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The Midlife Vitality Project: Where Perimenopause Becomes Your Comeback Story Naturally!
If you’re a woman over 40 who is tired of feeling tired, foggy, or stuck in a body that doesn’t feel like yours anymore and are looking for a natural approach that will work for YOU to help you start feeling like yourself again, this podcast is for you.
In The Midlife Vitality Project podcast, Registered Holistic Nutritionist, cancer survivor and fellow perimenopause warrier, Joanne Willis, guides you through a real midlife health and life transformation — not one that relies on pills, weight loss injections, HRT or quick fixes, but through understanding your body’s signals and rebuilding your health from the root - naturally - with the power of nutrition!
In each episode, Joanne will dig deep into the real reason behind midlife weight gain, mood swings, fatigue, and other wacky and worrying symptoms of perimenopause — and teaches you how to rebalance your metabolism, hormones and blood levels to achieve your best health and lasting vitality through menopause and beyond.
Because midlife is not the end my friend — it’s just the beginning of your next chapter - the chapter that's all about you and living your best life!
The Midlife Vitality Project: Where Perimenopause Becomes Your Comeback Story Naturally!
Episode 17: How I navigated early detox symptoms (and why this this is the first stage of healing)
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In Part 7 of this mini-series, I’m sharing what happened when I reached the point in my health and weight loss journey where my body was clearly starting to respond to the positive changes I was making — but in what felt like a negative way.
As I transitioned out of Phase 1 and into Phase 2, about 2-3 days into my plan, I began to notice some uncomfortable symptoms that, for a moment, made me pause and wonder if I had done something wrong while following my plan.
But what unfolded next became one of the most eye-opening and empowering parts of my journey.
In this episode, I talk about:
- the early symptoms I experienced and why they can feel confusing or discouraging at first
- why these reactions are actually common but thankfully short-lived when the body begins a true metabolic reset
- how my training, education, and years of coaching other women eventually helped me recognize these signs as evidence that change was happening — in the right way, not that something was going wrong
- why this is often the point where many women question themselves, their plan and their ability to stay the course and often lose momentum without the right support
- the specific strategies I used to support my body through these symptoms so they passed quickly
- and why this phase became another powerful opportunity to learn how my body communicates with me to always let me know what it needs.
This episode is a reminder that healing isn’t linear — especially in the beginning - but it is all part of a beautiful process in which your body is learning how to balance, function and thrive in a new, healthy environment....and it is absolutely worth it to keep moving forward.
If you’ve ever experienced early detox symptoms when making signficant changes to your healthy eating and lifestyle routine, or are concerned this might happen when you do, this episode will help you see those signals through a very different lens and will empower you to stick with it.
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