When Your Body Becomes A Stranger

What happens when the body you’ve lived in for 50 years suddenly doesn’t feel like home? This isn’t just a conversation about menopause. It’s a conversation about identity. In this deeply personal solo episode of Notes From the Edge, Lisa Lacy explores the grief of watching your body change, the unexpected humor that helps us survive it, and the profound psychological shift that happens when you no longer recognize the person staring back at you in the mirror. From hot flashes and sleepless nights to changing curves, aching joints, brain fog, and the emotional impact of losing the body you once knew, this episode is an honest reflection on what so many women experience but few feel safe enough to say out loud. Lisa also shares her own journey through surgical menopause after an unexpected oophorectomy, navigating those changes while living with a life-threatening congenital clotting disorder that makes hormone replacement therapy impossible. This isn’t a medical lecture. It’s a late-night conversation about grief, resilience, humor, self-compassion, and learning to make peace with a body that is still carrying you forward. If you’ve ever looked in the mirror and thought, Who is this woman?, this episode is for you. Welcome to the conversation. Welcome to the edge. www.lisalacy.com Notes from the Edge with Lisa Lacy Human conversations about trauma, identity, recovery, reinvention, relationships, leadership, and the lives we build after survival. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.