You Don't Have Early Dementia, You Have Burnout and Menopause Brain Fog

Do you lie in bed at night, body exhausted, but your brain is frantically grocery shopping, replaying patient charts, and worrying about your aging parents like a browser with 4,000 tabs open? You are secretly terrified that your forgetfulness is a sign of something serious.

This isn't just insomnia, and it definitely isn't early-onset dementia. This is the Mental Load, and it is crushing your spirit. If you are a woman over 50, your brain isn't breaking—it is evolving. The estrogen veil is lifting, and your biology is demanding that you stop multitasking and start accessing your Wisdom. When you try to solve spiritual shifts with more cognitive effort, you end up in a spiral of anxiety and fog.

In this episode, Dr. Julie clears the fog. You will discover why decision fatigue is making you feel crazy and how to activate your Third Eye Chakra to switch from "Overthinking" to "Intuition." We introduce the "Brain Dump & Burn" ritual—a specific practice that is the only way to finally shut off the noise and sleep. You will learn to trust your inner knowing again, rather than your exhausted frontal lobe.

You don't need to think your way out of this fog; you need to feel your way through it. Press play to close the mental tabs and reclaim your clarity.

This podcast supports women healers over 50 navigating burnout, compassion fatigue, and midlife transitions with strategies for nervous system regulation, trauma-informed boundaries, and chakra alignment to heal resentment and self-neglect while cultivating soul joy, radiance, and a purposeful next chapter of freedom and inner peace.

Burnout isn’t your failure—it’s the cost of caring too long without support.
In Pursuit of Soul Joy: A 12-Week Guide for Overcoming Burnout and Compassion Fatigue is written for women healers ready to stop surviving and start living again.

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Transcript

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Welcome to the 12 days of Radiance Reset. We are ditching the holiday overwhelmed to take you from exhausted and trapped to radiant and free. This is your end of the year reconnection. Okay? Your body is in bed, but your brain. Is grocery shopping, planning tomorrow's charts, and worrying about your aging parents. This isn't insomnia. This is mental load and it's crushing your spirit. Empowering brilliant women in healthcare over 50 to transform burnout and compassion fatigue into renewed passion. Reigniting your spark to create a life that energizes you every single day. I'm your host, Dr. Jules. Let's get to it. So today we are clearing the fog. We are moving from overthinking to intuition. You need to listen to the end of this episode because I'm going to validate why decision fatigue is making you feel like you're losing your mind. I know many of you are secretly terrified. You're developing early dementia, and spoiler alert, you probably aren't. We are activating the third eye chakra because when it's blocked, you have brain fog. When it's open, you have clarity, and I'm giving you the brain dump, burn ritual. This is the only way to empty your mind before sleep. So sweet soul. You can actually rest. So let's talk about the invisible weight you are carrying. We call it the mental load. It is the invisible project management of life. It's knowing who needs birthday cards, when the dog needs shots, and tracking the vitals of every client or patient on your floor. But here is what happens in midlife. Your brain changes. Yeah. We lose estrogen during menopause. The veil lifts the neurochemicals that allowed you to multitask endlessly in your thirties. They are gone, and I want you to hear me. This is not a deficit. This is not your brain breaking this. Is a demand from your biology to simplify. You can no longer tolerate the noise because you're entering the season of wisdom, not production. Your brain is forcing you to focus on what actually matters energetically. This fog sits in your third eye chakra. And this is located between your eyebrows. This is the seat of your intuition. And right now you are so busy analyzing data, worrying about the future, and replaying the past that your intuition is screaming into a void. You can't hear your own soul because the mental chatter is too loud. We need to quiet the noise so you can trust yourself again. So how do we clear this noise? Well, we do this activity that I call a brain dump and burn. So tonight, before you get into bed, take a. Piece of paper. Now, this needs to be a physical piece of paper and a pen, and I want you to write down every single tab in your brain that is open, the dry cleaning, the client diagnosis. You're worried about the fear about money, the guilt about your mom. Get it all out of your head and onto the paper. Then I want you to light a candle. We are going to do trataka meditation, candle gazing safely. Burn that paper or tear it up if you can't burn it as you watch the paper disappear. You tell yourself the paper holds the worry now, so my mind can hold the peace. You don't need to think your way out of this fog fact as you can't. You're gonna have to feel your way through it. You need to find out what your archetype is. So I want you to take the watch your burnout, compassion fatigue, archetype quiz that's linked in the show notes. Take it right now. Clear the fog, trust your gut. Together we rise. If this episode hit home, don't just nod and move on. Give yourself what you actually need. Tap the show notes right now to grab your free Compassion Fatigue Cure Starter Guide, or. The burnout to Radiance Reset. And girl, if you know another woman healer who's running on empty, please share this episode.