The Emotional Truth | Nervous System Regulation, Somatic Healing For Midlife Women

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  Ep. 39 Five Things Midlife Women Mistake For Healing (But Aren't) 14.09.2026 16min

  Send us Fan Mail Why am I still stuck, even after years of doing "the work"? If you've read the books, journaled about the same anxiety at midnight more times than you can count, and had the breakthrough on a walk or mid-session with a practitioner — and you're still landing in the exact same place — this episode is for you. In this episode of The Emotional Truth, I walk through the five most common mistakes I see keeping smart, self-aware women stuck despite doing everything right. This isn'...
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  Ep. 38 Why Doesn't Self-Awareness Fix Anything? Somatic Healing for Women 07.09.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail I used to think if I could just explain a pattern clearly enough — to myself, to a therapist, to a friend at brunch — it would eventually stop running me. That's why self-awareness isn't enough on its own, and it took a client of mine catching herself mid-explanation, twice, before I could actually show her what was missing instead of just telling her. In this episode I walk you through a moment with a client who could name her pattern faster than I could — going quiet, agree...
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  Ep. 37 Why Am I Still Triggered After Years Of Therapy? (Knowing Isn't Healing) 31.08.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail Why am I still triggered after years of therapy? I used to think if I could just explain a pattern clearly enough, it would finally stop running me. Turns out understanding something and being free of it are two completely different things — and that gap is exactly what I'm getting into in this episode. I had a client on the table recently — body work, low-key session — when a memory dropped in that wasn't mine to know. I said it out loud before I even thought about it: "Tell...
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  Ep. 36 How To Get Over A Toxic Interaction (When Talking It Out Isn't Enough) 24.08.2026 11min

  Send us Fan Mail If you've been searching for how to get over a toxic interaction that keeps replaying in your head no matter how many times you've talked it out, this episode is for you. I see this constantly with clients — they've processed something out loud with a trusted friend, sometimes more than once, and it should feel done. And yet weeks later, it's still there, still living in the body. In this episode, I break down why getting over a toxic interaction takes more than talking about...
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  Ep. 35 The Good Girl Can't Survive Past 40 | Four Signs The Emotional Patterns are Healing 17.08.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail There are four signs the good girl is dying, and if you've only noticed the loudest one, rage, there are three more underneath it worth knowing about. I see this constantly in my client sessions: a woman who has spent decades being agreeable, easy, and no trouble at all suddenly finds herself reacting to things that never used to bother her — and rage is just the first of four signs the good girl is dying. In this episode of The Emotional Truth, I walk through the pendulum fr...
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  Ep. 34 I'm Exhausted from Burnout | The Cycle of Capability for Midlife Women 10.08.2026 13min

  Send us Fan Mail Have you ever felt exhausted in a way that a good night's sleep or a weekend off just doesn't touch? That's the kind of burnout I'm talking about in this episode — not the kind rest fixes, the kind that shows up even after you've done everything right. I'm sharing a real two weeks from my own life — my husband off work, both of us somehow getting busier instead of slowing down — and the moment it finally hit me that something had to give. If you've heard my earlier episode re...
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  Ep. 33 One Glass of Whiskey Taught Me This About Somatic Healing and Intuition 03.08.2026 16min

  Send us Fan Mail Ever notice how one drink can leave you feeling completely disconnected from yourself the next day — flat, insecure, or unable to name why? That's emotional numbing, and I learned firsthand that it's not just a mood. It's your nervous system's built-in "quiet down" switch getting flipped without your permission. In this episode, I'm sharing two personal stories — one with a glass of whiskey and my dad, one with a glass of wine on my anniversary trip — that revealed something ...
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  Ep. 32 Why Can't I Just Say No (Breaking the People Pleasing Pattern) 27.07.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail Have you ever said yes to something and felt your whole body go "ugh" the second the words left your mouth? That's people-pleasing, and if you've spent your life calling yourself "a people pleaser," I want to push back on that a little. It's not who you are — it's a pattern in your body, and patterns can shift. In this episode, I'm telling the story of two piano teachers, a pencil taped under my hand for "proper technique," and years of lessons I kept taking long after I'd ea...
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  Ep. 31 Self Abandonment As A Midlife Woman (And Why You Keep Playing Small) 20.07.2026 12min

  Send us Fan Mail Self abandonment is one of the most common patterns running underneath the surface for midlife women — and most of them don't even know it has a name. If you've ever downplayed a win the second someone noticed it, apologized for taking up space, or told yourself to just get over a feeling that was actually real — that's not modesty. That's not personality. That's self abandonment. And it's been running a lot longer than you realize. In this episode of The Emotional Truth, we'...
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  When Somatic Healing Meets The Midlife Woman | The Emotional Truth Trailer 13.07.2026 4min

  Send us Fan Mail If you've done the therapy, read the books, and still wake up wondering why nothing has actually changed — this is where you start. In this trailer for The Emotional Truth, Lesley Turner introduces the podcast built for the midlife woman who is done being the most self-aware stuck person in the room. You'll hear who this show is for, what somatic and intuitive pattern work actually looks like, and why understanding your patterns and getting out of them are two completely diff...
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  Ep. 30 The Emotional Patterns That Don't Allow High Achieving Women To Slow Down | Jenna Kutcher Got It Half Right 06.07.2026 11min

  Send us Fan Mail You hit the goal. You waited for the feeling. Something else showed up instead — and it wasn't gratitude. It was a quiet question: did I do this wrong? Jenna Kutcher wrote something recently that hit a nerve for thousands of women. Her Substack essay The Honey Isn't The Point named the pivot so many high-achieving women are making right now — away from the hustle, toward the garden, the slower life, the thing that actually feels like theirs. And she got it beautifully right. ...
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  Ep. 29 The Emotional Patterns You Need to Know Before You Start GLP-1 | Somatic Awareness for Weight Loss 29.06.2026 13min

  Send us Fan Mail Every woman I've worked with has tried something that worked - until it didn't. A diet, a program, a medication. The number moved. The clothes fit differently. And then it plateaued, or she stopped, and within weeks she was back where she started wondering what was wrong with her. Nothing was wrong with her. The pattern that was driving the behaviour was never part of the conversation. In this episode I'm talking about what the GLP-1 conversation is missing ...
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  Ep. 28 Pinterest Strategy, Pattern Work, and Learning to Trust Your Body with Elaine Timms 22.06.2026 24min

  Send us Fan Mail Elaine Timms built a Pinterest strategy business that grew to 100K sessions/month, sold a blog for five figures, and has spent almost eight years helping entrepreneurs get their content working long after they hit publish. She's also someone who spent years in fight-or-flight without knowing it — outsmarting everything, including herself. In this conversation, Elaine and I talk about what actually shifted when she stopped following everyone else's rules — in her business, her...
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  Ep. 27 I Had A Lumpectomy | It Wasn't Cancer. Mammograms and Health Anxiety 15.06.2026 15min

  Send us Fan Mail You've been telling yourself you're fine. Your shoulders tell a different story. Five months ago I noticed something. I assessed it - clinically, carefully - and decided it could wait. What followed was a mammogram, a biopsy, a titanium clip, and eventually a day surgery where I showed up in a brown hospital robe to the worst TOGA party in history! This isn't a medical story. It's a nervous system one. What does the body hold when the mind has decided it's p...
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  Ep. 26 Why Working Out Consistently Is Hard | It's Not About Discipline, It's About Nervous System Regulation 08.06.2026 13min

  Send us Fan Mail If you've tried and quit every workout routine you've ever started, this isn't a discipline problem. It's a nervous system regulation problem. I share the honest story of every movement format that didn't work for my body - including a spin class that ended disgustingly - and what I finally figured out about why. We get into what cortisol actually does, the difference between discomfort that grows you and discomfort that drains you, and why the thing that finally stuck ...
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  Ep. 25 What We Get Wrong About The Eldest Daughter | Somatic Healing for High Functioning Women and the Pattern Beneath The Burnout 01.06.2026 14min

  Send us Fan Mail There are incredible posts about the eldest daughter all over social media. They talk aobut burnout, resentment, the productivity that never stops. They're not wrong. But they're not the full story either. The wound isn't just being asked to do too much - it's that existing without function started to feel like disappearing. This episode goes deeper than the content you've already seen. And if you want to go all the way in, the Put Her Down audio series is linked here. ...
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  Ep. 24 Coming Back To Herself with Britt Holmes | Resilience, ADHD, and Getting Back Up One More Time 25.05.2026 27min

  Send us Fan Mail Britt Holmes built a business, got knocked sideways by life, and came back - not the same way, but more herself. We talk about business, family, ADHD, and what it actually looks like to rebuild after the kind of hard that doesn't have a clean narrative. Britt is an ads and media specialist, founder of Merit Media and Founders Advisory, and one of the most honest people I know. This one goes places. Follow Britt on IG here: @brittholmeslive and @meritmediainc www.m...
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  Ep. 23 Bumble Dating & A Full Body No | How Somatics Works in Real Life Decisions, Dating Online 18.05.2026 11min

  Send us Fan Mail Within 60 seconds on a dating app, I knew. Not with my brain - with my whole body. This episode is about what it felt like to have a full-body yes and a full-body no, and how that same somatic awareness showed up in my business long before I had a name for it. If you've ever second-guessed what you already knew, this is that episode. Book 1:1 www.lesleyturner.ca/services Subscribe to the pod: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/730IxK6Le9bwgAwKQBbrfM?si=a649923b6d4...
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  Ep. 22 I Don't Feel Mom Guilt | Parenting Confessions, What Mom Guilt Actually Is and Why Reframing It Keeps You Stuck 11.05.2026 9min

  Send us Fan Mail I don't feel mom guilt. Not saying that to be provocative - I'm saying it because the way we talk about mom guilt is keeping women stuck in smallness. This episode is about what mom guilt actually is, where it comes from in the nervous system, and why all the reframing in the world doesn't touch it. And what starts to happen when it finally begins to loosen. Book 1:1 www.lesleyturner.ca/services Subscribe to the pod: Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/730IxK6Le9bwgAwKQB...
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  Ep. 21 My Nervous System Spent $15,000 | What Happens When an Emotional Pattern Makes Your Decisions 04.05.2026 13min

  Send us Fan Mail I paid $15,000 for a program my intuition told me to walk away from. And when it came time to say it wasn't working - I didn't ask for a single dollar back. That wasn't a financial decision. That was a pattern making decisions on my behalf. The over-explaining. The going cold. The avoiding until it becomes a crisis. The shrinking when you need to stay present. That's not a leadership problem. It's so much older than that. Book 1:1 www.lesleyturner.ca/services Subscribe to the...