Rock Your Midlife

Manage Menopause and Boost Your Mood with Ease

On this week's show we're talking about two once taboo topics: Menopause and depression
Each year 1.3 million American women enter menopause - the time when menstruation officially stops. Millions more will go through peri-menopause.
Here's another fact: women at midlife have the highest rate of depression for any group by gender and age - 12.3% about 1 in 8.
Hot flashes, fatigue, insomnia, brain fog, moodiness, weight gain - these are just a few things that women may experience at midlife. How do you deal and get the support you need through every stage of menopause?
There isn’t a one-size-fits-all regimen when it comes to managing menopause and boosting your mood at midlife. We each need to figure out: What works for me?
Fortunately, there are numerous options to support midlife women and help them thrive as they transition through menopause and into their second half of life.
Today's show is going to give you keys that will empower you to take charge of your mental and physical health.
Here's what we're dishing about
• Real solutions to deal with the changes your experiencing as you go through menopause
• The latest medical treatments for your symptoms
• Creative ways to manage menopause at work
• Boosting your mood by hacking your brain's happiness hormones
• Plant-based solutions designed for women

Reject Diets and Reclaim Your Food Voice

Many women struggle with their weight, especially at midlife. Hormonal changes can influence your appetite, including how much you eat and what you're craving. These hormonal changes can also cause you to store more fat.
While you may be tempted to diet, dieting is not the answer. Dieting is not sustainable, and predicts weight gain not loss. Plus, dieting increases stress which can also trigger emotional eating and weight gain around your waistline.
What's the answer? Reclaim your food voice and learn to eat intuitively and in this week's show you'll learn how to do it!
I'll be dishing with registered dietitian Julie Duffy Dillon about how you can ditch dieting forever and learn to listen to your intuitive wisdom around eating.
Plus, Julie will also share her wisdom around PCOS (polycystic ovary disease). You'll lean what PCOS is, what to do about PCOS cravings, and how it can impact menopause.
In the second half of the show we'll shift gears and talk about heart disease the leading cause of death in US women, with Tim Bilbrey. He's developed an award-winning home-based system to help cardiac patients, and will share an innovative solution for supporting cardiac patients.

Transform Your Life and Live More Consciously and Daringly

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. Helen Keller
At midlife there is often a strong desire to get unstuck and transform your life and make your next chapter your best chapter. But how do you do it?
Transformation is different for everyone, but there are many tools that can help you and people who can inspire you. Today's guest will do both.
Our first guest, Ora Nadrich is a pioneering Mindfulness expert who will help you to connect with your higher consciousness, which she says brings us to the divine power that awaits. Instead of busily looking for answers outside of ourselves, and relying on distractions, stimulants, materialism and other external influences, Ora says we have inner resources to become more awake, present and aware.
She’ll share how you can tough this mystical place by practicing mindfulness. It's a way to rein in our random thoughts and hold us in present moment awareness. As we stay focused on the present, we’re able to look more deeply into what we’re actually feeling in that moment — and in our awareness, to transcend limited thoughts and beliefs and raise our consciousness.
Seven years ago, our second guest Antoinette Lee Toscano recovered from a traumatic brain and spinal cord injury, reversed lupus, improved kidney and gallbladder function, high cholesterol and blood pressure, significantly reduced instances of migraines, and now manages multiple chronic conditions. How did she do it? She received the gift of outdoor recreation when she learned to whitewater kayak.
Today, as a 54-year-old all-around adventure sportswoman and sponsored athlete, Antoinette will tell you how to create your new normal and live as big a life as you can envision through the 'New Normal Big Life' process.
Join us as we help midlife women get real, discover who they are, and get the tools to navigate life.