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Women on the Brink
Welcome to Women on the Brink - Are you a woman who feels stressed out and overwhelmed in your everyday life? This website and podcast is designed to support and encourage women dealing with different types of stress and adversity. We're here to provide tools that can be used to raise self-awareness and build resilience, so you can step away from the edge of the cliff that you may be teetering on. Join your host, healthcare practitioner and stress & wellness coach, Chris Jeffrey, and move your life from diving to thriving, from chaos to calm.....
Episodes
81 episodes
When Healing Becomes Too Much
At some point, healing turns into a full-time job… and your body still feels exhausted. More treatments. More rules. More effort. But what if that’s the problem? This episode explores why doing everything to get better can a...
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Season 3
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Episode 13
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Why Boys Struggle to Become Men Today
Why are so many young men searching for answers about masculinity online? In this episode of Women on the Brink, we explore the disappearing rite of passage for boys, the importance of male mentorship, and why the transiti...
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Season 3
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Episode 12
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I'm Turning 65 (And I'm Buying the Pants Anyway)
Why do so many women feel pressure to stop aging at 40? In this episode of Women on the Brink, I unpack the quiet cultural conditioning that tells women they should look forever youthful, and what it takes to push back against it. From...
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Season 3
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Episode 11
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10:57
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Radical Responsibility - In a World Run by Unregulated Nervous Systems
The headlines feel like a group chat between emotionally reactive world leaders and our nervous systems are tempted to join in.In this episode of Women on the Brink, I explore radical responsibility where I'm choosing to r...
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Season 3
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Episode 10
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9:07
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Friends, Lovers or Fu#k Buddies?
This episode of Women on the Brink dives into the blurry lines between friend, lover, and casual sex—and why those categories get so complicated for women, especially in midlife. Chris and regular guest Kim Protopappas unpack the emotion...
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Season 3
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Episode 9
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45:54
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The MAGIC of Making Mistakes
In this episode, I’m reframing something so many women quietly carry: mistakes.We’re taught to value formal education, linear careers, and “getting it right.” But what about the lessons we learn from heartbreak, detours, wrong turns, and...
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Season 3
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Episode 8
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13:56
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Midlife Grief in Women: Identity Loss, Hormones & How to Pivot After Change
What if the thing that’s making you feel lost, numb, restless—or strangely relieved—isn’t a crisis… but grief? In this episode of Women on the Brink, we explore the quiet, complicated grief that so many women encounter in midlife...
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Season 3
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Episode 7
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Women’s Creativity Is Not Optional—Here’s Why
When women stop creating, we don’t get calm — we get cranky.Tired. Flat. Irritated by everyone and everything.And we assume it’s hormones, stress, or ‘just getting older’…when really? Something essential has been shut down....
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Season 3
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Episode 6
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11:07
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Dating, Self-Value and Finding Yourself in Midlife - with Kim Protopappas
Women on the Brink began as a personal inquiry — an attempt to understand how I kept tripping myself up, not just in romantic relationships, but in my life. I was curious about how smart, capable women (myself included) quietly abandon...
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Season 3
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Episode 5
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Tuning In — Moving Through Life With More Ease
What if ease isn’t something you earn — but something you allow? In this episode of Women on the Brink, I explore an idea that’s been quietly reshaping how I move through the world: that we’re not navigating life alone. Inspired ...
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Season 3
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Episode 4
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Women Rising: The Power of Small Acts
In this tender, grounding episode of Women on the Brink, I talk about what it really means for women to be “rising” in a world that feels heavy with war, politics, and fear. While the headlines are loud, something quieter and more powe...
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Season 3
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Episode 3
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Winter Batteries: Protect Your Kidney Energy (TCM Edition)
Winter is kidney season in Traditional Chinese Medicine, and if you’ve been exhausted, anxious, freezing, losing hair, or wondering why coffee isn’t cutting it anymore — this episode is for you. In Season 3, Episode 2 of Women on the ...
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Season 3
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Episode 2
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The Top 5 Things Every Woman Needs to Know for 2026
Season 3 is here and Happy 2026! January usually comes with pressure to reinvent ourselves — but this episode isn’t about vision boards, manifestation rituals, or pretending we wake up at 5 a.m. happy. It’s about the vibe we...
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Season 3
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Episode 1
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The Ghosts of Chris' Past, Present and Future
This Christmas, I was haunted by three women… and none of them let me off the hook. One showed up with Valium and zero patience. One had a glass of wine and an anxiety problem. And one hasn’t even been born yet — but already ...
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Season 2
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Episode 52
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Red Lights, Detours & Trusting the Ride
Trusting the universe isn’t all “love and light”—sometimes it looks like dashboard warning lights, bad timing, and muttering are you kidding me? In this episode, I talk about real trust, redirections, and what happens when you st...
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Season 2
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Episode 51
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The End of the Nine Year Cycle - Yippee!
Chris wraps up a nine-year cycle that felt like a spiritual washing machine—complete with fires, premonitions, nervous-system meltdowns, and more plot twists than a Netflix drama. But the good news? The next cycle is finally about selecti...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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13:02
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I changed from Subconsciously Attracting Emotionally Unavailable Men
I spent years drawn to emotionally unavailable men probably because chaos felt familiar and I hadn’t done my own inner work. Then midlife hit—menopause, spiritual openings, and reconnecting to my Indigenous identity—and my body, intuition, and ...
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Season 2
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Episode 50
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Indigenous Fashion Week (Mother and Daughter Time)
This week I share my experience going to Indigenous Fashion week with my daughter, Nicole - not once but twice. I loved the diverse representation, loved the unique styles and above all, I made me so happy to see my daughter witnessing I...
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Season 2
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Episode 48
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Is Online Dating Working? A Very Frank (and humorous) Conversation with Kim Protopappas
People tell me you aren't really a part of the dating scene unless you're online. But has Online Dating lost its charm? This week we talk to one woman who has been dating online on and off for about 15 years. Kim Protopappas ...
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Season 2
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Episode 47
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45:40
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Kindness, Community, and Why Volunteering Is Basically a Selfish Act (In the Best Possible Way)
Volunteering is a selfish act. In the best, most heart-expanding way possible.Because in my experience — as someone who volunteered before I had kids, and again after raising kids — I can say this with complete honesty: I have...
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Season 2
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Episode 46
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Do We Need to Get Back to Traditional Roles to Make it Work?
Life seemed so clear back in the 1800's for men and women. The men protected and provided. The women nurtured and connected. Roles were defined, even if they weren’t exactly fair. So today, we’re asking: Do we actually need to go back...
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The Witch Awakens: Intuition, Power and the Return of the Feminine
It’s October — the season of thinning veils, when the air itself feels electric. The days shorten, the nights deepen, and if you’re paying attention, there’s a certain shimmer in the ordinary. It’s also the time when witches show up everywhere ...
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The Universe Pinged Me Hard (Until I Finally Listened)
I’ve come to believe in what I call destiny points — those moments written in our soul’s record, the Akashic Records, where we’re meant to arrive no matter how many detours we take. Sometimes we’re on Path A — the one aligned with our ...
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Season 2
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Episode 43
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18:47
The Energy of Fall from a Traditional Chinese Medicine Perspective
Today, we’re leaning into the energy of fall through the lens of Traditional Chinese Medicine —and exploring how this season touches our emotions, our bodies, and our hearts. We’ll also meet three gentle plant allies—rose, chamomile, and lavend...
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Season 2
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Episode 42
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9:35
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From Substance Use and Being Unhoused to Making a Difference - A REAL Discussion with Rebecca Goulet
Rebecca Goulet, someone who knows this story from the inside out of being unhoused and addicted. Her life has included experiences many of us can barely imagine: addiction to alcohol and street drugs, living in shelters and on the ...
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Season 2
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Episode 41
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