Feel Good Every Day

Elizabeth Neal was taking thirty pills a day just to function. Autoimmune disease, migraines that needed an ice cap, a depression so deep she was terrified to even ask the question underneath it. On paper she had everything: the marketing career, the climb, every box checked.

In this episode, Elizabeth (soul liberation coach for women in what she calls their "unbecoming") walks through the moment that question finally caught up with her, the real difference between your inner critic and your actual intuition, and the guilt she says was never hers to carry in the first place. We talk about why suffering can start to feel safer than the unknown, what it looks like in a woman's body when she moves from bracing into her own power, and why being capable was never supposed to mean being responsible for everything.

If you've been handling it so well for so long that you've forgotten to ask whether you're okay, start here.

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You will never be 100% symptom-free in perimenopause. I say that to clients all the time, and today I'm saying it to you.

This is a solo episode about something I used to get wrong myself: chasing "symptom-free" instead of listening to what my symptoms were actually telling me. Since 2018, when my body started breaking down, I've learned that a sleepless night after weeks of good sleep isn't a failure. It's data.

I talk about the itchy ear you've heard me mention before, why doctors aren't tracking you once you leave their office, and what it actually means to become the detective of your own body.

You are the CEO of your health. No one else is coming to hand you a perfect plan.

Ready to start your own investigation? Book a Feel Good Strategy Session at annievinje.com.

Courtney Copeland burped for six months after her dad died suddenly. No soda, no reason. Just her body processing grief her mind hadn't caught up to yet.

Courtney is a trauma-informed counselor who walked away from her license so she could work with people beyond state lines. She's a Reiki practitioner and integrative somatic healer, and her clients call her their trauma bestie. She's sat with first responders, human trafficking survivors, and the caregivers nobody checks on.

In this episode: why healing isn't linear (the jack-in-the-box metaphor that made it click for me), how grief and stress actually show up in the body, from migraines to missed periods to pain that comes out of nowhere, and the one question Courtney asks every single client first: how's your shit.

If you've ever felt something in your body and thought "that's weird, I didn't do anything to cause that," this one's for you.

Find Courtney: www.thecourtneycopeland.com

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Doctors told Amy Dave her PMS was normal. Years into her career as a physician assistant, she found out that wasn't true, and cycle syncing was the reason why.

Amy is a PA-C and founder of The Wealth of Wellness, where she now teaches women that PMS is not normal and how to get rid of it with simple daily habit shifts. In this episode: what cycle syncing actually is, why over-exercising and under-eating raise cortisol, what your cravings are really telling you, and the one thing to start tracking before you change anything else.

Find Amy at: https://thewealthofwellness.com/ and get her Free Guide Live a Life Without PMS: https://subscribepage.io/LifewithoutPMS

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I have a marketing degree. I've worked in high-tech and small fitness studios. Which means I am incredibly easy to sell to — show me a woman lifting heavy or doing Pilates for "the shape you want" and my head goes, yes, that's what I should do.

That's the problem.

This week I'm talking about movement — not the Instagram version, the real one. What does your body actually want? Why is 10,000 steps a made-up number from a 1970s Japanese marketing team? Why does the same workout that used to work in your 30s now spike your stress instead? And why, once you hit perimenopause, does performing a workout instead of enjoying it work against you, landing straight in your visceral fat?

I share my own framework: move daily, hit your step number (not someone else's), lift heavy where your body can handle it, and stop performing for a class that isn't even watching you.

Sheila Elaine, known as The Grateful Goddess, is an executive coach and speaker who's spent over a decade helping people at Canyon Ranch Resort and Spa harness gratitude, the law of attraction, and the mind-body connection. She joins Annie to unpack her 5-step Make Space Method for women who've spent their lives taking care of everyone but themselves. Stillness that doesn't require meditation, learning to trust your body's wisdom, knowing when to quit, and why receiving help makes you smart, not weak. Plus: the real reason perimenopause feels like your body screaming for change.

More on Sheila: https://sheilaelaine.org/

Brain fog. Itchy ears. Rage that shows up out of nowhere. Perimenopause has a symptom list that feels endless and half of it sounds made up until you're living it.

In this solo episode, Annie walks through what she's actually navigating in her own perimenopause, physically and mentally, and makes the case that this stage isn't something to manage and push through. It's your body demanding a different relationship with yourself.

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Last week was about finding her, that version of you that got left behind. This week is about why she disappeared in the first place.

Personal trainer and pelvic floor specialist Byrd Graciano is back, and she and Annie are going somewhere most wellness conversations don't go: the question of whether you actually feel safe enough to live inside your own body. Not safe from the world, safe inside yourself. Safe enough to go slow in the grocery store. Safe enough to take up space. Safe enough to stop analyzing and start feeling.

They talk about what it means to run on code orange every time you walk out the door, why the feminine got shut down and what it costs your health when it does, and what perimenopause is actually asking of you - not a breakdown, a reawakening.

Plus the simple things that start to bring you back. A candle. A song. Pausing mid-dishes to ask what's clenched.

This is a permission episode, not a protocol episode.

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Annie gets honest about something she hasn't wanted to say out loud: doing all the "right" things - the yoga, the meditation, the supplements, the stress regulation - and still not feeling good. This episode is about why. She traces the exhaustion most high-functioning women carry back to something deeper than sleep or nutrition: the years spent leaving the body, locking up the feminine, and living almost entirely in the masculine just to get through the day.

She shares the moment from a spiritual training where she found her feminine living in a dirt-floor shelter in rags - neglected, unseen, forgotten. And what it meant when she realized she'd been the one who locked the door. If you've been checking every box and still don't feel like yourself, this one might be the missing piece. annievinje.com

If you've been doing everything right for your health and still feel exhausted - this might be the missing piece. Annie sits down with Ari Jariwalla, CFP and founder of Jariwalla Financial Wellness, to talk about something most wellness conversations skip entirely: the direct link between money stress and your nervous system, your sleep, your energy, and your ability to actually follow through on your health goals.

Ari spent 14 years at Vanguard before starting her own firm three months ago - built for busy women who want peace of mind that their money is working as hard as they are. She shares the personal story of why she left (including a family health crisis that reframed everything), what financial stress actually looks like in the body, and why even high-earning women feel stuck in a constant cycle of anxiety about money.

They also get into the money mindset work - the childhood stories that follow us into adulthood, the lifestyle creep nobody talks about, and what it actually means to say "I love money" out loud in a room full of women entrepreneurs.

Practical, warm, and genuinely useful. This one connects dots you didn't know needed connecting.

Topics: financial stress and health, nervous system regulation, money mindset, women in midlife, life transitions, burnout recovery, flat-fee financial planning

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