If anxiety has been showing up lately, especially the kind that seems to arrive without a clear reason or a thought you can point to, Sigmar Berg has a different explanation for where it's coming from. He is the founder of Lovetuner and a mindfulness expert who has spent over a decade at the intersection of breath, sound, and nervous system regulation, and his argument is that most of what we experience as anxiety is actually a body problem, starting with the way we breathe.

If you've been catching yourself thinking "I just don't feel like myself" and you can't explain exactly why, there's a real, physiological reason for it. It's not only your hormones, and it's not only because you're stretched impossibly thin, though both matter. 

There's a third factor called interoception: your ability to sense and interpret what's actually happening inside your body. When it goes offline, you lose your sense of self right along with it.

If you've been wondering whether your brain is working against you in your 40s or 50s, ADHD specialist Dr. Jennifer Dall is here to sort it out. She talks about how ADHD shows up differently in high-achieving women, why perimenopause amplifies symptoms that were always there, and what you can actually do about it today, with or without a formal diagnosis.

Why do we have more joint pain and muscle aches in our 40s and 50s? Yes, hormones and aging play a role. But they aren’t the only factors.

Stacey Roberts PT, RN, MSN has over 30 years of experience helping patients live pain-free. And some of her advice is going to surprise you.

If your perimenopause symptoms feel heavier, stranger, or more relentless than what the women around you are going through, it might be your DNA.

Listen in as Kim Ressler, Founder and CEO of SNiP Nutrigenomics, and I come together to explore this question: what if your genetic blueprint is shaping not just when you enter menopause, but exactly how hard the whole thing hits you?

If your sex drive has gone quiet and you're chalking it up to just your hormones, sex therapist Brooke Bralove wants you to think again. In this conversation, Brooke breaks down many other reasons midlife women lose desire including resentment, exhaustion, mental overload, and unresolved trauma, and what actually helps bring it back.

Are you one of the bajillion women wondering if creatine is something you should be taking? Dr. Miranda Naylor, functional medicine doctor and host of the Modern Women's Wellness podcast, makes the case that creatine is not a gym supplement. It is a women's health supplement, and most of us in midlife are not getting enough.

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.

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 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.

This week, I’m joined by Courtney Townley, host of the Grace & Grit podcast and a total truth-teller when it comes to midlife women’s health. She’s here to help us stop waging war on our bodies, stop doing everyone else’s emotional labor, and start rebuilding a life that actually works for us.

We’re talking burnout, hormone shifts, people-pleasing, body image, boundaries—and how to stop patching the cracks and start pouring a new foundation.

If you’re wondering whether menopause hormone therapy (a.k.a. HRT) could help with your hot flashes, mood swings, sleep issues, or that terrible “not like myself” feeling—this episode is for you.

In this expert interview, I’m joined by Dr. Lisa Brent, a naturopathic doctor who specializes in hormone health and integrative women’s medicine. We unpack everything you’ve been confused about when it comes to estrogen, progesterone, perimenopause, menopause symptoms, testing, bioidentical hormones, and more.