In-Bodied
Welcome to In-Bodied with Tracy Kerkhoff, the podcast for women in their 40s who are done shrinking, done people-pleasing, and so ready to reclaim their glow.
If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and thought “Who even is she?” … this is your space. We’re talking perimenopause hormones (and all the messy feels that come with them), mom-life meltdowns, marriages that need more spark, and yes sex, self-worth, and finding yourself again in the middle of it all.
This isn’t about chasing your 20s. It’s about owning your 40s stronger, wiser, sexier, and more in-bodied than ever.
Expect raw, real talk with zero filters. Some days it’ll feel like a pep talk from your life coach, and some days like a wine-night vent session with your girlfriends. Either way, you’ll leave remembering this: your spark isn’t gone it’s just waiting for you to claim it back.
In-Bodied
Ep11 The Wounded Little Girl the Body Never Forgets
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In this episode, Tracy goes deep into the emotional and energetic layers of midlife healing the part no one warned you about.
This isn’t just hormones. It’s the body remembering what your mind has long tried to forget.
We talk about the “wounded little girl” inside every woman the one who learned to stay small, to earn love, to be the good girl — and how she begins to rise during perimenopause. The emotions, the tears, the rage… it’s not weakness. It’s wisdom surfacing through the body.
What You’ll Learn
• How trauma gets trapped in the body (and why your hormones are pulling it to the surface now)
• The link between stored emotions, chronic pain, anxiety, and fatigue
• Why perimenopause is the body’s way of saying: it’s time to release what’s been buried
• How the nervous system holds childhood survival patterns — fight, flight, freeze, fawn
• Ways to begin reconnecting with your inner child: safety, breathwork, and compassion
• Why true healing means becoming the mother your younger self needed
You are not breaking down you are breaking open.
The woman you’re becoming is built from the parts of you that once had to hide.
✨ Try This
After listening, take 5 quiet minutes:
• Place your hand on your heart and say,
“I see you. I love you. I’m safe now.”
• Notice what comes up. Breathe through it. This is where healing begins.
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