The Menopause Mindset

Episoade

• 215 Why We Resist The Inner Work And How To Make It Feel Less Overwhelming 21.03.2026 31min

  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...
• 214 Beyond Hormonal Determinism: Hormones Influence the System, They Don't Build It 13.03.2026 29min

  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...
• 213 The Trauma of Emotional Invalidation 06.03.2026 34min

  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 ...
• 212 Menopause as Art: Trusting The Design 27.02.2026 23min

  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...
• 211 The Dutch Test vs The Medical Model: Why They Disagree 20.02.2026 30min

  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...
• 210 Moral Outrage in Midlife: Why Certainty Feels Safe 13.02.2026 24min

  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...
• 209 The Discipline of Not Intervening 06.02.2026 23min

  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...
• 208 Pausing without a Plan 30.01.2026 21min

  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 ...
• 207 Attunement: The Thing You Didn't Know You Needed 23.01.2026 34min

  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...
• 206 The Great Brain Rewiring of Menopause 16.01.2026 29min

  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...
• 205 Why I’m Speaking Differently about Menopause & Mindset Now 09.01.2026 46min

  What if menopause isn’t something to manage… What if it’s something to participate in? In this deeply reflective solo episode, I return after time away with a radical reframe of what “mindset” actually means in menopause, and why the phrase has become so triggering, misunderstood, and frankly, unhelpful. Fresh from turning 50 and beginning my Clinical Hypnotherapy diploma, I share what it’s like to be in the middle of a personal and professional unlearning. Long-held beliefs are being questio...
• 204 Menopause: The Portal to Your Power with Carla Wainwright 28.12.2025 1h

  This conversation is not about ‘surviving’ menopause. It’s about claiming power, pleasure, and potency on the other side of it. Sally sits down with Carla Wainwright, holistic wellness coach, sexual awakening facilitator, and self-described midlife alchemist, for a deeply grounding, myth-shattering conversation about what really happens when women cross the threshold of midlife. With a background in biology, homeopathy, and over 30 years of embodiment work, Carla bridges science and the sacre...
• 203 The World Isn’t Built For Your Cycle with Claire Baker 19.12.2025 1h 4min

  Your Cycle Isn’t the Problem — The Way We’ve Been Taught to Live Is What if the days you feel flat, emotional, tired, or “off” aren’t something to fix… but something to listen to? In this episode, Sally is joined by Claire Baker — menstrual cycle educator, author, and founder of Cycle Coach School — for a grounded, honest conversation about menstrual cycle awareness, agency, and the long-term impact of ignoring the body’s rhythms. We’re not asking you to ‘love your period’, we’re just s...
• 202 The Rage, the Rewiring, and the Rebirth: Menopause Yoga with Petra Coveney 12.12.2025 1h 3min

  As we know, menopause is not a downfall, it’s a metamorphosis, and Petra Coveney—former BBC journalist, founder of Menopause Yoga, bestselling author, and unapologetic menopause rebel—joined Sally to tear down every stale narrative about “the change.” And trust us… this conversation goes there. Petra went through perimenopause early, alone, confused, and dismissed by doctors who had nothing to offer her except a pat on the head and a “good luck.” The frustration, shame and rage… she tapped in...
• 201 The Hormone Revolution We Should’ve Had Decades Ago with Dr. Lara Briden 28.11.2025 56min

  In this episode, Sally sits down with Dr. Lara Briden, naturopathic doctor and bestselling author of Period Repair Manual, Hormone Repair Manual, and Metabolism Repair for Women. She’s been called the period revolutionary—and after this conversation, you’ll understand exactly why. We talk about the massive paradox in women’s health: Society suddenly worships estrogen and progesterone when women hit their mid-40s… …yet spent the last 60 years casually switching those same hormones off in teena...
• 200 Your Period Isn’t Supposed to Destroy You with Nicole Jardim 21.11.2025 1h

  Everything went wrong before this interview even started: lagging audio, frozen screens, “Can you hear me?” chaos… which, honestly, became the perfect metaphor for today’s topic: women being told to accept dysfunction as normal. And fittingly, this conversation marks a huge milestone — our 200th episode! Two hundred episodes of unlearning, reframing, and giving women permission to trust their bodies. And today’s guest delivers exactly that kind of truth. Because once Nicole Jardim (women’s he...
• 199 Why Perimenopause Feels Harder in 2025 with Dr. Jessica Drummond 14.11.2025 1h 8min

  Perimenopause can feel like a 10–15 year hormonal remix, but why is it so much harder for women in 2025?. Dr. Jessica Drummond busts myths, challenges outdated narratives, and explains the overlaps nobody talks about: long COVID, autoimmune flare-ups, endometriosis, stress overload, digital overwhelm, and why so many women enter midlife already running on fumes. 🔥 The Big Myth That Needs to Die Perimenopause is NOT: ✨ “Menopause-lite” ✨ A single moment in time ✨ A sudden cliff-drop hormonal e...
• 198 Womb Healing: Reclaiming Power, Pleasure, and Potency with Melanie Swan 17.10.2025 1h 2min

  💥 THE DISRUPTION Forget the pastel “self-care” nonsense. This episode gets raw about perimenopause, womb work, and what it actually means to reclaim your creative power from the inside out. Sally sits down with Melanie Swan, a true rebel priestess of womb wisdom, healer, author, and embodiment guide, currently thriving (and sweating) her way through perimenopause in Northern Thailand. They dive deep into the real feminine: the kind that doesn’t float in flower crowns but breathes fire, bleeds...
• 197 Menstruality and The Sacred Inner Ecology with Alexandra Pope and Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer 03.10.2025 1h 20min

  Forget everything you think you know about periods. This conversation blows the lid off the cultural conditioning, shame, and linear thinking we’ve been fed, and replaces it with a radical new paradigm: menstruality as a source of power, creativity, leadership, and spiritual awakening. In this episode, Sally sits down with Alexandra Pope & Sjanie Hugo Wurlitzer, the visionary co-founders of Red School and co-authors of Wild Power and Wise Power. With over 60 years of combined experience, ...
• 196 The Genius Wheel: Why Your Life Shifts Every 7 Years with Lulu Minns 26.09.2025 59min

  Are You Living on Autopilot or Riding the Genius Wheel? What if your life wasn’t random chaos… but a seven-year cycle that secretly shapes your growth, transitions, and genius? In this conversation, Sally sits down with Lulu Minns, author, coach, and creator of The Genius Wheel, to smash the myth that “genius” is reserved for Einstein-types. Instead, Lulu unveils a radically different framework that reclaims intuition, feminine power, and the cycles we’ve been taught to ignore. We dive into: ...