S2 05. This Is Your Brain on Menopause with Dr ‘J’ Americas #1 Brain Psychologist
11/10/20 • 42 min
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Welcome 1.32
Why 2020 has forced us to slow down and pay attention to what’s most important 2.36
What is brain fog? And why does it happen in menopause? 6.32
Should women be concerned that they have early dementia or Alzheimers? 7:22
The importance of approaching menopause and symptoms calmly 14.20
Why therapy is an important consideration for anxiety or other mental health issues 19.56
Training the brain with Neurotherapy to help with menopausal anxiety and brain fog 23.00
Mindfulness and why when you\re calmer you can think more clearly 27.51
‘ As women, we leave ourselves for last, we put ourselves on the back burner’28.22
‘And any activity can be made into a mindful activity, as long as you're fully engaged in it, and your focus on just that thing’ 33.10
With meditation, it just takes the consistency that is what is most important 34.12
So having a positive mindset will take you so far in life, but especially during menopause. 35.23
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Welcome 1.32
Why 2020 has forced us to slow down and pay attention to what’s most important 2.36
What is brain fog? And why does it happen in menopause? 6.32
Should women be concerned that they have early dementia or Alzheimers? 7:22
The importance of approaching menopause and symptoms calmly 14.20
Why therapy is an important consideration for anxiety or other mental health issues 19.56
Training the brain with Neurotherapy to help with menopausal anxiety and brain fog 23.00
Mindfulness and why when you\re calmer you can think more clearly 27.51
‘ As women, we leave ourselves for last, we put ourselves on the back burner’28.22
‘And any activity can be made into a mindful activity, as long as you're fully engaged in it, and your focus on just that thing’ 33.10
With meditation, it just takes the consistency that is what is most important 34.12
So having a positive mindset will take you so far in life, but especially during menopause. 35.23
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S2 E4 Coping with Menopause Induced Anxiety with Clarissa Kristjansson
Welcome 1.32
Why mental health has the biggest impact on our menopause experience 2.41
My anxiety and the full-blown anxiety attack that took me not to rock bottom but to my rock foundations 4.39
Why mindfulness was the key to helping me to learn to accept and live with anxiety 5.82
The role estrogen deficiency on our mental health 6.69
Exercise helps and the different types of exercise that help to manage anxiety 7.69
Learning to look at our thoughts, mindfulness as the bedrock of acceptance and compassion 12.39
How CEO and leaders can better support women to go through menopause at work and remain in their roles 14.46
Open communication with your partner so they can support you 15.40
Struggling? Then reconsider HRT and other medical interventions including psychotherapy 16.40
‘I need your support’ 18.12
Menopause can be messy, sometimes the only thing you can be is still, just be you 19.02
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S2 E6. Drop the mask and create REAL relationships with Deb Morgan relationship expert of Not A Rehearsal
🙋♀️Welcome 1.32
😲Deb shares her shock of finding her high school sweetheart was a violent abuse man on the wedding night 2.33
😮We talk about her meeting and settling down at 33 with her second husband only to find herself in a coercive controlling relationship 4.55
⚖️How after experiencing bankruptcy and leaving her husband and child she fought a 10-year custody battle for her son. 12.42
😵Deb shares her planned suicide and what stopped her from going all the way 14.17
✌️Why she decided to become a high-end escort 15.53
😏How working in the sex industry gave her the basis for a great business model that she uses today 19.35
💜How a chance encounter at a theatre led to reconnecting with the love of her life 22.36
😓‘Yes, people can put up with behavior that's not acceptable for a long time’ 27.38
☝️So we then get very resentful and say no more. 'I'm going out that I'm living my life now' that's a term I often hear 'it's time for me, it's time for my life' 27.58
👉Understanding that men also go through menopause 31.42
👠How interviewing her client when working as an escort was the trigger to studying psychology 34.15
🗣️All of the nuances of life get in the way, and we forget how to talk to each other 37.08
🧱Deb shares why the first steps in rebuilding your relationships to take an interest in your partners interest 40.45
🌹‘Just be yourself. Because remember, the person they fell in love with was yourself, the very core of who you are’ 44.22
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