Hormone Harmony Summit Announcement

We preview the Hormone Harmony Summit, a free multi-day event that blends medical science, practical tools, and whole-person healing for perimenopause and menopause. 

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Hormone Harmony Summit

We kick off with the essentials: what shifting estrogen and progesterone actually do, how to read labs like FSH and estradiol in context, and a clear-eyed look at hormone therapy—when it helps, how to personalize it, and who should consider alternatives. From there, we map the gut-hormone connection with insights on microbiome diversity, bile flow, vagal tone, and practical strategies for women who can’t or don’t want HRT: nutrition that supports estrogen metabolism, targeted probiotics, sleep and stress protocols, and realistic movement goals that change how you feel day to day.

Learn more about our Hormone Harmony Speakers here.

The summit also takes on the bigger picture. We examine how women’s health got here—research gaps, outdated dogma, brushed-off symptoms—and what genuine, respectful care looks like now. Physical therapist-led strength training becomes a non-negotiable tool for lean mass, bone density, insulin sensitivity, and confidence, with simple templates to start safely. Then we make space for what the lab report can’t hold: the emotional terrain of grief and identity shifts, the spiritual invitation to align with what matters, and energy practices that help you feel grounded and steady. We even explore career pivots and purpose at midlife with practical steps to evaluate risk and move toward work that fits who you are becoming.

Whether you’re 35 and wondering “is this normal?,” 55 and seeking clarity on HRT, or 70 and ready to give your past a compassionate frame, you’ll leave with tools, language, and choices that respect your whole life. Join us live for Q&A and community, catch replays if your schedule is full, or grab the all-access pass for transcripts and resources. Subscribe, share with a friend who needs this, and leave a review to help more women find informed, compassionate midlife care.

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Chapters

• 1:45 Welcome And Summit Overview
• 3:18 Why The Summit Exists
• 4:47 Who It’s For And Why It Matters
• 7:42 How To Join And Access Replays
• 9:36 Speaker 1: Basics And Hormone Therapy
• 11:31 Speaker 2: Gut, Nervous System, Alternatives
• 14:13 Empowered Choices And Next Steps
• 15:18 Thursday Keynote: History And Apology Tour
• 18:12 Strength Training For Midlife Health

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:53

And welcome back to the Art of Healing Podcast. I am Dr. Charlize, and thank you for joining me for today's podcast, which is all about the Hormone Harmony Summit. So if you've been listening to the podcast for a while, or have noticed if we interact on social media, I've been talking a lot about hormonal health, perimenopause, and menopause. We've been having this ongoing conversation on the blog and emails. All of this because we're gonna have an in-depth and great conversation with multiple speakers coming up in a few days. So I'm so happy you're tuning in so that you can get signed up and join us live and for free starting on Thursday, February 19th to the 22nd to that Sunday. So let me tell you about the summit. The reason why I created this summit was multiple reasons. Patients that come to me that are thinking about becoming a patient or had been a patient, and my current patients, we frequently talk about things that are happening in perimenopause and menopause. And full disclosure, as a practicing physician, although I understood the physiology and I have learned the textbook description of what is perimenopause or what is menopause or what happened, what probably doesn't, the lived experience of my patients just has not matched up with the training that I had in medical school and residency. So over the years, I've had to adapt and learn, learn from different specialists, learn from different healers, all it is us up to the summit that we're having this week. So this summit is for women, for women in their 30s, 40s, 50s, or beyond. Because it turns out that perimenopause and menopause are important stages throughout your life for a big bulk of your life. The reason why it's for women that are so young because we discover during the summit that some women begin to notice changes of perimenopause as young as their 30s, mostly in their 40s and 50s. And what are these changes? So during the summit, we're gonna cover globally what happens inside the body, around the body, what happens medically. We have some grip talks, which I'm gonna outline to you in a second. But to get signed up in your show notes, you'll see a link that will take you. You submit your email, and it'll also show you a schedule once you go to the page where you sign up for the summit. The schedule is still flexing a little bit right now. I think we are mostly lined up as far as when we'll have our speakers, but I would encourage you to sign up so that way you can join live if that's easier for you. But the nice thing with the summit is that you don't have to be directly on with us live. You can join us later for the replays. And if you buy the All Excess Pass, which right now is$27 and it's the best price it's gonna be, you'll have access to the talks and all of the precious resources that each speaker is providing. So in our speakers, we have Dr. April Day. She is a naturopathic physician, and she is gonna give us a good basic sciences of what perimenopause and menopause are. She is also going to teach us about hormonal therapy. And the way that she teaches this, it's so accessible and so easy to understand that she'll be launching us because it's a good, sturdy place for us to start. Then we'll move on to Zizu, who is Karen Armis, and she is going to tell us why we should love our guts. But truly, what she does is she's gonna explain to us some of the science behind your digestive tract, your nervous system, and how that affects your hormones. Her talk is unique as well, because then she's gonna give us alternatives because one of the conversations that comes up in the questions that people, sorry, the questions that women have in modern times are should I be on hormone replacement? Do I start hormones because I'm in menopause? What do I do? Or I can't because I've got a history of certain cancers or I've got a history of blood clots. So Zuzu is going to give us some tools for how you can approach this stage in your life if hormone therapy is not an option for you, or you don't want to do that. Big theme in this whole summit is choice and empowerment and you understanding what you need to do next and what information you want to take with you whenever you schedule your next appointment with your doctor. The most powerful talk will be on Thursday evening. And this is going to be the amazing Dr. Lakeisha, who is the international hormone whisperer. She is going to give us the eminent description and talk about women's health, the history, the current history of how we got to where we are in women's health, why so many women had been guided and left to suffer because of inaccurate uh interpretation of medical science. And then the next steps. And that's the apology tour. Because her talk is so important, it's scheduled for Thursday evening. So hopefully you can, you know, catch it once you're off work. But if you can't remember, as long as you sign up, you'll have 24 hours to view it. And then you can buy the all access so that you can get her transcript and the summary and all of that stuff. Then we'll move on to the next day. We'll be joined by the amazing Dr. Tara Marsh, who is Close Personal Affair, but she's also an amazing physical therapist. And she breaks down why you gotta pick up the weights and the way that she does it, you will be so excited to get to your resistance training, to get to the gym. When she gives you the reason behind why you want to do this, you get really motivated. You don't want to miss her talk. We have a few live sessions, and the best way to know about when those lives will be and how they're gonna play out is to go ahead and sign up for the summit because I have a few additional talk speakers who are scheduling the talks now. So there'll be more to come on that. And really the best way to get updates is to go ahead and sign up. This is a holistic summit. So we start off with the medical sciences and the labs and understanding your estrogen and progesterone and FSH and all that. Then we're gonna move on. And this was really the heart and soul of what drove even creating the summit is that for women that are in perimenopause and menopause, there's physical changes, but it is so much bigger than that. It's just so much bigger than the physical changes. So, our next set of speakers are gonna come in, and you really want to sit with these talks, take notes, have your journal, and just really open up your energy. Brendy Gibson, who is a licensed therapist and a yoga instructor who's very experienced in both, she's gonna describe to us the emotional landscape of perimenopause and menopause. And she really gives us a good explanation as to why this can be challenging and some next steps. And then Brandy is gonna be doing a second talk that is gonna be really one of the most important that addresses the loss and grief in perimenopause and menopause, and how that loss and grief interplays with your physical symptoms. Again, you don't want to miss her talks, you just want to go ahead and sign it up while you can go ahead and listen because for so many women, that's the big stuff, and that's the stuff that often is gonna get missed. You might get in and get all the necessary labs done, even get on your hormone replacement. But until you address this emotional aspect and how your past may have played a role, you don't want to miss this talk. Then we'll be joined by the amazing intuitive healer, Kelly Schweigel, and she is going to describe to us some of the spiritual changes that you start to notice. And in particular with her talk, she really takes us into the physical body, but then we start to step into the bigger pieces as to what's happening inside of you, what this transition means. And Kelly really empowers us during her talk by letting us know what this transition really, really is and what it means. And once you hear her talk, depending on where you are in your journey, you will feel so good about yourself. I know as we were doing it, I just felt so good about myself. Then we'll have Kathy Herman, who is a dear friend, and in all honesty, she's the inspiration for this summit, which it's a long story. I'll have to get into at some point. But uh, Kathy and I met uh years ago. She's been a podcast guest and we've been collaborating. And it is really through her inspiration that this summit even came about. So Kathy is gonna educate us on the energy body, the chakras and the hormones. And she gives us a good educational, well-rounded talk on understanding that energy peace as well as how that interplays with your physical body. I will be including my own talk, which is one of my favorite workshops that I did, which is uh harmonizing your energy. And it's an interactive workshop where we experience our chakras and our hormones. And then finally, we will have another day of some more great speakers, including Holly Chandler. This is a really unique inclusion in the summit because Holly, who is very successful in the business world, she's gonna come and speak to us the way I described her talk when we were uh doing her interview, the vocational part of perimenopause and menopause. She's gonna speak to how you might be feeling physically, how you're feeling emotionally and spiritually, and what that means for your career, your work, your business. And she's gonna answer to why you might be feeling like it's time for a change. Because it turns out in perimenopause and menopause, a lot of us feel sudden urges to make big career for business changes or life changes. And she's gonna guide us through that. That's so cool, going along with everything else that we're talking about. So, and again, the schedule, which you'll see in your notes, is flexing some. So it's not finalized yet by the time you'll be hearing this podcast. But my best advice to you is to go ahead and sign up for the summit. Throughout the summit, I will be alongside you and I will be doing live interactive sessions as your guide, as your host, and I'm so excited. But really, I know that there's other programs and summits out there, but we are covering this phase from the molecular level and you know, how your estrogen's made and metabolized and what's happening in your gut all the way to the metaphysical level and how you're feeling and what that says about where you are in life and your transition from maiden to mother to crone. We're covering all of that in the summit. Your takeaways from the summit is going to be that this phase in your life is setting you up to transition into an even better version of yourself and how you are meant to feel. At the same time, we'll have a compassionate container to explore some of those deeper issues, things that you maybe had not felt ready to explore, or they seem too scary to explore. So, again, I am so excited for you to join us for the summit. So I know that not everyone listening is a woman, but you probably know women, or you love a woman, or you work with women. So do us a favor. Why don't you copy the link and share the link with them? I think that if if you're a man listening and you are wondering if this is, you know, someone you love, wife, sister, leather, go ahead and share the link with her if you happen to be listening. I had some questions about the summit. One question was, well, you know, is this summit for women in their 70s? Yes. Because in your 70s, you are likely host menopausal, and you likely are still dealing with some of these changes that occur during this phase. So, yes, I would say it is definitely for you. And likely, if you are in your 70s, you may have to interact with women who were in some of these earlier phases. So it's good for you to hear it. And if nothing else, it's good for you to get a compassionate take on what you may have been through in the past. Uh, next questions, the cost right now,$27, best time to sign up. Once we go live and it's all done, the price of the tickets will go up to$47. Tickets will remain available after that if you would like to attend the recordings. But this is the best time to sign up is right now for$27. So in your show notes, the sign-up for the summit will be there. Feel free to email me, message me if you happen to catch this on social media, send me a DM if you have more questions. Otherwise, I will be seeing you later this week during the summit. And we'll see what happens with the podcast. It's been pretty busy. So um we may not be on this podcast for a little bit, depending on how it goes. But otherwise, uh, do look forward to having some guests and things on the podcast here a little bit later. But this is a big week for the Art of Healing podcast community, and definitely a chance for us to interact face to face if you've been listening and you want to meet, at least on online. All right, thank you so much for joining us. Check your show notes. Go ahead and sign up so you don't miss what's going on. See you later this week.