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
How to Stop Pushing Through Midlife Burnout
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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 can stop working at a certain point in life.
For many women in midlife, effort has been the thing that worked. It helped us build careers, care for others, move through hard seasons, stay responsible, and become the people others could count on. But sometimes effort turns into force. And when that happens, trying harder may not bring more clarity, energy, peace, or self-trust. It may just make our bodies and minds louder.
Susan shares a recent Peloton moment that helped her understand this pattern in a new way. Instead of forcing a harder workout, she stayed in Zone 2, backed off, and gave her body what it actually needed. The surprising part wasn’t just that she felt better afterward. It was how hard it was to let the gentler ride be enough.
This conversation is about learning to listen to your body, notice when effort has become force, take smaller steps, and reconnect with the inner wisdom that often gets buried under pressure, striving, overthinking, and burnout.
If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, burned out, or like your body is asking for something different than it used to, this episode is a reminder that doing less by even ten percent may be one of the most powerful ways to come back to yourself.
In this episode:
- Why trying harder can stop helping in midlife
- The difference between effort and force
- How burnout can be connected to proving, striving, and over-functioning
- Why your body may get louder when you keep overriding it
- The difference between listening to your body and monitoring it
- Why backing off by ten percent can feel harder than pushing through
- How small steps can help you keep moving without shutting down
- What daily meditation has taught Susan about self-trust and inner wisdom
- Why slowing down can create more creativity, clarity, energy, and aliveness
Mentioned in this episode:
- Zone 2 Peloton rides
- The “less is more” lesson from journalism school
- The mantra “let go and let it flow”
- The one-step-at-a-time / elephant analogy
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