When Christmas Finds Us Tired — A Gentle Reflection for Midlife Women
On Rest, Frailty, and Being Met Where We Are in Advent

This is a quiet Christmas reflection from Bethany, offered especially for women in midlife who may be carrying fatigue shaped by changing hormones, perimenopause, and the layered demands of this season.

As Christmas approaches, many women arrive weary—not because they’ve done something wrong, but because life has asked a lot of them.

Rooted in John 1:14, this episode reflects on the mystery of the Incarnation: a God who did not wait for calm or perfection, but entered frailty, interruption, and need—and chose to dwell there.

This is a gentle pause for weary hearts.
A reminder that Christmas was never about performing peace, but receiving presence.

What if your cravings aren’t the problem—but a message from a deeper place?
In this episode, we explore emotional eating in perimenopause through a compassionate, story-centered lens—one that listens rather than shames.
Because sometimes, what you need isn’t more willpower—it’s someone to sit beside you and listen with love.

If you’re ready for personalized support, Bethany offers virtual nutrition therapy and holistic care for women in Tennessee and surrounding states. Learn more or schedule a session at ingrainedliving.com.

You know those days when even simple feels hard? When meals, rest, and everyday care take more energy than you have to give?
In this episode, Bethany shares three gentle rhythms of self-care for Christian women walking through perimenopause and the stormy seasons of midlife. You’ll learn how to simplify nourishment, release perfection, and find rhythms that help your hormones and heart feel safe again.

If you’re ready for personalized support, Bethany offers virtual nutrition therapy and holistic care for women in Tennessee and surrounding states. Learn more or schedule a session at ingrainedliving.com.

In this episode, Bethany Thomson shares 3 healthy coping strategies for midlife women walking through grief and crisis—reminding you that the waves will not overcome you.

If you’ve ever felt undone by grief, overwhelm, or emotions that rise like turbulent waves, you are not alone.

Bethany—a Registered Dietitian, functional nutritionist, and holistic Christian life coach—offers hope and gentle practices for weary midlife women who long to stop numbing and start resting.

• Why emotions can feel overwhelming—and why numbing with food, wine, scrolling, or overwork leaves us emptier.
• The truth about emotions as waves: they crest, they pass, and while they leave us changed, they do not overcome us.
• A Scriptural anchor in Isaiah 43 to cling to when you feel undone.
• Gentle practices to let emotions move through you instead of bracing against them.
• Holistic care rhythms—like humming, movement, and nourishment—to support your body while you process.

If you’ve been afraid that your feelings will sweep you away, take heart: the waves will not destroy you. The One who walks on stormy waters is with you, right in the middle of your storm.

✨ Need more support in your storm? Learn more and schedule Welcome Hour with Bethany at ingrainedliving.com/welcome-hour

Discover how true rest restores body and soul—fueling hormone balance, energy, and resilience for Christian women in midlife.
So many women in midlife carry the hidden story: “If I rest, I’ll fall behind.” Or “If I stop, everyone will think less of me.” But here’s the truth—rest is not a reward. In perimenopause and menopause, rest is stewardship. It’s the foundation that allows your hormones, digestion, energy, and soul to return to balance.

In this episode, Registered Dietitian and functional nutritionist Bethany Thomson shares a personal story from her own midlife season and offers a simple journaling framework to help you:

• Recognize the false stories that keep you from margin
• Reframe rest as a gift, not something you earn
• Discover how rhythms of rest prepare the soil for true nutrition and hormone healing
• Take one small step this week toward sustainable rest and renewal

If you’re a weary Christian woman navigating perimenopause, menopause, or the sacred middle seasons of life, this episode will help you see rest as fuel—not failure.

✨ If this podcast gave you a breath of rest, share it with a friend who needs the same.
And if you’d like to go deeper, Bethany invites you into a Welcome Hour at ingrainedliving.com/welcome-hour.

When midlife feels scattered or overwhelming, even one daily rhythm can steady your heart and body. In this bonus life coaching session of Nourishing Her Midlife Rest: Body & Soul, Bethany walks you step-by-step through creating your own Daily Anchor Rhythm—a simple, life-giving practice that brings stability during perimenopause and beyond.

With the Finding My Anchor Worksheet in hand, you’ll reflect on how one chosen rhythm connects to your values, emotions, relationships, health, and faith. By the end of the session, you’ll have one clear anchor you can practice for the next 14 days—helping you feel calmer, more present, and more grounded in God’s care.

Anchors don’t remove the current, but they keep you steady in the middle of it.

⚓️ Download your Anchor Worksheet at ingrainedliving.com/anchor
and follow along as you listen.

Finding Your Steady in Perimenopause: One Simple Anchor to Prevent Burnout

Midlife and perimenopause can feel like everything is shifting at once — your hormones, your energy, your roles at home and work, even your sense of identity. In the middle of all that change, it’s easy to drift into exhaustion and burnout.

In this episode, Bethany Thomson — Registered Dietitian, functional nutritionist, and holistic Christian life coach — shares how a simple daily or weekly anchor can help steady your body and soul. Through the story of her family dinner rhythm, she explores how anchors create peace, regulate the nervous system, and make space for presence instead of pressure.

Whether your anchor is a consistent dinner hour, journaling before bed, or a short walk outside, you’ll learn how to:

• Recognize why anchors are vital in perimenopause and midlife
• Create rhythms that prevent burnout and bring calm
• Choose one simple practice that helps you feel safe, steady, and held

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Maybe you have a friend who’s also walking through midlife shifts—hormones, stress, figuring out her next season. Would you consider sharing this episode with her? Sometimes a simple podcast is the spark for a deeper conversation.

Resources & Next Steps
💌 Get the free Find Your Anchor worksheet this August by joining Ingrained Living Letters

🌿 Work with Bethany 1:1 — personalized nutrition and holistic life coaching for midlife women. Take your first step by scheduling a Welcome Hour at ingrainedliving.com/welcome-hour.

Disclaimer

This content is intended for educational and informational purposes only.

It is not medical, psychological, or nutrition therapy advice and does not establish a client relationship.

Please consult your trusted healthcare provider for personalized care.

Full disclaimer: ingrainedliving.com/disclaimer

© 2025 Ingrained Living. All rights reserved.

All words and resources shared here are crafted with care. Please do not copy or distribute without written permission.

Feeling stretched thin in midlife? Between perimenopause shifts, stress, and the everyday pull of responsibilities, your nervous system may feel like it’s running on overdrive. And here’s the truth: you can’t balance your hormones if your body is stuck in survival mode.

In this episode of Nourishing Her Midlife Rest: Body & Soul, Bethany Thomson (Registered Dietitian & Functional Nutritionist) shares why naming your season is one of the simplest, yet most powerful ways to calm your nervous system, find clarity, and begin restoring balance.

You’ll learn how to identify the dominant theme of your life right now, give it a name that is both honest and hopeful, and let that name shape your expectations, commitments, and self-talk. Because when you carry your season with intention, you create the steady ground your hormones and soul need to heal.

What You’ll Learn in This Episode

• Why nervous system regulation is the first step in hormone healing (before supplements or labs)
• How naming your season helps you get your bearings and find peace in the chaos
• Examples of hopeful yet honest names for hard seasons (like The Stretching Season or The Mending Season)
• How shifting the way you name a season changes how you carry it—without toxic positivity
• A simple reflection practice to help you name your season this week

🤍 Share this episode
Maybe you have a friend who’s also walking through midlife shifts—hormones, stress, figuring out her next season. Would you consider sharing this episode with her? Sometimes a simple podcast is the spark for a deeper conversation.

Resources & Next Steps
💌 Get the free Find Your Anchor worksheet this August by joining Ingrained Living Letters

🌿 Work with Bethany 1:1 — personalized nutrition and holistic life coaching for midlife women. Take your first step by scheduling a Welcome Hour at ingrainedliving.com/welcome-hour.

Disclaimer

This content is intended for educational and informational purposes only.

It is not medical, psychological, or nutrition therapy advice and does not establish a client relationship.

Please consult your trusted healthcare provider for personalized care.

Full disclaimer: ingrainedliving.com/disclaimer

© 2025 Ingrained Living. All rights reserved.

All words and resources shared here are crafted with care. Please do not copy or distribute without written permission.