Discover how aligning with nature’s rhythms can unlock energy, balance hormones, and restore vitality—without quick fixes or crash diets.
Do you feel heavy, sluggish, or out of sync as the seasons change? It’s not just in your head—it’s your body’s way of asking for a RESET.
What You’ll Learn…
The ancient science + modern wisdom behind cleansing
Why cleansing is essential for longevity + vitality
Why most “detoxes” fail—and what actually works long term
The keys to cleansing safely + successfully
What to avoid so you don’t end up exhausted + depleted
How to support your body’s natural detoxification process
Simple, practical steps you can start using right away
As a holistic health guide rooted in Ayurveda and women’s wellness, I’ve seen how seasonal resets can bring women back into balance. This isn’t about restriction—it’s about renewal.
For too long, women have been told that perimenopause is a problem to be fixed, a disease to be treated, or something to simply “get through.” But what if this season of life is actually one of the most powerful transitions a woman can experience? In today’s podcast episode, I’m reframing midlife not as a medical condition, but as a sacred rite of passage—one that calls us deeper into wisdom, truth, and freedom in our own bodies.
If you’ve ever felt dismissed, pathologized, or overwhelmed by the changes of perimenopause, this conversation is for you.
Listen below and explore the show notes for key takeaways.
Episode 2 – Perimenopause Is Not a Disease: Reframing Midlife as a Sacred Rite of Passage
Published: August 19, 2025 Host: Jessica Robinson | Sacred Wisdom Wellness Podcast – Where Holistic Health, Spiritual Truth, and Real Freedom Meet
Episode Summary:
Perimenopause is not something to fear, medicate away, or hide. It’s not the end of your beauty or vitality — it’s a sacred initiation into deeper wisdom, sovereignty, and freedom.
In this episode, I invite you to see perimenopause in a whole new light. Through both cultural critique and Ayurvedic perspective, I share why resisting this transition often creates more suffering — and how embracing it can unlock intuition, clarity, and spiritual growth.
What We Explore:
Why perimenopause is more than just a hormonal shift
How cultural lies about aging keep women stuck in fear and resistance
Ayurveda’s perspective on the Vata season of life (and what your body needs now)
Why “anti-aging” is actually anti-woman
How midlife can become the beginning of sovereignty, not the end of vitality
all female reproductive issues (including peri/menopause)
wound healing
balancing blood sugar and fats
cold & flu
burns
skin damage
asthma
fever
jaundice
herpes
obesity
anemia
nourishes the liver, spleen, and blood
Aloe is antioxidant, anti-viral, anti-cancer, anti-tumor, detoxifying, and immuno-stimulating.
I hope you are as impressed with this herb as I am, and best of all — this beauty might already be one of the plants in your home! If not, you can probably pick one up at a local store and they are extremely forgiving houseplants.
ALOE is very easy to grow at home.
My advice – Put them in a sunny window and avoid over watering. They need to dry out a little between waterings. My aloe plants live outside in the summer months and do just find indoors when it’s freezing outside. I love having them around to use whenever we need it, which is quite often in any household with kids.
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For me, Autumn has always carried with it an air of nostalgia. Once the leaves start turning and the air feels crisp, memories start to surface. Smells of pumpkin, apples, and cinnamon come alive and I’m reminded of so many yummy things — my Grandma’s pumpkin roll, apple butter, and warm toasted nuts, among others.
It’s good to know that so many of the things we crave at certain times of year are actually your body’s way of telling you what it needs! Winter squash, pumpkins, root vegetables, more pungent spices, nuts, and hot teas are all good things to be incorporating right now to counter the cold, dry qualities that come naturally in fall and winter (depending on where you live).
Here are 3 tips for living in a healthy way this Autumn…
1) Prioritize a mid-day meal! In other words — don’t skip lunch! If you’re looking for a good meal to take to work, I recommend this One-Pot Kitchari. It’s EASY and quick and works well in a thermos. 2) Drink warm water instead of cold. Fill up an insulated water bottle with warm-to-hot water and sip at least 2 ounces every 15-30 minutes. Warm water hydrates your cells better! 3) Go to bed early. This time of year the daylight keeps dwindling until we get to the winter solstice (the shortest day and longest night of the year). Your body’s biology is being called to take more time for rest. Earlier sleep will pay you back in many ways – you’ll feel more rested when you wake, and your body will do more natural detoxification while you sleep if you go to bed before 10 pm.
I hope these tips are helpful! If you’re curious about what I’ve been up to lately, check out this post on Facebook (or on Instagram).
🍎 I made my first apple pie a couple of weeks agoand I’m about to attempt a batch of apple butter for the first time — wish me luck!
Want more tips about how to live a naturally healthy life?
I created a simple workbook to help bring more harmony and healing into your everyday life and it’s free! Essential Ayurveda for Every Woman has 5 essential tips that anyone can benefit from (men too! 😉).
I know you know what it’s like to be in a funk – to feel stuck in an emotional/mental state that is uncomfortable and unwanted, but feeling helpless.
You want to feel better but don’t know what to do to get there OR – you know what might help, but you have no motivation to take the steps.
Maybe you even feel undeserving of feeling good.
Have you been there? We’ve all been there! A better question is…
HOW can you shift out of a funk?
There are many methods to shifting states, and it might take something different each time, but these are my top 3 tips for getting unstuck:
1) stop avoiding. sit or lie down, and just feel the way you feel. hold yourself sweetly the way you would comfort a loved one and give yourself permission to just feel however you feel.
*note – be careful not to mix up thoughts and feelings! when you’re down, feelings can color your thoughts so don’t believe the negative thoughts that go through your mind during times like this.
2) move your body! dance to a favorite song, go for a walk, or just do some jumping jacks. moving will shift your physiology which will shift your mood.
3) call on God! pray/talk to the Divine. you don’t have to hold the burdens of life alone.
If I asked you how you’re doing today, would you answer honestly, or give me the typical “I’m fine”?
If a friend asked if you need help with today, would you answer with a “no thanks, I’ve got it”?
Like most people, chances are you’d assert that you’re fine and don’t need anything, because we’re taught to make the best of things (which is a perfectly good quality) — but…sometimes we do need help.
We all need a little help sometimes. Life has struggles. That’s just the truth.
Sometimes we feel stretched to the max with our current circumstances – either physically, emotionally, or both.
Although it often feels easier to just keep plugging away, ignoring the overwhelm, or the pain, consistently living under pressure/stress is a major source of dis-ease and for someone who already has a condition, those issues become more and more complicated (harder to solve) with time.
Let’s just be honest. Instead of making it harder for ourselves, acknowledge the hurt/ pressure/ dis-ease, ask for help, and accept it when someone offers.
I created a simple workbook to help bring more harmony and healing into your everyday life and it’s free! Essential Ayurveda for Every Woman has 5 essential tips that anyone can benefit from (men too! 😉).
In this article… *learn how the current healthcare model isn’t serving you *what Holistic Health really means *how easy it is to take your power back and start your healing journey *replay of Empowered Wellness intro workshop with my 10 Tips to Take Back Your Power *how to join my next workshop on Ayurveda + The Nervous System *how to get help on your wellness journey
If you put on your critical thinking cap… the numbers just don’t add up.
The fact is…your body is WISE and has an innate ability to HEAL, however, this is in direct opposition to the mainstream narrative around health and healing, which would have you believe that you know nothing in regard to your own body/mind and that it’s crucial to your survival to give your autonomy over to those that ‘know better’, a.k.a. the medical system.
I believe that we are all born with the Divine right of Sovereignty.
The reason most people aren’t empowered by their own autonomy is that most of us have been told what and how to do everything since early childhood. We’ve literally been told when, what, where, who, and how to talk, play, learn, eat, pee, live, work, love, be with, and have sex.
We’ve been taught to push down our intuition, desires, deepest sense of self, inner guidance system, and even our involuntary bodily functions. We were told that this would make us more productive, successful, desirable even, but we’ve been lied to and stripped of our connection to the deepest, most authentic parts of ourselves and robbed of the Divine Right of our Sovereignty.
To become EMPOWERED, all it takes is the desire to know the truth and the courage to step off the merry-go-round at the mainstream clown show and connect with your inner wisdom.
Here are a few slides from the Introductory Workshop for my Empowered Wellness for Every Woman Workshop Series…
In the short video below I talk about WHY HOLISTIC HEALTH is the only way to true health and healing.
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