Done with Dieting: Total Health for Women 40+ with Elizabeth Sherman

We are more hyper-connected than ever. Yet, many of us report feeling lonelier than we did before we had social media & all these different ways we had to connect with each other.

In this episode, you'll learn the different aspects of belonging and connection - how they relate to trust, vulnerability, authenticity, and self.

If you want more connections in your relationships, you won't want to miss this episode.

Emily Gough Bio:

Emily Gough is a human connection & transformational coach, speaker, mental health advocate, and host of the top 200 Room to Grow™ podcasts. With years of coaching experience, connection & compassion as superpowers, and a tendency to bring a sense of humor to tough topics, Emily's warm, genuine, down-to-earth, and direct approach encompasses the full mind/body and will give you the guidance, real-life tools, and perspective you need to help you like and trust yourself more to create the relationships and life you deserve. As seen in Forbes.

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

Menopause is something that ½ of our population will go through, is going through, or has gone through that no one is talking about.

And because we're not talking about it, many of us feel like we need to 'put up or shut up' - that there isn't a lot that we can do to manage the symptoms of our changing bodies.

But there are lots of things that we can do to manage our symptoms: insomnia, night sweats or hot flashes, cravings, energy dips, brain fog, and that extra weight that magically appears around our mid-section.

And it really doesn't have to be difficult.

Tune in to this episode to learn a few tips & techniques that you can use to manage your symptoms & feel like yourself again.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/36

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

It's hard to avoid it - other people commenting on or having opinions about what we eat, our body, and/or what we should do.

This can be an especially sensitive topic when we're starting something new, and we want them to support us, but they're not totally on board & have tons of questions that make it feel like they're challenging us.

We just want them to get on board. Why can't they just support us?

Right?

People are always going to have opinions.

It's a given.

I'll bet YOU have lots of opinions. I know that I do.

So, what do you do when the people around you are offering their unsolicited opinions about what you're doing with your body?

Tune in to this week's podcast episode: Other People's Opinions

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/35

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

We all go through periods where we're just not motivated to do the thing that we either want to do, or that we think we should be doing.

Something that was inspiring last week - that we couldn't imagine not doing, suddenly, we have no desire to do it.

What's happening? Why don't we want to do it?

In this episode, we'll explore why we don't always feel motivated, but then more importantly, how do we get ourselves to do the things we want, and how do we become motivated again?

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/34

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

The Sandwich Generation: It's a term used for folks in mid-life who are trying to fulfill the needs not only of their children, but also the growing needs of aging parents.

Even if you're not a caregiver now, the idea that caregiving could be in your future is an absolute responsibility.

Jennifer Richey works with caregivers to help them manage all of the logistical and emotional demands that are unique to folks in this role, and has solutions for all the worries, problems, and questions that pop up.

Jennifer has created an amazing tool to help us organize our own (or others) information. Things like passwords, bank accounts, insurance policies, and all those other aspects of our life that need to be tied up when we're no longer around.

So, whether you're currently a caretaker, or you want to make caretaking easier for those who will eventually take care of you, you won't want to miss this episode.

Jennifer Richey spent the first half of her career working with adults and children with intellectual disabilities in the community while caring for her parents and grandfather. Jennifer found coaching after her father died and it changed her life. The skills she learned helped make her caregiving experience for her mother and grandfather much more manageable. She started her coaching business, Brave Caregiving, in 2019 while she coached for her The Life Coach School. As a Certified Caregiving Consultant, Educator and Certified Life Coach, she now coaches caregivers of aging parents on how to stop hating their lives while caregiving.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/33

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If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

We are always making decisions.

One of the roles that I serve my clients with is helping them to make decisions.

See, we THINK that there's a right decision and a wrong decision: Should I change jobs? Or not? Should we go to Florida for our vacation? Or California? Should I go to this movie? Or that one? Should I cut my hair? Or keep it the same?

In a world where so much importance is put on us making the 'right decision' in regards to vaccines and choosing political leaders, it's no doubt that so many of us suffer from analysis paralysis.

We see this all the time when it comes to deciding which gym to join, which fitness class to go to, or which dietary guidelines to follow. We get so in the weeds of gathering information that it keeps us from taking action - which then ironically just delays the decision.

Many times, making a decision & having your own back  is the best decision to make.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/32

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

This episode is sooooo gooood! I wanted to have Sarah on the show because as women, we've been socialized to believe that pleasure is bad - let alone S E X. 

When you look at the ways that certain products are marketed towards us, for example, foods are often sold as 'guilty pleasures' - which means that it's off limits. And we know when something is forbidden, we want it more, and then instantly feel shame when we do get it.

One of the topics that I address with my clients is the idea of diversifying joy - which presents itself when the only thing that we have to look forward to is food - and so we eat because we NEED joy and pleasure in our lives. So, by adding other pleasurable things, we can reduce our need to eat all the things.

Yes, of course we talk about sex, sexual identity, and everything that goes along with it to help us be whole. But the big take away is how to add more pleasure in to your life so that food isn't the only thing that we run to.

Sarah has a Master's degree in Human Sexuality and finally became a coach after working in women's health start-ups. She has always been fascinated by sex but knew that she wanted to help other people when she realized that her (rather disappointing) sex life had been created by Hollywood depictions of sex and lacked genuine pleasure. In her coaching, she connects women to their authentic pleasure so they can experience a sex life that is fun, inviting, and authentic to their true desires.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/31

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

If you have an all or nothing thinking about eating & exercising, you already probably know that it doesn't serve you. You know what I'm talking about - when we feel like we need to be all in, and if we're not all in, we're all out.

Either we're eating organic vegetables & home made meals, or we're ordering take out.

Why is it so hard for us humans to moderate? Especially when it comes to our health habits?

We think it should be easy - and at the beginning it is. But when life becomes stressful, or conditions are less than ideal, and we can't live up to the expectations that we've set for ourselves, we feel like we've failed.

One of the keys to success is to become resilient - to catch failure, correct our response, & move past it without making it mean that we've failed - that WE are a terrible person for not living up to the expectations that we've set for ourselves.

And so learning how to interrupt your thought process and insert better, more productive, thoughts - thoughts that will help you to recover from a failure and mitigate the damage can be a really useful tool in our quest to change our health behaviors.

Tune in to learn how to turn failure thinking into resilience thinking.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/30

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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

I was raised that it was gauche to talk about money, politics, or religion in polite company.

As a result, so many of us find money to be a taboo topic; not having a good relationship with money, or the idea that we want money to be shameful.

The truth is that regardless of income level, we still have problems. However, when we change our relationship with money, that problem goes away.

Tune in to this interview with Brittany Deer to start understanding how your thoughts about money influence your capacity to have and retain money, and then what steps you can take to improve your relationship with it.

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/29

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If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.

In episode 28 of the Done with Dieting Podcast, I'm talking all about accountability; specifically, the difference between internal and external accountability - What Gretchen Rubin differentiates Upholders from Obligers in her book, The Four Tendencies.

As women, we're socialized to put other people's wants and needs before our own. So of course it makes sense that most of us can keep commitments to others, but not ourselves.

But this quality is changeable.

I know because *I* used to not be able to keep commitments to myself.

But now I can.

And if we ever want to be able to 'get consistent', or 'be disciplined', putting ourselves and our needs on the list of priorities, is a MUST.

To learn more about the Feel Good Sisterhood, go to https://elizabethsherman.com/groupcoaching

Get full show notes and more information here: https://elizabethsherman.com/podcast/28

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If you know what to do but struggle to keep it all together when life starts to life, this call is for you. It's free, it's 30 minutes, and you'll walk away with a clear look at what's actually in your way instead of another generic plan.
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If you’re a woman in midlife who wants better health without obsessing over weight, you’re in the right place. I’m Elizabeth Sherman, a life and health coach and host of the Total Health in Midlife Podcast.

After coaching hundreds of women, I know the real problem usually isn’t “not enough information” – it’s too much of it, and not knowing where to start. With close to 300 episodes, this show can feel that way too.

To make it easy, I created a free Listener’s Roadmap that helps you figure out which episodes are right for you right now. Tell me what you’re struggling with – low energy, emotional eating, stress, sleep, exercise, or all of the above – and I’ll point you to a curated path of episodes and resources to get you moving.

Download your free roadmap at https://elizabethsherman.com/roadmap.