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This is the place to be to get some answers and to feel supported along this often bumpy journey. It’s my mission to help peri to post menopausal women go from feeling anxious, alone and confused to feeling positive, informed and connected. Here you'll learn about lifestyle interventions and mindset shifts that can make this happen. Join me and my guests on a journey that will educate, empower and motivate you to make menopause a positive force in your life. I'm Sally Garozzo, an award winning Clinical Hypnotherapist with a special interest in how complex trauma affects our menopause symptom severity. See you inside.
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Often times, clients will see me for an assessment, they'll read their treatment plan and then quietly disappear. It's like their mind convinces them that this is going to open up a whole world of trouble. Of course your mind does that! It's standard. It's doing exactly what it’s designed to do. Protect you. It wants to keep things predictable and contained. So when the invitation to go deeper starts to become a possibility, it makes sense that your mind wa...
Most menopause conversations focus almost entirely on hormones. But what if that’s only part of the story? In this episode, Sally Garozzo explores emerging neuroscience on estradiol, fear circuitry, and trauma exposure, including a 2025 study suggesting that estrogen interacts differently with the brain’s threat regulation system depending on prior stress and trauma history. We unpack why HRT helps many women but isn’t always the whole answer, how the nervous system shapes our menopausal expe...
In this episode we explore what it's like when your 'felt sense' isn't believed especially in childhood and how this impacts our health and our menopause. We look at how subtle, repeated invalidation shapes the quality of our attachments, why women often become the emotional regulators of their families, how functional freeze develops, and why menopause can feel like all of this unravels at once. We also examine the difference between attunement and optimisation — and why healing ...
I currently have six paint samples on my living room wall. They are all technically blue. None of them are the same. Which feels… symbolic. In this episode, I’m thinking about menopause not as art and refinement. As the shift from fluorescent to tonal. From performance to composition. There’s a turtle. There’s London. There’s a river that looks like it’s meandering but absolutely knows where it’s going. And somewhere in the middle of all that: the quiet realisati...
The DUTCH test has become one of the most talked-about hormone assessments in the menopause space. Some women describe it as illuminating and empowering. Some medical professionals describe it as unnecessary, over-interpreted, or a waste of money. So why the disagreement? In this episode, I step back from the noise and explore what’s actually being argued. What assumptions sit underneath functional hormone testing? What assumptions sit underneath conventional medicine? And why does this debat...
We live in a culture that rewards certainty. In this episode, I reflect on the energy surrounding recent public controversies and ask a different question: what if moral outrage is sometimes a nervous system strategy rather than moral clarity? Drawing on anxiety physiology, childhood conditioning, and midlife change, I explore how certainty can feel like safety, and why building capacity for uncertainty might be the real work as we step into midlife. Join the waitlist for B...
There’s a kind of care that looks loving on the surface, yet somehow leaves both the receiver and giver more tense than before. This episode delves into this often unexplored territory. It’s called ‘the discipline of not intervening’. Of course I'm not talking about neglectfulness, but I am talking about healthy restraint. And what becomes possible when silence and space are allowed to make room for the natural order of things to emerge. If you’ve ever not...
We talk a lot about slowing down and how it's really good for us, but we talk much less about what it means to stay. Like really stay.... without doing it for productivity gains. This episode explores holding space for yourself, not as a technique, but as a way of inhabiting yourself, experiencing yourself without the need to learn from it yet (and why that's really good for your HPA axis!) Join me for this short but profound episode. ****************** ‘Becoming’ is ...
If you’re tired in a way rest doesn’t touch… If you’ve done the work but still feel slightly on edge… If being “strong” or “capable” no longer feels like something you want to keep doing… This episode is for you. This is a quiet, spacious fireside conversation about something that sits underneath anxiety, exhaustion, relationship strain, and the sense of feeling subtly disconnected from yourself, especially in midlife and menopause. This is about attunement and what happens in the body when i...
What if menopause isn’t a breakdown, but a house renovation you’re living inside? In this episode, I reframe menopause in a way I wish someone had offered me. Not as decline. Not as loss. Not as something to “push through.” But as a neurological remodel happening in real time, while I’m still expected to function, work, parent, decide what cheese to buy, and hold everything together. No wonder it feels chaotic. What I share in this episode: Why menopause is not just hormonal, but deeply neuro...
Karen DeLoach, is an artist and art mentor and in this episode she shares her wisdom around how and why art can be a form of self-therapy. She discusses her experience of menopause and the challenges she faced and how she used the healing power of art to overcome difficulties and find fulfilment. This is a powerful episode that will help to revitalise that connection between your left brain and right brain. It's a must listen if you need an injection of creati...
Danica Apolline Matić is a pioneering homeopath and founder of Blueprint Essences and in this episode we discuss homeopathy as energy medicine and its application in menopause. We get clarity on homeopathy dosages and what all those strange numbers are about. We talk about common remedies for menopause and how, during this time in our lives, our energy is transitioning through our chakra system and how we can help it along. We also chat about Danica's incredible signa...
In this conversation, Sally interviews Steph Harland, a somatic trauma practitioner, about the power of somatic work in healing unresolved trauma and regulating the nervous system especially in the context of menopause. If you're finding that some of of the mental and emotional issues are still pressing even though you're on HRT and your diet and lifestyle is bang on (or even if it's not), this episode is for you. Steph's Links Instagram: www.Instagram.com/feelslike...
Jessica Green, an integrative health practitioner, discusses the symptoms and challenges of perimenopause and menopause. She explains how menopausal changes can impact the gut microbiome and offers nutrition strategies to manage symptoms. Jessica emphasizes the importance of blood sugar balance and the benefits of fasting and listening to your body. She also addresses habits and behaviors that can support long-term health. Jessica explores the factors affecting hormones during menopause, inc...
Camille Pearson shares her journey to wellness and how she optimized her hormones after experiencing health challenges. She emphasizes the importance of living a cyclical lifestyle and understanding the natural fluctuations of hormones. Camille also discusses the thrill of endurance sports and the euphoria of finishing a race. She provides practical tips for starting a fitness journey and optimizing time for health. Camille highlights the significance of celebrating small victories and taking...
Dr. Barton, a menopause specialist, discusses the benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and the importance of taking a whole-body approach to menopause. She emphasizes the need for longer consultations to address the complex symptoms experienced by women during perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Barton also explains the benefits of private menopause consultations and the differences between private and NHS prescriptions for HRT. She discusses the role of testosterone in menopa...
Victoria Hardy shares her journey with endometriosis, surgical menopause, and mental health challenges. She discusses the lack of support and understanding she faced, as well as the impact on her physical and mental well-being. Victoria emphasizes the importance of sitting with and acknowledging the messiness of life, finding joy, and embracing one's true self. She also highlights the need for more awareness and support for those experiencing early menopause. Victoria's book, 'My Menopause, M...
In this conversation, Eileen McKusick discusses the electric perspective on health and wellness. She explains the concept of plasma and ether as additional states of matter and their connection to our bodies and the environment. Eileen emphasizes the importance of understanding our connection to nature and the impact of thoughts and emotions on our well-being. She also shares her journey into sound healing and the power of biofield tuning. Eileen discusses the relationship between trauma and ...
The world is deeply interconnected via an etheric web and if you think you’re exempt from menopause just because you don’t experience it first hand, think again. This is not me taking the moral high ground, this is physics as you’ll learn about in this episode. My guest today is Sal Jeffries and he’s a human performance and behaviour coach who has experienced menopause by proxy alongside his partner. As a wonderfully intelligent thinker, you’re going to be inspired by his ...
My guest today is Tracey Field. Her and her husband Kev run Confident Drivers and they help people who struggle with driving anxiety to understand and overcome their fears and transform how they feel about driving. You might be thinking what is an episode about driving anxiety doing on a podcast about menopause? Well you might be surprised to know that driving anxiety can actually come about as a result of the hormonal changes that occur in menopause. In today’s ...
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