Menopause and divorce can feel overwhelming, but they don’t have to break you. In this powerful conversation, we explore menopause and divorce as opportunities for growth, healing, and self-love. Host Lesa Koski shares her personal menopause journey alongside Coach Tracy, unpacking how hormonal changes, mindset, anxiety, weight gain, and emotional regulation intersect during midlife. This episode reframes menopause and divorce as chapters—not endings—and offers practical tools to help women navigate this season with clarity, compassion, and confidence. If you’re facing menopause, divorce, or both, this conversation will help you feel less alone and more empowered.
Timestamps
(00:00) Introduction to menopause, divorce, and midlife transitions
(03:15) Why menopause and divorce often overlap during midlife
(07:42) Weight gain, loss of control, and learning self-acceptance
(12:30) Menopause as a physiological and emotional circumstance
(17:10) Metabolic health, hormones, and mindset explained
(22:45) Anxiety, panic, and changing your relationship with your thoughts
(28:30) The role of self-love, shame, and acceptance in healing
(33:50) Hormone testing, functional medicine, and natural support options
(39:20) Why menopause can be an opportunity instead of a setback
(44:10) Final encouragement for women navigating menopause and divorce
Key Takeaways
- Menopause and divorce are life circumstances, not personal failures
- Hormonal changes impact mental, emotional, and metabolic health
- Mindset plays a powerful role in how menopause symptoms are experienced
- Anxiety is often driven by thought patterns—not permanent conditions
- Midlife can be a season of self-love, growth, and reinvention
Guest Bio
Coach Tracy is a life coach specializing in mindset, metabolic health, and emotional resilience for women navigating major life transitions. Through her coaching programs and tools, she helps women understand the connection between thoughts, feelings, hormones, and behavior—empowering them to move through menopause, anxiety, and midlife change with clarity and confidence.
Guest Bio: Coach Tracy is a master life and weight coach and the creator of the Self-Made U™ method and planner, where she helps high-achieving women and men learn how to manage their minds, regulate emotions, and create results from the inside out. As Lesa’s longtime coach, Tracy has walked alongside her through breast cancer, major life transitions, and the process of “doing life different,” equipping her with tools that now support women in midlife all over the world.
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menopause and divorce, menopause mindset, midlife healing, divorce recovery for women, menopause weight gain, anxiety and menopause, metabolic health women, hormone balance, midlife transformation, women over 40, menopause support, divorce coaching, emotional wellness midlife
