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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
90 episodes
The Weight Mothers Carry (And Why We Need to Talk About It)
What if one of society’s biggest blind spots is how much we expect mothers to carry?From emotional regulation to attachment, to shaping tiny nervous systems, we place enormous responsibility on mother and then often leave them to d...
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The Pivot is Not a Restart
In this episode, we explore the idea that a pivot is not a restart, but more of an evolution. Inspired by a real-life career crossroads, we talk about how changing direction in life doesn’t mean starting over, but rather integrating everything ...
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Functional Burnout: When You're Still Showing Up, But Something in You Has Left
This episode is for the woman who is still showing up to her life… but feels like something inside her has quietly checked out.We’re talking about functional burnout , the kind no one sees. The kind that looks like compete...
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Why “Low” Emotions Still Show Up Even After You’ve Done the Work
You’ve grown. You know you have. So why are the same old emotions showing up again?In this episode, we’re unpacking the disorienting experience of feeling “low” emotions after you’ve already done so much inner work. Thi...
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You’re not reacting to them, you’re reacting to what you believe about them.
We like to think we’re seeing people clearly. That what we’re reacting to is what’s actually happening. But most of the time? We’re not seeing them. We’re seeing them through us.In this episode, I talk abo...
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The Risk of Being Seen
We women have said we have been invisible for a long time. Especially older women. We're told to be visible, to speak up, to show up fully, but no one really talks about what happens after you do. In this episode, I unpack ...
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When Stress Becomes a Presence
I woke up in the middle of the night, completely awake, but I couldn’t move, couldn’t speak, and there was a heavy pressure on my chest. Both times, there was a figure in the room that felt very real. I thought I was losing my mind… un...
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Medicine Isn’t What You Think It Is
When most people think of medicine, they think of something they take.But what if real medicine isn’t found in a bottle at all?In this episode of Women on the Brink, we explore a different way of understanding healing.&nb...
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The Courage To Bloom
What if the life you’re holding onto… is the very thing holding you back? In this episode of Women on the Brink, I share the moment I had to leave a long-term relationship because our values were not aligned. And here's the big q...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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