Love From the Inside Out: Healing, Mindset and Confidence Tools for Women Navigating Anxiety and Midlife
Welcome to Love From the Inside Out, a podcast about healing, mindset, and confidence for women navigating anxiety, burnout, and midlife reinvention.
Hosted by Susan Kricun — former sports and entertainment PR executive turned storyteller, writer, and wellness advocate — the show blends heart, humor, and neuroscience to help women calm their minds, regulate their nervous systems, and reconnect with who they really are.
Each Thursday, Susan shares honest reflections and science-backed tools to help you move from survival mode to self-awareness. You’ll learn how to release stress, reframe your mindset, and rebuild inner confidence so you can live and love from the inside out.
If you’ve ever felt anxious, stuck, or ready for your next chapter, this show will remind you that peace, purpose, and clarity are already within reach — and it’s never too late to feel at home in yourself.
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Love From the Inside Out: Healing, Mindset and Confidence Tools for Women Navigating Anxiety and Midlife
Why Self-Discipline Feels So Easy One Day and Impossible the Next
What ego, menopause, and permission have to teach us about real strength.
If you’ve ever wondered why you can crush your goals one day and crash the next, this episode is for you. In this week’s episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan explores the “space between” — that overlooked place between “all-in” and “all-out.” From ego whispers and childhood nicknames to post-menopausal shifts, Christine D’Ercole’s mantras, and Stacy Sims’ game-changing research, you’ll discover why real strength isn’t about doing more, but about choosing differently.
This is where permission meets power, where resilience is built, and where true transformation begins.
We’ll talk about:
- Why Christine D’Ercole’s mantra, I am. I can. I will. I do, led Susan to create her own: I am. I can. I will. I choose.
- The sneaky disguises of the ego—and how old nicknames or “family truths” can become lenses you wear for years.
- Why postmenopausal weight isn’t vanity, it’s biology (and Dr. Mary Claire Haver’s powerful reframe).
- Stacy Sims’ game-changing research on women’s physiology and why “women are not small men.”
- A practical micro-tool: how mirroring can bridge the gap between intention and impact in relationships.
- Why permission to feel might be the bravest move of all.
💡 Key idea: Overcoming can be a power move. Permission can be a love move. You need both.
📌 Resources mentioned in this episode:
- Christine D’Ercole — Peloton instructor and mantra inspiration
- Dr. Mary Claire Haver — NY Times Best Seller - The New Menopause
- Dr. Stacy Sims
- Dr. Andrew Huberman — Huberman Lab Podcast Episode with Stacy Sims
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