga philosophy applies far beyond the mat — especially for parents in midlife.

Have you ever noticed that just when life starts to feel really good, you start bracing for something bad to happen? That’s what psychologists call the Upper Limits Problem.

This week, I sit down with award-winning author Tamar Hurwitz-Fleming to talk about why joy can feel so hard to hold onto, and how birthdays can actually teach us how to expand our capacity for joy.

Have you ever found yourself standing in front of the pantry after a stressful day, not even hungry but looking for…something? Something to give you a little boost, a little comfort, or to take the edge off? That’s what we call emotional eating.

Learn the root causes and how to finally break the cycle.

When it comes to menopause hormone therapy, most women are offered a short list of standard prescriptions — and that’s it. But if you’ve ever felt like those options don’t work for you, there’s a reason: hormone therapy isn’t one-size-fits-all.

That’s where compounding pharmacies come in. 

If you’ve been following along, you know I’ve been pouring my heart into the Belong Wellness podcast for the past several months. Lately, one of the questions I get asked most often is:

“So… do you love podcasting?”

Today’s minisode is my honest answer. 

If you’ve hit your 40s and suddenly feel like your body got swapped out for someone else’s…I’m right there with you. For many midlife women, uninvited menopause belly fat shows up overnight, brain fog makes you lose your train of thought mid-sentence, and you’re wide awake at 3am pondering disasters that will probably never happen. 

In this episode, I’m joined by Barbara Sobel, a board-certified nutritionist with a master’s in clinical and functional medicine nutrition. Barb specializes in midlife and menopause nutrition and helping women in perimenopause and menopause figure out what actually helps us feel better at this stage of life.

Midlife reflection for women in perimenopause: 5 foods I don’t eat anymore and the surprising lessons they taught me about healthy habits and hormone health.