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
63 episodes
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...
When Both Choices Cost You Something: How to Make Peace with No-Clean-Answer Decisions
Have you ever been in one of those no-clean-answer moments where both choices make sense and both choices cost you something?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, I’m talking about the love-hate relationship we can have w...
What We Keep: Family Keepsakes, Old Photos, Memory, and Legacy
I went into our storage unit looking for my mother’s mahjong set and a few things I wanted to give to my brother. Instead, I found old family photos, childhood keepsakes, handwritten notes, and pieces of my life I hadn’t seen in years.Wh...
When Your Body Forces a Pause: Signs You Need to Slow Down
If your body, your energy, or your life has ever stopped cooperating with the pace you were trying to keep, this episode is for you.A rough stomach bug forced me to slow down in a way I never would have chosen for myself, and once the wo...
Why Getting Dressed Feels Harder Than It Should
If getting dressed has been feeling more emotional, frustrating, or loaded than it should, this episode is for you.After listening to Mel Robbins’ recent conversation with celebrity stylist Erin Walsh, I thought I was about to feel inspi...
Choose Joy First: How to Feel Good Without Earning It
How do you feel good without earning it first? In this episode, I’m talking about why so many of us wait to relax, enjoy life, or feel better until everything is done — and how choosing joy first can help break negative thought loops, shift you...
When Your Life Looks Fine on Paper But Doesn’t Feel Right Anymore: Midlife Transition Signs
What if nothing is exactly wrong, but something still feels off?In this episode, I’m talking about 7 signs you may have outgrown your life and are at a midlife turning point. If you’ve been feeling more irritated, more disconnected, more...
How to Create Abundance Without Abandoning Yourself
What if abundance isn’t about getting more — but about caring for what you already have?In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, Susan reflects on an unexpected lesson about abundance after repotting a money tree plan...
Getting Older, Getting Clearer: A Birthday Reflection on Midlife
A few days before her birthday, Susan shares a personal reflection on what it means to get older, get clearer, and choose how she wants to meet this season of life.In this episode of Love From the Inside Out, she opens up about ...