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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 19: Hitting my emotional wall - the 3 secrets that helped me overcome the urge to quit on Day 9
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In Part 9 of this mini-series, I’m sharing a very honest look at the emotional side of transformation — the part that often surprises women the most, and the point where many end up quitting.
This episode was recorded on Day 9 of my plan — just over halfway through the most structured and challenging phase of the program. Physically, things were going well. But emotionally… I hit a wall.
At the same time, my life stress load was higher than usual. And that combination — deep physical change paired with external stress — created a perfect storm that many women experience during meaningful health transformations.
In this episode, I talk about:
- what was happening in my life at the time that amplified my emotional response
- the very common emotional “symptom” that shows up at this stage — and why it causes so many women to want to stop
- how I was feeling and what I was thinking in that moment (including a fair bit of self-pity)
- what hitting the emotional wall was actually telling me about my healing process
- why emotional detox is just as real — and just as important — as physical detox
- and the 3 key strategies I used to move through this roadblock rather than letting it derail me
This episode is a powerful reminder that feeling emotional doesn’t mean you’re failing.
It often means you’re right in the middle of meaningful change.
Learning how to recognize, support, and move through these moments is a critical part of long-term success — not just in weight loss, but in reclaiming confidence, self-trust, and emotional resilience in midlife.
If you’ve ever felt like quitting just as things were starting to shift, this episode is for you.
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