Love From the Inside Out: Honest Conversations for Women About Midlife, Menopause, Body Changes and Becoming Yourself Again
Love From the Inside Out is an honest, empowering podcast for women navigating midlife, menopause, body changes, anxiety, burnout, relationships, shifting identities and the question so many of us quietly ask: “Why don’t I feel like myself anymore?”
Hosted by Susan Kricun, storyteller, PR strategist, speaker and midlife woman navigating many of these same questions herself, the show offers honest solo episodes, meaningful conversations and relatable stories to help you feel seen, less alone and more connected to yourself again.
Whether you are struggling with menopause symptoms, body image, people-pleasing, boundaries, grief, marriage, friendship, self-doubt, or roles that no longer feel like they fit, these conversations explore the emotional side of midlife without making this season feel like something you simply have to survive.
With warmth, humor and grounded perspective, Susan helps you slow down, name what you are feeling, reconnect with your own voice and begin trusting yourself in this next chapter. The conversations are emotionally honest without always feeling heavy, reflective without being overly therapeutic and real without leaving you stuck in what feels hard.
Because midlife is not the end of who you were. It can be an invitation to question what no longer belongs to you, remember what makes you feel alive and become more fully yourself again.
New episodes every Thursday featuring honest conversations about midlife, menopause, body changes, self-trust, relationships, identity and coming back to yourself.
Episodes
71 episodes
How to Be Happier: Stop Abandoning Yourself and Raise Your Happiness Baseline with Monique Rhodes
Can you actually learn how to be happier and raise the level of happiness you naturally return to?Happiness strategist Monique Rhodes believes you can. After more than 30 years studying happiness, meditation and the mind, she teac...
Love From the Inside Out Updates: New Substack, Listener Survey & Phoenix Live Event
I’m popping in on a Tuesday with a few things I’m excited to share!First, today is the official launch of the new Love From the Inside Out Substack. I’ve heard from many of you that y...
More Money, More Clients, More Stress: Rethinking Your Business Growth with Cynthia Sassi
What happens when more money, more clients and more growth start creating more stress instead of more success?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan talks with entrepreneur, media executive and marketing consultant Cynthia Sa...
How to Build a Better Relationship With Yourself with Sarah McLean
How do you build a better relationship with yourself?Acclaimed meditation and mindfulness teacher with more than 30 years of experience and bestselling Hay House author Sarah McLean joins Susan for a deeply personal conversation a...
How to Know When It’s Time for a Change — Even When Life Is Still Working
Something doesn’t have to be broken for you to realize it may be time to do things differently. What happens when your career, routines, or life still work — but you’ve changed?We get comfortable with our careers, routines, relati...
Keeping a Loved One's Memory Alive After Loss
When someone dies, what happens to the life they lived?My Aunt Essie passed away recently, and her death brought me back to something I’ve felt deeply since losing my parents: I don’t want the people I love to simply become part of the p...
How to Stop Holding Yourself Back and Become the Main Character in Your Life
What do you already know inside that you keep looking outside yourself to confirm?In this episode, Susan explores why we can know exactly what we want and still wait for more proof, permission or certainty before we act. Inspired by Cath...
Personal Style, Confidence & Identity: Why What You Wear Is About More Than Clothes
What if your personal style — and even the way you think about fashion — has less to do with clothes and more to do with confidence, identity and how fully you're allowing yourself to be seen?In this deeply personal conversation, style a...
Why You Never Feel Like You’re Doing Enough — and Whose Standards You’re Living By
Do you ever feel like you’re not doing enough — even when you’re doing a lot? Or like you should be further along by now in your career, health, relationships, finances or life?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan ...
How to Reconnect With Your Creativity: Self-Care, Confidence and Quieting Your Inner Critic with Kristen Fagan & Kerry Burki
What if you’re not “uncreative” at all? What if you’ve simply gotten disconnected from that part of yourself?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking with expressive artist and creativity empowerment guide Kriste...
How to Feel Your Emotions Without Letting Them Take Over: Why Holding Everything In Keeps You Stuck
Have you ever pushed down something you were feeling because you didn’t have the time, energy, or emotional bandwidth to deal with it?Maybe you told yourself it wasn’t a big deal. Maybe you knew that facing it would require a difficult c...
How Do You Know When It’s Time to Let Go? A Story About Change, Grief and Loving What’s Still Here
How do you know when it’s time to let go of something you still love?After an arborist told Susan and her husband that the enormous ficus tree outside their home could no longer be safely preserved, Susan’s emotional response caught her ...
Does Your Home Still Fit Your Life? Midlife Reinvention with Kim Costa
Your home may look beautiful, but does it still support the life you’re living now—and the person you’re becoming?In the first conversation episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan sits down with Kim Costa, a Top 5% REALTOR®, author, s...
How to Trust Yourself by Seeing How Far You've Come
One year ago, on International Self-Care Day, I launched Love From the Inside Out with one simple promise: to release one episode every week for an entire year.In this one-year anniversary episode, I'm reflecting on what a year of showin...
When Motivation Disappears: Mental Fitness for Midlife Burnout
What do you do when you know what helps you feel better, but motivation is nowhere to be found?In this solo episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan explores the idea of mental fitness as one of the most important muscles women in midl...
Why Choosing Yourself Feels So Uncomfortable
If choosing yourself makes you feel guilty, selfish, or wrong, this episode will help you understand why that discomfort may not mean you’re doing anything wrong.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan explores why choosing yo...
How Music Helps You Remember Who You Are
Music has a way of taking us right back to ourselves.In this holiday weekend replay of The Soundtrack of Your Life, we’re revisiting one of my favorite episodes about music, memory, mood, nostalgia, and the songs that remind us ...
How to Stop Overthinking What You Can’t Control
If you've been overthinking a situation you can't control, replaying conversations in your head, worrying about what might happen next, or feeling stuck in uncertainty, this episode is for you.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out,...
How to Stop Pushing Through Midlife Burnout
Why trying harder isn’t helping and backing off isn’t giving up.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan explores midlife burnout, the addiction to effort, and why pushing through, doing more, and overriding your body ...
Why I Didn't Change My Last Name After Marriage
What happens when the thing you imagined your whole life finally arrives... and it doesn't feel the way you expected?For most of my life, I assumed I would change my last name when I got married. I actually looked forward to it. Growing ...
Midlife Body Changes: Caring for Your Body Without Trying to Control It
If your body feels different in midlife and you’ve found yourself wondering what you missed, what you did wrong, or why all the “right” things aren’t working the way they used to, this episode is for you.In this episode of Love From the ...
Why You Feel Responsible for Other People’s Moods: Emotional Hypervigilance, Boundaries, and Self-Abandonment
In this episode of Love From the Inside Out®, Susan explores why some of us feel responsible for other people’s moods and how that pattern can quietly lead to emotional exhaustion, overthinking, people-pleasing, and self-abandonment.
Perfectionism in Midlife: Why We Keep Trying to Get Life Right
Why do we keep trying to be perfect at life, even when we know life is a practice?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m exploring the pressure so many of us feel to get life right — to make the right decision, respond the righ...
Being Seen, Body Image, and Self-Doubt in Midlife
What is it about having your picture taken that can bring up so much?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking about a recent headshot experience that brought up more than I expected around being seen, body image,...
Grief Anniversaries: When Certain Dates Bring Memories Back
Some dates stay with us. Grief anniversaries, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, birthdays, and the moments our bodies seem to remember before we do.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m reflecting on the emotional memory ce...