By Ashley
Episode Description
What if everything you’ve been told about menopause is keeping you stuck?
I recently joined Jacqueline Rose for an honest conversation about perimenopause, menopause, and why so many women feel like they’ve lost themselves during midlife.
For years, women have been told to eat less, exercise more, and simply accept declining energy, weight gain, and hormonal changes as a normal part of aging. But the truth is, there is a better way.
After experiencing my own struggles with burnout, emotional eating, anxiety, weight gain, and early perimenopause, I discovered that true transformation didn’t come from dieting harder—it came from understanding what my body actually needed.
In this episode, we explore how strength training, proper nutrition, quality sleep, and nervous system regulation can help women feel stronger, healthier, and more confident through every stage of midlife.
In this episode, we discuss:
• Why traditional dieting often fails during perimenopause
• The importance of building muscle for healthy aging
• How protein, sleep, and stress management support hormone health
• The growing conversations around HRT and GLP-1 medications
• Why menopause can become a powerful opportunity for reinvention
When we stop fighting our changing bodies and start supporting them with the right tools, everything begins to shift. We gain strength, confidence, resilience, and the freedom to enjoy this season of life in a completely new way.
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Host: Jacqueline Rose from Things I want my Daughters to Know Podcast
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.
