Feel like a lightweight when you drink in perimenopause? Does that nightly glass of Cabernet pack more of a punch than it used to (and you find it's harder to recover in the morning?)

In this episode, we're digging into the relationship between alcohol and midlife, but it's a different take than you're used to.

Because you already know the science. You’re a smart, driven, professional woman. The struggle isn't a lack of knowledge.

It's the challenge of doing better when your brain and nervous system are wired for belonging.

I'm pulling back the curtain on why your brain views social exclusion as a life-or-death situation and how alcohol often serves as an "off switch" for heavy feelings like inadequacy or frustration.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode:

📌How to Change Your Identity: Why alcohol becomes an "identity marker" and why your nervous system feels threatened when you change the rules of your social rituals.


📌 Why You're Suddenly a Lightweight: Why your liver prioritizes clearing toxins over processing fluctuating hormones, leading to a "hormonal backup" and worsened hot flashes.


📌 Your Need to Belong: How your primitive brain scans for moments of connection and why saying "no" at a work happy hour feels like a threat to your safety.


📌 Avoiding Tough Emotions: How to identify if you are using alcohol to cover up feelings of apathy, inadequacy, or deprivation on your health journey.


📌 Practical Tools for Change: How to find a "tribe partner," use "anchor habits" with your spouse, and choose your emotions ahead of time so you wake up feeling proud instead of hungover.

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Juggling perimenopause, family, and weight loss goals can feel overwhelming, especially when it seems like you’ve tried every diet under the sun and nothing sticks.

In the previous episode, we talked about the nuts and bolts of nutrition and fitness strategy—the "what" of losing weight.

Today, we are digging into the "how," and it has nothing to do with your gym membership.

I’m taking you off the "DIY" treadmill and putting you on my therapist’s couch (metaphorically, of course!). As a certified mindset coach (and a former therapist!), I know that your brain, thoughts, and feelings are the primary drivers of your success or failure. If you feel resentful about cooking separate meals or hopeless because the scale won't budge, those feelings are exactly why you shut down and quit.

In this episode, I’m sharing the exact 5-step framework I use with my private coaching clients in The Method. We’ll talk about why your "primal brain" is wired to keep you safe and predictable (which usually means keeping you stuck and overweight) and how to rewire those neural pathways so healthy habits become your new default.

Grab a notebook and a pen, friend. This is a high-level coaching session designed to help you stop hiding and start healing.

What you’ll learn in this episode:

📌 Why "safe and predictable" thinking is the biggest obstacle to your transformation.

📌 How to identify the specific feelings (like inadequacy and resentment) that are sabotaging your progress.

📌 The 5-step goal-setting framework that puts your mindset at the forefront.

📌 How to redefine failure, and what it looks like

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When it comes to midlife weight loss, you probably think you need "more discipline" or "more willpower". Not true!

What is true is that your strategy isn't built for a busy, midlife mom in perimenopause. Most of us try to DIY our way through nutrition, diets, and workouts.

But when it seems like you've tried everything, but nothing is working to help you improve your health, or to lose weight, what are you supposed to do?

I’ve lost 65 pounds in my late 40s, and I can say this with 100% certainty: you don't need a fancy gym membership or a lifestyle overhaul that takes hours of weekend meal prep, in order to lose weight.

You need a hormone-informed, realistic strategy that fits into your actual life—the one with the meetings, the kids’ sports schedules, and the "invisible load" you're already carrying.

Today is Part 1 of a two-part series. We are digging into the tactical side: the exact fitness and nutrition shifts that support your body when estrogen is on the decline. We’re keeping it simple, straight-forward, and effective.


What you’ll learn in this episode:

📌 The Cortisol Conumdrum: Why your favorite HIIT or intense cardio class might actually be increasing inflammation and stalling your weight loss.

📌 The Home Advantage: Why I recommend starting your weightlifting journey in your living room (plus the 5 sets of dumbbells you actually need).

📌 Your Winning Breakfast: Why changing this one meal first provides the "biggest bang for your buck" in regulating blood sugar and killing cravings.

📌 Time Blocking Success: How to schedule your health so it doesn’t get pushed to the back burner by 3 p.m.

💫 Be sure to follow The Family Fork on your favorite podcast player, so you don't miss next week's episode! Part 2: 5-Step Framework for Success.

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