Love From the Inside Out: Real Life Conversations for Women Going Through Midlife, Menopause Body Changes and Identity Shifts
Love From the Inside Out is an honest, empowering podcast for women in midlife navigating menopause, body changes, burnout, boundaries, relationships, self-trust, anxiety, and identity shifts.
Hosted by Susan Kricun, storyteller, PR strategist, speaker, and midlife woman navigating many of these same questions herself, this show offers grounded reflections, real conversations, and relatable stories to help you feel seen, less alone, and more connected to yourself again.
If you’ve been wondering, “Why don’t I feel like myself anymore?” or “Who am I now?” this podcast meets you in that in-between place with honesty, warmth, humor, and perspective you can use in real life. The conversations are emotionally honest without being heavy, reflective without feeling overly therapeutic, and real without leaving you stuck in what feels hard.
Whether you’re navigating menopause, midlife anxiety, body image, people-pleasing, burnout, grief, marriage, friendship, boundaries, reinvention, self-doubt, or the feeling that your old roles no longer fit, each episode is designed to help you slow down, name what you’re feeling, reconnect with your own voice, and begin trusting yourself in this next chapter.
With decades of experience in storytelling, communications, and connecting people through honest conversation, Susan explores the emotional side of midlife, the parts we don’t always say out loud, but so many women are quietly carrying.
At its heart, Love From the Inside Out is about telling the truth about this season of life without making midlife feel like something to survive. It is about noticing what you’ve been carrying, questioning what no longer belongs to you, and remembering that this part of life can still hold beauty, joy, movement, confidence, friendship, laughter, style, pleasure, freedom, and a deeper connection to yourself.
You’ll hear honest solo episodes and real conversations about midlife, menopause, body changes, self-trust, people-pleasing, burnout, boundaries, identity, grief, anxiety, relationships, and what it means to stop living on autopilot.
If you’re asking, “Is this menopause, midlife, burnout, anxiety, or something else?” “How do I stop people-pleasing and trust myself again?” or “What do I want for this next part of my life?” you’re in the right place.
New episodes every Thursday. Follow along for honest conversations about midlife, menopause, self-trust, and coming back to yourself.
Love From the Inside Out: Real Life Conversations for Women Going Through Midlife, Menopause Body Changes and Identity Shifts
When Anger Is the Signal: Irritability, Resentment, and Self-Abandonment
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If you’ve been feeling more irritated or resentful lately, this episode will help. Even if anger isn’t your main signal, keep listening because self-abandonment can look like rushing, jaw tension, over-explaining, people-pleasing, doom-emailing, snapping, or feeling “behind.” In When Anger Is the Signal: Irritability, Resentment, and Self-Abandonment, I’m sharing how I’m learning to treat anger as information—not a character flaw—and how to come back without shame.
This is a follow-up to last week’s episode, Stop Self-Abandonment: Nervous System Healing and Learning to Stay with Yourself. We’ll talk about how self-abandonment shows up for high-functioning women, why resentment can signal you’re overriding your needs, and what it looks like to return without a shame spiral. I also share a real-life story (hello, full production dinner mode) and one of my biggest patterns: over-explaining texts and emails.
In this episode, we talk about:
- Why anger and resentment can be a nervous system signal, not a personality flaw
- How over-functioning and over-explaining are often attempts to feel safe
- Catching yourself midstream and coming back without shame
- Why we return: when we don’t, we start making decisions from urgency instead of truth
- The “over-explaining” pattern and how to practice sending one clean line instead
- Consistency over intensity, and why it builds self-trust in real life
- A quick note on levity as a practical way to change the energy without bypassing what you feel
Return is my private podcast feed for real-time support in the moments you can feel yourself starting to slip into urgency, over-functioning, or self-abandonment.
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- Resets for overwhelm, rushing, spiraling, and “I can’t slow down” moments
- Scripts: clear, kind boundary language you can borrow (texts, work, family, dating, friendships)
- Audio letters (some months): supportive voice-note style reflections to help you stay oriented
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Note: This content is educational and supportive and is not medical or therapy advice.
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