By Ashley
Episode Description
What if the symptoms you’ve been fighting aren’t signs that your body is failing—but messages asking you to slow down and pay attention?
I recently had the pleasure of joining Pearl Mashour on Female Fluence Podcast for a meaningful conversation about emotional eating, burnout, menopause, and what it truly takes to rebuild your health from the inside out.
For so many women, midlife becomes a season of putting everyone else first. We build careers, care for families, and keep pushing through exhaustion until our bodies finally demand that we listen. I know that journey well because I’ve lived it myself.
After years of burnout, emotional eating, and declining health, I realized that healing wasn’t about finding another diet or working harder. It was about changing my relationship with my body, my mindset, and the way I cared for myself.
In this episode, Pearl and I discuss why menopause isn’t something to fear. Instead, it can become one of the greatest opportunities to reconnect with yourself, reclaim your energy, and create a healthier future.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Why emotional eating often has little to do with food
• How burnout becomes your body’s way of asking for change
• Why menopause can be a powerful season of reinvention
• The role of strength training, nutrition, and mindset in healthy aging
• How learning to listen to your body can transform your health and confidence
One of the most important messages from our conversation is this: your body is always communicating with you. When you stop fighting it and start listening with curiosity and compassion, healing becomes possible.
If you’ve been feeling exhausted, disconnected, or like you’ve lost yourself somewhere along the way, I hope this conversation reminds you that it’s never too late to begin again.
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Host: Pearl Mashour from Female Fluence
Terry Tateossian is a Menopause Lifestyle Medicine Coach, Certified Personal Trainer & Nutritionist and the Founder of THOR: The House of Rose, a wellness brand serving women over 40 through retreats, coaching, macro-nutrition and community. As 25-year founder and entrepreneur, Terry spent two and a half decades building and running successful start-up businesses, an experience that put her on the front line of founder burnout long before she could name it. After facing serious health challenges, early onset menopause, and emotional eating while running her agency and raising two children, Terry rebuilt her health in her 40s and lost more than 80 pounds through evidence-based nutrition, training, and mindset work. Today, she helps women get strong, improve confidence, support hormone health, and create a stronger second half of life. Terry has been featured in major media outlets and is available for podcasts, expert commentary, brand collaborations, and speaking engagements on midlife health, reinvention, emotional eating, menopause wellness, and strength training for longevity. Get her free macro calculator (her cookbook companion) to start your journey to back to health.
