132. Perimenopause: Relieve Symptoms and Optimize Your Health Featuring Amita Sharma

It's something billions of women experience yet it isn't widely understood or talked about. On today's episode, Amita Sharma shares her experience and expertise about perimenopause. Learn what to expect, how to optimize your health, and ease your symptoms. As a co-founder of NourishDoc, a global holistic wellness platform for middle-aged women, Amita has over 20+ years of working for e-commerce, fintech and online home improvement companies such as Walmart, Western Union, Houzz and Realtor.com. Inspired by her perimenopausal journey and working in the high tech world, she felt unsupported and a dire need to bring a taboo topic for an open discussion. She is on a mission to bring affordable holistic wellness to every woman in the world who is going through a midlife journey of perimenopause and beyond. NourishDoc has designed evidence based and culture sensitive holistic wellness programs for women wellness, self care and prevention. With menopause as a taboo globally and over 1 billion women reaching menopause, wellness for women at this stage should be at the forefront. 2:15 Why is perimenopause/menopause not widely shared and fully understood 4:05 Perimenopause and chronic conditions 6:25 Signs of perimenopause 8:55 Mental and emotional changes 11:05 Stress and perimenopause 15:06 Steps to be proactive, taking a holistic approach 24:20 High achievement and its impacts on perimenopause 28:25 Transformation Story 30:50 How to connect with Amita Sharma www.nourishdoc.com Free Quiz: Are you abandoning yourself? ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.tryinteract.com/share/quiz/6601c102113eab00155de14f⁠⁠⁠⁠ Dr. Kelly Kessler is a licensed physical therapist, transformation coach, host of the globally ranked podcast Rewiring Health™, the owner of Optimal You Health and Wellness, LLC and a mom of two boys. Kelly helps high-achieving women recognize and heal from dysfunctional patterns of abandoning themselves and feeling unrelenting stress. Through nervous system regulation and subconscious mind reprogramming, Kelly guides her clients through a personal transformation to step into their own power, reclaim their worth and honor their health and inner peace. Inspired by her own journey of self-abandonment including perfectionist beliefs and people-pleasing tendencies, Kelly has healed from an eating disorder, chronic back pain, and panic attacks, Kelly helps high-achievers harness their profound ability to shift from survival mode to thriving. Kelly has been featured in Authority Magazine, DailyOM, The Everygirl, and Thrive Global.