Welcome back to The Soul of Menopause, where we dive deep into the real stories, science, and soul of what it means to move through midlife as a woman. I’m your host, Kaye, and today we’re venturing into the world of therapeutic movement and fascia—a topic that doesn’t get nearly enough airtime, but could change the way you feel in your body during menopause.

My guest is Lisa Loiseau, a movement therapist and educator whose work bridges nervous system education, self myofascial release, and somatic practice. Lisa has spent years helping people reconnect with their bodies, find relief from pain, and cultivate resilience—not just physically, but emotionally and energetically too.She’s about to present at the Fascia Research Congress, where she’ll be sharing her unique approach to integrating mind, body, and movement. While menopause isn’t her formal specialty, Lisa’s insights into how we hold stress, trauma, and emotion in the body offer powerful tools for anyone navigating big transitions.

Today, we’ll explore how gentle movement and self-awareness can support you through the ups and downs of menopause, why fascia matters for hormonal health, and how tuning into your body’s wisdom can spark healing and hope.

So settle in, take a deep breath, and let’s welcome Lisa Loiseau to The Soul of Menopause.

Episode Overview:

00:00 – Welcome to The Soul of Menopause

01:00 – Meet Lisa Loiseau: movement educator and fascia therapist

02:00 – Why pain intensifies during menopause

04:00 – How stress, emotion, and fascia intertwine

07:00 – The PAIN Model: Presence, Awareness, Impulse, Neuroplasticity

09:00 – Fascia explained: the body’s hidden connective network

11:00 – Hormones, fascia, and the menopause connection

12:30 – Lymphatic flow as the “missing link” in detox and pain relief

15:00 – How daily self-care movement releases pain and stagnation

16:30 – Understanding stuckness and freeze states

19:00 – Navigating pain medication vs. embodied healing

22:00 – Lisa’s nervous system journey and trauma-informed practice

26:00 – Integrating somatic work, therapy, and functional medicine

30:00 – Learning to relax: why rest needs to be practiced

33:00 – Movement in midlife: rediscovering how your body wants to move

36:00 – Listening to your body as a spiritual practice

38:00 – Where to find Lisa and continue the work

🔗 Connect with Lisa Loiseau:

🌐 Website: https://www.movewellwithlisa.com/

🔗 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/move_well_with_lisa

🔗 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/lisaloiseaumpt/

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay Corpus

For holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:

🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd

🌐 Website: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.kaycorpusmd.com/⁠⁠⁠

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?

Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:

👉 Start the quiz: ⁠⁠⁠https://form.typeform.com/to/lK7NnUFo⁠⁠⁠

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+

A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:

👉 Sign up here: ⁠⁠⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-workshop⁠⁠⁠

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive Consultation

Get personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay

👉 Book your session: ⁠⁠⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-review

Welcome to Soul of Menopause, where we get real about what it means to move through midlife and transformation.Today, we’re joined by someone who’s made it her mission to help people flourish during life’s biggest transitions—Kimberly Garner, founder of the School of Integrative Design.Kimberly is a designer, philosopher, and writer who’s spent over 25 years at the intersection of design, science, and soul. Her approach is truly unique: she’s pioneered a results-oriented, evolutionary framework that blends the art of design with human flourishing, drawing from epigenetics, self-empowerment, and even the spaces we call home. Kimberly’s work is about more than just aesthetics—she helps people reimagine their inner and outer lives, making change not just manageable, but deeply meaningful (School of Integrative Design, Design Mom, Medium).If you’ve ever wondered how the environment around you and the beliefs within you shape your experience of menopause, or if you’re curious about how to turn this transition into a creative threshold, you’re in the right place. Kimberly’s here to share how integrative design and NeuroSpatial Linguistics can help you reimagine menopause as a time for renewal, purpose, and self-discovery.Let’s dive in.🔗 Connect with Kimberly Garner:🌐 Website: https://www.schoolofholisticdesign.com/🔗 Instagram: @schoolofintegrativedesign📞 1-717-201-0987

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay Corpus

For holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:

🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd

🌐 Website: ⁠⁠https://www.kaycorpusmd.com/⁠⁠

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?

Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:

👉 Start the quiz: ⁠⁠https://form.typeform.com/to/lK7NnUFo⁠⁠

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+

A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:

👉 Sign up here: ⁠⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-workshop⁠⁠

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive Consultation

Get personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay

👉 Book your session: ⁠⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-review

My guest today is someone who truly embodies the spirit of this exploration. Marjorie O’Rourke is an internationally renowned psychic medium whose work centers on helping people access higher wisdom and navigate life’s transitions with grace and clarity. If you caught her on our earlier episode, you’ll remember our conversation about intuition and the ways it can guide us in medicine and in life. Marjorie’s insights left a lasting impression on many of you, and I’m so grateful she’s back for this conversation.Marjorie has just released a new book, The Celestial Opus Oracle, which was channeled through her connection with Divine Light Lines. The book is designed as a daily sacred connection to higher wisdom: simple, practical, and profound, much like Marjorie herself. Alongside her psychic and intuitive work, Marjorie offers guidance, faith restoration, and communication with angels and loved ones who have passed, both in person and from a distance, serving clients all over the world.Today, we’re talking about menopause not just as a medical milestone, but as a rite of passage. We’ll explore how intuition plays a role in this transition, how to trust your own inner guidance, and what it means to connect with the soul of menopause.So if you’re in the midst of this transition, supporting someone who is, or simply curious about the deeper stories behind women’s health, this episode has something for you. Let’s get started.

🔗 Connect with Marjorie O’Rourke:🌐 http://www.marjorieorourke.com/📞 1-717-201-0987

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay Corpus

For holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:

🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd

🌐 Website: ⁠https://www.kaycorpusmd.com/⁠

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?

Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:

👉 Start the quiz: ⁠https://form.typeform.com/to/lK7NnUFo⁠

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+

A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:

👉 Sign up here: ⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-workshop⁠

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive Consultation

Get personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay

👉 Book your session: ⁠https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-review

You know how some people just make you feel instantly safe—like you can let your guard down and finally breathe out? That’s Alysa Osvog. Alysa is a Gateless-trained writing facilitator, a guide for writers and non-writers alike who are looking to recover their creative spark. For over a decade, she’s quietly led hundreds of women back to their own words, their own wisdom, and their own sense of joy—often at the very moment when life feels like it’s shifting under their feet.

Alysa’s workshops and writing salons are unlike anything you remember from school. There’s no red pen, no pressure to perform—just a gentle invitation to let your imagination lead, and to trust whatever rises up on the page. Her approach is inspired by Julia Cameron’s The Artist’s Way, combined with the Gateless method, which blends brain science, somatic ritual, and the radical idea that creativity belongs to all of us.

Whether you’re deep in the throes of menopause, wrestling with self-doubt, or just longing to hear your own voice again, Alysa creates a space where it’s safe to be imperfect, to be surprised, and to remember the power of play. She knows that writing isn’t just about words—it’s about healing, connection, and coming home to yourself.

I’m so honored to welcome back Alysa Osvog to Soul of Menopause.

🔗Connect with Alysa Osvog:

💻Website: ⁠https://www.haushealingartsstudio.com/links

📧Email: ⁠[email protected]

⁠🔗 Instagram: @alysaosvog

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay Corpus

For holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:

🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd

🌐 Website: https://www.kaycorpusmd.com/

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?

Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:

👉 Start the quiz: https://form.typeform.com/to/lK7NnUFo

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+

A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:

👉 Sign up here: https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-workshop

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive Consultation

Get personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay

👉 Book your session: https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-review

Welcome to Soul of Menopause, where we explore the real, raw, and beautiful experiences that come with this powerful chapter of life. I’m Dr. Kay Corpus, and today we’re talking about relationships—the ones we have with our partners, our friends, and, maybe most importantly, the ones we have with ourselves.My guest is Janet Webber, founder of Pure Joy Life Design. Janet’s life work is rooted in a simple but radical belief: that every single one of us is born with the right to know, give, and receive deep, authentic love. She sees love as essential—not just a nice-to-have, but a basic ingredient of happiness, as vital as food and water.But if you’ve ever felt like love is just out of reach, if you’ve ever wondered why true partnership seems so elusive—especially in midlife—you’re not alone. Janet’s story is one of grit and grace. She grew up in the shadow of trauma and loss, battled self-doubt, and spent years learning how to love herself before she could fully open up to others. Even after building a life she loved—a career as a coach, a beautiful family, a sense of purpose—she found herself asking why real, lasting partnership still felt so hard to find.That search led her deeper: into the patterns and beliefs that shape how we love, into the ways we can unknowingly block the very connection we yearn for. Today, Janet helps others untangle those patterns and discover what’s possible when we stop waiting for love and start uncovering the barriers inside us.Whether you’re partnered, single, or somewhere in between, this conversation is for anyone navigating the changes of midlife and menopause—when the relationship you have with yourself can be the most healing, transformative force of all.So settle in. We’re about to get real about love, longing, and learning to come home to ourselves.🔗Connect with Janet Webber:💻Website: ⁠www.purejoylifedesign.com/about-janet⁠📧Email: ⁠[email protected]⁠🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay CorpusFor holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd🌐 Website: www.kaycorpusmd.com🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:👉 Start the quiz: https://form.typeform.com/to/lK7NnUFo✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:👉 Sign up here: https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-workshop🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive ConsultationGet personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay👉 Book your session: https://som.kaycorpusmd.com/menopause-review

In this heartfelt solo episode, Dr. Kay Corpus opens up about her personal journey through exhaustion, anxiety, and deep transformation—sharing the moment she hit a wall and how that experience reshaped her understanding of healing, womanhood, and the true essence of menopause.

I invite you to rethink menopause not as a medical problem to fix, but as a powerful portal for self-discovery, authenticity, and soul-level healing. Explore why so many women feel unseen in conventional medicine, how your symptoms might actually be sacred messages, and why the very qualities we were taught to silence—intuition, empathy, sensitivity—are essential to our healing and wholeness.✨

This episode is for every woman standing at the crossroads of midlife, wondering if there’s more. There is.

🫶 Let’s rewrite the narrative, together.

Chapters:

00:00 – Opening: Rewriting the Menopause Narrative

00:31 – Dr. K’s Personal Wake-Up Call: Burnout, Symptoms & the Search for More

02:16 – When the Body Whispers, Then Shouts: The Turning Point

03:04 – Are We Asking the Wrong Questions in Medicine

04:03 – Reclaiming the Power of Sensitivity, Intuition, and Empathy

05:01 – Envisioning a New Model of Healing

05:44 – Menopause as a Portal, Not a Problem

06:35 – An Invitation to Heal, Share, and Rise Together

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay CorpusFor holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:🔗 Instagram: ⁠⁠@kaycorpusmd⁠⁠🌐 Website: ⁠⁠www.kaycorpusmd.com⁠⁠

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:👉 ⁠⁠Start the quiz⁠⁠

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:👉 ⁠⁠Sign up here⁠⁠

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive ConsultationGet personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay:👉 ⁠⁠Book your session⁠

This week, Kay Corpus opens up a conversation that so many women need but rarely get—an honest, unfiltered talk about menopause.

Kay is joined by Heidi Veraa, founder of Sundara Wellness on Australia’s Sunshine Coast. With over 25 years in holistic health, Heidi brings deep experience in Ayurveda, yoga, and healing therapies. She’s not just an expert—she’s lived it. After a decade of teaching about menopause, Heidi found herself right in the thick of it, facing all the confusion, discomfort, and transformation firsthand.

In this episode, Kay and Heidi dig into:

The real, unspoken experiences of menopause—beyond the clichés and scary stories

How Ayurveda and holistic practices can help women understand and navigate this transition

Why so many women suffer in silence, and what we can do to change that

Reframing menopause as a chapter of power, surrender, and self-discovery

Heidi shares the wisdom she’s gained both from her professional practice and her own journey, offering practical advice and hard-won perspective.

If you’ve ever felt alone on this path, or wondered what’s really possible on the other side, you’ll find both comfort and inspiration here.

Ready to break the silence? Hit play and join the conversation.

📌 Chapters

00:00 – Intro: Reframing Menopause02:08 – From Teaching to Living It: Heidi’s Story06:52 – Why So Many Women Suffer in Silence08:23 – Menopause as a Spiritual Gateway13:28 – Ayurveda, Ceremony & the Power of Slowing Down20:14 – Rage, Ritual, and Releasing the Past26:30 – Self-Discovery & Embracing the Crone31:10 – Normalizing the Symptoms33:08 – Support Systems & Holistic Healing39:17 – Final Message: You’re Not Broken42:34 – Connect with Heidi Veraa

Learn more about Heidi and Sundara Wellness:

Website: https://sundara.com.au/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/heidiveraa/

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay CorpusFor holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:🔗 Instagram: @kaycorpusmd🌐 Website: www.kaycorpusmd.com

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:👉 Start the quiz

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:👉 Sign up here

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive ConsultationGet personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay:👉 Book your session

What happens when a doctor’s own body calls her bluff? Dr. Kay Corpus thought she had all the answers—until exhaustion, anxiety, and a string of strange symptoms knocked her flat. Years of training hadn’t prepared her for this.In this episode, Kay gets real about hitting her breaking point and what it took to finally heal. She shares why the biggest problems in medicine aren’t always physical—and why the stories we carry, the perfectionism we cling to, and the wounds we ignore can shape our health more than any diet or prescription. Now, on the other side of burnout and in the thick of menopause, Kay’s rewriting the rules.

This season, she’s cracking open the real conversations about women’s bodies, midlife, and what it means to come home to yourself when your old ways stop working.

If you’ve ever felt like you’re holding it all together on the outside and falling apart on the inside, this episode is for you. The truth? Sometimes breaking down is the beginning of real healing—not the end.

🌿 Stay Connected with Dr. Kay CorpusFor holistic resources, upcoming events, and supportive tools for your midlife journey:🔗 Instagram: ⁠@kaycorpusmd⁠🌐 Website: ⁠www.kaycorpusmd.com⁠

🌀 Not sure where you are in your menopause journey?Take the Know Your Menopause Stage Quiz now:👉 ⁠Start the quiz⁠

✨ Soul of Menopause Workshop for Women 40+A sacred space to explore your transition with ceremony, wisdom, and support. Join the next cohort:👉 ⁠Sign up here⁠

🔍 Menopause Review: A 90-minute Deep-Dive ConsultationGet personalized guidance and clarity from Dr. Kay:👉 ⁠Book your session⁠

Welcome to a transformative episode of "The Soul of Medicine," featuring the insightful Alysa Osvog in her second appearance on the podcast. Alysa joins us to discuss her latest venture, HAUS, a groundbreaking healing arts studio nestled in the serene backdrop of Santa Ynez, California. Alysa's journey, rich with personal triumph and professional dedication, began over a decade ago when she was newly sober and working in the treatment industry. It was then that she discovered the profound impact of yoga and other healing practices in aiding recovery—not just from substance abuse, but all forms of personal healing.

Website: ⁠https://www.alysaosvog.com/⁠

Instagram: ⁠@alysaosvog⁠

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Imagine a healthcare journey that takes you from the cutting-edge hospitals of the United States to the nomadic tribes of Arabia, from the bustling cities of Saudi Arabia and Dubai to the lush landscapes of the Philippines and Thailand. For over 40 years, Charlene Fabiano has been on just such a journey, witnessing firsthand the incredible diversity of global healthcare practices.

As a registered nurse with a career spanning decades and continents, Charlene has seen it all - from the traditional healing rituals of other cultures to the latest advancements in Western medicine. But through all her travels and experiences, she has come to believe in the transformative power of one particular practice: acupuncture and Chinese medicine.

Today, Charlene brings her wealth of knowledge and experience to the tristate area, where she is dedicated to sharing the miracles of acupuncture with her community. With advanced training from renowned practitioners and a passion for empowering patients to take control of their health, Charlene is on a mission to show us all how this ancient practice can hold the key to modern wellness.

Join us as we sit down with Charlene to explore her incredible journey, the lessons she's learned along the way, and the powerful potential of acupuncture to transform lives. Whether you're a seasoned practitioner or just curious about the possibilities of holistic healthcare, this conversation is sure to inspire and enlighten. Connect

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Phone Number: 812-867-9355

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