For most of recorded history, the female body has been treated as a variation of the male body. An afterthought. A subject that is far too complicated, too cyclical, too inconvenient to study with the same rigor and resources devoted to understanding men.

And the consequences of that decision are still being felt by every woman alive today.

In this conversation, Dr. Amanda sits down with Marina Gerner, journalist, author, and one of the most important voices writing about the systemic failures of women's health research today. Together they pull back the curtain on what has been left out, why it was left out, and what it is costing women in their bodies, their minds, and their lives.

In this episode, we explore:

• How women were excluded from medical research for decades and why that exclusion is far from over

• The staggering gap in research funding between conditions that predominantly affect women versus those that affect men

• Why women are more likely to be misdiagnosed, undertreated, and dismissed by the medical system and what that looks like in practice

• The pain bias and why women's pain is consistently rated as less severe and less worthy of treatment than men's

• How the birth control pill became one of the most prescribed drugs in the world with research that would never meet today's standards

• What the data actually says about hormone replacement therapy and why so many women have been left suffering unnecessarily

• The conditions that have been hiding in plain sight for generations because nobody thought to look

• What women can do to advocate for themselves inside a system that was never designed with them in mind

This conversation is for every woman who has ever been told her symptoms were in her head. Who has left a doctor's appointment feeling dismissed, unheard, and smaller than when she walked in. Who has spent years searching for answers that the system was never equipped to give her.

It was not in your head and you were not "too dramatic." The data confirms it. And knowing that changes everything.

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The medical system was not built for women. Psychology was not built for women. And yet women have spent generations trying to heal inside frameworks that were never designed with them in mind.

Magnetic is the room that was. Built by a woman, for women only. Two days of immersive transformation, real conversation, and the kind of sisterhood that changes the trajectory of your life. If something in you stirred as you listened to this episode, this is your next step.

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Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Marina Gerner:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marinagerner/

Website/book: https://www.marinagerner.com/

There is a particular kind of exhaustion that comes from spending a lifetime making yourself smaller so that other people can stay comfortable. From swallowing your rage so the room does not shift. From performing wellness while carrying wounds that no one has ever given you permission to name or process.

Dr. Thema Bryant has spent her entire career sitting with that exhaustion. Not rushing people through it. Not handing them a protocol and sending them home. Sitting with it, honoring it, and teaching something far more courageous than coping.

In this conversation, Dr. Amanda sits down with Dr. Thema Bryant, former president of the American Psychological Association, clinical psychologist, minister, scholar, spoken word artist, and author of Matters of the Heart. What unfolds is profoundly honest, wide-ranging, and deeply necessary conversation. About trauma and what it actually means to heal. About the systems that wound us and the internalized beliefs that keep us loyal to them. About rage as a healthy response to outrageous things. About what it looks like to age, dance, write, and lead from a place of liberation rather than performance.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why it is healthy to be outraged about outrageous things and what happens when women are taught to make nice instead

• The systems that are designed to keep survivors silent and why doing nothing actively supports the status quo

• What traditional psychology has been missing for women and people of color and what liberation psychology offers instead

• The difference between multicultural competency and true liberation in the field of psychology

• What it means to be emotionally hygienic as a healer and how to stay present for clients without losing yourself

• Why Dr. Thema dances, writes spoken word, and refuses to leave herself behind in the name of professionalism

• Aging as a right of passage and what it looks like to do it with joy, visibility, and zero apology

• The two experiences that disconnected Dr. Thema from herself and how she found her way back

• Who she is choosing to be in this season of the world

This is a conversation for the woman who has been told her anger is too much, her grief is inconvenient, and her healing is taking too long. The woman who has carried something enormous in silence because no one taught her that speaking it out loud was allowed.

Not only is it allowed, it is the most important thing you will ever do.

Join Magnetic
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Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Dr. Thema Bryant:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dr.thema/
Website: https://drthema.com/
Matters of the Heart: https://drthema.com/books/

For the first time on this show, Dr. Amanda is not the one asking the questions.

Her best friend and COO of Midlife Muse, Judith Nowlin, steps in to interview Dr. Amanda about the methodology she has spent nearly 30 years building. What unfolds is one of the most honest and revealing conversations she has ever had on camera. The origin story. The personal experiences that changed the entire trajectory of her work, the moment she realized that traditional psychology had been built without women in mind, and the methodology she built from scratch, tested on herself first, and has been used to change the lives of thousands of women across the globe.

In this episode, we explore:

• Why traditional psychology has been failing women and the specific moment Dr. Amanda knew something had to change

• The two deeply personal experiences, her natural childbirths and her son's healing, that cracked open everything she thought she knew about medicine and the female body

• The methodology she built from the ground up and why it produces results in weeks that years of traditional therapy could not

• What it actually looks like to age naturally and openly in public and the real internal work that happens even for the woman teaching this

• The Divine Mother archetype, what she is, how to build her inside yourself, and why she is the key to coming home to who you actually are

• Why women are taught to fear their own emotions and what becomes available when they finally stop running from them

• What Dr. Amanda is most proud of and why it is the exact thing she was sent to the office for as a little girl

• The one woman from history Dr. Amanda would give anything to spend an afternoon with and what she would ask her

This is a conversation about a woman who built something because nothing else was working. Who experimented on herself before she ever asked another woman to go there. Who has never once taken a client somewhere she had not already been willing to go herself.

If you have been wondering whether this work is for you, this episode is your answer.

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Connect with Dr. Amanda on Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/midlife.muse/

Connect with Judith Nowlin:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/judith-nowlin-3a9b82b