After 40, many women don’t lose desire, but they certainly lose permission to talk about it 😉 This episode breaks the silence around sex, hormones, and intimacy, and why stopping the conversation often hurts more than the changes themselves. Honest, validating, and unladylike in the best way.

Why do women learn to pray politely instead of honestly? In this episode of That’s Not Very Ladylike, Tracey, former youth minister turned hormone educator, dives into how spiritual conditioning (no matter what you practice or believe) teaches women to censor pain, and what shifts when honesty replaces silence.

Women are taught to soften big truths to stay palatable, especially around motherhood. This episode explores why maybe later feels safer than honesty, how that pressure lives in the body, and what it looks like to stop editing yourself.

In this episode, we talk about how women are taught to override their own knowing by outsourcing decisions to experts, partners, systems, and expectations, especially when it comes to health, work, and relationships. Over time, that disconnect makes intuition feel unreliable, confusing, or quiet.

In this episode, we unpack how downplaying our intelligence became a survival skill, how it impacts confidence, money, leadership, and what it costs women to keep shrinking their brilliance. Because playing small might look polite but it’s anything but harmless.

This episode explores why so many women learn to soften, hint, and circle around their needs — in relationships, in healthcare, and in their own lives, instead of naming them directly.

In this episode, we unpack why women feel responsible for other people’s comfort, how over-explaining becomes a trauma response, and what it costs your confidence, clarity, and energy.

Ladies don’t cancel plans. Nope, they grit their teeth and go anyway. Today we talk about the hormonal, emotional, and cultural pressure to keep pushing, and why rest, rescheduling, and saying no might be the most unladylike power move there is.

Perimenopause isn’t just stress, but women are still taught to downplay the chaos happening in their bodies. In this episode, we crack open the truth about the symptoms we’ve been taught to dismiss and why calling it what it is can change everything.

PMS isn’t just mood swings and chocolate cravings, but a full-body experience women have been shamed into whispering about for decades. In this episode, we stop tiptoeing around that time of the month and say out loud what most women only mutter under their breath. I’m breaking down why it’s not all in your head and how to stop feeling like a monthly crime scene. Let’s talk about the thing we were never supposed to talk about.