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Midlife Muse: Things Your Mother Never Told You

Midlife Muse: Things Your Mother Never Told You

Dr. Amanda Hanson 69 episodes Latest Jun 10, 2026

Dr. Amanda Hanson, a clinical psychologist, helps women reconnect with their feminine essence and heal generational trauma. The podcast explores concepts of womanhood, self-worth, and personal fulfillment. Each episode aims to ignite radiance and ease confusion for women seeking guidance and deeper reflection. It is a universal platform for women of all backgrounds.

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Intimacy Is a Skill Not a Feeling: Stefanos Sifandos EP 68 Jun 10, 2026 01:08:39 There is a conversation most couples never get to have...because no one ever taught them the language for it. The language of the body. The language of the nervous system. The language of what it actually means to be safe enough to stay. This episode goes there. I sit down with Stefanos Sifandos, a behavioral scientist, author, and men's work facilitator with 25 years in the personal transformatio
I Hired My Best Friend: Judith Nowlin EP 67 May 13, 2026 01:06:56 There is a woman in your life...or perhaps you are still searching for her. The one who picks up the phone when no one else does. The one who holds your vision before it has a name, your heart before you have a plan. The one who does not shrink in the presence of your intensity, but instead reflects it back to you as the very thing that makes you extraordinary. Female friendship, when it is built
Why You Love Who You Love with Eli Harwood EP 66 Apr 8, 2026 01:03:53 Most women believe they are struggling in relationships because they are choosing the wrong people. But what if the pattern began long before them? What if the way you learned to seek love, hold love, or even lose yourself in love…was formed in the very first relationships you ever experienced? Attachment has a way of shaping everything. Not just how you love, but how you trust, how you express yo
Behave Candy: From Play To Profit: Mayssa Chehata EP 65 Mar 11, 2026 01:00:41 As a woman, when everything you built stops working, it feels like failure.  But it doesn't mean that your dream was wrong. It just means that the way you learned to push, prove, and perform can no longer carry what you're trying to build.  Entrepreneurship has a way of bringing those moments to the surface.  The moments where ambition collides with exhaustion. Where discipline stops feeling empow
The Spirituality of Menopause: Dr. Amanda Hanson EP 64 Feb 11, 2026 21:54 There is a moment in a woman's life when something quiet but irreversible happens. It isn't loud. It isn't dramatic. And it isn't the breakdown we've been taught to expect. Menopause is often framed as something to manage, fix, or endure. A list of symptoms to brace for. A season to survive. What I was never offered, and what so few women are, is the deeper truth of this passage. Menopause is not
The Postpartum Crisis We Ignore: Kate Hernandez EP 63 Jan 28, 2026 48:25 There is a quiet abandonment built into motherhood. After the baby arrives, the world gently but decisively turns its gaze. Questions shift. Attention moves outward. The mother is expected to hold the rest privately…recovering offstage, adapting without pause, needing little, asking less. Within that quiet expectation, something internal begins to form. Women start to minimize their own truths. T
The Curse of Generations: Gary Vee EP 62 Jan 14, 2026 01:01:02 This week I am joined by the incredible Gary Vee…a visionary who often speaks about hustle, but today, sits with us to talk about heart. The conversation began before the microphones turned on. With my own children gathered around him, asking questions and soaking up his words. He took the time to talk with them and share his wisdom. It spoke volumes about who he was, how he relates to people of
She Stopped Performing : Constance Zimmer EP 61 Dec 31, 2025 56:17 By the time a woman reaches midlife, she has usually learned the rules: stay pleasant, stay young-looking, stay non-threatening. Don't take up too much space. Don't show the edges. And definitely don't age out loud. The cost of that agreement, however, is the slow erasure of her voice, her authority, and her truth. In this episode, I sit down with actress Constance Zimmer to talk about aging in H
Sober. Emotionally.: Colleen Freeland EP 60 Dec 17, 2025 53:26 So many women tell the same quiet story: "I'm fine. I'm grateful. I'm doing it all." And yet… There's a glass of wine waiting every evening just to soften the edges enough to keep going. In this week's episode of Things Your Mother Never Told You, I sit down with Colleen Freeland, the woman redefining what sobriety means for high-achieving, overwhelmed women. Her work is not about labels or lifel
Pleasure After Religious Trauma: Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton EP 59 Dec 3, 2025 54:19 Most of us were taught some version of the same story:  Good women are modest. Quiet. Selfless. Desire is dangerous. Pleasure is suspicious. But that story is not holy. It is a tool of control. In this conversation, I sit down with my dear friend Dr. Kimberly Rose Pendleton - intimacy scholar, coach, and former evangelical insider - to talk about how purity culture, patriarchy, and religion have s
The Woman I Raised, The Man She Chose: Ava Hanson & Chris Jerrild EP 58 Nov 19, 2025 01:01:47 For generations, women have been taught to quiet themselves in love - to shrink, to compromise, to hold the emotional weight of the relationship while asking for so little in return. But something is changing. In this episode, I sit with my daughter Ava, and with the man she chose, Chris, and together we step into a conversation that feels less like an interview and more like a blessing. What they
Shattering The Perfect Mother Myth: Dr. Shefali Tsabary EP 57 Nov 5, 2025 51:50 For too long, women have been told that good mothering means perfection - tidy homes, obedient children, unshakable patience. But perfection is a prison. What our children truly need is our presence. In this conversation, I sit down with Dr. Shefali Tsabary, clinical psychologist, best-selling author, and the woman who shattered the myth of the "perfect mother." Through her pioneering work in con

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