Midlife Advice | Perimenopause, Hormones and Midlife Women’s Health

You're a woman over 40, you're in the thick of perimenopause or menopause, and lately you keep coming back to the same thought: I just don't feel like myself anymore. You're doing everything right. Showing up for your family, your work, everyone who needs you. But you feel exhausted in a way that sleep doesn't fix. Work feels harder and less fulfilling than it used to. Your relationship feels distant. Your body is changing. You’re overwhelmed with the neverending decisions. And no matter what you do, you just feel off. Disconnected from yourself. Midlife Advice is the podcast for intelligent midlife women who are ready to stop white-knuckling through life and feel next-level good. Each week, host Jessica Long brings you honest conversations about navigating perimenopause and menopause, hormones, overwhelm, relationships, confidence, and the identity shift nobody warned you was coming. Not as a patient. Not as a problem to

Midlife Advice | Perimenopause, Hormones and Midlife Women’s Health is a education podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 92 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #91

  How to Start Investing After 40 (When You've Only Ever Saved)

  Oct 6, 202635 min

  If you're great at saving money but nervous about investing it, this episode is for you. How much should you actually keep in savings? Should you pay off debt or invest? And how do you find a financial advisor who's on your side? Financial advisor and wealth manager Lisa Clements spent twenty-four years in corporate at companies like Meta and Accenture before starting Clear Springs Wealth, where she works mostly with women. She sees the same thing over and over: disciplined women with tens of thousands of dollars sitting in savings, earning very little, because investing feels too big and too risky to touch without a finance degree. (You don't need one. Lisa's clear about that.) We get into the simple way Lisa decides how much to keep in savings, why your home equity counts as part of your portfolio, the interest-rate rule she uses for debt, and exactly what to ask before you hire an advisor. Plus the first thing to do this week if you've been avoiding your finances altogether. What we get into: - How much to keep in savings if you're single vs. partnered - Why "near-term" money (a house, a big trip) stays out of the market - How advisors use risk scores, and splitting your money into different risk buckets - Pay off debt or invest? How the interest rate decides it - Where to learn investing basics without feeling lost (Investopedia, brokerage education centers, free consults) - What "fiduciary" and "assets under management" mean, and the fee structures to understand - Why you should ask any advisor about their "why" - The first step: taking inventory of every account you have About Lisa Clements: Lisa Clements is a financial advisor and wealth manager who helps women build financial confidence without the jargon, judgment, or sky-high fees of traditional firms. clearspringswealth.com | @clearspringswealth This episode is for educational purposes only and isn't personalized financial advice. I want to hear from you. Send me a text or voicemail! Jessica's freebies and resources: Sleep better tonight with my free 10-minute audio breathwork session . (https://your.belongwellness.com/sleep) ⚡️ Join the Keep Your Cool Collective, my 6-week group breathwork experience for women over 40 who are ready to feel f*cking GREAT. This program launches October 5th. (https://your.belongwellness.com/hnly-beta-sales-page) ✨For more midlife advice on perimenopause, hormone health, nervous system regulation, and living with purpose in your 40s and 50s follow me: @midlifeadvicepodcast | @heyjessicalong

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  Episode #89

  Where Your Body Stores Stress (And How to Release It)

  Sep 22, 202630 min

  You used to be able to handle so much more stress than you can now. Work, kids, travel, hard conversations, not enough sleep, and you kept going. Now your neck is always tight, your digestion is off, you're wired at 11pm and exhausted at 3pm, and you can't figure out what changed. Hormones are part of that. But there's a second thing happening, and almost nobody talks about it: your body may be carrying the physical residue of decades of stress it never got to finish processing. Dr. Carli Axford, a chiropractor with more than 30 years of clinical experience (who has never cracked a back!) and the founder of the Spinal Flow Technique, is here to get specific about what "the body stores stress" actually means. Not metaphorically. Physiologically. Where it goes, what it feels like under a practitioner's hands, and why it tends to surface in your 40s and 50s after years of you managing just fine. Carli explains why women who come in with digestive problems often have stored emotions higher up in the spine, how she can tell the difference between chemical stress and emotional stress by touch, and the one question that tells you whether that knot between your shoulder blades is from your workout or from something you have been carrying for years. What we get into: What "storing stress" actually means physiologically, and why the spine is where it lands The three kinds of stress, emotional, physical, and chemical, and how each one feels different in the body Why women who come in with digestive issues often have an older stress pattern sitting higher in the spine Why your capacity for stress drops in perimenopause, and what fluctuating estrogen and progesterone have to do with your nervous system's resilience How to tell whether that knot in your back is a pulled muscle or a pattern you have carried since childhood What you can do at home, in a few minutes, to move your body out of fight or flight Dr. Carli Axford is the founder of the Spinal Flow Technique, a healing modality now practiced by thousands of certified practitioners worldwide. She is recognized internationally for her work on stress, trauma, and the body's capacity to heal itself. Her book Awaken Your Spinal Flow is forthcoming from Hay House in May 2027. Connect with Dr. Carli Axford: drcarliaxford.org | @carli.axford I want to hear from you. Send me a text or voicemail! Jessica's freebies and resources: Join me for a FREE virtual breathwork experience for women 40+ September 24th or October 2nd! (https://www.belongwellness.com/free-breathwork) Sleep better tonight with my free 10-minute audio breathwork session . (https://your.belongwellness.com/sleep) ⚡️ Join Hello, Next-Level You, my 6-week group breathwork experience for women over 40 who are ready to feel f*cking GREAT. This Beta program launches October 5th. (https://your.belongwellness.com/hnly-beta-sales-page) ✨For more midlife advice on perimenopause, hormone health, nervous system regulation, and living with purpose in your 40s and 50s follow me: @midlifeadvicepodcast | @heyjessicalong

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  Episode #88

  Why Am I So Anxious All the Time? It Might Not Be What You Think

  Sep 15, 202628 min

  Breathwork for anxiety sounds almost too easy. Too obvious. But the mechanism behind it is measurable. This episode explores anxiety as a body problem, not a mind problem, and the way you're breathing all day might be what's keeping it going. Sigmar Berg is the founder of Lovetuner, a breathwork and sound healing tool featured in CNN, the LA Times, and Buzzfeed, and he has spent over a decade studying the intersection of breath, nervous system regulation, and frequency healing. In this conversation, he explains why shallow, fast, chest-level breathing keeps the nervous system locked in fight-or-flight mode, what one conscious extended exhale actually does to your physiology, and how adding sound at 528 Hz amplifies the effect. If anxiety has been creeping in, especially in your 40s and 50s when hormones can make it so much worse, this conversation gives you a framework and a practice you can use the same day. What we get into: - Why anxiety often starts in the body, not the brain, and what's happening physiologically when it does - How shallow, fast breathing sends a danger signal to your nervous system even when you're just sitting at your desk - What makes the extended exhale so effective for calming the nervous system fast - Whether specific breathing patterns like box breathing or 4-7-8 actually matter, or if we're overcomplicating it - What 528 Hz is, why Sigmar built a tool around it, and what the science actually says - How to start a breathwork habit without a 30-minute practice Connect with Sigmar Berg: lovetuner.com | @lovetuner528hz on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube | Book: One Journey I want to hear from you. Send me a text or voicemail! Jessica's freebies and resources: Join me for a FREE virtual breathwork experience for women 40+ September 24th or October 2nd! (https://www.belongwellness.com/free-breathwork) Sleep better tonight with my free 10-minute audio breathwork session . (https://your.belongwellness.com/sleep) ⚡️ Join Hello, Next-Level You, my 6-week group breathwork experience for women over 40 who are ready to feel f*cking GREAT. This Beta program launches October 5th. (https://your.belongwellness.com/hnly-beta-sales-page) ✨For more midlife advice on perimenopause, hormone health, nervous system regulation, and living with purpose in your 40s and 50s follow me: @midlifeadvicepodcast | @heyjessicalong

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  Episode #87

  The Surprising Reason Women Over 40 Don't Feel Like Themselves

  Sep 8, 202616 min

  If you've caught yourself thinking "I don't feel like myself" and you can't quite put your finger on why, this one's for you. Hormones play a role. Being stretched impossibly thin plays a role. But there's a third factor that I think is fundamental, and it's one I never hear anyone talking about: interoception. Interoception is your ability to sense and interpret what's actually happening inside your body (like hunger, thirst, stress, emotion). When it's working, you catch yourself before you're hangry, before you snap at your kids, before you're running on fumes. When it's not working, and for so many of us in midlife it's not, you don't know you're stressed until you're yelling, or so numb you're running the whole day on autopilot without feeling a single thing. I'm breaking down exactly how chronic stress shuts your interoception down, what that actually looks like in daily life, and the somatic practices, including breathwork, that bring it back online. Stick around to the end, because I'm inviting you to two free virtual breathwork sessions where you can feel the shift for yourself instead of just hearing me talk about it. What we get into: What interoception is and how it works The specific ways chronic stress shuts your body's signals off Why you might feel completely numb one day and completely overwhelmed the next The research on interoception and stress, explained in plain language How breathwork helps you tune back in and hear your body again Two free virtual breathwork sessions happening soon Resources: PubMed article: Interoception and Stress I want to hear from you. Send me a text or voicemail! Jessica's freebies and resources: Join me for a FREE virtual breathwork experience for women 40+ September 24th or October 2nd! (https://link.fgfunnels.com/widget/bookings/live-breathwork-events) Sleep better tonight with my free 10-minute audio breathwork session . (https://your.belongwellness.com/sleep) ⚡️ Join Hello, Next-Level You, my 6-week group breathwork experience for women over 40 who are ready to feel f*cking GREAT. This Beta program launches October 5th. (https://your.belongwellness.com/hnly-beta-sales-page) ✨For more midlife advice on perimenopause, hormone health, nervous system regulation, and living with purpose in your 40s and 50s follow me: @midlifeadvicepodcast | @heyjessicalong

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  Episode #86

  Do I Have ADHD or Is This Perimenopause? ADHD Symptoms in Women Over 40

  Sep 1, 202623 min

  ADHD in midlife women is the topic my audience requested most in my latest Instagram poll - and now it's here! If you've been wondering whether your scattered, overloaded brain is ADHD, perimenopause, or just life, you are in the right place. Today I’m speaking with Dr. Jennifer Dall, Ed.D., an ADHD specialist with a doctorate in educational psychology, a background in special education, and her own late-in-life ADHD diagnosis, to talk about everything women over 40 actually want to know about ADHD. What you'll hear: How ADHD shows up in high-achieving women, and why it looks nothing like the stereotype Why perimenopause doesn't cause ADHD but can turn the volume all the way up on symptoms you've had your whole life Why so many Gen X women went undiagnosed for decades, and what the stories we were told about ourselves have to do with it Whether you need a formal ADHD diagnosis and what that evaluation actually involves What you can start doing today to work with your brain instead of fighting it The ADHD strengths that high-achieving women carry without ever recognizing them as strengths Connect with Dr. Jennifer Dall: adhdholistically.com | @adhd.holistically I want to hear from you. Send me a text or voicemail! Jessica's freebies and resources: Sleep better tonight with my free 10-minute audio breathwork session . (https://your.belongwellness.com/sleep) ⚡️ Join the waitlist for Hello, Next-Level You, my upcoming 3-month group breathwork experience for midlife women who are ready to feel f*cking GREAT. Beta program launches in October. (https://www.belongwellness.com/work-with-me) ✨For more midlife advice on perimenopause, hormone health, nervous system regulation, and living with purpose in your 40s and 50s follow me: @midlifeadvicepodcast | @heyjessicalong

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