Midlife and Menopause

Conversations with Dr. Jennifer

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife

Self-improvement, Education, Mental Health, Sexuality, Health & Fitness

4.4 • 978 Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

With a changing body and shifting relational roles, midlife can be a challenging time for many women, but it is also an important time of self-discovery and self-definition, a time that we can more fully embrace who we are, and experience tremendous personal and relational growth. In this conversation, Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife joins Dr. Mallorie Cracroft of the Uplift for Her podcast to discuss the unique challenges and opportunities that women face during midlife. They dive into the physical, emotional, and relational shifts that happen as we age and how these changes can impact our sense of who we are. They also explore how women can live with more authenticity and self-acceptance, and how doing so paves the way for richer experiences, even (especially!) in later years. Click HERE to learn more about Dr. Finlayson-Fife's Art of Desire course for women OR join us for the Art of Desire Retreat in Oregon this fall!

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0:00.0	The sense of what we can actually control, achieve, solve, do gets challenged by the fundamental loss
0:11.1	that's a part of living. We can be the world's best parent and still have children who have
0:19.2	challenges. We can be the most capable in whatever career
0:24.7	we've been in, but still see that we have limitations or haven't been able to do everything we wanted to
0:30.7	do. The primary shift that we're going through is how do I belong to myself while tolerating what I don't have control over?
0:43.4	Welcome to conversations with Dr. Jennifer, a collection of interviews on the topics of
0:48.9	relationships, sexuality, spirituality, and more, all featuring Dr. Finlayson Fife.
1:00.1	Dr. Jennifer, thank you so much for being here.
1:03.0	Yeah, my pleasure.
1:04.0	You are a busy woman, and we are so grateful for your time to have this fun conversation.
1:08.8	Yeah, my pleasure.
1:10.2	Well, so we're going to dive right in.
1:12.4	We are talking all to women here because that's what we do here. And especially we're going to
1:17.9	focus on women as we mature. So really looking at women in their 40s, 50s, and beyond. Of course,
1:24.6	I think a lot of this will apply to all women of any age. But I think that sometimes
1:28.8	this age has some unique elements that maybe don't get discussed as much. So when you start us off
1:35.4	there, tell us what you think is so special about this, should we say middle age, this 40s and 50s
1:42.4	and beyond as we mature. What are some of the things that come up in your experience with women that are pretty
1:48.1	unique to this time when we look at relationships especially?
1:51.6	Yeah.
1:52.5	Well, as a postmenopausal woman myself, who was a bit shocked by the amount of kind of loss and disorientation that comes during that period
2:04.3	and then talking to friends of mine, clients of mine in a similar period that I think I did not
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