By AshleyEpisode Description
I’m excited to share my latest guest appearance on The Sensitivity Doctor with Dr. Amelia Kelley, where we dive into a topic many women experience but rarely get clear guidance on—the link between trauma, hormones, and the challenges of perimenopause and menopause.
In this episode, I open up about my early experiences escaping a communist country, navigating puberty in a refugee camp, and living in long-term survival mode – patterns that later shaped my hormonal health, emotional regulation, and midlife well-being. Dr. Kelley brings a trauma-informed lens to help explain why so many women feel overwhelmed, anxious, or “unlike themselves” during midlife.
Key Insights From the Episode
This conversation offers deep, practical takeaways, including:
• How early survival stress can disrupt hormonal development and set the stage for perimenopause struggles later in life.
• Why healing gaslighting begins with trusting your body – your symptoms are information, not exaggerations.
• How working with an HSP therapist supports sensitive nervous systems that get overloaded during hormonal transitions.
• Why an ADHD therapist can help women distinguish intuition and creativity from trauma-driven overworking.
• How somatic therapy reconnects you to your body, allowing emotional and hormonal healing that talk therapy alone can’t reach.
Midlife isn’t just a hormonal shift — it’s often where unresolved stress and trauma finally surface. Understanding that connection can change everything.
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Host: Amelia Kelley from The Sensitivity Doctor Podcast
