LLN Episode #299: Cathy Goldstein - Your Face Is Talking—Are You Listening?
Release Date: 08/18/2025
LLN Episode #323: Caffeine, Sugar & Alcohol — What’s the Real Impact in Midlife?
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If caffeine suddenly makes you anxious, sugar cravings feel louder than ever, and alcohol disrupts your sleep more than it used to… you’re not imagining it. In this Tea & Truth episode, Lynne breaks down what’s really happening in midlife — and why everyday stimulants can feel so different during perimenopause and menopause. You’ll learn how hormones, blood sugar, and the nervous system all play a role, plus gentle, realistic ways to support your body without extremes. Show Notes: In midlife, it can feel like your body has a new “volume setting.” Coffee that once felt...
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LLN Episode #322: Alicia Jones - The Truth About Protein And Why Most Women Over 40 Are Falling Short
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If you’re over 40 and feel like the old “eat less, move more” advice isn’t working anymore, you’re not alone. In this episode, I’m joined by Alicia Jones to talk about why most women are falling short on protein in midlife — and the simple, realistic shifts that can support muscle, metabolism, and steady energy without extreme dieting. If you’re over 40 and feel like your energy, strength, or body composition has shifted — you’re not imagining it. One of the biggest gaps I see in midlife women is protein intake. Most women are simply not getting enough, and in perimenopause...
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LLN Episode #321: Gut Health and Menopause: The Overlooked Connection
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Midlife digestion changes can feel confusing — bloating, constipation, reflux, cravings, brain fog, and inflammation that seem to come out of nowhere. In this episode, we unpack the gut–hormone connection in perimenopause and menopause, and I share a gentle framework to feel better: Calm • Feed • Support, plus a free 14-day gut reset. If perimenopause or menopause has you feeling like your digestion has changed overnight — bloating by lunchtime, stubborn constipation, reflux out of nowhere, new food sensitivities, cravings, brain fog, or feeling inflamed and puffy — you’re...
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LLN Episode #320: Dr. Jaime Knopman – Midlife Hormone Chaos? How To Advocate For Better Care
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Perimenopause isn’t just hot flashes and mood shifts — for many women, it can be a silent fertility disruptor. In today’s episode of Living Life Naturally, Lynne Wadsworth sits down with Dr. Jaime Knopman, double board-certified reproductive endocrinologist and fertility expert, to talk about what’s really happening with egg quality, ovulation, IVF outcomes, and why so many women feel dismissed or misdiagnosed in midlife. We also explore practical ways to advocate for better care — from tracking cycles and symptoms, to bringing a “plus one” to appointments, to understanding why...
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LLN Episode 319: Stop Dieting In Midlife: Why Nourishment Works Better Than Punishment
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If you’ve spent years — or decades — starting diets on Monday, feeling “good” or “bad” based on what you ate, or letting the scale decide your mood for the day… this episode is a deep breath of fresh air. In this powerful Tea & Truth conversation, Lynne invites you to gently step out of diet culture and into a new way of relating to food, your body, and your midlife health: nourish, don’t punish. You’ll learn why strict dieting backfires in midlife (especially with shifting hormones), how it impacts your metabolism, mood, cravings, and self-worth — and what it looks...
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LLN Episode #318: Dr. Glenn Livingston - Why Willpower Fails with Food — The Science Behind Cravings & Emotional Eating
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About Dr. Glenn Livington: Dr Glenn Livingston, Ph.D. is a veteran psychologist and longtime CEO of a multi-million-dollar consulting firm which has serviced several Fortune 500 clients in the food industry. Doctor Glenn’s work, theories, and research have been published in major periodicals like The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times and The Chicago Sun Times. Disillusioned by what traditional psychology had to offer overweight and/or food obsessed individuals, Doctor Livingston spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients AND a...
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LLN Episode #317: Eating for Hormonal Balance: Key Foods for Midlife Wellness
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Series: Tea & Truth: Honest Talk for Women in Midlife Host: Lynne Wadsworth, Holistic Health Coach If you’ve been feeling inflamed, tired, foggy, or just not like yourself lately, this episode will feel like a deep exhale. In today’s Tea & Truth, we’re breaking down exactly what to eat in midlife to balance hormones naturally, reduce inflammation, boost energy, stabilize mood, and finally feel at home in your body again. This is your personal guide to midlife nutrition that works with your changing hormones, not against them — no dieting, no deprivation, no guilt. Just...
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LLN Episode #316: The Emotional Weight of Hormonal Shifts — and How to Lighten It
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So many women in midlife say the same thing: “I feel heavier inside, and I don’t know why.” The truth is, hormonal shifts during perimenopause and menopause can profoundly affect your emotions — often in ways no one ever warned you about. In this compassionate episode of Tea & Truth, Lynne breaks down the real science behind the emotional weight of hormonal change, including how fluctuations in estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, and neurotransmitters influence your mood, stress tolerance, sleep, and overall emotional stability. We also explore the human experience — the overwhelm,...
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LLN Episode #315: Who Am I Now? Navigating Identity Shifts & Self-Discovery in Midlife
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In today’s heartfelt and empowering episode of Tea & Truth, we dive into one of the deepest — and most confusing — questions women face during perimenopause and menopause: Who am I now? Midlife often brings a surprising emotional and spiritual awakening. Many women suddenly feel different inside… questioning their identity, their purpose, their desires, and the life they’ve built. If you’ve felt “off,” restless, or disconnected from the woman you once were, you’re not alone — and nothing is wrong with you. In this episode, we explore the real reasons midlife triggers...
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LLN Episode #314 – What You Need to Know to Calm Your Midlife Anxiety & Mood Swings — Simply & Naturally
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If you’ve been feeling anxious, moody, or emotionally “off” lately, you are not alone. Midlife can bring sudden waves of anxiety, sleepless nights, irritability, and even sadness — all of which can leave you wondering what happened to your old self. But here’s the truth: your body isn’t betraying you — it’s speaking to you. In this heartfelt episode of Tea & Truth, Lynne dives into the emotional and biological changes that fuel midlife anxiety and mood swings — and how you can find calm again, naturally. She explains how shifting hormones, stress, and blood-sugar...
info_outlinehttps://truenergyskincare.com/ About Cathy Goldstein:
Cathy Goldstein an Acupuncture Physician who has been practicing integrative medicine combining the best of energy medicine, with the latest scientific discoveries to treat her patients since 1988.
Cathy specializes in energy medicine, the centuries-old science of using energy to heal the body, restore vitality, and restore cellular longevity.
Her commitment to health care stems from her personal experiences. She was on a path to medical school when she had to be hospitalized for several months with multiple surgeries to save her life due to an autoimmune disease. During this long-term illness, Cathy turned to the ancient art of Chinese Medicine. After she received Acupuncture treatments, her health started turning around. At this point, Cathy realized that medical school was not her path. She knew that addressing the underlying health issues and treating the person as a whole was the sure way to health. She turned her focus to her career as an acupuncture physician specializing in body-mind advanced therapies and frequency healing through bio-photon energy fields, which she has coined the BioPhoton Energy Highway.
She has been a leading physician in bringing cutting-edge techniques to acupuncture, chiropractic, and the traditional medical field. Dr. Cathy has been training physicians in Mind-Body connection to healing and the advancements in vibrational energy medicine for over 35 years.
Cathy has a special interest in functional nutrition and functional skincare. She believes your skin is a direct reflection of your health. Cathy is going to share tools and techniques for cellular rejuvenation. She will share her insight into the Energy Highway and how to connect and bring health and vitality to the entire body through frequencies.
What We Discuss In This Episode:
- Why energy medicine, not more serums, is the next evolution in beauty.
- Is the beauty industry lying to us about what really causes aging?
- Why freezing your face or filling your skin may be accelerating aging—and what science actually says works at the cellular level.
- Learn how freezing your face may be accelerating aging, dulling emotional expression, and disrupting brain health.
- How can women take back control of how they age —without numbing, injecting, or cutting?
- What’s the downside to freezing your face with Botox—emotionally and biologically?
- Emotions and trauma don’t just affect your mood—they imprint on your facial muscles.
- Discover how reactivating natural expression can reverse visible aging and restore emotional vitality.
- True radiance isn’t about erasing lines—it’s about restoring energy, expression, and self-connection. Cathy shares how women can age with power, not pressure.
- How does stress, trauma, and tension actually show up on our faces?
- Why are we targeting wrinkles when we should be addressing energy and muscle memory?
Connect With Cathy Goldstein:
Website: https://truenergyskincare.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/truenergyskincare/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/truenergyskincare/
Connect with Lynne:
If you're looking for a community of like-minded women on a journey - just like you are - to improved health and wellness, overall balance, and increased confidence, check out Lynne's private community in The Energized Healthy Women's Club. It's a supportive and collaborative community where the women in this group share tips and solutions for a healthy and holistic lifestyle. (Discussions include things like weight management, eliminating belly bloat, balancing hormones, wrangling sugar gremlins, overcoming fatigue, recipes, strategies, perimenopause & menopause, and much more ... so women can feel energized, healthy, and lighter, with a new sense of purpose.
Website: https://holistic-healthandwellness.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/holistichealthandwellnessllc
The Energized Healthy Women’s Club: https://www.facebook.com/groups/energized.healthy.women
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lynnewadsworth
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lynnewadsworth
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