The Midlife Feast

#178 - Perimenopause Without Panic: Body Changes, Food Freedom, And Real Support

• Jenn Salib Huber RD ND • Season 6 • Episode 178

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Perimenopause can feel unpredictable, emotional, and deeply disorienting, especially when your body changes quickly and nothing seems to work the way it used to. In this story session, I'm joined by Britney, a 49-year-old therapist navigating late perimenopause, who shares her honest experience with weight changes, fatigue, mood swings, and the fear that often shows up alongside them.

Together, we talk about what it’s really like to move from panic and food rules into trust, attunement, and food freedom in midlife. This episode explores how stepping out of diet culture, wearing clothes that fit your today body, and finding supportive community can free up mental space and help you feel more like yourself again, even in the middle of uncertainty.

If you’re in perimenopause and struggling with body image, confusing symptoms, or your relationship with food, this conversation will help you feel less alone and more hopeful about what’s possible next.

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Jenn Salib Huber:

Is there something that you wish you would have known before perimenopause?

Britney:

I mean, I think I wish I mean I wish I would have known more about all of this, right? Like how uncertain and unpredictable it is.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker:

And I think it would have been nice to know that it's not just a bunch of horrible symptoms either.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Mm-hmm.

Speaker:

That there's so much more to it. Uh, because it I always thought of it as something you just have to get through. It's like, yeah, right. I mean, it's how many women think that? Like, okay, I just have to get through this. Yeah, maybe get to the other side. And I'm not even sure what that will be like, but yeah, I wish I would have known that there's a lot of beautiful things that can happen in this space.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Welcome to the Midlife Feast, the podcast that helps you make sense of your body, your health, and menopause in the messy middle of midlife. I'm Dr. Jen Sali Puber, intuitive eating dietitian and naturopathic doctor, and author of Eat to Thrive During Menopause. Around here, we don't see midlife and menopause as problems to solve, but as invitations to live with more freedom, trust, and joy. Each week you'll hear real conversations and practical strategies to help you feel like yourself again. Eat without guilt, and turn midlife from a season of survival into a season of thriving. I'm so glad you're here. Let's dig in. Hi, Brittany, welcome to the Midlife Feast. Hi Jen, thanks for having me. So this is a story session, and story sessions are truly some of my favorite because instead of talking about a particular topic or an expert or something like that, this is sharing our stories. And I'm a really big believer in the power of storytelling and how it can help us feel seen and less alone and hopeful, which is what I'm sure people will feel after they listen to your story. So tell us a little bit about what stage you're in, how old you are, and kind of where you see yourself in this midlife journey right now.

Speaker:

Okay. Um, so I'm 49, and I believe when I joined the midlife feast community, I was 47, and I felt like I had already been in perimenopause for about a year or two. So now I'd say I'm probably a solid three to four years in, it seems like.

Jenn Salib Huber:

So you're still having cycles though, you're still kind of in that roller coaster of regular cycles, but maybe no two cycles are the same and starting to feel a lot of symptoms, maybe?

Speaker:

Yes. Like as of right now, I haven't had um, I haven't menstruated in about two months. So yeah, I'm definitely in that stage of sometimes regular, sometimes not.

Jenn Salib Huber:

And other than the cycle changes, what are some of the things that you notice? What are some of the symptoms?

Speaker:

Um, so I mean the body changes, right? The the redistribution of where the weight is, um, also the weight gain. Uh that was pretty jarring for me. Uh, how quickly that happened. And the mood changes, the, you know, feeling really great, and not even the normal cycle ones like we used to have. Um, at times I call it feeling like I'm losing my mind. Um yeah. That anger, or even just really, really low, um, really down, and not feeling like I can easily pull myself out of it. Um and outside of that, and fatigue, um, like like the heavy, heavy fatigue, um, that nothing you do really seems to shift, like nothing I do at least. And so just navigating that.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah. Those are some really common ones. I remember um, you know, I'm now almost three years. I'm entering my fourth post-menopausal year. I think is yeah, I think my last period was February 2023. So three years now. But I remember, especially in late perimenopause, which it sounds like the stage that you're in, kind of skipping periods, um, with you know, that fatigue, it felt very much like first trimester pregnancy fatigue. Yeah. Which was just like everything needs to stop and I need to lay down. Like there is no option other than rest in this moment. And I remember describing to a friend of mine when I was pregnant, like, wow, this fatigue is really impressive. Like, I can't believe how tired I am. And when that showed up again in perimenopause, it didn't immediately resonate with me as like, oh, this is a perimenopausal symptom. It wasn't until it started happening like regularly that, you know, it was a sign that I was about to get a period. If I had a week where I just could not, could not do anything other than just like the bare minimum. So I think mentioning the fatigue is gonna be validating for a lot of people who might be listening thinking, why am I so tired? Why can't I do anything anymore? So thanks for sharing that.

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah. That's that's been a tough one. And what you said, first trimester of pregnancy, it feels so similar to that. Um, and then recently I had some of the hot flashes at night, waking up kind of sweaty. Um, and that came for about like two to three weeks, and then it went. And I and now I'm not having them. I have no idea what's going on, but it's perimenopause is what's happening. I'm thankful that that they stopped for a bit.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah, that on and off nature, especially with those vasomotor symptoms, so hot flashes, night sweats, because they are so responsive to the shifts in hormones that are happening, they can absolutely show up for a few weeks and then take their leave and then come back. And so I really found it helpful to track my symptoms when that was happening. Do you track your symptoms? Have you found that helpful?

Speaker:

I've only been tracking my cycle. So I like that idea of tracking those.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah, and I mean, just really simple things. Like it doesn't have to be like a detailed journal entry that someone will be able to decipher in 500 years. It's really just like I, you know, I used an app, and the app had the option to put in symptoms. And so I would just put in like night sweats or mood swings. And I was really able to identify a pattern, especially in early perimenopause, that oh yeah, five days before my period, I have a really low day, low energy, low mood. And then three days later, I have night sweats for two nights. And so I think that information can be helpful, also validating, but helpful, especially if you're feeling like, what is going on right now? I don't know what's happening. Is there something that you wish you would have known before perimenopause?

Speaker:

I mean, I think I wish, I mean, I wish I would have known more about all of this, right? Like how how uncertain and unpredictable it is. And I think it would have been nice to know that it's not just a bunch of horrible symptoms either. That there's so much more to it. Uh, because it I always thought of it as something you just have to get through. It's like, yeah, yeah, right. I mean, it's how many women think that? Like, okay, I just have to get through this, you know, maybe get to the other side, and I'm not even sure what that will be like, but um yeah, I wish I would have known that there's a lot of um beautiful things that can happen in this space.

Jenn Salib Huber:

We're gonna come back to that. But so you're you're a therapist, you work with women, and I'm sure you hear a lot of experiences about this stage of life and and otherwise. Do you feel like there's a gap between what you know intellectually and what you experienced mentally, emotionally, physically, you know, as you're kind of going through this? Because I think it's one thing to know what to expect. And just like with pregnancy, just to use that analogy again, like it's another thing to read about it, to see others going through it, but it's a completely different experience to go through it yourself. Was there any gaps there that you can identify with?

Speaker:

Oh, yeah, for sure. Um, yeah, I think like you said, the the mental emotional piece and the support, right? Um part of why, you know, I joined your community, your membership, because I didn't feel like I had support. And, you know, people, even other women I've known who have been going through it, they also seem just as lost and just as unsure, and like this is horrible, and I don't know what's going on or what to do. Um and partners, I mean, my husband had no clue, and he had no idea how to support me. Um, you know, I've learned about that. Um, and it was it was learning for him too in the process of all of this. And I didn't realize how much that was important and needed and necessary. Um yeah.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah. And I think having the support of people around us looks different in this stage of life too. It's not, you know, I don't know why I keep going back to like baby analogies, but like, you know, when I when my kids were young, support looked like very practical, like folding laundry, making meals, like that kind of thing. And in this season of life, I think for a lot of us, the support we need is space because there's so much change that we're going through. And it is really uncomfortable. And we don't have all the answers. I don't think we expect our family, friends, partners to have all the answers. But I know like my husband, who I love dearly and is great, like he his default reaction is to jump into like solution mode instead of support, right? And so I would have to remind him sometimes, like, hey, I don't have a solution, I don't expect you to have a solution, but I need space, and that's how you can support me. And, you know, I think when our bodies are changing, and I'd love to talk a little bit more about that when our bodies are changing and we're not sleeping well and we're going through all of this like internal chaos, I guess, it can be really hard to ask for what we need and let you know, let alone expect someone else to know. So it is a really, really uncomfortable time.

Speaker:

It is, and you're right, I'm a therapist, so I also understand what it is for people to be struggling and then not not even know what to ask for, or how to do it. Um, and I think that's so validating and true. I didn't even know what to ask for what I needed. And I think for a lot of women too, I was used to just kind of doing it all on my own. I was just like, I've I've got it, I've got the kids, the things, work, you know, and I've I've got I'm taking care of me mostly kind of sorta. It's fine. And to feel like, oh, I don't, I don't know if I can do that anymore. That was really jarring. Yeah.

Jenn Salib Huber:

So that yes, I I totally recognize that too. And and realizing that maybe I had been overfunctioning, not saying that's how you were doing, but for me, it was a recognition of like, oh, I've been overfunctioning for a really long time. And I don't have the capacity to do that anymore. And that's gonna be uncomfortable for the people around me. Uh, and it's gonna be uncomfortable for me because I'm gonna feel like I'm not doing enough for a really long time. And then one day I'm gonna be like, oh, okay, this is actually how I can honor my needs and everyone else's instead of, you know, just doing it all. If we could come back to the body changes and the weight gain, because that is, as we all know, one of the most common and realistically the most uncomfortable symptoms. And it's often when people jump into wanting to find solutions and fixes and really where diet culture is like waiting to jump on us. And that certainly isn't changing anytime soon in the world that we live in. How did you how did you experience that? And what did you how did you respond to those changes and that feeling and of like, oh my gosh, this is happening and it's happening quickly?

Speaker:

Um, a lot of fear. I think you probably recall some of my panic posts in the community. It was really disorienting. Um it felt like my body was betraying me. Um and I I often tell people it felt as if like this isn't mine, what's happening? This isn't, I don't even know what's going on here. Like a really weird sense of yeah, I'm not me. This isn't me anymore. Um and breakdowns, like going to put on a pair of pants that fit maybe even a week ago that don't really fit now. Um, before my husband and I might go out somewhere and I would have a full meltdown and really struggle to navigate that. Um yeah, and and again, partly then going, well, why am I like, okay, something's happening and this is yucky, and also why am I just bawling my eyes out? Why can't I just go out and have a good time?

Jenn Salib Huber:

Which is the body neutrality piece that I think is is can be so so helpful to anchor yourself to that, like I don't have to like or love my body that is going through all these changes right now in order to still live in my body, to be able to go out to dinner, to be able to go out and do the thing. I know that you've been doing a lot of dancing lately and and you know, like to be able to dance and enjoy being in your body. And I think for a lot of people listening, and certainly a lot of the people we see in the community too, it like those feelings feel like quicksand. So it's like you step into the pants and they don't fit the way that you expect them to or want them to. And then all of a sudden you're down this trapdoor and you're just in this spiral, and like everything around you, it's like Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz, right? Like everything is getting caught up in this spiral. And it is so uncomfortable, but it's also exhausting to keep going through that. And so I know one of the things that you did a lot of work with when you kind of first joined was understanding how to respond to those feelings. Is there something that you've learned or that you do now when those feelings show up that maybe wasn't a tool in your toolbox before?

Speaker:

Oh, yeah. Yeah. Um I mean, there's several things. I just I remind myself this is just my body, and it gets to change, and it's and lucky me, it's still functioning very well. So I have that gratitude um for it. And really that it it doesn't define me, it doesn't define who I am, it never will, it never has. Um and I'm actually now I'm happier. Well, happier. I'm I'm more at peace, I have joy in my life, I'm in a really wonderful time um in life, and so this body is carrying me through all of that, it's giving me the ability to to live in life and to do all of that and to take it in and enjoy it. And so I just keep coming back to that. And I know you talked about this, and it I'm still cleaning out my closet. Um, but I am, I mean, I'm finding, you know, clothes that I love that really are me and express me and fit and feel really good. And when I have clothes that fit that feel like me, I don't think about my like the shape or the size of my body so much. Um, it I I didn't believe that at first. I was like, yeah, that sounds really good. But no, it it makes a difference.

Jenn Salib Huber:

It really does. It makes all the difference. Because if you're wearing clothes that don't fit, all you can do is think about that. Right. You know, if you're wearing cloth if you're wearing a pair of jeans that are too tight on your belly, that is all you are gonna think about. Or if you feel like it is isn't your style, you know, like if you're wearing something that you wouldn't normally wear, and all of a sudden you're just like, oh my gosh, you know, this this makes me feel like a fraud, or I just feel like, you know, such an imposter, you are gonna find it really challenging to just be able to enjoy whatever it is that you're doing. Um, so yeah, I love that. And thank you for sharing that because I I do think that for a lot of people that is a really hard ask and it's a hard sell to be like, no, no, you've just got to trust me and believe me that if you wear clothes that fit your body today, you will feel better in your body today.

Speaker:

Yeah. And you're right, that took some trust, that took some time to believe and to really know. Um and I think when in the group, when you said something about, you know, the the memory and like you're going to want that picture one day. You're going to want to be able to look back at that. Um, and so I think about that. And I'm like, yeah, I'm gonna put on the bathing suit and I'm gonna get out there with my kids, my husband, my family, and live life. Um because that's the part I will regret one day if I don't do that because of my body.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah. That's and that's a really powerful thing, I think, too, when you can accept, again, you don't have to like how you look in the picture. There are lots of pictures that I'm so grateful to have that I wouldn't put up on a billboard, and that's okay, you know, like because that's not the point of the picture. The point of the picture with my kids and my family is to capture that moment. And I think that is um, I think that's a really powerful shift. And I'm glad that that one landed with you. Can we talk about your relationship with food for a little bit? So what has shifted in that?

Speaker:

Yeah. So I definitely, as you know, I was into diet culture really until probably I joined the group. Um so I the community, so I definitely had a lot of food rules. I definitely was doing a lot of okay, I shouldn't eat that. And then at some point I would really almost binge overeat on things that I thought I shouldn't be eating. And then to feel bad about it. Okay, it's gonna be different, you know, around and around we go.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Um the diet cycle, really.

Speaker:

Yeah, yeah, basically. And so what's shifted for me is that piece of all right, well, let me check in. Let me check in. Where am I at on the hunger scale? What is it that I truly want, need? I think like looking at that, you caught the add-in, I love that because I'm like, okay, really my body probably needs some some protein or some, you know, like be nice to throw a veggie in there or, you know, whatever. Um, ooh, and I really love the sweet potatoes. Um, but then okay, and then I can throw something in that's just more fun or enjoyable. Uh like lately, I've just been like, I love those little Greek yogurt, you know, things that are kind of sweet, like they have a little sweetness to them. And before I would have been like, no, it's sweet, it's got some kind of sugar. Don't eat that, just eat the plain yogurt, you know. And now I'm like, no, I don't want plain yogurt. Um, so I'm gonna eat the other kind, and that's enjoyable. And I still get some protein and some good stuff in my body. Um and I feel great.

Jenn Salib Huber:

And it's I love, yeah. I love the yogurt example. I just want to call it out because that is probably the biggest shift that I see with people is trusting that they can still make a quote unquote healthy choice and not, and that they don't have to buy the plain, unsweetened, you know, one all the time and like suffer through it. Like the number of people have said, Oh, I like yogurt, but I only like this flavored kind. And I'll be like, Great, choose that. And they're like, wait, what do you mean, choose that? And I'm like, you're still getting all of the other things. Like, you're still getting the protein, the live cultures, the calcium, like you're still getting all of those things. And if we don't make room for foods that taste good and that we enjoy eating as part of our nutrition plan, it's never going to be sustainable, right? And like how wonderful to have these little moments of pleasure that you can have by having a yogurt. Like, how wonderful is that?

Speaker:

Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And so, yeah, I think it is you uh, I know the book, you know, intuitive eating talks about this. You talk about, but like this food freedom, this food freedom that that I really feel now, you know, nothing's off limits. And also, you know, am I do I actually like really want the MMs? Or is it that I need to eat? I'm just really hungry, and that's the easy go-to right now. Let me the pause. I like doing the pause. That's been so helpful. Pause. What do I actually like again, need want right now? What's going on? Doesn't mean I can't have some MMs, but I probably also want something else too. Um, and so it's just really helpful. It is. I don't sit around and just like eat food that I used to, that I'm like, okay, I can eat this right now, and then tomorrow it's gonna be different. Because it's like, no, I can have it now, and I could have it again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next day, and I don't need to eat it all right now.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Um, that is amazing. That for anyone listening who thinks that you cannot trust yourself around foods that you enjoy, foods that taste good, fun foods, treat foods, whatever it is, permission is the path to peace. Being able to say yes or being able to say no, or as you've just described, being able to press pause to give yourself the time and the space to figure it out is the path to peace. And it's it's so fun kind of just seeing knowing where you started when you first joined, to kind of seeing where you are now and just seeing how how much this is really part of your life now. It's it's really it's really lovely. Yeah. I hope you're proud of yourself too.

Speaker:

I am, I am. And I it's it's I am so much more in tune now, too, with I have the ability now to notice how certain foods affect me, you know, how they impact me. So it's not made on a rule, it's not a decision that's like this food is bad, you know, that moral piece of food. It's how do I feel when I eat this? What happens for me? And that could be certain vegetables, that could be other things. Like, is this one that my body, you know, feels good with or handles well? Um, and I can tune in more to that and it and appreciate that.

Jenn Salib Huber:

And that's that attunement or the interoceptive awareness, as it's called, that I think is impossible when you're trying to impose rules. So when you're trying to outsource what to eat, when to eat, how much to eat, what not to eat, there's no capacity for do I want this? How does this feel? Was this, you know, a good choice for me today in this moment? Because you're always looking to that external, did I do the right thing? And so I think that that ability to notice how you feel, that is also where so much of the freedom comes in. You know, like I notice that I don't love tomato sauce for more than a meal. Like, you know, I love having pasta night. We have it at least once a week because it's super easy. But if we have leftovers the next day, I actually don't feel great if I have like a big meal of pasta sauce. Like, I'll have the pasta, but maybe I'll do pesto, for example. And I think that that kind of attunement wouldn't have been possible for me 10 years ago. Yeah. Um, I wouldn't have been looking for that.

Speaker:

I drink coffee in the morning without eating some like this morning. I'm doing that right now. They say, Oh, you shouldn't drink coffee in the morning without eating something. And I'm like, I don't really love eating while I drink my coffee. I actually just want to drink my coffee and then eat. And that's what I do, and it feels fine.

Jenn Salib Huber:

I did a whole reel on that, I think, about how that's just a myth. Like, you're not doing anything wrong by having coffee before food. Like you're not creating this like supersonic cortisol spike that's gonna like kill you, and you know, so yeah, I love my coffee as well, so I can fully appreciate wanting to savor that moment um and with attunement, right? Yeah, yeah. So now that you're a couple of years into perimenopause, you probably still have a couple of years before you're on the other side. What feels possible now, now that you have, you know, some information, you have some tools, and you've been able to become more comfortable with your body, what feels possible that maybe didn't before?

Speaker:

Yeah, I what I've noticed, and I know that um, you know, everyone, you know, who is who talks about women especially getting caught in diet culture is it's freed up, you said space, right? It's freed up so much space. It has freed up space for me to put energy and time into other things. Um, whether that's yeah, relationships or my business, um, you know, just even yeah, me, doing things for me, right? Which was not really on the table before much. Um, and it it is, it's just like, oh, I don't have to think about, well, what am I gonna eat? When should I eat? What does that look like? You know, exercise a certain way, certain, you know, all these things. It's just okay, I can, and we come back to trust. I can trust, I can trust that I can listen to myself and know that I'll I'll know what I need and I'll know what feels right. And um, and so it doesn't occupy that brain space, it just doesn't take up that energy anymore. And so yeah, I I have so much space now for so many other things um that it's it's just amazing.

Jenn Salib Huber:

And anyone listening, that is where it is at, and that is what you want because this is going somewhere good, right? You know, I say like midlife is going somewhere good, and you mentioned that in our kind of the first part of our conversation, that you know, you kind of started this journey with like some fear and anticipation of like all the bad things that were gonna happen, and now like you're kind of excited about it, right? And I think that when you when you are no longer caught up in that spiral of there's something wrong with me, I have to fix this, this is the beginning of the end, it yeah, it allows you to just explore who are you becoming, right?

Speaker:

Exactly. Who am I becoming? And that really I'm creating that now, you know. I'm I'm it's not happening to me. Um I'm creating that, and I have the space to do that. Um, you know, and like you mentioned before we got on here, the purple hair, and that was one of those things for me of I've always wanted to dye my hair, you know, a color like this, and um, purple's my favorite color from childhood. And fine too. Yeah. And and I was like, okay, it's time, let me do this. I used to be so afraid. What will people think? Oh, people won't take me seriously, this and that. And I thought, man, you know, if someone doesn't take me seriously because I have purple hair, then okay. What's that? Right. So let's do it. Um, and I love it, and I keep doing it, and so on. And so it's just things silly, it sounds silly, but it's things like that. Um, that I just would not have done before, and I wouldn't have made the time for, I would have had reasons to not do it, the time, the money, all the things. Okay, you know, so I find that I don't stop myself as much anymore from things. I don't say like, well, you know, probably not. You probably shouldn't. Um, it's it comes back to that trust. Like just trust yourself. And you know what? If you get that purple hair and you absolutely hate it, it won't last for long. Or you can get it redone, or there's nothing that I mean, very few things, right, that are permanent. And yeah, I and I'm much more comfortable now with imperfection failing. Um and it is, it's it's it's it's permission and trust across the board that's really started to happen. And it started a lot with just, you know, the food, the perimenopause.

Jenn Salib Huber:

I love that. A lot of um, a lot of people will also say things like, well, I'll do that when I lose weight, or I'll do that when my body looks the way that I want it to. And I think we don't realize how much that takes away from our experience. And it is also putting our bodies in an impossible position of, you know, we we're never gonna be perfect. It doesn't matter what we do. And so if you're always waiting for your body to look a certain way or be a certain number, to give yourself permission to do something you want to do, you may find yourself at the end of the of your life with a really long list of things that you haven't done. So I love your, so what? If I want to do it, I'm gonna do it.

Speaker:

Right, exactly. And I do. I think, and maybe this sounds really macabre or like just really not sounds negative to people, but I often think and I say this to people, what if you died next week? What would you have wished you would have done rather than going, well, win this, then this? If you live your life, my husband has his great saying, I don't live in hypotheticals. And I really put that in when he said that one time, because I used to do a lot of hypotheticals. He's like, I don't live in hypotheticals, I live in the here and now, what's right in front of me. I'm like, oh yeah. I don't want to live in hypotheticals anymore. Well, when this, then this. If this, then this. No, yeah, why not now? Right. And so yeah, I don't want to have regrets um and being able to really do that now, but I do. I think it takes such a shift from what we often are conditioned into, right? You know, um it does.

Jenn Salib Huber:

And that that takes trust. And um, you know, I think that is one of the biggest values in finding community when you're trying to make a big change like that, is trying to do it on your own. We're all capable, everybody is capable, but your capability and your capacity are two very different things. And doing things in community, I think, really increases your capacity and makes it less uncomfortable so that you don't have to weather all of those changes. And you know, we've talked about it all in our community, and a lot of it is that uncomfortable place of you know, all just all the things, all the things. So thank you so much for sharing and for being.

Speaker:

Sorry, I say it all the time, and I've said it to you guys, I say it to everyone. I don't know where I would be without the community. I mean, really, the times when I was like, I can't do this anymore, I don't know what I'm gonna do. And you know, I put it out there and you all were there for me and gave me some hope and and you know, just a safe space to be messy.

Jenn Salib Huber:

Yeah. I love our feast community. We definitely have each other's backs. So thank you. And thank you for being part of it. Thank you for sharing your story, for being so honest and so vulnerable. I know that there's somebody who will listen to this and will feel comforted by hearing your experience. So, last question, it's the big one. What do you think is the missing ingredient in midlife?

Speaker:

Uh, the missing ingredient. Um, I mean, yeah, I guess if I just go with what I've been saying, really, I mean, trust. Um for me, it was trust, trust in myself. Uh, and uh needing to find spaces that helped me to have more of that, to really touch into that, not spaces that told me, oh, do this, do that. Really, probably maybe you don't trust yourself, you need to follow this. It was, hey, trust yourself, listen to yourself. Um, and as much as I've said that to clients over the years, it was not the easiest thing for me to be able to do. Um, and so really it's yeah, that it's hard, but it is worth it.

Jenn Salib Huber:

It is worth it. I love that. Well, thank you again. And for anybody who is listening who thinks I would love for that to be part of my story, we would love to welcome you into the Feaster community. And I'll put the link to that in the show notes, and I'll also put a link to Britney's practice as a therapist because I'm sure that you are helping lots of women in your local community as well. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks for joining me for this episode of the Midlife Feast. If you're ready to take the next step towards thriving in midlife, head to menopause nutritionist.ca to learn more about my one-to-one and group coaching programs, free resources, and where to get your copy of Eat to Thrive during menopause. And if you've loved today's conversation and found it helpful, please share it with a friend who needs to hear this and leave a review wherever you listen to podcasts. It helps so many more people just like you find their way to food freedom and midlife confidence. Until next time, remember midlife is not the end of the story, it's the feast. Let's savor it together.

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