What if midlife isn’t a breakdown — but a threshold?

In this episode of The Root Cause Reset, Dr. Trish Schneider sits down with Alison Litchfield, who works with the whole person — body, mind, and spirit — through somatic practice, psycho-emotional awareness, fascia work, posture, breath, and nervous system intelligence.

Alison views physical symptoms not as problems to suppress, but as communication. She believes the body carries lived experience — stress, grief, resilience, adaptation — and that true healing begins when we stop overriding signals and start listening.

Together, they explore:

Why midlife is often when “the old ways stop working”

The nervous system’s role in physical symptoms

Fascia as stored experience

Why symptom management stops working in midlife

Embodied practice as a path to sustainable healing

Listening to the body as an intelligent system

If you’re in a season where pushing harder no longer works — and your body seems to be asking for something deeper — this conversation will feel like permission.