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
Terry Tateossian is a Menopause Lifestyle Medicine Coach and the Founder of THOR: The House of Rose, a wellness brand serving women over 40 through retreats, coaching, macro-nutrition and community. After facing serious health challenges, early perimenopause, burnout, and emotional eating while running a successful 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 build muscle, 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 for her cookbook here.
