Feminine Roadmap

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FR Ep #135 How to Thrive Through Menopause with Dr. Vicki Mondloch Feb 17, 2020

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Today’s episode of Feminine Roadmap is an empowering, encouraging message on how to thrive through menopause with Dr. Vicki Mondloch. Dr. Vicki is on a personal mission to empower women to be in charge of their healthcare, their lives and their hormones. Menopause does not have to be a horrific, hopeless experience, you CAN actually thrive through menopause with the right information and support. Dr. Vicki shares powerful research and case studies that show that imbalanced hormones lie at the core of women’s difficult menopause seasons. While menopause is a natural normal process that women go through, most women find themselves dismissed or their symptoms disregarded as if there is nothing that can be done for them outside of pharmaceuticals or toughing it out. There is hope and help because Dr. Vicki has written the owner’s manual for enhancing the best years of your life (Yes, the BEST years of your life), “Full Bloom: Health and Happiness Through Hormone Balancing”. She believes that not only is it possible to get through menopause without losing your sanity, you can actually thrive through menopause when you have the right doctor, tests, and protocols to support your body as it changes. So grab a cuppa something wonderful, a hand fan (if you need it), a notebook and get yourself ready to be empowered and get on the road to healthy, happy hormone balance so you can thrive through menopause! www.feminineroadmap.com/episode135/

FR Ep #134 How to Listen to Your Inner Voice with Lydia Dean Feb 13, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Lydia Dean, co-founder of gophilanthropic.org, shares how she learned to listen to her inner voice and how that dramatically changed the trajectory of her family’s life. Lydia, now in midlife, looks back over her 20 year journey and brings practical steps to help us learn how to listen to our inner voice aside from the external pressures and expectations. She encourages listeners to take a courageous journey, one that may be difficult, different, uncomfortable and most likely unknown. Instead she challenges us with, “Don’t accept not knowing as an excuse for not doing.” While everyone’s journey is different and the paths we take are nothing alike, she points us to listen to our inner voice and break the barriers between the life we’re living and the life that could be truer to who we are. Sure taking this journey to heed that inner voice, follow your dreams and life path might bring up fear and vulnerability but Lydia asks us to ask ourselves a couple of key questions, “Why should I fly beneath my radar? What am I holding back on?” We are not asked to figure it all out at step one, just take the first step you can see. The first step? Grab a cuppa something wonderful and listen in as Lydia shares practical strategies and real life examples of how those strategies may look. Heed your inner voice and click play, we’ll meet you there! www.feminineroadmap.com/episode134/

FR Ep #133 How to Make Sense of Life When It Doesn't Make Sense with Keisha Blair Feb 10, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap guest Keisha Blair shares her story of how to make sense of life when it doesn’t make sense. Tragedy struck when Keisha’s husband died suddenly 8 weeks after their second child was born and everything she knew changed in an instant. This life altering set back put her on a path to find a way to make sense of the tragedy, one that didn’t even make sense to the doctors, to find her path back to wholeness again. Keisha decided to take a one year sabbatical from her job, move to an island and take the time to navigate through her grieving process. The lessons she learned from taking a step back and stepping away, trusting her intuition to guide her, ended up being the foundation to making sense of life when it no longer made sense. Keisha encourages listeners traveling a rocky, confusing road to not abandon the mess and to remember that the situation is temporary, that it doesn’t have to define you. She says, “When you go through something like that, where you think ‘Wow’, it just blows you away and it shatters your world…you really have to take a step back, to think about it. What do I now? And what have I just really gone through?” When you’ve gone through it, it may seem like it has defined you, it doesn’t have to. It will get better and change and there is a light at the end of the tunnel. So if you find yourself in the midst of trying to make sense of your life and figuring out how to walk in your purpose, grab a cuppa something wonderful, listen in and trust the process. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode 133/

FR Ep #132 Raising an Aging Parent with Dr Ken Druck Feb 06, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap we are discussing raising an aging parent with Dr. Ken Druck. We are now experiencing what they call the sandwich generation, the generation sandwiched between providing care and support for their children as well as their aging parents. Dr. Ken navigates the discussion of how to raise an aging parent with compassion, clarity and honesty while skillfully looking at it from every perspective. Raising an aging parent isn’t for slouches, it’s complex, challenging and sometimes confusing journey where roles begin to reverse and family dynamics kick into gear. In order to clarify what raising an aging parent is, Dr. Ken explains that it isn’t dismissing them, taking control or disempowering them but that it is truly loving and supporting your parents, raising them up so that they can meet the challenges that they are facing. It’s truly a 2 way street with both sides facing their own fears and obstacles as things begin to change so grab a cuppa something wonderful to be encouraged! You don’t have to raise your aging parent alone, Dr. Ken has the insights you need! Www.feminineroadmap.com/episode132/

FR Ep #131 How to Navigate Overwhelm with Gina R Farrar Feb 03, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap, Gina talks about how she has been navigating her midlife journey. Recently encouraged by a friend to do a solo podcast to share what she’s been going through and how she has been working through it all, Gina settled on the topic that has been her constant challenge for the past year and a half- overwhelm. Overwhelm by definition is to “bury or drown beneath a huge mass” which Gina believes is a common feeling many of us have in midlife. For many of us it is a season of transitions- jobs, marriages, hormones, children, health, moving, aging parents to name just a few- and it can be very overwhelming to figure out how to navigate it all. Instead of drowning under the weight, Gina wanted to share what strategies she has been utilizing to combat overwhelm and the stress that comes with it. Grab a cuppa something wonderful, grab a pen and notebook to take down the 5 steps that Gina uses to navigate overwhelm. We’d love to have you share this with a friend too because there is nothing we can’t get through together! Www.feminineroadmap.com/episode131/

FR Ep #130 Breaking the Chains of Domestic Abuse with Dr Angela Mailis Jan 30, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap Gina talks with Dr. Angela Mailis, doctor, researcher and domestic abuse survivor about breaking the chains of domestic abuse. In spite of her many accomplishments, accolades, positions and influence, Dr. Angela found her self the victim of 27 years of emotional abuse at home. She candidly talks about her personal journey and the stages she went through to get to the place where she decided she would no longer stay in her abusive marriage. That decision to leave put her in danger, destroyed her finances and put her in a position to have to rebuild everything in her life yet she would do it all over again to no longer live with abuse. Dr. Angela put on her researcher hat and began to go “into the field”, talk to other smart, successful women who were being abused emotionally, mentally and/ or physically. She found that at least half of those high achieving women were being physically abused regularly. This reality hit home when a gifted male colleague of hers was accused of murdering his wife after she filed for divorce.
He was a successful surgeon, his wife a successful doctor yet he was secretly physically abusing her at home for 12 years and when she filed for divorce her murdered her. This further motivated Dr. Angela to share her story of breaking the chains of abuse on order to help other women break free from their abusers. With passion and clarity, she talks about her research, why successful women find themselves in abusive relationships and how women can break those chains. This is a must share episode so get your girlfriends, grab a cuppa something wonderful and listen! This episode really could save a life. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode130/

FR Ep #129 How to Overcome Stress Eating with Dr Laurel Mellin Jan 27, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap we are conquering how to overcome stress eating by using powerful emotional brain tools. Our guest, Dr. Laurel Mellin, has spent the last 40 years of her career researching neuroscience and emotional stress eating. Dr. Laurel has developed a whole brain approach to help people overcome stress eating for good and by learning to use these simple emotional tools, they are empowered to rewire your brain from stress to joy! Dr. Laurel teaches that we can rewire the drive in our brain so it’s easier to release the habit pattern and not only have more joy in our lives but freedom from rigid dieting and that drive to overeat. She encourages listeners to trust in the beauty of our beautiful brain and beautiful body as we utilize the powerful emotional brain training tools she has developed. Once we learn to utilize this tool, we turn off the unhealthy emotional wires in our brains and stop the suffering because the addiction isn’t just to food but to the emotions attached to it. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and learn how to the stress in your brain and process your emotions so you can shift those circuits enabling you to tap into the natural good chemicals in your body and overcome stress eating. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode129/

FR Ep #128 Eat Live Thrive with Danna Demetre and Robyn Thomson Jan 23, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about how you can live, eat and thrive in a way that feels good and looks good on you! Often in midlife we are told that the midlife middle is just to be expected and there is nothing you can do about it as if you have no control over your body. Gina’s guests, Danna Demetre and Robyn Thomson, have not only challenged that faulty midlife mindset but have created a system called The Eat Live Thrive Diet. Even though it is called the Eat Live Thrive Diet, Danna and Robyn encourage women to see it as a lifestyle resource to help you get back in the driver’s seat of what feels go to you and your body. In order to eat, live and thrive, they encourage women to put aside shame and guilt, to recognize that it is never too late to reverse your eating habits, aging, or health. The idea of eat live thrive is to empower women to get themselves to know what to do and develop the habit of doing it consistently. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and a notepad because this episode is full of great tips, ideas and strategies to help you eat, live and thrive in your midlife! www.feminineroadmap.com/epsiode128/

FR Ep #127 Healthy Aging with Dr Kelly Price Noble Jan 20, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about healthy aging in mind, body and planning. Gina’s guest Dr. Kelly Price Noble was practically raised in a hospital surrounded by medical family members and she brings that lifetime of observation and experience to this very important topic of healthy aging. Dr. Kelly is a Doctor of Health Administration and her passion is in educating people about health and healthy choices in a clear and practical way so that people’s lives are changed positively. While many people don’t enjoy talking about aging, it is an inevitability and there are intentional steps we can all take to practice healthy aging now so that the process is less overwhelming or scary. Dr. Kelly shares great tips and strategies that will help listeners develop a healthy aging action plan that is right for them and if appropriate, their aging parents as well. So whether you are 50 or 80 this is a timely conversation that will leave you feeling inspired and empowered. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and enjoy the conversation on healthy aging. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode127/

FR Ep #126 Finding Love After Loss with Susan S Etkin Jan 16, 2020

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Today on Feminine Roadmap we are talking about finding love after loss. No matter what age you are, losing a spouse is a difficult experience and the journey through the grief is very personal. For many people, after they have grieved, they find themselves desiring to find love again. Finding love after loss can be a challenging journey to navigate – from online dating to blind dates to social events- and what works best for one person may not work for another. Today’s guest Susan S. Etkin explains that finding love after loss later in life is even more interesting say the least. Susan found herself widowed at 58 and it took her time to wade through her grief. She used writing as a tool to process and express what she was going through, the result is a novel that follows a woman in midlife who is trying to find love after loss. Susan believes that it’s important to have hope, that life is a gift and that it should be lived. She encourages listeners to go out there and see who might be waiting for you! While Susan hasn’t yet found her love after loss, she has found joy in writing about women who do. Grab a cuppa something wonderful and take a little time to listen to this great episode. www.feminineroadmap.com/episode126/

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