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Menopause and perimenopause can leave you with questions about belly fat, brain fog, sleep problems and whether hormone therapy could help. Your jeans fit differently. You’re losing your train of thought. You’re exhausted, but you can’t sleep. Where do you start when so much feels unfamiliar?

For World Menopause Month, Tamsen brings eight leading doctors and researchers together in one episode to help you understand what’s changing and what deserves attention. These are the conversations she wishes she’d heard before she was struggling to read the teleprompter at work, leaving herself notes and wondering why she didn’t feel like herself.

You’ll hear from Dr. Sharon Malone, Dr. Lisa Mosconi, Dr. Shelby Harris, Dr. Rocio Salas-Whalen, Dr. Vonda Wright, Dr. Kelly Casperson, Dr. Avrum Bluming and Dr. Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz. Eight experts, different perspectives and answers you can come back to—all in one place.

Inside the episode:

- Why you can still have periods and be in perimenopause—and why a single hormone blood test may be misleading

- Whether menopause brain fog can improve, and why women’s experiences vary

- Why more time in bed may not mean better sleep, and how cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) works

- The difference between visible belly fat and visceral fat around your organs

- Why bone health needs attention earlier than you might think

- How menopause can affect sexual anatomy, arousal and orgasm

- What to understand about hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and breast cancer risk

- How to evaluate menopause supplements and “hormone balance” claims before spending your money

You don’t have to remember everything or make eight changes tomorrow. Start with the moment that makes you think, “Wait, that’s happening to me.” Write down your question and bring it to your next appointment.

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Why do we keep choosing emotionally unavailable partners? And why is it so hard to break unhealthy relationship patterns, even when we know better? In this episode of The Tamsen Show, dating and relationship expert Sabrina Zohar joins Tamsen Fadal to explain anxious attachment, avoidant attachment, relationship anxiety, and how childhood experiences shape the way we love, date, and connect with others.

Tamsen opens up about her own history of chasing unavailable men, including her real-life Mr. Big, and how finding a secure relationship later in life changed her understanding of love.

Sabrina, author of Why Am I Like This?, breaks down the four attachment styles, why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in painful relationship cycles, and why some of us keep choosing people who can’t give us what we need. More importantly, she explains how to recognize these patterns and start changing them.

You’ll learn:

- The four attachment styles and how they affect your relationships

- Why anxious and avoidant partners get caught in a painful push-and-pull cycle

- Why you keep attracting emotionally unavailable people

- How childhood experiences can influence your adult relationships

- The question to ask yourself when rejection or abandonment triggers you

- How to build a more secure attachment style

- What to know before dating again after divorce or heartbreak

- Why choosing to stay single can sometimes be rooted in fear

Whether you’re single, dating, married, or starting over, this conversation will help you understand the patterns you bring into relationships and how to stop repeating the ones that hurt you.

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Women learn early which parts of themselves make other people comfortable. After enough years, that performance can begin to feel like our identity, and the intuition underneath it goes quiet.

Dr. Ellen Vora spent much of her life inside that worldview. A Yale- and Columbia-trained psychiatrist, she built her life around science and skepticism. Then, during an acupuncture treatment, Ellen received a message she couldn’t explain away, and it opened a question her training couldn’t answer: When someone dies, does the relationship actually end? That experience forced her to reconsider what she believed about grief, intuition, and the limits of what we can prove.

Today, Ellen shares the full story behind her new book, Season of the Witch: A Psychiatrist’s Case for Magic, and why women are taught to give up essential parts of themselves in order to be taken seriously. She argues that we’ve been missing something, and the way back starts in the body.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- How being agreeable and low-maintenance can become a form of self-abandonment

- Why women have been taught to distrust their intuition

- How to distinguish intuition from anxiety, and the ways the body signals yes and no

- Why menopause can represent a rebirth rather than a disappearance

- What grief can teach us about continuing relationships with the people we have lost

- Why the “witch” archetype has always been connected to women who are no longer easily controlled

- Simple ways to become more receptive to meaning, guidance, and magic in everyday life

This is a conversation about returning to the parts of ourselves we learned to suppress, and letting life become a little more mysterious and alive.

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What do women need to know about menopause care, menopause treatment, insurance coverage and their rights in the workplace?

Jennifer Weiss-Wolf, attorney, women’s health advocate and author of When in Menopause, joins me to talk about the systems surrounding perimenopause and menopause that most of us never think about until we need them.

Jennifer has spent years fighting for women, from helping lead the movement to end the tampon tax to advocating for better menopause care, research, treatment access and workplace protections. In this conversation, we break down what is changing, where women are still falling through the cracks and what we can actually do about it.

In this episode, you’ll learn:

- Why menopause care and treatment still aren’t uniformly covered by health insurance

- Why vaginal estrogen isn’t currently covered by Medicare

- What states are doing to expand access to menopause treatment

- What rights women actually have when it comes to menopause in the workplace

- Why workplace accommodations without discrimination protections can be complicated

- What to consider before disclosing menopause symptoms at work

- How to better advocate for yourself in the doctor’s office

- How to navigate the explosion of menopause supplements, creams and products being marketed to women

- Why Jennifer believes better care, education, research and treatment access could make a bigger difference than workplace accommodations alone

- How women can get involved in menopause advocacy without becoming policy experts

This is one of those conversations that makes you realize how much of the menopause experience is shaped by systems most women have never been taught to think about. The more we understand how they work, the better equipped we are to ask for what we need.

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If you’ve been searching for how to strengthen your feet, improve your balance, walk better, help bunions, choose the right shoes, or stay mobile as you age, this episode is for you.

Your feet could be telling you more about your health than you realize.

Today, Tamsen sits down with foot and gait specialist Dr. Courtney Conley to break down the simple things you can start doing now to build stronger feet, improve the way you walk, and protect your mobility as you age.

You’ll learn:

- Why your walking speed can reveal important information about your health

- The simple test that can show you how strong your toes actually are

- What to do about bunions before considering surgery

- Why balance and foot strength become so important as you age

- Whether you actually need arch support or orthotics

- The truth about max-cushion sneakers, barefoot shoes and walking barefoot

- How to tell if your shoes are changing the shape of your feet

- The simple foot exercises Dr. Conley recommends for strength and mobility

- Why toe spacers can help and how to use them correctly

- What Dr. Conley rates orthotics, insoles, compression socks, bunion correctors, massage balls, slant boards and toe spacers

Your feet are carrying you through your entire life. This episode will show you how to start taking care of them now so they can keep carrying you for decades to come.

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