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Why do we keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners? And why is it so hard to break unhealthy relationship patterns, even when we know better? In this episode of The Tamsen Show, dating and relationship expert Sabrina Zohar joins Tamsen Fadal to explain anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, relationship anxiety, and how childhood experiences shape the way we love, date, and connect with others.

Tamsen opens up about her own history of chasing unavailable men, including her real-life Mr. Big, and how finding a secure relationship later in life changed her understanding of love.

Sabrina, author of Why Am I Like This?, breaks down the four attachment styles, why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in painful relationship cycles, and why some of us keep choosing people who can’t give us what we need. More importantly, she explains how to recognize these patterns and start changing them.

You’ll learn:

- The four attachment styles and how they affect your relationships

- Why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in a painful push-and-pull cycle

- Why you keep attracting emotionally unavailable people

- How childhood experiences can influence your adult relationships

- The question to ask yourself when rejection or abandonment triggers you

- How to build a more secure attachment style

- What to know before dating again after divorce or heartbreak

- Why choosing to stay single can sometimes be rooted in fear

Whether you’re single, dating, married, or starting over, this conversation will help you understand the patterns you bring into relationships and how to stop repeating the ones that hurt you.

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Women learn early which parts of themselves make other people comfortable. After enough years, that performance can begin to feel like our identity, and the intuition underneath it goes quiet.

Dr. Ellen Vora spent much of her life inside that worldview. A Yale- and Columbia-trained psychiatrist, she built her life around science and skepticism. Then, during an acupuncture treatment, Ellen received a message she couldn’t explain away, and it opened a question her training couldn’t answer: When someone dies, does the relationship actually end? That experience forced her to reconsider what she believed about grief, intuition, and the limits of what we can prove.

Today, Ellen shares the full story behind her new book, Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist’s Case for Magic, and why women are taught to give up essential parts of themselves in order to be taken seriously. She argues that we’ve been missing something, and the way back starts in the body.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- How being agreeable and low-maintenance can become a form of self-abandonment

- Why women have been taught to distrust their intuition

- How to distinguish intuition from anxiety, and the ways the body signals yes and no

- Why menopause can represent a rebirth rather than a disappearance

- What grief can teach us about continuing relationships with the people we have lost

- Why the “witch” archetype has always been connected to women who are no longer easily controlled

- Simple ways to become more receptive to meaning, guidance, and magic in everyday life

This is a conversation about returning to the parts of ourselves we learned to suppress, and letting life become a little more mysterious and alive.

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What do women need to know about menopause care, menopause treatment, insurance coverage and their rights in the workplace?

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, attorney, women’s health advocate and author of When in Menopause, joins me to talk about the systems surrounding perimenopause and menopause that most of us never think about until we need them.

Jennifer has spent years fighting for women, from helping lead the movement to end the tampon tax to advocating for better menopause care, research, treatment access and workplace protections. In this conversation, we break down what is changing, where women are still falling through the cracks and what we can actually do about it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why menopause care and treatment still aren’t uniformly covered by health insurance

- Why vaginal estrogen isn’t currently covered by Medicare

- What states are doing to expand access to menopause treatment

- What rights women actually have when it comes to menopause in the workplace

- Why workplace accommodations without discrimination protections can be complicated

- What to consider before disclosing menopause symptoms at work

- How to better advocate for yourself in the doctor’s office

- How to navigate the explosion of menopause supplements, creams and products being marketed to women

- Why Jennifer believes better care, education, research and treatment access could make a bigger difference than workplace accommodations alone

- How women can get involved in menopause advocacy without becoming policy experts

This is one of those conversations that makes you realize how much of the menopause experience is shaped by systems most women have never been taught to think about. The more we understand how they work, the better equipped we are to ask for what we need.

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If you’ve been searching for how to strengthen your feet, improve your balance, walk better, help bunions, choose the right shoes, or stay mobile as you age, this episode is for you.

Your feet could be telling you more about your health than you realize.

Today, Tamsen sits down with foot and gait specialist Dr. Courtney Conley to break down the simple things you can start doing now to build stronger feet, improve the way you walk, and protect your mobility as you age.

You’ll learn:

- Why your walking speed can reveal important information about your health

- The simple test that can show you how strong your toes actually are

- What to do about bunions before considering surgery

- Why balance and foot strength become so important as you age

- Whether you actually need arch support or orthotics

- The truth about max-cushion sneakers, barefoot shoes and walking barefoot

- How to tell if your shoes are changing the shape of your feet

- The simple foot exercises Dr. Conley recommends for strength and mobility

- Why toe spacers can help and how to use them correctly

- What Dr. Conley rates orthotics, insoles, compression socks, bunion correctors, massage balls, slant boards and toe spacers

Your feet are carrying you through your entire life. This episode will show you how to start taking care of them now so they can keep carrying you for decades to come.

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Breast cancer is rising in younger women, but why? And what do plastics, alcohol, fragrance, deodorant, PFAS, pesticides, and other everyday exposures actually have to do with breast cancer risk?

In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with medical oncologist Dr. Eleonora Teplinsky to separate breast cancer facts from fear and misinformation.

They break down what the science actually says about everyday products and environmental exposures, plus the breast cancer risk factors women should be paying attention to.

You’ll learn:

- Why breast cancer rates are rising in women under 50

- What we know about plastics, PFAS and environmental exposures

- The connection between alcohol and breast cancer risk

- Why dense breasts can increase risk and make breast cancer harder to detect

- What women should know about mammograms, ultrasounds and breast cancer screening

- How family history and genetic testing affect your risk

- How to better understand your personal breast cancer risk

- The lifestyle changes that actually matter

If you’ve ever wondered what you can actually do to lower your breast cancer risk, what’s worth worrying about, and what the science says you can stop stressing about, this episode is for you.

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When you lose a word, forget why you walked into a room, or struggle to retain what you just read, it can be unsettling. It can also make you wonder whether your brain is beginning to change.

In this episode, Tamsen sits down with memory and learning expert Jim Kwik to explore what affects our ability to remember and why attention may be one of the most important parts of the equation. Jim, author of Limitless and the new book Limitless Daily: 366 Keys to Train Your Brain, Master Your Mind & Win Every Day, shares his journey from being labeled “the boy with the broken brain” to becoming one of the world’s best-known memory coaches—and offers practical ways to strengthen your focus, keep learning, and begin trusting your mind again.

They discuss:

- How attention determines what becomes a memory

- Why mental overload can make us feel more forgetful

- A 60-second grounding exercise to use when you feel scattered or anxious

- Simple techniques for remembering what you read

- How to keep challenging and training your brain as you age

- The small daily practices that build focus, memory, and self-trust

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Grief doesn’t only happen when someone dies. We can grieve a divorce, a changing body, an aging parent, a career, a relationship or even the person we used to be.

In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with grief therapist and expert Meghan Riordan Jarvis to unpack what grief actually does to the body, why the five stages of grief don’t tell the whole story, and how to process loss instead of simply pushing through it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why grief can show up after divorce, career changes, aging and other non-death losses

- How grief can affect sleep, brain fog, anxiety, mood and the body

- The truth about the five stages of grief

- How to recognize grief you may not realize you’re carrying

- Meghan’s six-part Grief Mentor Method for processing loss

- What to actually say and do when someone you love is grieving

- Why perimenopause, menopause and midlife can bring unexpected grief

- Practical ways to process grief instead of ignoring it

- How mindfulness, movement, nourishment, nature, rest and ritual can support the grieving process

Whether you’re grieving the death of someone you love, a divorce, an aging parent, a changing body or a version of your life that no longer exists, this conversation offers a different way to understand what you’re feeling and what to do with it.

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Have you ever looked at your age, your responsibilities, or how long you’ve been putting something off and wondered if you missed your chance?

Captain Carole Hopson dreamed of becoming a pilot from the time she was four years old. Then life got full. She built a successful corporate career, became an executive at Foot Locker, and raised two sons. The dream never left her. At 50, Carole began flying for the airlines. Today, she is a Boeing 737 captain for United Airlines.

In this conversation, Carole breaks down what starting over actually required and shares how she turned “someday” into a plan she could follow.

In this episode. they get into:

- The deadline that turned Carole’s childhood dream into a real goal

- How she prepared financially for a major career change

- Why she waited until her children were older to fly professionally

- What it felt like to be the oldest person in the classroom

- How to build a personal “board of directors” for your next chapter

- What pioneering aviator Bessie Coleman taught her about possibility

- Her mission to help 100 Black women attend flight school through the Jet Black Foundation

If there is something you keep telling yourself you’ll do one day, Carole’s story will push you to get honest about what you’re waiting for and finally give that dream a date.

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Why do your joints suddenly hurt more than they used to?

In this episode of The Tamsen Show, Tamsen Fadal sits down with orthopedic surgeon Dr. Jason Snibbe to talk about joint pain, muscle loss, bone health, frozen shoulder, and what women can do now to stay strong and mobile as they age.

Dr. Snibbe explains why changing hormones can affect inflammation and recovery, why muscle is so important for protecting your joints, and how to know when normal soreness has turned into something you should actually get checked out.

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If your body feels achier, stiffer, or slower to recover than it used to, this episode will help you understand what may be changing and what you can start doing about it.

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Why does women's sexual health still get treated as an afterthought, and what would it take to finally change that? Cindy Eckert is the founder and CEO of Sprout Pharmaceuticals and the woman behind Addyi, the first and only FDA-approved treatment for low sexual desire in women. In this episode, she explains hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD), the biological condition behind low libido that affects millions of women and is still routinely dismissed as stress, aging, or a relationship problem.

Cindy breaks down why women are told their low libido is emotional while men's sexual health issues are treated as biological, what actually happens in the brain when desire disappears, and the three question checklist she wants every woman to bring to her next doctor's appointment. She also explains why 80% of women who brought up low libido with their doctor were simply told it was normal, and what women's sexual health should actually look like when it's taken seriously.

In this episode, you'll learn:

- What HSDD is and why it's rooted in biology, not emotion

- Why women's sexual health has been dismissed as psychological instead of medical

- How the double standard in FDA drug review affects treatments for women

- Why 80% of women raising low libido with their doctor are told it's normal

- The three questions to ask before accepting "that's just aging"

- How Addyi works and who it's for

- What changed with Addyi's newest approval for postmenopausal women

If you've ever felt like your desire just switched off and been told that's normal, been handed a vague explanation instead of a real answer, or wondered if something is wrong with you instead of your body, this episode will help you understand the biology behind it, so you stop blaming yourself for something that was never your fault.

Addyi (flibanserin) is for women under 65 with acquired, generalized HSDD who have not had problems with low sexual desire in the past. It is not for men. Full safety information, including boxed warning on alcohol interaction, is available at addyi.com/pi.

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