The Slippery Slope of DIY Women's Health: ADHD, Menopause, and Midlife Eating Disorders

Show Notes: Meet Amie Newman: writer, editor, and all-around champion for women’s voices, especially when it comes to the messy realities of our bodies.Amie is working on an anthology called This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder—and she wants your stories!We dive into what it’s like getting an ADHD diagnosis in your 40s and 50s. Spoiler: you’re not alone, and you’re definitely not crazy.Midlife women are starting to share openly (suuuuuper openly) with our friends (and sometimes the internet) about our bodies, perimenopause, menopause, relationships, aging, and our health. And that is a beautiful thing, EXCEPT: Sometimes this results in a "DIY approach" to our health—without professionals "looking out for us," we are left to be our own detectives, advocates, and even doctors. And that needs to change.Real talk about ADHD, perimenopause/menopause, and eating disorders, and how they intersect—especially in midlife. Amie shares when and how her eating disorder returned, and why it's important for us to understand the hormone connection. Women who have experienced eating disorders in adolescence need a heads-up that midlife can bring a recurrence. Community is everything. From estrogen patch revelations at ladies’ night to sharing tips on how to talk to your doctor, we’re all learning from each other.The “Latchkey Crones” are here! Gen X women are building new rituals, telling new stories, and refusing to go quietly into suffering or irrelevance.Find Amie on Substack at “This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder” for more stories, resources, and connection.Bonus moments, aka "the outtakes":Hysterical laughing fits over earrings, AI photo fails, and the discovery that sometimes strangers in parking garages are just future friends.The world might be a mess, but at least our earrings are awesome.Amie is a writer, editor and storyteller who dives headfirst into the messy, fascinating realities of women’s bodies and lives. After graduating from NYU, Amie started her career in TV, working at MTV, PBS, and NBC. She also produced and collaborated on short documentaries on a variety of social change issues. A former editor and staff writer at RH Reality Check (now Rewire News) and contributor to Our Bodies, Ourselves, she’s spent her career amplifying women’s voices around reproductive health, motherhood, menopause, and everything in between.  She helps lead a nonprofit social service organization and loves nothing more than getting women talking and writing about their bodies, health, and all the things they have been told to keep quiet about. She’s currently editing an anthology on eating disorders in midlife women, This Is Not Your Mother’s Eating Disorder, inviting new stories, poems, illustrations and essays from midlife women who have experienced an eating disorder later in life and wants to hear from you. Amie is the proud mother of two brilliant humans, an abortion doula, and certified yoga teacher, and lives by the water in Seattle where she’s teaching herself to play the guitar and co-leading women’s circles on rituals, myths, and storysharing for perimenopausal and menopausal women.