Episodes
215 Why We Resist The Inner Work And How To Make It Feel Less Overwhelming
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 […]
214 Beyond Hormonal Determinism: Hormones Influence the System, They Don't Build It
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 […]
213 The Trauma of Emotional Invalidation
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 […]
210 Moral Outrage in Midlife: Why Certainty Feels Safe
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 […]
208 Pausing without a Plan
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 […]
207 Attunement: The Thing You Didn't Know You Needed
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 […]