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
We were never meant to fight our way through midlife with fear in our hearts and a handful of prescriptions in our purses.
Perimenopause is not a disease. It’s not the end of your beauty, your vitality, or your worth. It is a sacred rite of passage — a threshold into a season of deeper wisdom, freedom, and self-possession.
Yet in our culture, we’ve been taught to see it as something to resist at all costs.
The Cultural Lie About Aging
We live in a world obsessed with youth — where “looking younger” is marketed as the ultimate achievement and where aging is something to hide, correct, or fix.
In this new movement of “women who don’t age,” we’re losing something essential: the honoring of the midlife years as a powerful, sacred transition.
Perimenopause — the years leading up to menopause — is not just a biological process. It’s a spiritual initiation. But the way our culture frames it, many women are going through this doorway kicking, screaming, and clinging desperately to a version of themselves that no longer exists.
Why Fighting Nature Hurts Us
The more we resist the natural shifts of this season, the more suffering we create for ourselves. Instead of listening to the body and supporting it through gentle, aligned practices, we are encouraged to:
Medicate away symptoms with blanket solutions like HRT without addressing root causes
Augment our bodies to hold onto youth instead of allowing them to evolve
Overwork and overstimulate ourselves to match the pace we could keep in our 20s or 30s
The truth? These years are meant to be different. You’re not supposed to have the same energy, body rhythms, or needs you once had — and that’s a good thing.
Ayurveda’s Wisdom on Midlife
In Ayurveda, perimenopause marks the beginning of the Vata season of life — a time when the energy of air and space increases. This is a period for:
Reflection and integration of your life’s experiences
Simplifying and refining what truly matters
Turning inward for wisdom and spiritual connection
Releasing what no longer serves your body, mind, or soul
When approached with care, this transition can bring increased clarity, deeper intuition, and a freedom you didn’t have in earlier decades.
A Call to Embrace, Not Resist
Rather than trying to “fix” perimenopause, what if we honored it? What if we moved through it willingly, with grace — supporting our bodies with nourishing foods, gentle movement, herbal allies, rest, and spiritual practices?
What if we showcased midlife as the glorious window of time it truly is — where beauty is defined by presence, vitality, and wisdom rather than wrinkle-free skin?
This is not a season to dread. It’s a season to step fully into this rite of passage.
If You’re Ready to Step Into This Season with Grace…
If you’re ready to move through perimenopause with grace and vitality, let’s connect. I offer a complimentary 20-minute Clarity Call where we’ll talk about your top health challenges and how an Ayurvedic approach can support you in this sacred season. If we’re a good fit, I’ll share the ways we can work together for deeper support.
The midlife time in a woman’s life has always been shrouded in mystery. Some women never speak of it at all and suffer in silence, while others are constantly complaining about the infamous hot flashes, night sweats, and mood swings.
What’s been lacking for a long time is a comprehensive guide that educates women on the natural flow of this sacred transition and the type of care she needs.
This window of time is not something to be feared, but a journey to be honored.
This is why I created this 5-part video serieson perimenopause that goes deeper. I’ll walk you through what’s really happening during this transition, how to support yourself holistically, and why this time is sacred — not shameful.
* Captions are listed above each corresponding video in this series.
Your Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause (Part 1 of 5) – Reframing Perimenopause as a Sacred Transition
Most women are taught to fear this phase of life, but perimenopause isn’t the beginning of your breakdown — it’s the beginning of your becoming.
Your Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause (Part 2 of 5) – The Fire Builds
Early Perimenopause
Age Range: Late 30s to early 40s (sometimes earlier)
What’s Happening: Estrogen and progesterone start to fluctuate unpredictably. Ovulation may still occur, but less consistently.
Common Signs:
Shorter cycles or irregular periods
Increased PMS or mood swings
Fatigue or sleep disturbances
Anxiety, irritability, breast tenderness
Sacred Invitation: 👉 Begin listening to your body more deeply. Start releasing overcommitment and overgiving.
Your Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause (Part 3 of 5) – The Storm
Mid Perimenopause
Age Range: Typically 42–48 (varies)
What’s Happening: Hormones shift more dramatically. Progesterone drops, estrogen surges and dips erratically. Cycles may become very irregular or heavy.
Common Signs:
Night sweats, hot flashes
Worsening anxiety or depression
Heavy or skipped periods
Brain fog, rage, or intense emotions
Sacred Invitation: 👉 Shed what no longer serves. Set boundaries. Honor rest and retreat. This is a sacred purification — not a breakdown.
Your Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause (Part 4 of 5) – The Descent Before Rebirth
Late Perimenopause
Age Range: Late 40s to early 50s
What’s Happening: Ovaries slow down production of estrogen. You may go several months without a period. Once you’ve gone 12 months without one, menopause officially begins.
Common Signs:
Longer gaps between periods
Fewer emotional swings, but persistent fatigue or dryness
Sleep may still be affected
A new calm or clarity may begin to emerge
Sacred Invitation: 👉 Deepen into self-trust. Reorient to purpose. Prepare for the rebirth that comes with menopause.
Your Ultimate Guide to Perimenopause (Part 5 of 5) – Recap
Perimenopause isn’t a diagnosis — it’s an awakening.
🔥 The fire builds. 🌪 The storm hits. 🌙 The descent begins.
Each stage asks something different of you — and when you listen, you move through this transition with more ease, clarity, and self-respect.
This isn’t about fixing what’s “wrong.” It’s about returning to what’s true.
💜 If this series spoke to you, let’s talk! Use the button below the video 👇🏽 to book your complimentary 20-minute Clarity Call to see how an Ayurvedic approach can support you in this sacred season.
If You’re Ready to Step Into This Season with Grace…
If you’re ready to move through perimenopause with grace and vitality, let’s connect. I offer a complimentary 20-minute Clarity Call where we’ll talk about your top health challenges and how an Ayurvedic approach can support you in this sacred season. If we’re a good fit, I’ll share the ways we can work together for deeper support.
Episode 1: You Think You’re Free… But Are You Really? | The Truth About Health, Healing & Feminine Freedom
Welcome to the very first episode of the Sacred Wisdom Wellness Podcast – Where Holistic Health, Spiritual Truth, and Real Freedom Meet! This space is for the woman who’s done with quick fixes, surface-level wellness trends, and the mainstream lies about health. In this first episode, I’m laying the foundation for everything to come — sharing the truth about what real freedom and real healing actually require. Whether you’re deep in a healing journey or just waking up to a new way of seeing the world, this episode will meet you right where you are.
We talk a lot about freedom in this country, but when I look at how most women are living — exhausted, overextended, disconnected from their bodies and trapped in cycles of depletion — I have to ask — Is this really freedom?
In this first episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on what it means to live under the illusion of freedom — and how cultural conditioning, perfectionism, people-pleasing, and chronic survival mode have kept us from our birthright: true, embodied freedom in our health, our minds, our nervous systems, and our spirits.
If you’re feeling the nudge to take your power back — to reconnect to the truth of who you are and begin a healing journey that actually nourishes you — this episode is for you. 💙
Let this be your invitation to stop waiting and start choosing healing.
Ready to reset your body, mind & spirit? 🌞 Explore my Summer Reset Sessions (3 levels of support):
🔔 Subscribe on Apple or Spotify or YouTube for more conversations on: 💫 Holistic women’s health 💫 Healing through Ayurveda, rhythm, and nervous system care 💫 Reclaiming sovereignty + spiritual wholeness 💫 Sacred living in a disconnected world
🙌🏼 You were made for freedom. And your body remembers the way home.
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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