This is NOT for your Enterpainment with Ann Marie McQueen

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03/27/23 • 84 min

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Ann Marie McQueen has focused on the spectrum of complementary and mainstream health care for much of her 25-year journalism career. She has worked as a national columnist for Sun Media in Canada, was part of the launch team and served as news, arts and life, and features editor for The National newspaper in the UAE, and was the first solar columnist in the Gulf. Ann Marie is the founding editor-in-chief of Live healthy, the only health and wellness platform for men and women in the Middle East.
Ann Marie launched Hotflash inc in June 2020 to cover the latest clinical studies, treatments, products, guidance and more via a weekly research letter, podcast and across social media. Hotflash inc subscribers include some of the top CEOs, doctors and other practitioners in the space, alongside curious, open-minded women and other folks seeking to connect the dots and find their own solutions, all part of a fast-growing 20k+ global community living across 40+ countries.
I have been looking forward to this chat for such a long time - Ann Marie writes and interviews with such detailed understanding of the menopause and such a balanced viewpoint - no sensationalism journalism or taking out of context in sight.
We speak about:
- How at 47 years of age, Ann Marie became aware that the weird cluster of symptoms she had been experiencing (panic attacks, waking from nightmares, heart palpitations, waves of crying and anxiety) since about 42 was all part of her own menopause experience
- Ann Marie’s history of making her painful experience into what she calls “enterpainment” and how the sense of shame around and diminishing of these experiences for years has culminated in a lot of these early traumatic events and situations bubbling to the surface during perimenopause
- How Ann Marie feels like she may well be in the final stretch of Menopause and has the sense that whilst her emotional peaks are intensifying, the physical stuff seems to be calming down a little
- A deep dive into perimenopausal “scratchiness”, and our sense of going into a cave during this transition time, and how we both feel it is a powerful portal of rebirthing ourselves which is both necessary and beautiful (whilst also messy and discombobulating!)
- Ann Marie’s kitchen clean out analogy of menopause - and how right now I have all the sizzle out of every cupboard and every drawer in my metaphorical kitchen but no energy to even work out what to keep, what to chuck and where the heck to file everything.
Find Ann Marie, her writing, pod and community online at Hotflash Inc.

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Have you Failed Dieting or has Dieting Failed You? with Dr Jenn Huber

Jen Huber RD ND is on a mission to help women thrive in midlife. And whether you’re looking to understand what’s happening with your hormones, or want help finding food freedom, she’s here to help you find the confidence you deserve in perimenopause and menopause.
Her passion for women’s health comes from her own experiences. As a mother, and woman in perimenopause, she understand what it’s like to be in this stage of life! We expect a lot of ourselves and a lot is expected of us. We’re hard-wired to be resilient and roll with the punches but hormonal changes mean that we’re swimming in a new “hormonal soup’ by the time we’re in our 40s (at the latest!) that can make coping with change more difficult than it’s ever been.
When I went looking for an Intuitive Eating / Health at Every Size Nutritionist I really didn’t expect to find one like Jenn who specialises specifically in this midlife transition - yes, it was like finding a unicorn and I was so excited to sit down for this chat with her:
We speak about:
- How Jenn’s early life experiences with a disorder relationship with food triggered her interest in studying dietetics and naturopathy, seeking for a way to “fix” or “control” herself
- Her initial approach as food as medicine in the first years of her professional career, her own transition through perimenopause starring in her late 30s, and how this started to inform her interest
and subsequent qualification in Intuitive Eating
- The identity of the chronic professional dieter, the danger of our identity getting wrapped up in one “diet culture cult” or another, how this causes us to lose touch with the messages of our own body in terms of satisfaction, contentment and safety
- How weight is not a proxy for health, how the number on the scale is not the worth we offer to offer the world and some key nutrition facts to be aware of during our menopause transition
- How IE offers a more flexible and forgiving relationship with food and the huge professional decision Jenn made shift Jenn made in her practise, deciding never again to prescribe weight loss
- Key barriers to overcome when someone first considering making a shift from professional dieter to feline into Intuitive Eating
Connect with Jenn and her work in the world on Insta here

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Hypnotherapy + Hormonal Transitions with Sophie Fletcher

Sophie Fletcher is a bestselling author and has been a hypnotherapist and coach for over 17 years. She has worked with hundreds of people and thousands have benefitted from her courses, training and books. Sophie is trained to notice shifts in language, certain phrases and body signals that indicate a block or challenge that is unconscious, then uses the magic of imagery suggestion and other forms of hypnosis to gently tackle those blocks so her clients can move forward to their goal without anything, including themselves, in the way.

This delightful human spoke to us on the eve of a big, big birthday and so generously shared her wisdom and personal experience, including:

The path to becoming a hypnotherapist, a passion ignited by an empowering birth experience with her second child which was a a completely different experience to her first (thanks to the power of hypnosis to better manage pain and emotional response to pain).
How Sophie’s work has grown to cover a number of transitions for women: labour, throughout the first year of motherhood, and our journey through menopause - and how to equip yourself with tools that help support the changes in your brain and body.
How our brain's operate similarly to a social media algorithm, and how to use this for positive benefit, not fulfilling negative or difficult expectations of menopause.
Sophie’s bestselling books, Mindful Hypnobirthing, Mindful Mamma and Mindful Menopause, and a sneaky link to the hypnotherapy tracks included in Mindful Menopause ... for free (thank you Sophie, link down below).
Sophie’s own raw and real feelings on the eve of turning 50 the following day, including her own self care and support team that helps her to navigate feeling all the feels.
An invitation from Sophie to our Australian audience to join her Hypnobirthing and Mindful Menopause training courses she will be holding in Sydney in 2024.

Find Sophie and her work in the world at https://www.sophiefletcher.co.uk/
Download the Mindful Menopause hypnotherapy tracks at: www.penguin.co.uk/mindfulmenopause

Reach out to Sophie to send an expression of interest re her 2024 Sydney trainings at [email protected]

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