Brain fog, hot flushes, joint pain and anxiety are not just a normal part of ageing.  If you have these, it's likely that you are in a pro inflammatory state. 

And you deserve better.

You deserve to know what's going on in your body and mind and you deserve to know what to do to help you. 

Because I know that if you felt better you'd be happier and so would the people around you.  

You'd have more energy, you'd sleep better and you might even try that dance class you've been promising yourself. 

In today's inspiring conversation with health coach Sharon Myers, we explore all of this and more.

We discuss: 

Transitioning from a job in pharma to a job in health coaching
Bio individuality and listening to your own body
The six key symptoms of chronic inflammation
What causes chronic inflammation
Symptoms as your guide if you can't afford lab tests
Creating a diet and lifestyle that you can live with
Being pro choice and making empowered decisions
Food first and supplements second
Using hacks to get you kickstarted
Not for life - switching up 'diets' to give you a metabolic advantage

So if you're ready to get our of your pro inflammatory state, then this episode is for you.

Sharon's Links:
Facebook Page:  https://www.facebook.com/sharonmyersllc
Free Facebook group is Midlife & Glamorous: https://www.facebook.com/groups/245935194284419.
Email:  [email protected]

Sally’s Links

[Free] Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
[Free] How to Make Sleep Your Super Power https://www.sallygarozzo.com/optinsleepwebinar
[Free] Sleep Hypnosis Recording: https://bit.ly/sleephypnosisrecording

How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem [£47]:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Menopause Wellbeing Practitioner [£74.99] https://bit.ly/menowellness
Rapid Transformational Therapy [£447]: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
Menopause Solution Sessions [£147]: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy [£497] https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep 

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Recently I witnessed a menopause practitioner being derogatory about the DUTCH test online.

It shocked me but ultimately everyone is entitled to their opinion. 

What I found difficult though was the unwillingness to broaden their perspective and listen to all sides of the story.  Any contradictory opinion was simply shut down with a response such as 'I stand by my original opinion.' 

This kind of thinking is problematic for reasons you'll learn in today's podcast episode. 

Doctor Allie Grimston is an NHS GP, a Functional Medicine Doctor and a spiritual healer.  What I love about Dr Allie, is her ability to take a broad view of the whole system in a way that considered and compassionate (something that was lacking in this particular online conversation).  

In our conversation we cover:

😊 Coping with the conflict that arises between allopathic medicine and functional medicine.
😊 The restrictions of The National Health Service.
😊 Gluten and Thyroid Health.
😊 Internal stress. 
😊 What functional medicine is [root cause work].
😊 The difference between Body Identical HRT and Bio Identical HRT.
😊 Lab testing.
😊 What is the DUTCH test.
😊 What is oestrogen dominance.
😊 Your vagina - it might not be thrush. 
😊 The microbiome (not just in the gut).
😊Poly Cystic Ovary Syndrome. 
😊 Bio Individuality.
😊Energy healing, psychic surgery and spiritual medicine. 

So if you're interested in taking a broader view of menopause and you're open to leaning into the bigger picture, this episode is for you. 

Doctor Allie's Links
https://doctorallie.com/
https://www.facebook.com/DrAlisonGrimston
https://www.facebook.com/groups/menopausedrallie
https://twitter.com/Doctor_Allie
http://youtube.com/c/AlisonGrimston
https://www.instagram.com/doctorallie1/

Sally’s Links

[Free] Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
[Free] How to Make Sleep Your Super Power https://www.sallygarozzo.com/optinsleepwebinar
[Free] Sleep Hypnosis Recording: https://bit.ly/sleephypnosisrecording

How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem [£47]:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Menopause Wellbeing Practitioner [£74.99] https://bit.ly/menowellness
Rapid Transformational Therapy [£447]: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
Menopause Solution Sessions [£147]: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy [£497] https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep 

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Is your mental health suffering as a result of the HRT shortage?  

This shortage is incredibly invalidating as a woman or person who takes it and I've no doubt is rooted in hidden misogyny.   

Needless to say, anxiety is on the rise as a result but ....

Now might be a good time to introduce you to a radical idea.

And that's the idea that anxiety is not caused by an oestrogen and progesterone deficiency ALONE.

The causes of anxiety are multi layered and therefore require a variety of approaches to manage successfully, not just HRT.

Anxiety was one of my most debilitating symptoms of peri menopause. I still have my days, but I no longer suffer chronically and one of the main reasons why is because…

I RADICALLY CHANGED MY PERSPECTIVE & DID A LOT OF EMOTIONAL EXCAVATION. 

It was a slow process but I had to start somewhere.

I’d like to give you that starting point right now inside this weeks podcast episode:

Breaking The Chains of Anxiety.I’ll show you everything I learnt from being a recovered anxiety sufferer and helping my midlife clients as a Clinical Hypnotherapist.

In this episode I’ll show you how to:
✅ Stop acting from fear (so that you can break the cycle of looping thoughts)

✅ Recognise how and when to do things differently (so that you can feel empowered knowing that you are in control)

✅ Learn what to do to weed out the roots of anxiety

If you feel it’s time to improve your coping skills, embrace uncertainty and mobilise yourself into feeling better, then, come on over. 

Sally’s Links

Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally

Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt

1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring

The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep

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It’s so hard, let's not sugar coat it.  Looking after ourselves is hard and sometimes (truth bomb) I really don't want to do it.  I can often show up kicking and screaming to meal prep, meditation and exercise but..

Jennifer reminded me of something. 

She said "when you feel like shit, you still show up for your dog or your kids though don't you?  Why is that? BECAUSE YOU LOVE THEM!" 

So cultivate that same love for yourself and despite how you feel, you'll always show up for yourself.  

Even if it's hard.

Jennifer Powter is the founder of The Weight Loss Academy and best-selling author of two books, Diet Disruption and Stop Sabotaging Your Weight Loss.

In our conversation today we smashed it out of the park address topics like...

🤩 Is it OK to actually want to lose weight?
 🤩 Why diets just don't work.
 🤩 What permanent weight loss really requires.
 🤩 Full body, mind and soul integration.
 🤩 What space is food trying to fill?
 🤩 The skill of meeting our unmet needs.
 🤩 Why we sabotage our weight loss and what to do about it.
 🤩 Applying what we do for others towards ourselves. 
 🤩 Onboarding your family
 🤩 Understanding the relationship to self triangle
 🤩 The FINE theory

So if you're ready to let go of the perfectionism of dieting and adopt an approach to weight loss that will leave you in great loving communion with yourself, then this episode is for you.

Jennifer's Links
www.jenniferpowter.com
Instagram: @jenpowter
FB: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferPowter
Free Diet Disruption Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DietDisruptionMovement

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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So you've decided that that's enough work for one lifetime.  You're done.  Your body and brain is tired and you want to go at a slower pace.  

But you still need money... so how are you going to generate it?  

A retirement plan is a sensible thing to be thinking about during midlife but many of us don't know where to start.  

My guest today is The Female Money Doctor .

Dr Nikki Ramskill is a certified money coach, and runs an award winning blog.  She now helps women from all over the world to improve their mental health and well-being through getting organised with their finances and building wealth for the future they truly deserve.

Oh... and she's also a medical doctor too.  

In this conversation we talk about....

💰 The link between age milestones and money.
💰 The connection between health and money. 
💰 The money personality system. 
💰 Understanding your money shadow side and how to deal with it. 
💰 Good debt and bad debt.
💰 How money affects our IQ
💰 Retirement planning. 
💰 How media influences women's spending and earning potential. 
💰 Empowering women and entrepreneurship. 
💰 Passive income. 
💰 Investing as a beginner.
💰 How women's hormones affect investing behaviour. 
💰 How to develop a growth mindset around money. 
💰 How to know when to outsource. 
💰 How our cycles affect our spending. 

 So if you're ready face the music and becoming empowered around money and your future, then this episode is a must.

Nikki's Links:
https://thefemalemoneydoctor.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/femalemoneydoctor/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/femalemoneydoc/
Facebook: https://facebook.com/groups/thefemalemoneydoctor

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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"I don't feel safe" That's the sound of a body who's histamine levels can't be regulated properly.  Yeah, that was a penny drop moment for me too!  I had no idea that fear, stress and anxiety stimulated histamine and prevented it from being eliminated properly. 

As we know, at menopause, very often our stress hormones are sky high. 

But there's something else that triggers all those sneezy, swelly type symptoms by just looking at a glass of wine. 

It's to do with declining progesterone and oestrogen dominance.  All will be revealed. 

My guest today Luka Symons, is the co-founder of Histamine Haven, a global community that helps people with an ovarian system deal with chronic health concerns that might be to do with histamine.  

She's funny and so informative.

In today's episode we discuss: 

🤧 The link between histamine and anxiety
🤧 Why histamine is usually high in a body that doesn't feel safe
🤧 The link between gut health and histamine intolerance
🤧 What is histamine intolerance and why it's a misleading phrase
🤧 Symptoms of histamine intolerance
🤧 Why regulating histamine isn't as easy as taking a DAO supplement
🤧 Foods that are high in histamine
🤧 How histamine could affect our sleep
🤧 The role that histamine plays in our soft tissue
🤧 Why our kitchens and our communities need to be our allies
🤧 The best nutrients to support your regulation of histamine
🤧 Anti histamine tablets  - yes and no
🤧 Why healing from histamine means healing the human

So if you're ready to connect the dots, this episode is for you.

Luka's Links
www.histaminehaven.com
https://www.instagram.com/histaminehaven/
https://www.facebook.com/histaminehaven
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC61je5d4CF7RplSF9DynWfQ

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner - Diploma:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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Hello?  Do you SEE me?  If the menopause has made you feel invisible you are not alone.  The latest stats show that over a million have either quit their jobs or are thinking of doing so because of menopause. 

This is a tragic and unnecessary loss of talent.

When organisations fail to address menopause they are basically saying, you are not important to us and that hurts.

It really hurts.

My guest today Nik Davis used to be a management consultant helping companies with organisational change.  When menopause hit her she decided to turn her hand to writing, assisting people with death and change and sustainability.  

I think she's marvellously eccentric and speaks out bravely.

We talk about...  

 😌 Having a voice and using it for the greater good.
 😌 The consequences of not feeling safe enough to tell your truth.
 😌 Is it ok to share during the raw-ness of a process?
 😌 How fiction increases empathy and how the lack of it decreases empathy.
 😌 How seeing an endocrinologist helped my guest during her menopause.
 😌 Why workplaces should pay for their staff with ovarian systems to see an endocrinologist.
 😌 Why not all anxiety and depression responds to anti depressants.
 😌 Changing what we expect of ourselves during menopause.
 😌 Managing our days differently.
 😌 Menopause - how it picks at the scabs and forces you inwards.
 😌 Viewing menopause as a journey that is constantly reviewed.
 😌 Powerful suggestions for organisational change.
 
 So if you're ready for this wonderfully invigorating conversation and if you're feeling the pull to steer the change in your own organisation, then this episode is for you.

Nik's Links:
www.nikdavis.com
https://www.facebook.com/nikdavismanaginglife/
https://www.instagram.com/nikdavis4525/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nik-davis-36bb7b/
https://twitter.com/nikdavis8
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaNi8d98FcSANPgvwck4rOg?view_as=subscriber

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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What does sex and the Chinese language have in common?  Answer:  You can learn them both.

When it comes to pleasure, did you know that many of us have a lid on our capacity to harbour it?  

Our pleasure set point can diminish with age, unless we decide to reclaim it, work with it and expand it.  

But many of us don't realise that's even an option.   

Lucky for you, my guest today, Mangala Holland, reveals all.  She's a female and vulva owner's sexuality coach and she believes that expanding our capacity for pleasure deeply heals the past and is also a rebellious form of activism (my kind of activism 😉).  

In today's conversation we talk about: 

 How might sexual disconnection present itself?
  Taking a trauma informed approach to sexuality coaching.
  What happens inside sexuality coaching?
  What does 'staying in the body' actually mean?
  Why we might push pleasure away sub consciously?
  Dogma free sexuality coaching.
  Knowing what turns you on.
  Different types of arousal.
  Pleasure as a form of activism.
  The orgasm gap.
  Relearning and reclaiming pleasure even during menopause.
  Cervical orgasms.

So if you're ready to consider re-opening to the idea of pleasure, or you want to able to harbour more of it, this episode is for you.

Mangala's Links:
https://mangalaholland.com/
https://www.facebook.com/mangalatantrika
https://www.instagram.com/mangalaholland/

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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Am I going mad?  That's the question on many women's minds who are struggling to leave narcissistic relationships.  

Trigger warning - the content in todays podcast might stir up a few emotions so only listen if you're feeling strong and ready to fight the good fight.  

My guest today is an ex family solicitor who helps people struggling to leave abusive relationships and litigate in person (that means, attend divorce court without a solicitor). 

She says, that when it comes to divorce, women are blamed for EVERYTHING and she believes women would be ill advised to mention the menopause as part of court proceedings especially when children are involved.  

My answer to that was "but surely that's because men and lawyers are not educated properly on the menopause?"  

"If they knew that low tolerance to stress and mood swings was caused by an oestrogen and progesterone deficiency, might they have more compassion and stop blaming the personality?"

The answer to that is challenging and you'll need to listen to the episode to find out more.  

Diana Jordan is a kind and wise soul who is extremely passionate about helping people divorce narcissists. 

Things we talk about: 

➡️ Why there are many more litigants in person these days.
➡️ Why it's not that easy to just 'marry well' in the first place.
➡️ What is a narcissist.
➡️ Why narcissists are so hard to divorce.
➡️ Best practice if you want to divorce a narcissist.
➡️ How 'contact at all costs' might be harmful to children of a narcissistic parent. 
➡️ Why women are not believed. 
➡️ How things are changing for the better. 
➡️ Pre Nups, Post Nups and short marriages.
➡️ How the new divorce law might affect you if you're trying to divorce a narcissist. 

This conversation is for you if you're in a situation where you need this advice; if you know someone that needs this advice or you're curious to learn more about the assault course that is the legal system, narcissists, women and the menopause.

Diana's Links:
https://dealingwithdivorce.co.uk/
https://www.facebook.com/DealingwithDivorce
https://twitter.com/DwDivorce
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dianacjordan/

Research by Karin Walker and Supriya McKenna
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Divorcing-Narcissist-lure-loss-law/dp/191630236X

Sally’s Links
How to Create Phenomenal Self Esteem:  https://www.sallygarozzo.com/selfesteem
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording:  https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
Rapid Transformational Therapy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
The Sleep Super Power Academy: https://www.sallygarozzo.com/sleep
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma
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Over the years we've come up with many euphemisms to describe it...

🩸 The painters are round
 🩸 Aunt Flow has arrived
 🩸 It's rag time
 
 Many of these are said lightly and in jest, but the truth is, we find it hard to say the real thing.  
 
 "I'm menstruating".  
 
 Silence always perpetuates shame, which in turn perpetuates the problems that women and people with ovaries often face.   Migraines, PMT, digestive issues, histamine issues, painful periods, heavy periods, sore breasts, extreme tiredness...

.... all of this remains unless we can open up about it. 

Lucky for us, things are changing thanks to the number of menstrual cycle educators and coaches that are springing up.  That includes my guest today. 

Carly Proctor is a Menstrual Cycle Coach, a Nutritional Therapist and (God love her) an ICU nurse in London and I spoke to her about all things cycle related.  

 ➡️ Coming off the pill.
 ➡️ Cycle tracking - how to do it.
 ➡️ The seasons of the cycle.
 ➡️ Having a cycle and living in a man's world.
 ➡️ What we can learn from our PMT.
 ➡️ What are our hormones actually doing in our cycle.
 ➡️ Why ovulation isn't always amazing for some people.
 ➡️ How cycle tracking actually helps our periods.
 
 So if you're ready to gain lots of menstrual cycle awareness with the potential of improving your menstrual experience each month, then this episode is for you. 

Carly's Links:
Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/carly_nourishandflo/
Website: https://nourishandflo.com/

Sally's Links
Free Masterclass:  Breaking The Chains of Anxiety:  www.sallygarozzo.com/breakinganxiety
Free Relaxation Hypnosis Recording: https://bit.ly/relaxationwithsally
1:2:1 Menopause Solution Sessions:  www.sallygarozzo.com/mentoring
Rapid Transformational Therapy:  www.sallygarozzo.com/rtt
Become a Menopause Holistic and Wellbeing Practitioner:  https://book.gatewayworkshops.co.uk/products/menopause-holistic-wellbeing-practitioner-diploma  

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