If you have tried more diets than you can count and they all stopped working, or never worked to begin with, you are not the problem. Lizzie Merritt, a certified life coach and bestselling author of LIGHT: The New Psychology of Weight Loss, is here to talk about what is actually going on when traditional diets fail midlife women, why your nervous system has more to do with your eating habits than your willpower does, and what a brain-based approach to weight loss looks like in real life.

Not feeling heard in a relationship is one of the most common challenges for midlife women, especially in long-term partnerships where conversations can start to feel like logistics, criticism, or defensiveness instead of real connection. If you’ve ever wondered why communication in your relationship feels harder than it used to, or why you and your partner keep having the same conversations without actually feeling understood, you’re in the right place.

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.