Departure Menopause: Neurodivergent-Affirming & Weight-Inclusive Care

⛱️ Summer Break ⛱️

A quick announcement that we're Departing on Holiday until September ⛱️ In the meantime, catch up or re-visit Season 1: 🌀Our Menopause Venn Diagram: Weight-Inclusive Care, Neurodivergence, and Body Image 🪟Looking Through the Window of Vulnerability - Menopause & Eating Disorders 🥨 Assessing Your Eating Pattern and Naming Emotions with the Regular Eating Guide 👓 Recognizing the Challenges of Regular Eating in Menopause Mindset Shifts 🕰️ Working with a Regular Eating Structure 🌊 Figuring Out ADHD & Perimenopause with Robin Gatter 💓 The Heart is a House with Amy Chadwick 🔍Discovering the Lost Generation: Melinda’s AuDHD Diagnosis Story 🧺Intuitive Eating & Building Resilience with Amber Hanson Take care and see you in September, Melinda

🧺Intuitive Eating & Building Resilience with Amber Hanson

One of the big questions of Departure Menopause is how we can support deep health during the menopause transition, without the focus on weight. Intuitive Eating, a model of non-diet nutrition, was created in the 1990s by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch. It’s been the subject of hundreds of research studies. This week, I’m thrilled to have Amber Hanson, LN, CNS [https://wholeyounutrition.com/], join us on the show to discuss her work, which focuses on improving people's relationships with food and their bodies through a weight-inclusive approach grounded in Intuitive Eating principles.  Tune in to hear: 🪴 An understanding of the principles of Intuitive Eating 🪴 Examples of Intuitive Eating in practice 🪴 How we might engage with Intuitive Eating if our interoceptive awareness is different with neurodivergence 🪴 Amber’s experience of perimenopause 🪴 Our discussion on the cringe-ier aspects of “nervous system healing” and what’s feeling helpful here 🪴 Melinda and Amber’s low-caffeine and alcohol journeys LINKS: 🍝 Download the FREE Regular Eating Guide [https://www.departuremenopause.club/regular-eating-guide] 🔎 Check out the EPISODE References & Shownotes [https://www.departuremenopause.club/shownotes/intuitive-eating] Podcast Art: Barb Burwell [https://barbburwell.substack.com/] DISCLAIMER: Melinda is a Certified Nutrition Specialist but not a member of your healthcare team. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a health concern, go to your healthcare provider or seek other professional medical or mental health treatment.

🔍Discovering the Lost Generation: Melinda’s AuDHD Diagnosis Story

👋 I’m back on the mic this week with a solo episode. 🔮 This week, I'm sharing what I've been discovering the past couple of years as I go deeper into perimenopause, and that crystallized in April with an autism diagnosis. So, with my previous diagnosis of ADHD, this makes for what we call AuDHD, which is a whole new lens to look at life. This episode walks you through my story, from the time that I first learned about lesser-known presentations of autism in highly masked adults, especially women and AFAB people. I share the resources and support throughout my diagnosis process, and where I’m at today, three months later. LINKS: 🍝 Download the FREE Regular Eating Guide [https://www.departuremenopause.club/regular-eating-guide] 🔎 Check out the EPISODE References & Shownotes [https://www.departuremenopause.club/shownotes/audhd-diagnosis-story] Podcast Art: Barb Burwell [https://barbburwell.substack.com/] DISCLAIMER: Melinda is a Certified Nutrition Specialist but not a member of your healthcare team. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a health concern, go to your healthcare provider or seek other professional medical or mental health treatment.

💓 The Heart is a House with Amy Chadwick

One thing about the menopause transition - it prompts many of us to reevaluate different aspects of our lives.  Paying more attention to hormones (I mean, for a lot of us, how can we not), means taking a closer look at the rest of our greater health picture. Heart health is — complex. There are a lot of moving parts, and understanding our personal risk factors often can be a challenge. With that, I’m excited to drop our newest episode of Departure Menopause with my friend, Amy Chadwick, RN, BSN, CPT. Amy is a Heart Failure Nurse Navigator, bringing her years of experience to provide us with education and practical tips on assessing our heart health. Tune in to hear: 💓 About Amy’s role in the hospital system as a Heart Failure Nurse Navigator 💓 An understanding of heart failure and heart disease 💓 Learn the key heart health markers to monitor 💓 Understand why stress management in perimenopause is a key heart health behavior 💓 Hear Amy’s personal journey through perimenopause - which, spoiler alert, does not involve hormone therapy References: HAES® / Health at Every Size® Health Sheets [https://haeshealthsheets.com/the-health-sheet-library/]  - Weight -inclusive education and interventions for heart disease, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure Declining Rates of Heart Disease Awareness Study [https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIR.0000000000000907] LINKS: 🍝 Download the FREE Regular Eating Guide [https://www.departuremenopause.club/regular-eating-guide] 🔎 Check out the EPISODE References & Shownotes [https://www.departuremenopause.club/shownotes/regular-eating-structure] Podcast Art: Barb Burwell [https://barbburwell.substack.com/] DISCLAIMER: Melinda is a Certified Nutrition Specialist but not a member of your healthcare team. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a health concern, go to your healthcare provider or seek other professional medical or mental health treatment.

🌊 Figuring Out ADHD & Perimenopause with Robin Gatter

This week on Departure Menopause, I’m thrilled to welcome our first guest to the show, Robin Gatter [https://www.robingatter.com/], MS, CNS, LDN, NBC-HWC. Our conversation weaves together what I’ve been talking about so far on the show, this intersection of neurodivergence, perimenopause, food, and body image.  Robin shows up as her brave, wise self. Tune in to hear: 🌊 Robin’s transition from professional chef to eating disorder nutritionist  🌊 Her late ADHD diagnosis and reconsidering challenges around traditional education  🌊 ADHD meal planning tips from the lens of a trained chef 🌊 How a “mise en place mentality” can change your meal prep game And ..  🌊 Robin’s journey so far through perimenopause One thing that came through for us was how a late ADHD diagnosis and co-existing perimenopause can feel like a parallel experience, in the context of the women’s health information gap. Thank you, Robin, for joining me in this conversation, and you, listeners, for your continuing support of the show. REFERENCES & LINKS 🌊 Robin's Website [https://www.robingatter.com/] 🍝 Download the FREE Regular Eating Guide [https://www.departuremenopause.club/regular-eating-guide] 🔎 Check out the EPISODE References & Shownotes [https://www.departuremenopause.club/shownotes/regular-eating-structure] Podcast Art: Barb Burwell [https://barbburwell.substack.com/] DISCLAIMER: Melinda is a Certified Nutrition Specialist but not a member of your healthcare team. The information provided in this podcast is not intended as individualized medical advice, nor is it a substitute for professional medical expertise or treatment. If you have a health concern, go to your healthcare provider or seek other professional medical or mental health treatment.