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Quick Hits: Breathwork for Women: Igniting Inner Empowerment with Kyla Erlandson

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Release Date: 09/15/2026

Quick Hits: Breathwork for Women: Igniting Inner Empowerment with Kyla Erlandson

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. Breathwork has been used for thousands of years across cultures as a powerful tool for healing, emotional release, self-discovery, and spiritual connection. Yet most of us move through our days barely thinking about our breath, let alone using it intentionally. In this episode, we explore how breathwork can help you reconnect with yourself,...

Tired, Wired, Puffy, and Foggy? Minerals May Be the Missing Piece with Caroline Alan

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

You are taking the supplements. Drinking the water. Maybe you are even on HRT. And yet you still feel tired, puffy, anxious, inflamed, constipated, foggy, wired at night, and completely drained during the day. What if one of the missing pieces is far more basic than another hormone, peptide, or supplement? In this episode, I sit down with Caroline Allen, The Mineral Geek and co-founder of BEAM Minerals, to talk about the role minerals play at the cellular level. We get into mitochondria, energy production, hydration, nervous system regulation, detoxification, adrenal and thyroid function, and...

Quick Hits: Reversing Hashimoto's Disease: Insights from Dr. Anshul Gupta

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. Dr. Anshul Gupta is a best-selling author, speaker, researcher, and leading expert in Hashimoto’s disease. Through his work, he helps people better understand the root causes of Hashimoto’s and how a functional medicine approach may help improve thyroid function, reduce symptoms, and address the autoimmune process. Hashimoto’s is one of the...

HRT & GLP-1 Q&A: Progesterone Problems, Hair Loss, Weight Gain, and More

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

What do you do when you finally start HRT and instead of feeling amazing, you feel exhausted, puffy, bloated, or like something is just not right? Or you start a GLP-1, lose weight, and suddenly your hair starts falling out? Today’s episode is another listener Q&A, and we are getting into the real-life questions women are asking when hormone therapy, thyroid treatment, weight-loss peptides, and menopause symptoms do not fit neatly into a textbook. We talk about progesterone intolerance, oral versus topical progesterone, when estradiol may still be too low even though your doctor says...

Quick Hits: The No BS Guide: Ditching Excuses and Taking Charge of Your Health

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. This week we're tackling the misconceptions around health and weight loss, and exploring sustainable ways to achieve wellness goals. I'll tell you some practical tips to debunk dieting and exercise myths, and emphasize the importance of positive thinking while addressing the danger of self-sabotage. It's time to face your own excuses, adopt...

GLP-1s and Menopause: What Every Woman Over 40 Needs to Know

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

You cannot open your phone anymore without hearing about Ozempic, Wegovy, Mounjaro, Zepbound, retatrutide, and before-and-after transformations. One person says GLP-1s are the greatest thing ever. Another says they are going to destroy your health. As usual, the truth is somewhere in the middle. In this episode, I break down GLP-1s specifically through the lens of perimenopause and menopause, because midlife women are dealing with a completely different metabolic landscape. Estrogen is changing. Muscle is easier to lose. Insulin sensitivity may be shifting. Sleep is falling apart. Belly fat is...

Estrogen Dominance Explained: What Every Woman on HRT Needs to Know

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

If you are taking HRT, it is not enough to only ask how much estrogen you are using. You also have to ask a second question: how well is your body actually processing and clearing that estrogen? In this episode, I sit down with David Roberts and John Gilday from Mara Labs to unpack estrogen metabolism, estrogen receptors, environmental hormone disruptors, detoxification pathways, and why the conversation around “estrogen dominance” is often way too simplistic. We talk about the difference between having high estrogen and having estrogen that is not being metabolized efficiently, especially...

Your Body Isn’t Broken: Why Doing More Can Make Midlife Worse with Debbie Potts

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Have you ever felt like you are doing everything right and your body is just not cooperating? You are eating well, exercising, tracking your protein, fasting, taking supplements, getting your steps in, and still gaining weight, feeling exhausted, sleeping poorly, and wondering why the strategies that used to work suddenly do not anymore. In this episode, I sit down with Debbie Potts to talk about what may actually be happening when healthy habits become unhealthy stressors. We get into the connection between the nervous system, metabolism, hormones, muscle, recovery, under-fueling,...

Quick Hits: From Depression to Peak Health: The Secret Struggles of High-Performing Women with Biohacker Angela Foster

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

Welcome to Quick Hits — where we bring you the most impactful moments from past episodes in under 15 minutes. Today’s clip comes from one of our most replayed conversations. If you want the full episode, check the link in the description below. Angela is an award-winning Nutritionist, Health & Performance Coach, Keynote Speaker and Host of The High Performance Health Podcast. A former corporate lawyer turned industry leader in biohacking and health optimisation for women, Angela regularly gives keynotes to large fitness, health and wellness events She also delivers Health...

Are You Actually Optimized on HRT? The Levels, Doses, and Symptoms That Matter

The Hormone Solution | Menopause, Perimenopause, & Women's Midlife Health

How do you know if your HRT is actually optimized? Not just enough to stop a hot flash, but enough to support your bones, brain, mood, metabolism, sleep, sexual health, and overall quality of life? In this episode, I break down one of the most confusing parts of hormone replacement therapy: dose, levels, and symptom response. Because the old-school advice to simply use the lowest dose possible until your symptoms disappear does not tell us the whole story. At the same time, more is absolutely not always better. We dig into what the research actually tells us about estradiol dose and brain...

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Breathwork has been used for thousands of years across cultures as a powerful tool for healing, emotional release, self-discovery, and spiritual connection. Yet most of us move through our days barely thinking about our breath, let alone using it intentionally.

In this episode, we explore how breathwork can help you reconnect with yourself, regulate your nervous system, move through stored emotions, and create space for deeper healing.

I’m joined by my good friend Kyla Erlandson, a trained and certified breathwork practitioner, intuitive guide, and healer. For more than 15 years, Kyla has supported and empowered women through a variety of healing modalities, including somatic breathwork, meditation, and energetics.

Together, we dive into the emotional and physical power of breathwork, why so many women struggle to prioritize themselves, and what can happen when we finally give ourselves permission to slow down, feel, and heal.

In this episode, we discuss:

Why Kyla believes one of the greatest gifts we can give ourselves is time and space to reconnect
How Kyla discovered breathwork and why she felt called to pursue it more deeply
The different levels and styles of breathwork training
How breathwork can help uncover emotions, patterns, and pain we may have been avoiding
Why so many women are conditioned to care for everyone else before themselves
How making time for yourself can reinforce your sense of self-worth
Kyla’s experience with codependency and how it affected her relationships
Why healing often requires us to stop running from discomfort and learn to sit with it
How breathwork can support greater peace, clarity, and emotional resilience
What can surface during a somatic breathwork session
The powerful connection between breathing patterns and the nervous system
How intentional breathing can influence circulation and physical sensations in the body
What Kyla hopes to help clients experience during a breathwork session
How somatic breathwork differs from traditional talk therapy
The most common struggles Kyla sees women bringing into her practice
Why women need space to process emotions, stress, expectations, and old patterns
How breathwork can help you reconnect with emotions that may have been suppressed
What it means to reclaim the powerful, intuitive woman you already are

This conversation is an invitation to stop living entirely from the neck up and begin listening to what your body has been trying to tell you.

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