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The Menopause Mindset

The Menopause Mindset

Sally Garozzo 214 Episodes Mar 21, 2026

This podcast helps peri to post menopausal women navigate the challenges of menopause with lifestyle interventions and mindset shifts. Host Sally Garozzo, an award-winning clinical hypnotherapist, shares insights on how complex trauma affects menopause symptom severity. The show aims to educate, empower, and motivate listeners to make menopause a positive force in their lives.

Episodes

215 Why We Resist The Inner Work And How To Make It Feel Less Overwhelming Mar 21, 2026 1879 Often times, clients will see me for an assessment, they'll read their treatment plan and then quietly disappear.  It's like their mind convinces them that this is going to open up a whole world of trouble. Of course your mind does that!  It's standard.  It's doing exactly what it’s designed to do.  Protect you.  It wants to keep things predictable and contained.  So when the i
214 Beyond Hormonal Determinism: Hormones Influence the System, They Don't Build It Mar 13, 2026 1765 Most menopause conversations focus almost entirely on hormones. But what if that’s only part of the story? In this episode, Sally Garozzo explores emerging neuroscience on estradiol, fear circuitry, and trauma exposure, including a 2025 study suggesting that estrogen interacts differently with the brain’s threat regulation system depending on prior stress and trauma history. We unpack why HRT help
213 The Trauma of Emotional Invalidation Mar 6, 2026 2095 In this episode we explore what it's like when your 'felt sense' isn't believed especially in childhood and how this impacts our health and our menopause.  We look at how subtle, repeated invalidation shapes the quality of our attachments, why women often become the emotional regulators of their families, how functional freeze develops, and why menopause can feel like all of th
212 Menopause as Art: Trusting The Design Feb 27, 2026 1419 I currently have six paint samples on my living room wall.  They are all technically blue. None of them are the same.  Which feels… symbolic.  In this episode, I’m thinking about menopause not as art and refinement. As the shift from fluorescent to tonal. From performance to composition.  There’s a turtle.  There’s London. There’s a river that looks like it’s meandering but absolutely knows where
211 The Dutch Test vs The Medical Model: Why They Disagree Feb 20, 2026 1802 The DUTCH test has become one of the most talked-about hormone assessments in the menopause space. Some women describe it as illuminating and empowering. Some medical professionals describe it as unnecessary, over-interpreted, or a waste of money.So why the disagreement?In this episode, I step back from the noise and explore what’s actually being argued. What assumptions sit underneath functional
210 Moral Outrage in Midlife: Why Certainty Feels Safe Feb 13, 2026 1493 We live in a culture that rewards certainty.  In this episode, I reflect on the energy surrounding recent public controversies and ask a different question: what if moral outrage is sometimes a nervous system strategy rather than moral clarity?  Drawing on anxiety physiology, childhood conditioning, and midlife change, I explore how certainty can feel like safety, and why building capacity for unc
209 The Discipline of Not Intervening Feb 6, 2026 1409 There’s a kind of care that looks loving on the surface,  yet somehow leaves both the receiver and giver more tense than before.   This episode delves into this often unexplored territory.  It’s called ‘the discipline of not intervening’.  Of course I'm not talking about neglectfulness, but I am talking about healthy restraint.  And what becomes possible when silence and space are allowed to
208 Pausing without a Plan Jan 30, 2026 1278 We talk a lot about slowing down and how it's really good for us, but we talk much less about what it means to stay.  Like really stay.... without doing it for productivity gains.  This episode explores holding space for yourself,  not as a technique, but as a way of inhabiting yourself, experiencing yourself without the need to learn from it yet (and why that's really good for your HPA
207 Attunement: The Thing You Didn't Know You Needed Jan 23, 2026 2079 If you’re tired in a way rest doesn’t touch…If you’ve done the work but still feel slightly on edge…If being “strong” or “capable” no longer feels like something you want to keep doing…This episode is for you.This is a quiet, spacious fireside conversation about something that sits underneath anxiety, exhaustion, relationship strain, and the sense of feeling subtly disconnected from yourself, espe
206 The Great Brain Rewiring of Menopause Jan 16, 2026 1770 What if menopause isn’t a breakdown, but a house renovation you’re living inside?In this episode, I reframe menopause in a way I wish someone had offered me. Not as decline. Not as loss. Not as something to “push through.”But as a neurological remodel happening in real time, while I’m still expected to function, work, parent, decide what cheese to buy, and hold everything together.No wonder it fee
205 Why I’m Speaking Differently about Menopause & Mindset Now Jan 9, 2026 2778 What if menopause isn’t something to manage…What if it’s something to participate in?In this deeply reflective solo episode, I return after time away with a radical reframe of what “mindset” actually means in menopause, and why the phrase has become so triggering, misunderstood, and frankly, unhelpful.Fresh from turning 50 and beginning my Clinical Hypnotherapy diploma, I share what it’s like to b
204 Menopause: The Portal to Your Power with Carla Wainwright Dec 28, 2025 3624 This conversation is not about ‘surviving’ menopause.It’s about claiming power, pleasure, and potency on the other side of it.Sally sits down with Carla Wainwright, holistic wellness coach, sexual awakening facilitator, and self-described midlife alchemist, for a deeply grounding, myth-shattering conversation about what really happens when women cross the threshold of midlife.With a background in

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