Midlife Burnout, Nervous System Healing & Why Your Body Is Asking You To Slow Down with Sonia | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

Midlife Burnout, Nervous System Healing & Why Your Body Is Asking You To Slow Down with Sonia | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

Many women reach midlife feeling overwhelmed, exhausted, anxious, disconnected from themselves, and wondering why their body suddenly seems to be working against them. In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, I sit down with nutritional therapist and fascia release practitioner Sonia to explore the powerful connection between stress, the nervous system, emotions, hormones, and physical health. Sonia shares her personal journey from IBS and PCOS to discovering how chronic stress, unprocessed emotions, and nervous system dysregulation can impact every aspect of our wellbeing. We discuss: ✨ Why midlife is a wake-up call, not a crisis  ✨ The hidden impact of chronic stress on the body  ✨ Nervous system regulation and emotional healing  ✨ How trauma and unresolved emotions can become stored in the body  ✨ What fascia is and how fascia release therapy works  ✨ The connection between anxiety, hormones, gut health, and inflammation  ✨ Why so many women struggle to slow down and prioritise themselves  ✨ Reconnecting with intuition and inner wisdom  ✨ Simple daily practices to support healing and self-connection This episode is a gentle reminder that your symptoms may not be your body betraying you — they may be your body's way of asking you to listen. If you're navigating perimenopause, menopause, burnout, anxiety, people-pleasing, or simply feeling disconnected from yourself, this conversation offers practical tools and a fresh perspective on healing. 🎧 Listen now and discover how slowing down can become the pathway back to yourself. Connect with Sonia: Instagram: @alchemyofbodymindsoul [https://www.instagram.com/alchemyofbodymindsoul/] Website: alchemybodymindsoul.com [https://www.alchemybodymindsoul.com/] Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519900/support] If this episode resonated, you’re not alone. So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way. But your body isn’t working against you. Sometimes it’s gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself. 🌿 Follow Hot Flushes & Higher Self for more conversations around midlife, nervous system healing, intuition, emotional wellbeing and self-trust. ✨ And if you feel called to go deeper, you’re warmly invited to explore my work, including RTT sessions, monthly online women hypnosis circles and transformational retreats for women. The womens June Expansion Retreat will be taking place on 27th & 28th June at Reconnect Studio, Queens Park, London. Come for 1 or both days. 1 day is £115 or 2 for £210. More details here: https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] 🤍 Looking for connection with like-minded people? I co-host Soul Collaboration networking meeting in Queen’s Park, London. It's a monthly gathering of heart-led practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives and entrepreneurs who come together to connect, collaborate and support one another in a genuine and nurturing space. https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/ [https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/] 🔗 Link in bio: Li... [https://linktr.ee/limitlessself]

How to Trust Your Intuition & Reconnect with Yourself in Midlife with Sunayana | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

Many women reach midlife feeling disconnected from themselves, questioning who they are beyond their roles as mothers, partners, carers, and professionals. In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, I sit down with intuitive mentor, therapist and author Sunayana Clark to explore how women can reconnect with their intuition, trust themselves again, and navigate the powerful awakening that often comes during perimenopause and midlife.  Sunayana shares her personal journey through grief, infertility, healing, and spiritual growth, and explains why so many women find themselves craving deeper meaning, freedom, and authenticity during this stage of life. Together we discuss: ✨ Why women often lose connection with themselves in midlife  ✨ The link between intuition, the nervous system and self-trust  ✨ How childhood experiences shape limiting beliefs  ✨ The role of the Higher Self in everyday life  ✨ Practical ways to strengthen intuition and inner guidance  ✨ Why people-pleasing keeps women stuck  ✨ Midlife relationships, identity shifts and personal growth  ✨ How to quiet an overactive mind and reconnect with yourself  ✨ The importance of community, connection and supportive friendships  ✨ Simple daily practices to build confidence in your inner wisdom This conversation is a gentle reminder that midlife is not a crisis — it can be an invitation to remember who you truly are. Connect with Sunayana 📖 Book: Energetics Everyday Your Way [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Energetics-Every-Day-Your-Way/dp/106870781X/ref=asc_df_106870781X?tag=bingshoppinga-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=79920958477277&hvnetw=o&hvqmt=e&hvbmt=be&hvdev=c&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=41471&hvtargid=pla-4583520421382614&psc=1&msclkid=c0718cbcc55712025d60e6994ee6ace2] 🌐 Website: Energetics Everyday with Sunayana Clark [https://energeticseverydaywithsunayanaclark.co.uk/] 🎥 YouTube: Sunayana Clark [https://www.youtube.com/@sunayanaclark6679] If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, leave a review and share it with a woman who may need this message today. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519900/support] If this episode resonated, you’re not alone. So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way. But your body isn’t working against you. Sometimes it’s gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself. 🌿 Follow Hot Flushes & Higher Self for more conversations around midlife, nervous system healing, intuition, emotional wellbeing and self-trust. ✨ And if you feel called to go deeper, you’re warmly invited to explore my work, including RTT sessions, monthly online women hypnosis circles and transformational retreats for women. The womens June Expansion Retreat will be taking place on 27th & 28th June at Reconnect Studio, Queens Park, London. Come for 1 or both days. 1 day is £115 or 2 for £210. More details here: https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] 🤍 Looking for connection with like-minded people? I co-host Soul Collaboration networking meeting in Queen’s Park, London. It's a monthly gathering of heart-led practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives and entrepreneurs who come together to connect, collaborate and support one another in a genuine and nurturing space. https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/ [https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/] 🔗 Link in bio: Li... [https://linktr.ee/limitlessself]

Why So Many Women Feel Disconnected in Midlife — And How to Reclaim Yourself with Aine Rock | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself in midlife — emotionally, physically or spiritually — this conversation will resonate deeply. In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, Soraya is joined by coach, author and co-founder of Sophania Wellness, Aine Rock, for a powerful and honest conversation about feminine embodiment, nervous system healing, pleasure, identity shifts, and learning to trust yourself again. Aine shares her personal journey through divorce after nearly two decades of marriage, reconnecting with her intuition, healing through somatic work, and creating a completely new chapter of life in her late 40s. Together, they explore: ✨ why so many women lose themselves in relationships and motherhood ✨ the connection between stress, the body and emotional suppression ✨ feminine energy, pleasure and self-trust ✨ why midlife often becomes a spiritual awakening ✨ nervous system regulation and embodiment practices ✨ the fear of change — and why women are craving “more” in this season of life This episode is especially powerful for women navigating perimenopause, burnout, anxiety, relationship shifts, or a quiet inner knowing that life is asking something different from them. ✨ Connect with Aine: Website: https://ainerock.com/ [https://ainerock.com/] Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/its_aine_rock/ [https://www.instagram.com/its_aine_rock/] More information about the womens Expansion Retreat hosted by Soraya in London on 27th and 28th June 2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519900/support] If this episode resonated, you’re not alone. So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way. But your body isn’t working against you. Sometimes it’s gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself. 🌿 Follow Hot Flushes & Higher Self for more conversations around midlife, nervous system healing, intuition, emotional wellbeing and self-trust. ✨ And if you feel called to go deeper, you’re warmly invited to explore my work, including RTT sessions, monthly online women hypnosis circles and transformational retreats for women. The womens June Expansion Retreat will be taking place on 27th & 28th June at Reconnect Studio, Queens Park, London. Come for 1 or both days. 1 day is £115 or 2 for £210. More details here: https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] 🤍 Looking for connection with like-minded people? I co-host Soul Collaboration networking meeting in Queen’s Park, London. It's a monthly gathering of heart-led practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives and entrepreneurs who come together to connect, collaborate and support one another in a genuine and nurturing space. https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/ [https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/] 🔗 Link in bio: Li... [https://linktr.ee/limitlessself]

Perimenopause, Gut Health & Nervous System Healing | Why Women Are Burning Out in Midlife with Mays | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

If you’ve been feeling anxious, exhausted, bloated, emotionally overwhelmed or disconnected from yourself in midlife, this episode will help you understand what may really be happening beneath the surface. In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, Soraya is joined by holistic nutritionist, somatic practitioner and retreat host Mays for a powerful conversation on gut health, nervous system regulation, emotional healing and the hidden stress so many women carry through midlife. Mays shares her deeply personal journey from addiction, burnout and chronic health issues to healing through nutrition, yoga, fasting, somatic work and reconnecting with herself on a deeper level. Together, they explore: ✨ the connection between stress, trauma and physical symptoms ✨ gut health, hormones and perimenopause ✨ emotional eating and nervous system dysregulation ✨ why women are burning out in midlife ✨ the impact of chronic stress on the body ✨ self-compassion, slowing down and listening to your body ✨ and why true healing goes far beyond quick fixes and fad diets This episode is especially relevant for women navigating perimenopause, burnout, anxiety, hormone imbalance, emotional overwhelm or a deeper desire to reconnect with themselves. ✨ Ways to work with Mays ✨ If this conversation resonated with you and you’re ready to take a deeper look at your health, hormones, gut and nervous system, Mays offers a range of ways to support women holistically. 🌿 Her signature 90-day one-to-one reset programme combines functional nutrition, gut and hormone testing, somatic healing and nervous system support to help women get to the root cause of symptoms and feel more balanced, energised and connected to themselves again. 🌿 She also runs monthly detox and liver cleanse groups designed to gently support the body, digestion, energy and overall wellbeing. 🌿 And for those wanting a deeper immersive experience, Mays hosts transformational healing retreats combining nutrition, yoga, breathwork, somatic healing and nervous system restoration. You can connect with Mays on Instagram at @healthy_mays where she shares regular tips and insights around gut health, hormones, nervous system healing and holistic wellbeing. 🎧 Listen now and discover why your body may not be working against you — but trying to guide you back to balance. Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519900/support] If this episode resonated, you’re not alone. So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way. But your body isn’t working against you. Sometimes it’s gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself. 🌿 Follow Hot Flushes & Higher Self for more conversations around midlife, nervous system healing, intuition, emotional wellbeing and self-trust. ✨ And if you feel called to go deeper, you’re warmly invited to explore my work, including RTT sessions, monthly online women hypnosis circles and transformational retreats for women. The womens June Expansion Retreat will be taking place on 27th & 28th June at Reconnect Studio, Queens Park, London. Come for 1 or both days. 1 day is £115 or 2 for £210. More details here: https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] 🤍 Looking for connection with like-minded people? I co-host Soul Collaboration networking meeting in Queen’s Park, London. It's a monthly gathering of heart-led practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives and entrepreneurs who come together to connect, collaborate and support one another in a genuine and nurturing space. https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/ [https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/] 🔗 Link in bio: Li... [https://linktr.ee/limitlessself]

Numerology, Midlife & Intuition: A Powerful Conversation on Self-Trust for Women with Dina | Hot Flushes & Higher Self

If you’ve been feeling disconnected from yourself, overwhelmed by responsibility, or questioning who you are in this stage of life, this episode will deeply resonate with you. In this episode of Hot Flushes & Higher Self, Soraya is joined by intuitive coach and author Dina for a powerful conversation on midlife, self-trust, intuition, and personal transformation. Together, they explore why so many women lose connection with themselves after years of people pleasing, over-functioning, and prioritising everyone else’s needs — and how midlife can become an invitation to reconnect with your authentic self. Dina shares her own journey from corporate burnout to intuitive coaching, and explains how sacred tools such as numerology, astrology, tarot, and intuitive guidance can help women better understand themselves, navigate life transitions, and rebuild trust in their inner voice. The conversation also explores the difference between anxiety and intuition, emotional overwhelm in midlife, burnout, identity shifts, purpose, boundaries, and why learning to say no is often part of the healing journey. There’s also a fascinating live numerology reading during the episode, where Dina explains Soraya’s life path and personal year number — revealing themes around intuition, responsibility, balance, and avoiding burnout. ✨ In this episode, they explore: • Why midlife is an awakening rather than a crisis • The connection between people pleasing, burnout, and emotional exhaustion • Anxiety vs intuition — and how to tell the difference • Rebuilding self-trust after years of ignoring yourself • Numerology and understanding life cycles and timing • Why so many women feel disconnected in midlife • Learning to say no without guilt • Purpose, alignment, and living authentically • Simple daily rituals to reconnect with yourself • The power of intuition, sacred tools, and inner guidance This episode is especially powerful for women navigating perimenopause, menopause, identity shifts, anxiety, overwhelm, or a deeper longing to reconnect with themselves. Connect with Dina [https://dinaberrin.com/contact/]: Support the show [https://www.buzzsprout.com/2519900/support] If this episode resonated, you’re not alone. So many women quietly navigate anxiety, burnout, people pleasing, hormonal shifts and the feeling of losing themselves somewhere along the way. But your body isn’t working against you. Sometimes it’s gently asking you to slow down, reconnect, and come back to yourself. 🌿 Follow Hot Flushes & Higher Self for more conversations around midlife, nervous system healing, intuition, emotional wellbeing and self-trust. ✨ And if you feel called to go deeper, you’re warmly invited to explore my work, including RTT sessions, monthly online women hypnosis circles and transformational retreats for women. The womens June Expansion Retreat will be taking place on 27th & 28th June at Reconnect Studio, Queens Park, London. Come for 1 or both days. 1 day is £115 or 2 for £210. More details here: https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026 [https://reconnectandrise.org/june-2026] 🤍 Looking for connection with like-minded people? I co-host Soul Collaboration networking meeting in Queen’s Park, London. It's a monthly gathering of heart-led practitioners, therapists, coaches, healers, creatives and entrepreneurs who come together to connect, collaborate and support one another in a genuine and nurturing space. https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/ [https://soul-collaboration-queens-park.com/] 🔗 Link in bio: Li... [https://linktr.ee/limitlessself]