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Retirement was supposed to bring a quieter life. Instead, Elizabeth’s second summer became a collision of frozen shoulder, steroid injections, gallbladder attacks and surgery, reunion planning, moving her stepson to college, Drake’s broken wrist, and a painful confrontation with his father over medical expenses and responsibility.

But this summer was not only hard.

There was Universal Studios with all three boys. A trip to Baltimore with Peyton to visit Tanner and watch the Royals at Camden Yards. Laughter, friends, and summer memories for Drake. A thirty-fifth high school reunion filled with dancing, reconnection, and unexpected healing. And Ashley — an old friend with a complicated history — returning without alcohol or drama, asking for a fresh start.

In this solo episode of Between Rooms, Elizabeth reflects on the way joy and pain often arrive together. She explores emotional abuse, accountability, motherhood, illness, friendship, forgiveness, and the stubborn presence of joy in a season that would not let her rest.

She is The Strong One Who Kept Showing Up — Even for Joy.

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In this solo episode of Between Rooms, Elizabeth takes on the midlife topic nobody properly warned us about: perimenopause, menopause, and the full-body shitshow women were expected to endure politely.

Born in 1973, Elizabeth grew up hearing older women refer vaguely to “the change,” but nobody handed over the real survival guide: hot flashes that can make you nauseous, sleepless nights, mood swings, hair loss, frozen shoulder, bladder betrayal, skin changes, lost libido, alcohol intolerance, and the strange grief of not always recognizing the body you still have to live in.

With humor, honesty, and grace, this episode asks why generations of women were taught to stay quiet about their bodies — and what happens when we decide that silence stops with us.

This is not medical advice. It is one woman telling the truth from the messy, sweaty, hilarious threshold between who she was and who she is becoming.

Plus, Elizabeth shares excitement about the upcoming first guest interview with Dr. Janie Pyle, who will soon join Between Rooms for an in-person conversation.

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Before inviting other women to share their stories on Between Rooms, I wanted to begin with one of my own.

In this solo episode, I read from “The Mentor,” a chapter from my memoir about the women who shape us, the rooms where we learn who we might become, and the complicated ways guidance, admiration, ambition, and longing can live together.

This is not the most catastrophic room in my story, but it is one of the quieter ones that shaped me deeply. It is about being seen, learning to listen, and beginning to understand that strength is not always about holding everything together. Sometimes, it is about telling the truth about what formed us.

Between Rooms is a place for women’s honest stories — the loud ones, the quiet ones, and the ones we are still learning how to name.